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Cricket Offers The Nokia 3606
Author: +866.com20 Mar
MetroPCS might want to pay closer attention to its competitor, Cricket. Aside from having fairly attractive rates, Cricket is now offering the Nokia 3606. Sure, it’s not a technological wonder (in this day and time), but it does add a stylish phone to Cricket’s lineup, which could prove crucial. The Nokia 3606 sports a 1.3-megapixel camera with LED flash, stereo Bluetooth, FM radio, microSDHC support and external multimedia keys. It’s not all that cheap at $179.99, but when you factor in Cricket’s low-cost unlimited plans, it’s an interesting deal.
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BlackBerry Curve 8330 MetroPCS
Author: +866.com11 Mar
MetroPCS has just launched its first BlackBerry Curve 8330 and is offering the device with 2 unlimited rate plans. First off, the $50 personal rate allows users to have unlimited talk, text, web browsing, MMS and BlackBerry email access via the BlackBerry Internet Service. Enterprise users can opt for the $60 plan which has the same features, but has the added advantage of BlackBerry Enterprise Server support. The BlackBerry Curve 8330 will be available at all Best Buy stores from March 9th and MetroPCS authorized dealers.
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MetroPCS announces its first BlackBerry: the Curve 8330
Author: +866.com11 Mar
BlackBerry Curve 8330 may be old news for Sprint’s customers, but it surely isn’t for those who use MetroPCS, as the regional US carrier has never had a RIM smartphone in its handset line-up.
The Curve 8330, which definitely looks stellar when compared to MetroPCS’ other devices, will be available to its subscribers starting this week. For the beginning, you’ll only be able to get it from Best Buy. By the end of March, the smartphone should also be on sale via other MetroPCS dealers and retail stores.
Pricing details are currently missing, but MetroPCS said it would offer the 8330 together with two new unlimited rate plans. The first one costs $50 and it’s a personal rate plan that offers “unlimited talk, text, web browsing, MMS and BlackBerry email access through BlackBerry Internet Service.” The second plan costs $60 and includes all the above-mentioned stuff, plus access to BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
(this is Sprint’s BlackBerry Curve 8330)
With the Curve 8330 on-board, MetroPCS can now take a closer look at its plans of deploying a LTE network – and maybe it will finish it sooner than expected.
Via Press release
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MetroPCS first to deploy LTE in the US? May have BlackBerry onboard already
Author: +866.com6 Mar
The first carrier to deploy an LTE network in the US might not be Verizon and neither AT&T, but MetroPCS, the regional prepaid mobile operator that currently has about 5.4 million subscribers.
Gigaom reports that Tom Keys, MetroPCS’ chief operating officer, said the company’s plans are to deploy LTE in 2010, most probably in the second half of the year.
Since the carrier offers services in only 14 US markets, the deployment should be much faster than in Verizon’s case, which has to cover the whole country with the new and faster network.
At the moment, MetroPCS doesn’t have any smartphones in its offering, so one may wonder why does the carrier want to have its own LTE network.
Well, Tom Keys declared that they’ll be bringing a device from “a Canadian smartphone maker” next year – which almost certainly means a BlackBerry will be launched.
This being said, it looks like MetroPCS’ customers have a really nice year ahead, isn’t it?
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Boost Mobile Offers Unlimited Calls And Text
Author: +866.com16 Jan
All eyes have been on postpaid carriers for some time now, but let’s not forget the prepaid carriers too. From January 22nd, Boost Mobile will be offering consumers a $50/month plan which allows for unlimited calling and texting, which doesn’t sound too bad at all. This plan will rival those available on Leap Wireless International and MetroPCS. The good thing about Boost Mobile is that it is powered by Sprint Nextel, who is known to offer the most comprehensive push-to-talk (PTT) service in the US. With the current economic climate, users might not want to be tied down to a long contract, so this might be just what they’re looking for.
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New, unnamed Motorola CDMA clamshell leaked by the FCC
Author: +866.com13 Jan
The Federal Communications Commission has recently approved a new Motorola phone, a clamshell that appears with the FCC ID IHDP56JM2.
Unfortunately, the handset’s official name is not known for the moment, and neither are details about its release.
What we do know is that the new clamshell seems to be a mid-end device. It has external music dedicated keys, Bluetooth, a photo camera (probably of at least 2MP) and a flat alphanumeric keyboard.
Here’s what the phone looks like:
Apparently, there will be two versions of the phone available: one with 800 / 1900 MHz CDMA connectivity, and one with support for MetroPCS and Cricket’s 1700 MHz AWS frequencies.
Motorola will probably announce the clamshell in the near future and we’ll be here to let you know when this happens.
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Nokia E63 and Nokia 1006 for the US
Author: +866.com8 Jan
Apart from T-Mobile’s 7510 clamshell, Nokia has two other new phones for the US: Nokia E63 and Nokia 1006.
The E63 is already available in Europe, and now Nokia is bringing it to the US too, obviously with North American 3G connectivity (850 / 1900 MHz).
The Eseries Symbian S60 smartphone will be sold unlocked, for only $279 – a good price, considering the full QWERTY keyboard and all the other features the handset has.
Starting the next few weeks, customers will be able to find it in various retails stores across the US, as well as in Nokia’s Flagship Stores and via Nokia’s US website.
While the E63 isn’t exactly a new device, Nokia 1006 is. It’s a CDMA candybar, made for AWS carriers (like MetroPCS or Cricket) and developed at Nokia’s product creation center from San Diego.
There’s not much info about the features of Nokia 1006, save for the fact that it comes with a “bright color display”, speakerphone, voice memo and a phonebook that can hold up to 500 entries.
The candybar will be available soon, in silver and blue. An exact release date and a price were not given, though.
Via Press release and Press release