Today Leap Wireless announced that its Cricket service is now offering the Nokia 3606. The 3606, a flip phone first announced in the third quarter of 2008, is one of the first from Nokia to support the AWS band. It includes stereo Bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel camera with LED flash, a microSD card slot for [...]

Today Leap Wireless announced that it will begin offering its Cricket wireless services, including 3G, in the greater Philadelphia region starting March 10. Cricket’s coverage will include downtown Philadelphia, its suburbs, as well as across portions of southern New Jersey extending out to Atlantic City and down to Wilmington, Delaware. The expansion adds 6.3 million [...]

Today Leap Wireless’ Cricket announced the availability of the A600 USB wireless modem. The A600 has embedded software drivers, negating the need for an install CD, and it has a slot for microSD cards. It works with Windows 2000, XP and Vista 32 & 64 bit, and Macintosh OS 10.3.9 or higher. It costs $70 [...]

Today Cricket announced that it is adding the Samsung SCH-r211 to its roster of bar-style devices. The r211 is a small phone that has a simple feature set, including speakerphone, web access, messaging, and game and ringtone downloads. Because the r211 supports AWS, it will work in all of Cricket’s markets. It costs $90 and [...]

Today Leap Wireless announced that it is now offering its Cricket Wireless services in the Chicago metropolitan area. It will roll out service across the city as it becomes available over the coming weeks.Read more from the sourceRelated Keywords for this posts:cell phone batteries, international call, store, prepaid service

Today Cricket announced that the Kyocera S1300 is now available in the recently launched Chicago metropolitan area. The S1300 is a slim, bar-style phone that has CDMA 1x data, speakerphone, messaging and mobile web capabilities. It is available for $90 at Chicago-area retailers, but will become available in Cricket markets nationwide soon.Read more from the [...]

Today Leap Wireless announced a new service called Mobile Music, which is a new mobile storefront for Cricket subscribers to discover and download music. The service will cover both PCs and phones. Tracks will cost $1.99 each, or three for $5 to download directly to the phone. Cricket users can also choose to download songs [...]

Documents seen on the FCC Web site provide details about a new Motorola clamshell that comes in dual-band CDMA and tri-band CDMA versions. The tri-band variant includes 1700MHz AWS spectrum, which earmarks it for Cricket or MetroPCS. Not many details are provided in the FCC documents, but the photo shows that it has dual displays, [...]

Today Leap Wireless announced a new service called Mobile Music, which is a new mobile storefront for Cricket subscribers to discover and download music. The service will cover both PCs and phones. Tracks will cost $1.99 each, or three for $5 to download directly to the phone. Cricket users can also choose to download songs [...]

Today Cricket launched its new PAYgo prepaid offering. Three packages are available:
$1 buys you unlimited local calls and voicemail, caller ID and three-way calling,
$2 adds unlimited text and picture messaging, and
the $3 plan adds unlimited U.S. long distance, international texting, mobile Web and directory assistance
Add to that the fact that you will be charged only [...]