Cricket to Launch Android Phone

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sgt slaughter

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I read today that Cricket is slated to release a Kyocera Android based phone in July. This should be good news for the rest of us Droid users as I would suspect things like market apps should be easier to get working?
 
You have heard correctly. It's the Kyocera M6000 or Kyocera ZIO. Technical specs are hard to come by, but it will have EVDO a 3MP camera, capacitive touch screen, no qwerty keyboard and Android 1.6. Android 2.1 will be available later in the year(I imagine, though, you'll be able to download the 2.1 binary from google and bootload the device and install it. I'm planning that for the first day we get them.). This device along with the BB Curve should be available this summer. Internal testing of the Android device begins end of April beginning of May.

I'm very excited and I may actually cancel my iPhone and switch to Cricket completely.
 
I was one of the stupid people who purchased the blackberry storm when it first came out. I find it hard to believe that a phone could be any worse than that.
 
Just in case anyone thought I was posting confidential information, I was not. All of this info has been posted to the web already.

http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/03/23/kyocera-reveals-zio-androidpowered-smartphone/

http://www.twice.com/article/450636-Leap_To_Offer_Kyocera_s_First_Android_Phone.php

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The video states that full retail will be between $169 and $219 before promotions! It also states a Q2 launch and that the device was being shown by Cricket at the event, so they will be a launch partner for the device. It actually looks pretty decent.
 
We didn't. You came into the thread and you're not a Cricket user. Seems pointless, but whatever works for you.

Kyocera is slapping their name on the Sanyo brand of phones as well, with Sanyo getting killer review after review on product quality...we'll have to see what's what when it comes out.
 
Unless Cricket has drastically changed in the past few months, my opinion stands.

I was with them for a long time (until I knew better), and can tell you stories. . .
 
The same way that the HTC Hero on Sprint is upgradeable but is now over six months old and the 2.1 update still hasn't happened.

Android upgrades are a joke. The software that ships with the phone is almost always what they are stuck with for at least half a year, and probably forever.

There's no excuse whatsoever to be shipping a 1.6 handset in July over half a year after 2.1 was released in January.

So I'll say it again: terribly disappointing.
 
how can you people knock it before you try it. no ones asking you to dive in head first...

yes cricket isn't as "modern" with features, but good grief, their prices are so low, and now nation wide. give them a break, unless you like paying 84 dollars a month for 450 minutes...
 
I can knock it for running Android 1.6 (if this is indeed true) when Android 2.1 is available and wouldn't be any more expensive for Kyocero/Sanyo to use instead. It's just a bad decision with no rational explanation.
 
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