Cricket isn't exactly a household name in wireless aid providers. Compared to Verizon, At&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile they are small fry. But if you're like a lot of typical phone users and live in a shop they serve, Cricket might be a good selection for wireless phone and data services. Cricket has focused on providing much lower prices to customers who make and receive calls in their home region and to give them buckets of unlimited minutes.
Cricket might not be the top selection for those who do a lot of wide-ranging company travel. For them, a national carrier like Sprint, Verizon, and At&T would likely be better.
But it could be an excellent selection for a wide range of folks who don't travel a lot along with talk-crazed teenagers, college students, school teachers, nannies, stay-at-home parents, small company owners who don't travel (think of the thousands of mom-and-pop shops in your area), and many other typical mobile phone users.
 The Kyocera Wild Card opens up to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard for easy emails, IM chats, and text messaging. See an overview of the phone's interior. |
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Virgin Mobile contributes 5 percent of profits from downloadable content to The RE*Generation, its pro-social initiative to help homeless teens, as well as provides postage-paid return envelopes in every new package for customers to recycle old phones.
Phone Features
The Wild Card's face features a large, 1.5-inch 65K-color screen with a 128 x 128-pixel resolution. You'll also find a dialpad here and a five-way center button that controls most of the phone's on-screen menus. Flip the phone open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard, another five-way center button, and call control buttons. The design allows for calling functions to be performed with the phone open or closed. A horizontally oriented 1.8-inch screen (with a 160 x 128-pixel resolution and 65K colors) is placed above the keyboard between the phone's dual speakers. It can hold up to 500 personal contacts, with six numbers as well as fields for email, street addresses, URL, and notes.
Because the Wild Card is Bluetooth enabled, wireless communication headsets can be configured with the phone. It also incorporates a jack for an earphone as well as a speakerphone for total hands-free operation.
Support for basic text messaging and multimedia messaging (MMS) are built into the Wild Card. When used in combination with the phone's built-in camera, MMS opens up a whole new world of messaging fun. Instant messaging chat is also supported, thanks to an embedded AOL Instant Messenger client. A built-in wireless web browser lets you surf Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) 2.0 sites via the Virgin Mobile Web service. eZiText text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built into the unit-- a plus for mobile email and text messaging users.
A number of handy tools ship with the Wild Card, including an alarm, a calendar, and a calculator with a tip calculator. There's also a voice memo application for recording quick notes or numbers.
The built-in 1.3-megapixel camera captures great stills and comes equipped with an LED flash, multi-shot adjustment, and a self-timer. Because the Wild Card supports Java applications it is compatible with many Java-based games. Many games are available from Virgin Mobile's wireless download service. You can also customize the phone with custom graphics and wallpapers, many of which are also available from Virgin Mobile.
The phone fully supports Virgin Mobile's wireless content service, VirginXtras. Use the pay-per-use service to download ringtones, get content and vote in TV-based polls via the MTV area of your phone, or get jokes and updates from Comedy Central. Pick a celebrity voice to answer your voicemail, or get a Sponge Bob thought of the day.
Vital Statistics
The Kyocera Wild Card weighs 4.1 ounces and measures 3.94 x 1.97 x 0.79 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 195 minutes of talk time, and up to 150 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the CDMA 1900 frequency.
If you're willing to strip off voicemail, you can get aid for as itsybitsy as per month for unlimited minutes in your local area. A more reasonable plan with long distance, text and photo messages, and voicemail runs per month.
Cricket doesn't have contract terms and early termination fees. The downside is that they don't do much to subsidize the cost of their phones.
Coverage outside of the home region (or "local coverage area" as Cricket calls it) in other Cricket markets can be added for per month. So even if you are a company traveler, if your travels take you mostly to markets served by Cricket and you live on the telephone, it could still be a very good choice. For instance, if you live and work mostly in Chicago but often take trips to Milwaukee, Madison, Rockford, and South Bend, Cricket can cover all of those areas inexpensively even if you talk a incorporate of hours per day (over 3000 minutes per month) on your cell phone.
