HTC One SV announced by Cricket, out on January 16 for $349.99
The HTC One SV went on sale in the UK yesterday, and today we got word that it’s headed to the US too. When HTC announced the device back in November, only Europe, Singapore, and Australia were known to be among the markets in which it would be released. But now you can add Cricket [...]
Cricket announces the ZTE Groove, out tomorrow for $129.99
Cricket lets us know that it’s adding yet another low-end Android smartphone to its roster. The own-brand Cricket Groove is manufactured by ZTE and will become available tomorrow, November 21 in stores and online. It will cost $129.99, sans long-term contract of course. However, if you’re lucky, you may find it on Cricket’s website going [...]
LG Optimus Regard now available at Cricket for $249.99
Cricket has added yet another Android-powered smartphone to its roster today. It’s the LG Optimus Regard. This is a rebranded and retooled version of the LG Motion 4G that MetroPCS is selling, and it’s obviously one more addition to the Optimus line – which is going the way of Samsung’s Galaxy brand real quick, with [...]
Samsung Comment 2 now available at Cricket, yours for $89.99
The Samsung Comment 2 that we saw leaked last week is now officially part of Cricket’s roster. This handset is an entry-level offering, coming with a full physical QWERTY keyboard (which will probably be the phone’s highlight for most people). The Comment 2 has a 480 MHz processor, a 2.4-inch display (probably QVGA), a 2 [...]
ZTE Engage lands at Cricket on October 2
Cricket is getting ready to launch yet another Android-powered smartphone made by ZTE. It’s becoming a tradition of sorts for the small carrier to release devices made by the Chinese company, and their partnership seems to be going well. The ZTE Engage will arrive on October 2, and will be yours if you agree to [...]
Huawei Mercury Ice lands at Cricket on September 5, it’s a redesigned Mercury
Cricket’s Huawei Mercury Ice will become available at Radio Shack on September 5. The Mercury Ice is a redesigned and renamed Mercury, which has been Cricket’s version of the Huawei Honor. The Mercury Ice will come in white, as you can see from the image below. The smartphone looks like it will still run Android [...]
Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile will carry Windows Phone 8 devices
Yesterday we got the first sneak peek at Windows Phone 8, Microsoft’s upcoming version of its latest mobile operating system. That said, we’ve seen no actual new devices – it was a presentation geared more towards developers. As for release time frames, WP8 should arrive in time for this year’s holiday season, so there are [...]
Cricket will launch the Samsung Vitality with Muve Music
Cricket is set to announce and release a new Android-powered handset pretty soon. The Samsung Vitality, for that’s the phone we’re talking about, will come with support for Cricket’s Muve Music unlimited music service. Up until now, the only phone to give you unlimited access to millions of tracks is the Samsung Suede, which is [...]
Samsung Comment QWERTY candybar now available at Cricket for $89.99
Cricket has added a new messaging phone to its lineup today. The Samsung Comment is a featurephone that comes in a candybar form factor, but which also has a full physical QWERTY keyboard underneath its screen. The emphasis with the Comment is clearly on messaging, starting from its name, and all the way to the [...]
Cricket intros the Huawei Ascend II, a Gingerbread smartphone for $129.99 sans contract
Cricket has launched the Huawei Ascend II, a very affordable Android-powered smartphone running the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system and undoubtedly meant to be the successor to the original Ascend. Aside from coming with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, the Ascend II has a 3.5-inch 480×320 capacitive touchscreen, a 5-megapixel camera, a 600 MHz processor, [...]
Kyocera Rio now available from Cricket for $130 sans contract
Cricket has just announced that it’s adding a new affordable featurephone to its lineup. This is the Kyocera Rio, not to be confused with the Kyocera Zio (which is an Android-powered smartphone). What the Rio lacks in OS power, it probably makes up in price – $130, that is. And, as usual with Cricket, no [...]
Huawei Ascend low-cost Android phone announced by Cricket
Regional US carrier Cricket has just announced its second Android phone, the Huawei Ascend. Like the Kyocera Zio (released by Cricket in August), the Ascend is a low-cost Android handset. Available starting mid-October, the handset will cost only $149.99 free of contract. The new Huawei phone runs Android 2.1 and features a 3.5 inch HVGA [...]
