Showing posts with label Unlimited By Boost. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unlimited By Boost. Show all posts
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Boost Developments
Interested in Boost Unlimited via iDEN? You may want to check out these posts...Boost Mobile's handset lineup is about to get a whole lot better.
Friday, January 23, 2009
CricKet Clearance and Boost iDEN Go-Live
Out with the old and in with the new seems to be the theme today...okay, yesterday unless you're in Hawaii, but you get my drift...
First, CricKet has redone their website, making it a bit more picture-oriented and, in my opinion, clearer and more bold. They've shuffled things around a bit, but everything is still easy to find, just arranged a little differently. One new section: Clearance. If you want "cheap" Bluetooth car kits and headset s(cheap is relative, I suppose), that's the place to go. Or if you want a $90 Motorola w315.
Second, Boost Mobile has officially rolled out their iDEN unlimited plan: $50 per month for talk, messaging, web and walkie-talkie with no extra fees or limitations (unless you count iDEN's total lack of roaming ability in the U.S., and limited roaming in Canada and Mexico). To celebrate, they also rolled out a new iDEN phone, the very-much-meh i290.
Looking for the CDMA unlimited plans? They're gone. As I said, out with the old, in with the new. A pity, too; iDEN data speeds are a creeping crawl compared with Sprint/Verizon 2.5G, and anyone's 3G...
First, CricKet has redone their website, making it a bit more picture-oriented and, in my opinion, clearer and more bold. They've shuffled things around a bit, but everything is still easy to find, just arranged a little differently. One new section: Clearance. If you want "cheap" Bluetooth car kits and headset s(cheap is relative, I suppose), that's the place to go. Or if you want a $90 Motorola w315.
Second, Boost Mobile has officially rolled out their iDEN unlimited plan: $50 per month for talk, messaging, web and walkie-talkie with no extra fees or limitations (unless you count iDEN's total lack of roaming ability in the U.S., and limited roaming in Canada and Mexico). To celebrate, they also rolled out a new iDEN phone, the very-much-meh i290.
Looking for the CDMA unlimited plans? They're gone. As I said, out with the old, in with the new. A pity, too; iDEN data speeds are a creeping crawl compared with Sprint/Verizon 2.5G, and anyone's 3G...
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Boost Mobile Intros iDEN Unlimited January 22st
Boost Mobile today announced the details of their iDEN-based (chunky walkie talkie phones) unlimited plan. Not much to say here, but that's because it's rather awesome:
Unlimited talk
Unlimited messaging
Unlimited web
Unlimited walkie-talkie
$50 per month
No contracts, taxes or junk fees.
I'm assuming this plan will be usable on any Boost Mobile or Nextel iDEN phone. Not that it gives you a wide brand selection, but I have heard rumors about an iDEN messaging phone. Retro? A bit...web speeds will likely not venture above 20 kbps in most areas. But if you want unlimited everything on a nationwide network...one that's probably a lot better than, say, T-Mobile's...this is it. Just realize that if you go iDEN your phone standby battery life will be about three days, real-world battery life closer to one-and-a-half, and said phone will be on the large side compared with CDMA and GSM models.
Sppeaking of CDMA, it sounds like Boost Mobile will be phasing out their area-limited CDMA plans, which you couldn't get in some areas (I'm thinking due to varying levels of network load across the country). I'm personally a little sad to see them go...you could get a Motorola KRZR (decent phone) on an unlimited talktext/web plan with Sprint's network and EvDO data. But Boost Mobile started as iDEN, and by pushing the dimmer switch on CDMA unlimited plans they're getting back to their roots.
Also, Virgin Mobile, also on Sprint's (entire, no "travel charges") CDMA network, has a few decent phones (the Audiovox...uh...UTSTarCom...uh...PCD Shuttle, which has EvDO) and they hae unlimited talk and messaging, and nearly-unlimited-for-a-non-smartphone (50 MB) data plans. It's just more expensive to go CDMA than iDEN... $100 for Talk + Messaging + Web, $50 fo 200 anytime + 500 nights/weekends + Messaging + Web.