Cricket Communications Local Coverage Areas
At the time of this writing, Cricket offers flat-rate unlimited wireless phone and broadband services in these metro areas outside much of the United States. Cricket refers to them as "local coverage areas" to differentiate between the flat-rate unlimited aid customers get while in those areas versus roaming charges that apply when completely off of Cricket's network. Local coverage areas also typically offer 3G wireless broadband services, too.
1. Alabama: Fort Mitchell, Phoenix City, Smiths Station
2. Alaska: no home regions
3. Arizona: Phoenix, Tucson
4. Arkansas: itsybitsy Rock, Hot Springs, Pine Bluff, Fayetteville, Fort Smith, Jonesboro
5. California: Fresno, Visalia, Modesto, Merced, San Diego
6. Colorado: Colorado Springs, Denver, Pueblo
7. Connecticutt: no home regions
8. Delaware: no home regions
9. District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.): no home regions yet, coming soon?
10. Florida: most of state covered by "Premium Extended Coverage" plan
11. Georgia: Columbus, Macon, Savannah
12. Hawaii: no home regions
13. Idaho: Boise
14. Illinois: Chicago and its suburbs, Rockford
15. Indiana: Gary, New Albany, South Bend, Indianapolis
16. Iowa: Council Bluffs
17. Kansas: Kansas City, Wichita
18. Kentucky: Lexington, Louisville
19. Louisiana: some of state covered by "Premium Extended Coverage" plan
20. Maine: no home regions
21. Maryland: no home regions
22. Massachusetts: no home regions
23. Michigan: Ann Arbor, Detroit, and some other areas covered by "Premium Extended Coverage" plan
24. Minnesota: no home regions
25. Mississippi: Olive Branch, Southaven, Tunica
26. Missouri: Kansas City, St. Louis
27. Montana: no home regions
28. Nebraska: Lincoln, Omaha
29. Nevada: Las Vegas, Reno, Sparks, Carson City
30. New Hampshire: no home regions
31. New Jersey: no home regions
32. New Mexico: Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Santa Fe
33. New York: Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse
34. North Carolina: Burlington, Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Greensboro, High Point, Winston-Salem, Raleigh-Durham
35. North Dakota: no home regions
36. Ohio: Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton, Springfield, Toledo
37. Oklahoma: Tulsa, Oklahoma City
38. Oregon: Eugene, Salem, Portland
39. Pennsylvania: Philadelphia (coming soon), Pittsburgh
40. Rhode Island: no home regions
41. South Carolina: Beaufort, Charleston, Rock Hill
42. South Dakota: no home regions
43. Tennessee: Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville, Clarksville
44. Texas: Austin, Bryan, College Station, Del Rio, Eagle Pass, El Paso, Houston, Killeen, McAllen, San Antonio, Seguin, Temple
45. Utah: Salt Lake City, Provo, Ogden
46. Vermont: no home regions
47. Virginia: some of state covered by "Premium Extended Coverage" plan
48. Washington: Spokane, Vancouver
49. West Virginia: New Cumberland, Wellsburg
50. Wisconsin: Kenosha, Milwaukee, Madison
51. Wyoming: no home regions
The main areas missing from the flat-rate coverage are sparsely populated areas such as North and South Dakota and huge cities such as New York and Los Angeles. It's tough to make money in regions with few people, so Cricket has focused on bigger markets. Some big markets had too much competition as the Rf spectrum licenses for those cities were expensive and heavily bid upon, so Cricket skipped over them. Cricket isn't a good selection for high usage in those areas as you're roaming there, but you can still get service.
For more per month, many areas are covered under "Premium Extended Coverage" and move from roaming minutes to the flat-rate unlimited coverage.
Bottom Line
Ultimately, Cricket doesn't make much sense unless you live and work in either a local or prime extended coverage area. But if you do, it could be a bargain.
