Apple (Finally) Offers Up A Prepaid iPhone… on Cricket
Cricket becomes the first nationwide carrier to offer a prepaid iPhone, and will offer iPhone 4 & 4S below no-contract pricing on Tier 1 carriers.
Fire Sale: ZTE Score X500 Cricket Android Prepaid Phone – $29.99 In-Store
Best Buy has launched a fire sale on the ZTE Score X500 Cricket Muve prepaid phone. At $29.99, it’s the lowest price we’ve seen for a Google-supported Android device… ever. Click the link below to secure your X500 for in-store pickup. We strongly suggest doing so as stores will deplete within hours, if not minutes. […]
Cricket Launches LTE in Arizona
Cricket has announced that its first market for its long-planned LTE network will be Tuscon, Arizona with 90% of the city currently covered based on current CDMA coverage and a further expansion to Nogales, Arizona beginning in 2012. Pricing for the service is set at $50 per month for 5GB of data at up to 3Mbps […]
Cricket Launches Huawei Glory as Mercury
Cricket launches their variant of the Huawei Glory Android smartphone, delivering mobile hotspot support on Cricket’s network.
Huawei Announces Honor Android Smartphone, Cricket to Sell As Glory
Huawei has announced the forthcoming launch of its next high-end/low cost Android smartphone in the Honor, which will be sold by Cricket as the Huawei Glory when it is released later this quarter in the US. The Honor features Android 2.3.5,  a 1.4GHz Snapdragon processor with 512MB of RAM, a 4-inch F-WVGA resolution (854 x 480) […]
Cricket Announces Huawei Ascend II
Regional flat-rate carrier Cricket has announced the launch of the Huawei Ascend II, the successor to the first Ascend mid-range Android smartphone which features a redesigned bodyshell as well as Android Gingerbread and a 5.0 megapixel camera. The phone also features Bluetooth and Wi-Fi as well as a microSD slot to round out the feature […]
Cricket Launches Samsung Indulge
Cricket has launched its variant of the Samsung Indulge for $309.99 with a $20 instant online discount. The Indulge is identical to the version launched on MetroPCS save for the removal of the LTE radio. The smartphone features a sliding QWERTY keyboard, Android 2.2, 1GHz processor, Wi-Fi radio, Swype virtual keyboard, 3.2 megapixel main camera […]
Cricket Launches LG Optimus C Online
Following last Thursday’s launch of the LG Optimus C in stores, the entry-level Android smartphone is now available online from Cricket. The phone is functionally identical to the model sold on MetroPCS, with a 3.2 inch capacitive touch display, Android 2.2, microSDHC expansion slot, 3.2 megapixel camera with video recorder and Bluetooth with stereo audio […]
Third-Party Cricket Dealers Flash iPhone 4 via Jailbreak
A YouTube video has surfaced demonstrating a CDMA iPhone 4 with a Cricket PRL file loaded into the phone and subsequently dialing out for OTA activation and its successful completion. Further investigation reveals that while the CDMA iPhone 4 can be flashed, it requires a jailbreak and will not function in AWS markets as the […]