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Remember the ZTE Beast phablet? It has made its way to Boost Mobile, being rebranded as Boost Max, the carrier’s first 5.7 inch phablet which costs $300 off contract. Powered by Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the Boost Max touts a 5.7 inch HD IPS display with Gorilla Glass, an 8 megapixel rear camera, 1.2GHz dual-core processor coupled with 1GB of RAM and a 3,200mAh battery. Its definitely no powerhouse, but if you’re on the lookout for a relatively cheaper phablet that won’t tie you down to a contract, then this is the phablet for you.

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Boost Max Launched For $300 Off Contract original content from Ubergizmo.

Contracts and post-paid plans are great for those who are thinking long-term or who don’t want the hassle of shopping for different carriers, but for those who believe that they are around for a short period of time, perhaps for work or study, prepaid could be the smarter choice. For those of you who like the idea of prepaid, versus post-paid where you could get bill shocks, you might be interested to learn that Boost Mobile has announced that they will be offering the brand new Moto G from Motorola in the coming weeks and will be available for purchase come 14th of January via Boost Mobile’s online store, or for those who’d rather see the device in person, the Moto G will be available in-store come 20th January.

The handset will be priced at $129.99 off-contract along with Boost Mobiles $55 Monthly Unlimited plan. However the good news is that if you were to make six payments on time, Boost Mobile will cut your plan down by $5 and will be valid for up to $15, meaning that your monthly plan payments could go as low as $40 a month. Granted this is still a bit more expensive that Verizon’s pre-paid offering which is set at $99, but we guess it will depend on your preference, network coverage, and etc.

Moto G Coming To Boost Mobile January 14 original content from Ubergizmo.

Boost Mobile subscribers will soon be able to finally pick up the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c as the company is announcing Apple’s latest smartphones will become available starting on November 8.

Boost Mobile announced details surrounding the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c making their way to the wireless carrier Friday morning. Boost Mobile customers will be able to pick up an off-contract iPhone 5s starting at $550 for the 16GB model, while the iPhone 5c will be sold for $450. Boost Mobile is also making the iPhone 4S available on their service for just $300 across their carrier stores. (more…)

Boost Mobile iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c Pricing Revealed original content from Ubergizmo.

Boost Mobile is a prepaid carrier which is owned by Sprint. Boost has never officially sold iPhones before, despite the fact that the smartphones have been available from Sprint since 2011. That might be about to change though. The infamous Twitter leaker @evleaks has posted purported Boost Mobile ads which point towards the possibility of the prepaid carrier offering both new iPhones, the iPhone 5s and the iPhone 5c, for sale in the near future.

The leaked ads don’t explicitly mention when both new iPhones are going to be available. No pricing information is present on them, but the ads do suggest that the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c might be eligible for Boost’s monthly unlimited plan with “shrinking payments.” Boost won’t actually be the first prepaid U.S. carrier to offer the iPhone. Rivals Cricket and Straight Talk have offered the iPhone in the past, whereas Virgin Mobile will launch the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c on October 1st. The U.S. branch of Virgin Mobile is controlled by Sprint. Apple unveiled both new iPhones earlier this month, they were released in select markets on September 20th. Soon after the launch, Apple claimed that demand for both new iPhones is “incredible.” [Image via Twitter]

Boost Mobile iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c Purported Ads Leaked original content from Ubergizmo.

With the wide spread of the Samsung device family resulting from the sustained success of the Samsung Galaxy smartphone line comes devices like the Galaxy Prevail II. This device is being offered for under $200 in the United States without a contract with the mobile data carrier Boost Mobile, and it’s doing so with specifications that aren’t half bad. While the LG-made Google Nexus 4 brought on the sub-$300 off-contract smartphone to the masses with decent hardware, here Samsung does something extremely similar.

Though this machine isn’t bringing the same value that the Google Nexus 4 brought as LG made the effort with Qualcomm’s first quad-core processor and a fine combination of display and camera power, Samsung’s efforts with the Prevail II do bring a scaled-down collection of features that make such an off-contract offering one to watch.

On the other hand, because this machine is being offered with Boost Mobile, it’ll have difficulty finding footing in the public space the same way as Google’s Nexus 4. Google has one massive amount of advertising power, and Samsung does too, but the big S isn’t about to spend a mint on this release the same as they have with their hero line, or even their second or third-tier releases in the Samsung Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tab lines.

The Samsung Galaxy Prevail II, with its modest display (4-inch WVGA, that is) running with Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean alongside a 5 megapixel camera on its back will be long forgotten unless Boost Mobile does an unforeseen amount of public push for its release. Inside we’ll find a host of Samsung’s family connections – wireless, cloud-based, and otherwise, and the company would do well to make it clear that this machine – this small release – will be the least expensive way for the average consumer to get in on the fun.

Have a peek at our hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy S III mini for a rather similar close-up view of the hardware here, while the software is set to be a lot closer to what we’ve seen with the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini we’ve seen much more recently.

Samsung Galaxy Prevail II aims to change definition of “entry level” is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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