MetroPCS has now revised some of its service plans and offered more features with them. Their $40 plan now comes with additional nationwide calling minutes, messaging and web data as well. The usual $45 comes with an extra unlimited email messaging service, navigation and social networking facility. The lowest priced plan, which costs $35, includes caller ID and call waiting.
Obviously, these new plans are an answer to Sprint, Boost Mobile, Cricket Wireless and other competitors’ efforts to remain on top of the market. Whatever the reason, we customers are at an advantage, aren’t we, guys?
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Are you a Cricket fan looking for some nice new mobile phone from the company? If you want something just cute and not an in-the-face flashy mobile phone, you should consider Cricket’s latest offering, the TXTM8, pronounced, “Text Mate”.
The messaging phone looks real neat and comes with a sliding QWERTY keyboard, 1.3MP camera, AWS CDMA and Stereo Bluetooth. Contact Cricket for more info on this one, priced at $139.99 after discount and on contract.

Cricket TXTM8
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AT&T will now join the likes of US Cellular and Cricket to provide its mobile services in subways at Chicago. By permitting the carrier to function on the red and blue line subway will give the city’s Transit Authority an extra earning of at least $3.1 million during the tenure of the contract.
AT&T will be installing and testing the service over the next few months, after which the operation will be actually carried out.
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The latest introduction from Samsung, the Samsung MyShot II, is the next version of the original MyShot. This device has now made its appearance on the Cricket Wireless website. The surprising thing here is that it features on the website, before any official announcement has been made from the low-cost carrier.
The Samsung MyShot II for Cricket is a nice flip phone that features a stylish, shiny black and maroon finish. This multimedia phone comes with a 1.3 megapixel camera, built-in music player, Web browser and Bluetooth technology. Other specs include speakerphone and voice-activated dialing.
The MyShot II is now available for sale online for $139.99, after an instant web-only discount.

Samsung MyShot II
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