The Kyocera Wild Card opens up to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard for easy emails, IM chats, and text messaging. See an overview of the phone's interior. |
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Virgin Mobile contributes 5 percent of profits from downloadable content to The RE*Generation, its pro-social initiative to help homeless teens, as well as provides postage-paid return envelopes in every new package for customers to recycle old phones.
Phone Features
The Wild Card's face features a large, 1.5-inch 65K-color screen with a 128 x 128-pixel resolution. You'll also find a dialpad here and a five-way center button that controls most of the phone's on-screen menus. Flip the phone open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard, another five-way center button, and call control buttons. The design allows for calling functions to be performed with the phone open or closed. A horizontally oriented 1.8-inch screen (with a 160 x 128-pixel resolution and 65K colors) is placed above the keyboard between the phone's dual speakers. It can hold up to 500 personal contacts, with six numbers as well as fields for email, street addresses, URL, and notes.
Because the Wild Card is Bluetooth enabled, wireless communication headsets can be configured with the phone. It also incorporates a jack for an earphone as well as a speakerphone for total hands-free operation.
Support for basic text messaging and multimedia messaging (MMS) are built into the Wild Card. When used in combination with the phone's built-in camera, MMS opens up a whole new world of messaging fun. Instant messaging chat is also supported, thanks to an embedded AOL Instant Messenger client. A built-in wireless web browser lets you surf Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) 2.0 sites via the Virgin Mobile Web service. eZiText text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built into the unit-- a plus for mobile email and text messaging users.
A number of handy tools ship with the Wild Card, including an alarm, a calendar, and a calculator with a tip calculator. There's also a voice memo application for recording quick notes or numbers.
The built-in 1.3-megapixel camera captures great stills and comes equipped with an LED flash, multi-shot adjustment, and a self-timer. Because the Wild Card supports Java applications it is compatible with many Java-based games. Many games are available from Virgin Mobile's wireless download service. You can also customize the phone with custom graphics and wallpapers, many of which are also available from Virgin Mobile.
The phone fully supports Virgin Mobile's wireless content service, VirginXtras. Use the pay-per-use service to download ringtones, get content and vote in TV-based polls via the MTV area of your phone, or get jokes and updates from Comedy Central. Pick a celebrity voice to answer your voicemail, or get a Sponge Bob thought of the day.
Vital Statistics
The Kyocera Wild Card weighs 4.1 ounces and measures 3.94 x 1.97 x 0.79 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 195 minutes of talk time, and up to 150 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the CDMA 1900 frequency.
Wrapping heavy-duty performance in a stylishly slim design, the 3G-enabled, Android-powered LG Marquee for Sprint features a large 4-inch NOVA multi-touch display that provides impressive visibility indoors and out. It also features Sprint ID, an intuitive way of customizing Android content that enables you to instantly download predefined packs that deliver widgets, ringtones, and wallpapers all at once (learn more below).
 Stylishly slim design with a 4-inch NOVA multi-touch display (see larger image). |
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Equipped with a 1 GHz processor, the LG Marquee makes downloading, posting, commenting, watching and playing faster and easier than ever. It also offers a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with HD 720p video capture capabilities, and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera making your face-to-face video chatting experience even more memorable. It also comes with Sprint's Mobile Hotspot feature, which allows you to share your 3G connectivity with up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices simultaneously.
Enjoy the Internet without compromise with the full HTML browser and support for Adobe Flash as well as streaming YouTube videos on the 4-inch touchscreen display. The Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) operating system brings one-touch access to the popular Google mobile services you use every day, including Google Search, Gmail, Google Maps with Navigation, Google Calendar, Picasa, and YouTube. And through Android Market, you'll get access to thousands of useful applications, widgets, and fun games to download and install on your phone, with many more apps being added every day.
