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Sprint and their prepaid brand Boost Mobile have just announced that they’re going to be carrying the LG Rumor Reflex. Is it a smartphone? Nope, it runs some proprietary dumb phone (politically correct term is feature phone) operating system. Does it have any impressive specifications? Ehhh, it has a 3 inch 400 × 240 pixel…
Boost Mobile is continuing its partnership with Mexico’s Club Deportivo Guadalajara (CD Guadalajara), the world-renowned soccer team known as Chivas, as the official wireless sponsor of its U.S. tour games. The partnership was secured by Soccer United Marketing, CD Guadalajara’s commercial agent in the United States. Under the deal, Boost will continue to have onsite…
Boost Mobile will start selling the LG Marquee on January 23 for $279.99 (excluding taxes). As you probably know from our previous post on LG’s smartphone, that money gets you a decent Android smartphone that sports a single-core 1GHz processor, 4-inch WVGA Nova display, 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity, 5-megapixel rear camera, 2-megapixel front-facing one, GPS,…
Boost Mobile, one of America’s more popular prepaid operators, is going to offer the LG Optimus Black and Samsung Replenish at some point in 2012 according to press photos that were leaked to PocketNow. They don’t have any specific details as to the the exact release date or pricing, but considering the Optimus Black is…
Boost Mobile has just hooked-up with Facebook to allow consumers to refill their accounts while chatting it up with buddies. The Re-Boost Facebook app is the first application to be launched by a U.S. mobile carrier that allows customers to add funds directly to their wireless account via Facebook. Now the even cooler part about…
Sprint-owned Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile USA are each launching a Deployed Military Program to allow service men and women to keep their accounts and phone numbers intact while deployed overseas. When a customer wants to participate in the program, they simply contact Boost or Virgin Mobile Customer Care and will then be directed to…
Boost Mobile, better known as Sprint’s brand for prepaid customers, has introduced a new Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone from ZTE called the Warp. For $250, and you have to remember this is off contract, you’ll get a handset with a 4.3 inch screen, likely with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, a 1 GHz…
Boost Mobile recently announced a device called the Samsung Transform Ultra. At the very bottom of the press release detailing said product, buried in the hopes that we would miss it, Boost also revealed that starting on October 6th they’re going to charge new customers who join the network and use Android an extra $5…
Samsung and Boost Mobile announced the Samsung Transform Ultra, which resembles the Samsung Transform for Sprint, an Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone coming on October 7 for $229.99. It might sound pricey for an Android smartphone, but the deal is that you get a decent and capable handset without the stress of a contract. It’s not…
Samsung’s Android-powered QWERTY slider, SPH-M930, has been cleared by the FCC and is now, at least legally, ready to be sold on the U.S. soil. As far as we know (from that leaked roadmap), the official launch is set for September 2nd, leaving enough room for Boost to train its staff. Specs wise, the M930…