Cricket’s Muve Music Has Over 1.1 Million Subscribers

cricket muve Crickets Muve Music Has Over 1.1 Million SubscribersAt the close of 2012, Cricket was rather proud to claim that their Muve Music service has garnered more than 1.1 million subscribers. This does not sound like much when you consider other music subscription models that are in the market, but you will need to take into consideration the relatively small size of Cricket in comparison to the other movers and shakers. Still, since its commercial launch in January 2011, Muve Music is said to have been one of the fastest-growing and leading on-demand digital music services in the US, now how about that?

This “achievement” was also made possible thanks to Cricket including Muve Music in every Cricket Android smartphone rate plan, resulting in a differentiating product that keeps consumers interested and happy. I guess when you target the masses with the lowest common denominator while keeping prices low enough to carve a smile on any face, you have more or less got yourself a winner there. Not only that, Muve Music is also said to deliver a high engagement service at lower cost and lower bandwidth compared to alternative streaming music services, which is good news for those who are interested.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Audience eS515 Smart Sound Processor Launched, ION Clipster Makes Your Bluetooth Speaker Wearable,

Cricket now including Muve Music on all new Android smartphone plans

Cricket now including Muve Music on all new Android smartphone plans

From today, Cricket is bundling its all-you-can-listen Muve Music service as a standard part of its Android smartphone plans. The offering gives users unlimited text, picture and video messaging, mobile web and a big catalog of banging beats you can pull down to your phone for those impromptu tap dancing sessions. The plans start at $50 a month, and you can access the sonic buffet if you pick up the Huawei Mercury, Ascend Q and Ascend II, HTC One V, Samsung Vitality or the ZTE Chorus. After all, if it’s included in the price, you might as well, eh?

Continue reading Cricket now including Muve Music on all new Android smartphone plans

Filed under: , ,

Cricket now including Muve Music on all new Android smartphone plans originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments

RadioShack No Contract Wireless rate plans leak, $60 will get you everything

RadioShack No Contract Wireless rate plans leak

We’re just about a week out from the rumored launch of RadioShack’s Cricket-based No Contract Wireless plans, and more details are beginning to trickle out about the prepaid service. Specifically, we’ve just received information concerning how much The Shack intends to charge on a monthly basis, and it’s just about what you’d expect: you can choose between featurephone and smartphone options, with the former hooking you up with unlimited messaging and your choice of 300 minutes for $25 or 1,000 minutes for $35. As for the smartphone plans, you’ll get unlimited voice, messaging and Muve Music downloads on both selections; the $50 option will get you one gigabyte of 3G data (before throttling ensues), while $60 bestows you with 2.5GB data and mobile hotspot use, Visual Voicemail access, unlimited international text and all-you-can-eat directory assistance.

As a comparison, Cricket’s $35 featurephone plan will give you unlimited voice and SMS, compared to 1,000 minutes and unlimited SMS / MMS / 1X data on The Shack. The carrier’s basic smartphone option is $55 and offers unlimited voice, messaging and 3G data (throttled at 2.5GB); this may seem like the better deal — unless you’re interested in using Muve Music. Since you have to pay an extra $10 to add the unlimited music service into the mix on Cricket, you’ll see a monthly savings of $5 if you waltz into The Shack for the top-tiered plan. We’re still waiting for RadioShack to come clean and acknowledge the existence of the NoContract service, but we’ll continue to reveal more details as they come down the pipeline. Check out the featurephone rate plans after the break.

[Thanks, Anonymous!]

Continue reading RadioShack No Contract Wireless rate plans leak, $60 will get you everything

Filed under: , ,

RadioShack No Contract Wireless rate plans leak, $60 will get you everything originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments

Cricket ships Huawei Ascend Q, offers Android chatting for $140 prepaid

Huawei Ascend Q hands-on

Huawei had said it would deliver the Ascend Q in August, and it didn’t waste a moment — Cricket is selling the Android 2.3 messager as of today for $140 on its prepaid smartphone plans. While the OS, 800MHz processor, 3.2-inch display and fixed-focus 3.2-megapixel camera won’t knock any socks off, we found the Ascend Q a solid phone for compulsive chatters when we tried it last month. There’s also a 4GB microSD card in the box to get the ball rolling. One minor surprise: Muve Music is getting a minor boost through DTS audio processing that reportedly fills out the sound. As long as there’s no expectations of a media extravaganza, Huawei’s new hardware could be one of the better bargains in Cricket’s stable.

Filed under:

Cricket ships Huawei Ascend Q, offers Android chatting for $140 prepaid originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  sourceCricket  | Email this | Comments