The LG Marquee has a 2 GB internal memory and it comes with a pre-loaded 2 GB microSD memory card for 4 GB of storage right out of the box. You can also expand its storage capabilities with optional microSD cards up to 32 GB in size. Other features include Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity for hands-free devices and stereo music streaming, GPS for navigation and location services, onscreen Swype keyboard, access to both personal and corporate e-mail, and up to 5.5 hours of talk time.
The LG Marquee weighs 3.95 ounces and measures 4.8 x 2.52 x 0.36 inches. Its 1500 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5.5 hours of talk time. It runs on the 800/1900 CDMA/EV-DO Rev. A frequencies.
What's in the Box
LG Marquee handset, rechargeable battery, charger, USB cable, 2 GB microSD card, documentation kit
Broadband-like 3G network: Supporting the EV-DO Rev. A high-speed data standard, this phone enables you to download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Where coverage is available, EV-DO Rev. A connectivity provides average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps, with peak rates up to 2 Mbps.
TeleNav GPS Navigator: With TeleNav GPS Navigator, you will never need to print out directions again. As you drive, TeleNav GPS Navigator will give you all the information you need, such as the current street, the next turn to take, the distance remaining before your next turn, and more. Along the way, turn-by-turn directions will be announced in a clear voice and displayed on your phone. For example, TeleNav GPS Navigator will say, "Go 1.2 miles and turn right on Elm Street." As you approach the turn, you will hear, "Turn right on Elm Street." It also provides proactive traffic alerts with one click re-routing. And it's easy to find restaurants, banks, cafes, hotels and more from over 10 million points of interest across the U.S.
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Sprint Music Plus: Jam out wherever you are with new songs or old favorites with the Sprint Music Plus app. You can purchase DRM-free full tracks (ranging from 69 cents to .29 per song), and you can save money when buying a bundle that includes the full track, ringtone and ringback tone with just one click. The app also allows you to create music playlists on your phone, assign ringback tones to play for different callers and times of day, and get new music recommendations based on their musical tastes.
Stay Sporty with Sprint: With NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile, instantly connect to the NASCAR information you want, when you want it. Follow NASCAR action from practice to race day with real-time leaderboard and alerts. Get exclusive access to your favorite NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver with real-time driver stats, breaking news and more. Live in-car audio, race radio, NASCAR on SPEED and other audio/video only available on select phones. Visit sprint.com/speed for details.
 Just a few of the Sprint ID packages. |
Make your phone a reflection of who you are with Sprint ID, which helps you get the most out of your phone by allowing you to choose a total experience for your device. You'll be able to quickly download ID packs that deliver a predefined experience--including applications, widgets, ringtones and wallpapers--all at once. Packs are designed to meet your interests--whether you're a sports fan, fitness fanatic, or auto enthusiast.
And the catalog of Sprint ID experiences will grow and expand--it's a marketplace full of experiences just for you. Choose from a single experience or many--it's about customizing your phone with the information you want in the palm of your hand. Here are a few examples of currently available Sprint ID packs:
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 The LG Marquee runs the Android 2.3 operating system (dubbed Gingerbread)--the fastest version of Android available for smartphones yet. It features a cleaner, more refined interface with new icons, improved top notification bar, and more intuitive navigation. Multitasking in Gingerbread allows you the ability to run more than one app at a time. If you're playing a game, you can easily switch to an incoming e-mail and then switch back to the game without losing your place. And like the previous version of Android ("Froyo"), Gingerbread provides support for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for access to the full Web. The onscreen keyboard makes it easier to type thanks to additional spacing between the keys and larger font sizes. And the more you use the keyboard, the easier typing will be as the enhanced suggest feature records previous input history to make better suggestions. The Marquee also brings one-touch access to the popular Google mobile services you use every day. It also provides easy access to both personal and corporate e-mail, calendars, and contacts supported by Exchange Server and Gmail. And through Android Market, you'll get access to thousands of useful applications, widgets, and fun games to download and install on your phone, with many more apps being added every day. | Google Integration
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