Motorola i1 Android Phone Going To Boost Mobile
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Boost Mobile is Sprint-Nextel’s low-price, month-to-month iDEN cellular service provider that markets themselves to young people. They’ve been rumored to be getting an Android phone for a while now, and being a subsidiary of Sprint-Nextel, they’re one of the few telcom’s using iDEN technology, speculation has got them pegged as receiving the Motorola i1.
This rumor has been out since July 2009, with speculation putting Motorola producing a low-end Android handset for the Boost Mobile crowd. The Motorola Opus One, which was confirmed last week as the Motorola i1, was pegged as the phone to do it, since it’s an iDEN phone.
Boost Mobile historically has offered only dumbphones featurephones, but recently, they offered their first smartphone, a BlackBerry Curve 8830 which they sold for a steep price of $249. With Boost experimenting with smartphones, it looks like they could be testing the waters again, this time with an Android smartphone. Hopefully, it’ll go better than AT&T’s first Android phone.
Recapping the Motorola i1, we don’t know much about it. It will ship with Android 1.5. That doesn’t rule out a later upgrade to Android 2.x, but, considering this will likely be a low-range handset, it might not have the memory space for the slightly bigger Android 2.0 and 2.1.
In pictures, the phone was shown running Motorola’s MOTOBLUR UI, which seems to be popular with a lot of people. While the phone is expected to be unveiled at the CTIA trade show later this month, Motorola has yet to confirm its existence. Everything we know about the phone, we know from leaked pictures, leaked names and FCC regulation filings.
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I would like to know if Sprint decides to end the iden network then what will happen to the walkie talkie feature and what will happen with the Boost Mobile Network since it also uses the iden dual band.
Although this article seems to be of the opinion that Boost Mobiles service are primarily targeted at young people, us grown-ups better take notice of the features and rates! I mean when you compare the Sprint unlimited plan to that of Boost, there really is no comparison! With the economy in the toilet, money is of major concern to me (electrical contractor), and I am smart enough to know a good deal and take advantage of it! Any smart person will grow up and get over the “stigma” of a pre-paid phone to save well over $50 per month and get all the same features as the more expensive regular unlimited everything plan from Sprint. In a nutshell, Sprint offers a $99 per month plan that includes Voice, Text, & Data all unlimited. That same ridiculous plan gets you stuck in a contract for 2 years for a phone that is outdated in 6 months! Boost on the other hand offers a plan that is $50 per month, uses the same network as Sprint, has the same data speeds, call quality, etc… Oh yeah, and that $50, goes down by $5 per month after 6 months, then does it again and again, till you are only paying $35 per month for unlimited everything! Best part, the phones are getting to be pretty darned cool, and there IS NOT a pointless, expensive, almost made with criminal intent, frickin no good CONTRACT! Anyone that has any sort of good sense, would know that this falls under the category of a no brainer. Do the smart thing, save yourself a fortune….well over $600 per year, and get the I1 from Boost and be cool without being a fool! Oh yeah, the only down side to Boost, it’s pretty much impossible to reach a person through their customer svc. number, but since I had to wait sometimes an hour or more on hold just to talk to Sprints people when I had their contract service, it’s pretty much all the same thing! It’s worth the $600 a year to me to not have the contract and outright purchase the I1 or something similar, also you can unlock any CDMA Sprint/Nextell phone to work on Boost anyway, just look online for the technique!
Have a great day!
KC