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Cricket is looking to make more money from its Muve Music service. And they’re not looking to end-users for this; rather, they’re turning to other carriers which may be interested to offer something similar to their customers. In the two years since launching it, Cricket managed to attract more than 1 million subscribers to Muve…
Cricket announced that it ended last year with more than 1.1 million Muve Music subscribers. Since its launch in January 2011, the carrier’s music plan has become one of the fastest-growing and leading on-demand digital music services in the United States. Muve Music is now included in every Cricket Android smartphone rate plan, the fact…
Cricket Wireless is the first U.S. carrier to announce a new phone this year with others most likely following in the next few days — that’s what CES is all about, as far as we at IntoMobile are concerned. The HTC One SV will be available from Cricket starting from January 16th, when interested customers…
Prepaid carriers Leap Wireless and MetroPCS are offering a financing program for its handsets. This new strategy is meant to be an enticing option for those who are strapped for cash and hate being locked into two-year contract agreements. The two prepaid company’s believe that their new approach to make buying devices easier will encourage…
Cricket is adding another low-end Android smartphone to its portfolio – ZTE-made Cricket Groove. The entry level device is available for $79.99 sans any strings attached, and has specs that include a 3.5-inch HVGA screen, 800MHz processor, 3.2-megapixel rear camera with flash, VGA front-facing camera and a 1,500 mAh battery. Android 2.3 Gingerbread is running…
Cricket has added another Android smartphone to its portfolio – LG Optimus Regard. The low-to-mid end device has somewhat strange specs, combining a 3.5-inch HVGA (320×480 pixels) screen with 1.2GHz dual-core processor, making for a snappy phone performance (since the same CPU is usually used with WVGA screens). In addition, the Optimus Regard also packs…
Cricket added HTC Desire C to its Android line-up. The entry-level smartphone is now available for $179.99 at Cricket company-owned stores, dealers and at mycricket.com. As you may know from our previous articles on the subject, this little fella’ packs a 3.5-inch HVGA screen, 5-megapixel camera, 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity, GPS, Bluetooth, while Android 4.0…
Cricket is preparing to add a new low-end QWERTY keyboard-equipped feature phone to it portfolio – Samsung Comment II (R390C). The successor to the original Comment packs a 2.4-inch QVGA screen, 2-megapixel camera on the back, Bluetooth, media player, web browser and a microSD memory card slot. The device is still not available at Cricket’s…
Cricket will soon add a new Android smartphone to its portfolio – ZTE Engage. The soon-to-be-launched device will be available for $249.99 at Cricket stores, dealers and mycricket.com beginning Tuesday, October 2, 2012. We’re talking about a low-to-mid range Android phone that comes with a 4-inch WVGA touchscreen, 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm MSM8655T Scorpion processor, 8-megapixel…
Starting tomorrow, Radio Shack will start selling the slightly redesigned version of the Huawei Mercury for $149.99. The Muve Music-ready device will come in pearl white and we’re not sure whether there are any changes under the hood. We do know that it will be called Mercury Ice, with “Ice” possibly standing for the new…