Boost Mobile will begin throttling data speeds for users who exceed the 2.5GB/month data cap. This new regulation will start on January 20th, and will supposedly only affect a small percentage of users. When a user exceeds the 2.5GB cap for that month, their speed will be reduced down to 256kbps. That will result in almost unusable data (in my… Read more
Boost Mobile announced today their plans to carry the Samsung Galaxy SII 4G and the Samsung Galaxy Rush this September. The SII will be available September 6th for $370 while the Rush will be sold for $150 and feature “a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 CPU, 768MB of RAM, a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen and a 3-megapixel camera.” Additionally, Boost Mobile will… Read more
In an interview with Sprint, the boys from Engadget went over some of the highlights of the HTC EVO 4G LTE, HTC EVO Design 4G and HTC EVO V along with one other piece of notable intel. Sprint’s VP of Product David Owens dropped a hidden surprise during the interview announcing Ice Cream Sandwich for the HTC EVO 3D will arrive sometime in… Read more
Virgin Mobile and Boost have gone and made their WiMAX networks official this morning as a press release indicates Sprint is ready to begin handing off its WiMAX airwaves to its two prepaid brands. Along with the WiMAX announcement comes the official announcements of both the HTC EVO V 4G and EVO Design 4G arriving on May 31st. Virgin… Read more
Boost and Virgin Mobile customers have two handsets to look forward to next week, with both of Sprint’s prepaid brands tipped to launch high end devices from HTC. As Pocketnow first reported, a version of the EVO 3D known as the EVO V 4G is prepared to hit Virgin, while Boost will get the EVO Design 4G (name supposedly intact). They will be the first two… Read more
Sprint released their first quarter 2012 numbers this morning reporting a net loss of $863 million dollars, while adding more than 1.1 million new customers to their network. Sprint’s new subscriber growth netted 263,000 postpaid customers in the first quarter of 2012 alone. Sprint said they are still on track with their LTE network, expected to launch… Read more
When we think of prepaid phone carriers, the thought is usually of cheap, low-end phones. For the most part, that’s what we’ve seen from carrier like Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile, but phones have slowly become more and more high-end. As it turns out, both Virgin and Boost are owned by Sprint, and use their network. This means that they get a lot of their… Read more
It looks like all you Android lovers that miss your QWERTY keyboards and candybar form factors, the wait won’t be long. Boost Mobile will be getting the replenish on the 16th of this month and it will be Boost’s first Android phone to come in at less than $100 bucks. For those that don’t know, Samsung’s replenish line of phones boasts its eco-friendly… Read more
Boost Mobile isn’t letting the Android fever slow down, and it looks like the wireless carrier isn’t just trying to stock the bottom of the pile, either. While ZTE may not be a household name when it comes to smartphones, at least not here in the States, specs don’t argue. And, thankfully for the ZTE Warp, it’s got enough of them to warrant any second look… Read more
In this market for high-end devices, there’s still no surprise that manufacturers are filling up the mid-range market with handsets that have some respectable statistics. Especially for someone who doesn’t want to wait to get the next latest and greatest, but just needs a device with some beefy specifications under the hood to get the job done from… Read more
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