Many of these so-called unlimited consumer plans usually end up costing quite a bit, when calculated with final taxes and so on. But now, Boost Mobile offers customers a savings of more than $240 a year with its flat-rate prepaid plan, which offers unlimited nationwide talk, text and multimedia messaging, wireless Web access and nationwide Walkie-Talkie that reaches more than 274 million people in more than 15,800 cities across the U.S. for an all-inclusive price of $50/month.
In comparison with Virgin Mobile, this is a lot. The Virgin Mobile plan includes unlimited talk, but those looking to send text messages need to pay an additional $10 per month, which turned out to be a hefty fee in the final analysis. Besides saving consumers more than $200 per year, Boost Mobile’s plan, unlike Virgin Mobile’s plan, offers consumers picture messaging, text messaging, Web access and the popular Walkie-Talkie feature. Boost Mobile offers the fastest national “push-to-talk” network available in the prepaid industry.
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We had promised to bring you a video of the Helio Ocean 2 mobile phone, from Virgin Mobile. Take your first look at the device, right here, at Phoneare. Click here to view our post on the handheld.
Helio Ocean 2 from Virgin Mobile is built originally by Pantech. The general look remains much the same, but this model brings improvements on the original. The Helio Ocean 2 has smoother lines and a better color scheme as well. The keypad is convenient to use and the new dual-mode optical/mechanical d-pad works quite well.
The problem is with the EV-DO 3G connectivity, which is a tad bit too slow. So that makes browsing difficult. That notwithstanding, this gadget is still great to use. The Ocean 2 is a dual slider, with both the QWERTY keyboard and numeric pad sliding out in different directions. The Helio Ocean 2 is now available online from Virgin Mobile for US$150, after rebates.
Check out pictures of this mobile phone. We will be posting a video very soon, so make sure to come back for it.
Two unannounced Kyocera mobile phones, the X-tc and Jax, featured recently on the Virgin Mobile Website. The X-tc was spotted about a month back, the details of which are also published on the Kyocera Website. The Kyocera X-tc is a slide phone with a full QWERTY keyoard. Besides that, it comes with a 1.3MP camera, stereo Bluetooth, media player with dedicated control keys, Web browser, microSD card slot and preloaded applications such as Facebook and MySpace. The X-tc is priced at $100.
Kyocera X-tc
The Kyocera Jax is the re-branded S1300 Melo, which is already available from carriers such as MetroPCS and Cricket. This ultra-thin candybar-style phone gives the user basic features such as mobile web and messaging. The pricing of this simple phone has not been revealed yet.
