Boost Mobile today announced two new Motorola handsets, the Rambler and the Bali. Shared features include clamshell designs, 1.3 megapixel cameras with video capture, stereo Bluetooth, and support for microSD cards.

• Rambler: This flip phone has a full QWERTY... - read more

Cricket has posted a new web site touting the unreleased Kyocera / Sanyo Zio. The Zio M6000 was first announced in March of this year. It is a tri-band CDMA EVDO Rev. A handset with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. It has a 3.5-inch screen and 3.2 megapixel camera with video capture at 30 frames... - read more

Boost Mobile today announced a change to its international calling plans. International Connect is now available as an add-on to the existing Monthly Unlimited and BlackBerry Monthly Unlimited for an extra $10 per month. The plan now also offers unlimited calling to landlines in 150 cities... - read more

Virgin Mobile USA today launched the Novatel MiFi 2200. The modem is available for $150 with no contract. Virgin Mobile USA said the modem can be used with its Broadband2Go Top-Up cards, which start as low as $10 per month and range up to $60 per month for 5GB of data. Virgin Mobile USA... - read more

Boost Mobile today announced that it will begin selling the Motorola i1 Android walkie-talkie phone starting on June 20. It will be available at Boost retail stores, as well as Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores. Pricing was not disclosed.

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In the wake of its new focus on providing messaging and web-centric services, Virgin Mobile has added four handsets to its lineup. Several were previously offered by Sprint. The BlackBerry Curve 8530 should be available by the end of May. The LG Rumor Touch is already available with no... - read more

Boost Mobile today improved its $50 Monthly Unlimited Plan by offering free, unlimited calls to 411 directory service. Subscribers will also get unlimited email and instant messaging, in addition to the text messaging that the service also provides. Boost BlackBerry users, who already enjoyed... - read more

Today Cricket Wireless introduced Cricket Navigation, a new service offering for its customers. Cricket Navigation provides voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation as well as details on nearby gas stations, traffic, local points of interest, and local business search. The application is available... - read more

Cricket will offer a version of the newest Curve with AWS CDMA this "summer". It's otherwise identical to the Curve 8530 offered by other CDMA carriers.

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Today Cricket Wireless told Phone Scoop that it is prepared to offer its customers smartphones with its pre-paid wireless services. One of the first will be the recently announced Kyocera Zio. Cricket also said that it will soon be offering a BlackBerry, though it didn't specify which... - read more

Today Cricket Wireless announced a new, nationwide expansion of its calling services. Cricket has struck a new roaming agreement with Sprint that dramatically improves the footprint of its network. Before today's expansion, Cricket covered 195 million pops. After today, it reaches 270... - read more

Sprint and Virgin Mobile USA have officially started notifying its postpaid customers (former Helio) that Virgin Mobile is winding down and will cease operation of its postpaid service by May 25. Sprint hopes that it can convert some Virgin postpaid customers to full Sprint postpaid customers.... - read more

U.S. carriers were quick to react over the weekend with mobile giving programs after the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile early Saturday.

Similar to the tragedy that struck Haiti, the major U.S. carriers mobilized and provisioned short codes for use in mobile giving campaigns... - read more

In the wake of this morning's 8.8 magnitude earthquake in the Republic of Chile, Sprint announced today that customers on Sprint, Nextel, Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile USA will be able to support the earthquake relief efforts conducted by Convoy of... - read more

Today Page Plus Cellular announced that it has dropped roaming charges from 59 cents per minute to 29 cents per minute. Customers will only be charged this fee when roaming off of Page Plus' network.

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Following T-Mobile's footsteps, today Cricket announced that it, too, is offering its voice customers free, unlimited calling to Haiti between now and midnight Eastern Standard Time on Friday, January 22, 2010.

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Boost Mobile is prepared to offer its Monthly Unlimited plans on three CDMA handsets that will be released later this month. The Kyocera Sanyo Mirro SCP3810 and Sanyo Incognito SCP6760 can take advantage of the $50 Monthly Unlimited plan.

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Today Boost Mobile announced some changes to its International Connect plan. The $10 monthly add-on already offers unlimited text messaging and Walkie-Talkie calls to Canada, Baja California (Mexico) and Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Chile. Now the plan includes unlimited regular calls... - read more

Sprint Nextel Corporation and Virgin Mobile USA, Inc., today announced that they have completed their previously announced merger transaction. The acquisition of Virgin Mobile USA strengthens Sprint’s position in the growing prepaid segment by bringing together the... - read more

Today Sprint Nextel announced that it has completed its acquisition of Virgin Mobile. Virgin Mobile's shareholders voted in favor of the acquisition earlier today, paving the way for the deal to go through. Sprint will offer both Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile pre-paid services and says that... - read more

The MSGM8 (Message Mate) is a tri-band CDMA bar-style phone with QWERTY keyboard. It has dedicated keys for messaging applications as well as access to social networking applications. It also has a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth and speech recognition for hands free calling. It has a toggle... - read more

Today Boost Mobile announced the Motorola i410, a new entry-level clamshell that is available at Boost retail locations starting today. The i410 supports PTX features and has GPS, Bluetooth, speakerphone, and MMS. The i410 is semi-rugged, has dual-displays and has an Openwave WAP browser on... - read more

Today Leap Wireless announced that its Cricket services are now available in the Lake Charles, Louisiana, market. The new footprint covers approximately 1,367 square miles and 241,000 new POPs. Cricket offers service to 91.3 million Americans across the country.

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A new technology to prevent lithium-ion batteries from catching fire or exploding in laptops and mobile phones may be on the market as soon as the first quarter of 2010, its inventor said on Wednesday.

