The month of August has been littered with loads of news from the Cricket collection. The company unveiled the Huawei EC1705 modem with True Rate service plans as well as a whole range of attractive gadgets on its 3G network. Now another device is all set to unfurl through Cricket namely the Samsung Messager Touch multimedia messaging phone. The sleek touch device comes with a wide array of service plans with unlimited messaging and nationwide talk options at reduced costs.
The Messager Touch sports a 2.6-inch QVGA touchscreen display as well as a full QWERTY slide-out keypad along with accessible pre-loaded widgets, MyHomeScreen and Touchwiz Lite interface. Through this handset, users can easily customize three homescreens and scatter it with their desired apps.
“Both the Samsung Messager and Samsung Messager II have been incredibly popular additions to our device offerings over the years, and we expect that this new touch screen version will be no different. The Samsung Messager devices allow our customers to take advantage of the unlimited multimedia messaging offered in our all-inclusive service plans, in a modern and stylish package,†stated Al Moschner, Cricket’s chief operating officer.
“The highly affordable Samsung Messager Touch is a great full multimedia solution for our versatile handset line-up. With this new device, our customers have the widely-popular touch screen capabilities at a realistic price, with real-life rate plans they can afford. Cricket now offers everything from basic to Smartphone, and everything in between on our wide-reaching array of devices,†noted Matt Stoiber, Cricket’s vice president and general manager of devices.
The Samsung offering is lightweight in nature and includes multimedia options such as 3G web browsing speeds and music player with optional microSD memory card support. Other attributes comprise of stereo Bluetooth, 2.0 megapixel camera and 100MB of storage. They can also take complete advantage of additional Cricket services like Cricket navigator, mobile email, and mybackup.
The Samsung Messager Touch is found dressed in black or white and tagged with a price of $159.99. Users will also be able to avail of a pocket-friendly all-inclusive $45 unlimited nationwide talk, text and picture/video message plan.