But I digress...the point is that, if you can stand using iDEN, and want unlimited service that's reasonably close to nationwide, Boost Mobile's new plan, coming in a week, fits the bill.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Boost To Offer Unlimited Nationwide iDEN Service
Looks like the economy has gone south, and as such Sprint can't find anyone to buy their iDEN Nextel unit. So they've decided to overload the network...erm...offer unlimited iDEN-powered service nationwide in the near future. No idea as to the price yet, other than analysts' predictions of $60-with-voice-and-text. I'm thinking more expensive, along the lines of Virgin mobile, with voice, maybe text and walkie talkie...
Friday, June 6, 2008
Boost Mobile Raises Rates
Looks like Sprint's Unlimited By Boost program is getting a rate hike. Dunno quite why, as the plan prices aren't exactly great to begin with, but in my area (Texas) the cost per month is now $50 for just talk, $60 for talk and text and a whopping $70 for talk, text and web. Compare this to Sprint's own unlimited plans ($90 for talk and messaging, $100 for everything) and factor in that on Boost you're paying up front for the phone and that your coverage is only on the Sprint network in a certain area and considering that area isn't that big (unless you pay ANOTHER $5 a month), Boost is getting to be less and less of a great deal.
Oh, and taxes are extra as well. In my area that adds about 20% to your bill. On my contract Sprint phone, the bill addition is slightly more than 20%, but I'm on a $30-a-month plan...
Oh, and taxes are extra as well. In my area that adds about 20% to your bill. On my contract Sprint phone, the bill addition is slightly more than 20%, but I'm on a $30-a-month plan...
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Boost Price Drops
Looks like prices have fallen to a more reasonable level on Sprint's Boost Mobile "UNLTD" service. Though the Motorola w385 is still $130, prices for the other phone models have fallen. The c290 is now just $90 to buy, and the high-speed-net-access, slim-and-stylish, powerful Motorola KRZR is now $180, down $70 from the opening price of $250, only $50 above the price of the w385.
Yes folks, you may be paying extra on the plan side for service like this, to the tune of about $10 extra per month over CricKet or MetroPCS. But on the front end, you get more phone for your money than on either CricKet or MetropCS...or any other unlimited, for that matter. As an example, the Motorola w315 costs $100 on CricKet, vs. $90 for the c290 (which is pretty close in functionality) on Boost. $130 gets you the w385, which would cost you $10-$20 more for simiar specs on CricKetMetroPCS. To top 'em all, the $180 KRZR is very much superior to everything below $200, or even more, on he other unlimited carriers. Certainly much better than the Razr v3a, which is a step far, far down from the v3m that the companies had offered in the past.
So now that phone prices are reasonable for high-speed or no-frills communication, I give Boost UNLTD an even more solid "buy" rating, though you might want to double-check the other guys' coverage footprints to see what works best for you, especially since Boost's coverage areas are limited to just a few Sprint markets (why, I don't rightly know).
Yes folks, you may be paying extra on the plan side for service like this, to the tune of about $10 extra per month over CricKet or MetroPCS. But on the front end, you get more phone for your money than on either CricKet or MetropCS...or any other unlimited, for that matter. As an example, the Motorola w315 costs $100 on CricKet, vs. $90 for the c290 (which is pretty close in functionality) on Boost. $130 gets you the w385, which would cost you $10-$20 more for simiar specs on CricKetMetroPCS. To top 'em all, the $180 KRZR is very much superior to everything below $200, or even more, on he other unlimited carriers. Certainly much better than the Razr v3a, which is a step far, far down from the v3m that the companies had offered in the past.
So now that phone prices are reasonable for high-speed or no-frills communication, I give Boost UNLTD an even more solid "buy" rating, though you might want to double-check the other guys' coverage footprints to see what works best for you, especially since Boost's coverage areas are limited to just a few Sprint markets (why, I don't rightly know).
Friday, March 14, 2008
Boost Mobile Gets the KRZR
At $250, this phone is nearly twice the price of the next-highest-end phone, the Motorola w385, and over double the price of the entry level c290, but it may well be worth it. With this entrant, Boost Unlimited is now in the running with carriers like MetroPCS, Pocket and CricKet in terms of phone specs on the high end. Granted, MetroPCS and CricKet have units from Samsung for $180-$200 that are on par feature-wise with the KRZR, but, looked at from another perspective, the rouch equivalent in terms of style and substance would be the Rokr slider z6m, which is a good bit newer but also $300 or thereabouts. Don't even talk about the Razrs on each carrier...they're now the stripped-down "a" versions that don't even start to compare with the KRZR in terms of features offered.