The invention, called Stoba, was developed at the Industrial Technology Research... - read more

A camera phone can be handier than you think. Here are some innovative ways in which you can put yours to use.

IN THE OFFICE

• Capture a whiteboard after a meeting.
  How many times have you left a meeting wishing that you... - read more

Automated "robocalls" that come from companies will become illegal starting on September 1. Any company that places unsolicited or automated calls to consumers in an attempt to sell products will be violating the law and subject to a fine of up to $16,000 per call. Some exceptions apply.... - read more

Today Virgin Mobile said that it will soon be offering the LG Rumor 2 messaging phone. The Rumor 2 has a QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth and 1.3 megapixel camera. It is also offered by Sprint, which recently agreed to acquire Virgin Mobile.

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Today Cricket Wireless announced two new large swaths of the U.S. that can access its services. The mid-Atlantic region spans from New York City to Richmond, Va. The southwest area now blankets parts of Arizona, Southern California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado. Cricket also announced some... - read more

Sprint Nextel Corporation and Virgin Mobile USA, Inc., announced today that their boards of directors have approved a definitive agreement for Sprint to acquire Virgin Mobile USA for a total equity value of approximately $483 million, which includes the value of Sprint’s current 13.1%... - read more

Today Cricket announced the Personal Communications Devices TXTM8, a messaging phone with full QWERTY keyboard and tri-band CDMA radios. The TXTM8 has Cricket's customizable homescreen, which lets users access web content, such as the weather and news. Other features include a 1.3 megapixel... - read more

Today Boost Mobile announced that it will drop the bundled price for any UNLTD By Boost customer to match what it is offering on its iDEN network. Customers on the UNLTD $50 unlimited talk, $60 unlimited talk and text or $70 unlimited talk, text and web plans will all be automatically switched... - read more

Boost Mobile has added the Motorola i465 Clutch to is line-up of devices. The Clutch, first announced by Motorola May 1, is a semi-rugged QWERTY device that focuses on messaging features.

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Cricket is now offering the Motorola Hint QA30. Motorola Hint QA30 is a compact slider with a QWERTY keyboard, 3G connectivity and video capture, playback and video stream.

Motorola Hint QA30 also features a large 2.5" color display, a 2MP camera/camcorder, an MP3 music player plus... - read more

Virgin Mobile USA will be launching Virgin Mobile "Connect" and Opera Mini 4.2 later this month, giving its more than five million prepaid customers more ways to optimize their mobile experience. Customers can take advantage of these new included services by signing up for any monthly or... - read more

Pocket Communications, the fastest growing wireless company in Texas, has launched a new network to serve markets in the U.S. Northeast plus expanding the capacity of its South Texas wireless network with 3G CDMA technology from Nortel*.

Pocket offers its low-cost, high-quality... - read more

It's a sign of the times. Money doesn't go as far as it once did, and consumers feel helpless and frustrated. When prepaid wireless providers add in activation fees, overage charges and extra costs for services like voicemail and roaming, consumers grumble and accept it. They're wronged. They... - read more

Boost Mobile’s decision to refocus its efforts on parent company Sprint Nextel Corp.’s iDEN network may be just what the doctor ordered — or a way to make the iDEN network a more attractive acquisition target.

After launching a trial of an unlimited offering on... - read more

Motorola, Inc., Sprint and Boost Mobile have teamed up to announce the upcoming availability of Motorola Stature i9, the thinnest flip phone in the Nextel Direct Connect portfolio. Motorola Stature i9 will be available from Boost by the end of February with Sprint getting the device shortly... - read more

Sprint Nextel Corp.’s Boost Mobile subsidiary unveiled an unlimited offering dubbed “Monthly Unlimited” that includes unlimited calling minutes, text messaging, wireless Web and walkie-talkie services for $50 per month. The new plan is for the carrier’s iDEN-based... - read more

On New Year's Day, it will become illegal to text message while driving in California. If this doesn't affect you now, your state may be right around the corner. You probably have a lot of questions about what precisely that means: Can you still use your BlackBerry to get directions... - read more

Did you get a cell phone for Christmas? Why not recycle your old one?

Every year, Americans buy more than 100 million cell phones. Most of those replace older handsets, which wind up at the bottom of a desk drawer and, eventually, a landfill where toxins from their circuit boards,... - read more

Mobile social network Loopt goes live on three AT&T phones today, which was the last major carrier holdout. Loopt is now available in the U.S. on Sprint, Verizon, Metro PCS, T-Mobile and Boost. The service is free for a year and then a $4/month fee kicks in.

You can get Loopt... - read more

Consumers have embraced Bluetooth-enabled mono headsets for mobile phones, but getting them to accept stereo Bluetooth headsets is another story.

A new study from IMS Research predicts sales of mono Bluetooth headsets will increase by 10 to 20 million per year and could quickly... - read more

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. and Aegis Mobility unveiled new technology they said manages incoming and outgoing calls and text messages on drivers’ mobile phones, a product aimed at reducing — and capitalizing on — the problem of distraction while behind the wheel.

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Roaming charges. They’re a fact of life in the cellular world, particularly in prepaid. What happens, though, when citizens are forced to evacuate their home calling area because of severe weather conditions? We saw this over the weekend with Hurricane Gustav. Thankfully, Boost Mobile... - read more

Sprint Nextel subsidiary Boost Mobile is now offering a $1-a-day pay as you go plan called the Chat Plan. The company is also lowering the price of its premium 600 minute offer to $60, down from $70 a month. The new Chat Plan offers unlimited nights and mobile-to-mobile calling. The plan also... - read more