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 [...]