One more thing: though you pay for the privilege of having such a network (to the tune of $10 extra per month, or thereabouts), that extra chunk of change also gives you an honest-to-goodness EvDO-capable phone on a high-grade, nationwide EvDO network! So for $5 per month you're getting the fastest web access available on non-contract service that I know of...the fastest, at least, for a network that covers anybody (the unlimiteds' small networks, and AT&T's small network, don't count here). As usual, Sprint's attention to data shines through. While the service admittedly isn't the higher-speed Revision A EvDO that is now rolled out on both Verizon and Sprint, there's only one phone that can take advantage of that service anyhow (I have that phone, the HTC Mogul on Sprint) and Verizon themselves put off Rev. A as unnecessary for a phone-based experience.
In short, with this higher-end phone you're getting a LOT more features, allowing for everything from MP3 playing (with a $20 MicroSD card that replaces a $70 iPod shuffle, and then some) to decently high-res picture taking and video capture, to high-speed web surfing...pretty nice for an unlimited-carrier phone (except when compared to the Razr2 on CricKet, which incidentally costs $380!). This is at a point where the other unlimited carriers have discontinued the KRZR (which sold for roughly the same price when it was available, sometimes even more) in favor of cheaper (albeit newer) phones. Granted, Sprint itself is offering the KRZR for $80 with contract, $230 without ($20 LESS than the Boost Mobile price) but this is a full contract-grade phone, complete with snazzy looks and tons of features, and I'm very glad to see it going unlimited with Boost.
Now can Boost Unlimited please go national!?! There's this little provider called CricKet who has the monopoly on cheap unlimited up in Colorado, and Sprint's network beats CricKet's any day of the week... :)
One more thing: though you pay for the privilege of having such a network (to the tune of $10 extra per month, or thereabouts), that extra chunk of change also gives you an honest-to-goodness EvDO-capable phone on a high-grade, nationwide EvDO network! So for $5 per month you're getting the fastest web access available on non-contract service that I know of...the fastest, at least, for a network that covers anybody (the unlimiteds' small networks, and AT&T's small network, don't count here). As usual, Sprint's attention to data shines through. While the service admittedly isn't the higher-speed Revision A EvDO that is now rolled out on both Verizon and Sprint, there's only one phone that can take advantage of that service anyhow (I have that phone, the HTC Mogul on Sprint) and Verizon themselves put off Rev. A as unnecessary for a phone-based experience.
In short, with this higher-end phone you're getting a LOT more features, allowing for everything from MP3 playing (with a $20 MicroSD card that replaces a $70 iPod shuffle, and then some) to decently high-res picture taking and video capture, to high-speed web surfing...pretty nice for an unlimited-carrier phone (except when compared to the Razr2 on CricKet, which incidentally costs $380!). This is at a point where the other unlimited carriers have discontinued the KRZR (which sold for roughly the same price when it was available, sometimes even more) in favor of cheaper (albeit newer) phones. Granted, Sprint itself is offering the KRZR for $80 with contract, $230 without ($20 LESS than the Boost Mobile price) but this is a full contract-grade phone, complete with snazzy looks and tons of features, and I'm very glad to see it going unlimited with Boost.
Now can Boost Unlimited please go national!?! There's this little provider called CricKet who has the monopoly on cheap unlimited up in Colorado, and Sprint's network beats CricKet's any day of the week... :)
Friday, September 21, 2007
News Bits: MetroPCS in LA, Boost gets upgraded
First off, MetroPCS is now in the LA metro. Good for you guys who now have another competitor in the realm of wireless and the largest unlimited carrier in the U.S. as that competitor!
Second, Boost recently upgraded their Unlimited phone and plan lineup. The new phone is the $130 Motorola w385. The new plan adds unlimited pictur emessaging to unlimited text messaging at the same $5 plus regular rate price. See more about that here:
http://g4pp.blogspot.com/2007/09/boost-unlimited-intros-cool-new.html
Second, Boost recently upgraded their Unlimited phone and plan lineup. The new phone is the $130 Motorola w385. The new plan adds unlimited pictur emessaging to unlimited text messaging at the same $5 plus regular rate price. See more about that here:
http://g4pp.blogspot.com/2007/09/boost-unlimited-intros-cool-new.html
Friday, April 6, 2007
Boost Unlimited...More Info
Just read online that Unlimited By Boost will be out for Detroit by July 1st. Just on a forum, but if at does come, that's great!
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Info: Unlimited By Boost
Here's the first of my "infoposts" on unlimited carriers. Keep in mind that I'll change these to reflect changes in the pricing and such of the plans, and I'll post when I've made the changes. So you can rest assured that these posts will be up to date...
But on to Unlimited by Boost...
This veyr, very new unlimited provider (note provider, not carrier) is the first variant of Boost Mobile to use Sprint's PCS network (all other Boost plans use Nextel's iDEN network). There are rumors that this plan will eventually bridge the non-contract gap between iDEN and PCS, and move customers to PCS in doing so...
With a fairly attractive plan. For $45-$55 a month, depending on your area, (taken out of some sort of prepaid balance, which is interesting), plus taxes which aren't charged now but may be later, you get unlimited minutes (local and long distance), I'm supposing the normal calling features (3-way calling, caller ID, call waiting, etc.), and for now 1x web access (which will soon be charged seperately, at a high 35 cents a day...but then again, Sprint's 1x network is faster than most). Oh,, and incoming texts are free, with outgoing texts sold piecemail at 10 cents each.
The real great thing about this provider is coverage. You can "travel" anywhere on Sprint's own PCS network (but not off of it, at least not without having to break out a credit card) for 15 cents a minute. Plus your home coverage area is quite large compared with the unlimited offering of pretty much everyone else. The service, which is right now only available in California and Texas, covers each state in two or three regions, and inside your home region you get unlimited calling, which is nice...
The only phone available right now is the Motorola c290, which is quite basic (no caller ID display) but good enough (with web and an okay-resolution screen) for a starter phone on Boost. It is $100 with a month of service included, but if you want to get it online it may be as much as $30 more expensive. Best to look on Boost Mobile's normal website (www.boostmobile.com) under the store locator...Unlimited by Boost locations will show up as such, though they're relatively few and far between.
So, to sum things up, right now Boost is on the expensive end of unlimited providers, but shows promise, considering the imminent release of "hybrid" handsets so you can use walkie-talkie and unlimited calling, and other features that should pop up soon (unlimited text, anyone?). And there's that lovely phrase "cheap roaming" that sets this provider apart from the rest...I can't wait till it goes beyond Texas and California (I'm in Texas so I could get it, but I like Pocket better for the moment...)
But on to Unlimited by Boost...
This veyr, very new unlimited provider (note provider, not carrier) is the first variant of Boost Mobile to use Sprint's PCS network (all other Boost plans use Nextel's iDEN network). There are rumors that this plan will eventually bridge the non-contract gap between iDEN and PCS, and move customers to PCS in doing so...
With a fairly attractive plan. For $45-$55 a month, depending on your area, (taken out of some sort of prepaid balance, which is interesting), plus taxes which aren't charged now but may be later, you get unlimited minutes (local and long distance), I'm supposing the normal calling features (3-way calling, caller ID, call waiting, etc.), and for now 1x web access (which will soon be charged seperately, at a high 35 cents a day...but then again, Sprint's 1x network is faster than most). Oh,, and incoming texts are free, with outgoing texts sold piecemail at 10 cents each.
The real great thing about this provider is coverage. You can "travel" anywhere on Sprint's own PCS network (but not off of it, at least not without having to break out a credit card) for 15 cents a minute. Plus your home coverage area is quite large compared with the unlimited offering of pretty much everyone else. The service, which is right now only available in California and Texas, covers each state in two or three regions, and inside your home region you get unlimited calling, which is nice...
The only phone available right now is the Motorola c290, which is quite basic (no caller ID display) but good enough (with web and an okay-resolution screen) for a starter phone on Boost. It is $100 with a month of service included, but if you want to get it online it may be as much as $30 more expensive. Best to look on Boost Mobile's normal website (www.boostmobile.com) under the store locator...Unlimited by Boost locations will show up as such, though they're relatively few and far between.
So, to sum things up, right now Boost is on the expensive end of unlimited providers, but shows promise, considering the imminent release of "hybrid" handsets so you can use walkie-talkie and unlimited calling, and other features that should pop up soon (unlimited text, anyone?). And there's that lovely phrase "cheap roaming" that sets this provider apart from the rest...I can't wait till it goes beyond Texas and California (I'm in Texas so I could get it, but I like Pocket better for the moment...)
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