This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Boost Mobile. All opinions are 100% mine.
Today’s announcement of the Apple iPad was real dampener, wasn’t it? Honestly, I don’t mind though; rather I’m glad people at last saw through Steve Jobs’s bullshit on a new product launch.
Speaking of good mobile browsing devices, Boost Mobile will be soon launching the gorgeous-looking QWERTY flip Incognito phone, which you can see above. (If you want to know the exact model being launched, it’s the Sanyo Incognito™ SCP6760.) The phone will retail for $129.99 (excluding taxes), and if you buy the phone using this SANYO Incognito link then you also get free shipping! (This has nothing to do with me getting any commission if you click that link; it’s just the way you avail free shipping.)
SANYO Incognito has been praised by external reviewers such as CNET to be quite a capable phone, especially for messaging/browsing – given the full QWERTY keyboard. The external surface of the phone has a touch-sensitive ‘glow-through’ keypad which allows you to dial numbers quickly in case you need to. (It does have a swipe lock so that numbers aren’t dialled randomly.) Once open you have a 2.6″ display that will give you a large viewing area. The phone does have GPS functionality with support for mapping services. The only niggling thing seems to be the 2 megapixel camera – but then a higher resolution doesn’t necessarily mean some other phone will have a ‘better’ camera. In fact, reviews say that the SANYO Incognito‘s camera is actually quite good as far as colour reproduction / managing noise goes. It also has support for EVDO, so data transfers can be reasonably fast on the device.
Boost Mobile is offering the device on a no-contract basis, with a $50 monthly fee. On the look of it might sound steep, but for that price they are giving unlimited calls, text messages, AND web browsing! The only thing I didn’t like about how the device is being marketed is that the official Sanyo Incognito page for Boost Mobile doesn’t offer the technical specifications to the cellphone at all; a PDF download of tech specs is offered, but it turns out to be a single-page file telling you to just go Sanyo’s site instead. I get that most people might not be interested in tech specs, but for those who are it makes no sense essentially giving a blank file.
Coupled with the unlimited usage monthly plan and no contracts, SANYO Incognito from Boost Mobile is win-win choice for fashion conscious users who text a lot.
As a Sprint customer, I sometimes think I made the wrong choice when I didn’t decide to go with Boost Mobile – I’m paying $99 instead of $50 and I have a contract to contend with as well. What I don’t understand is why there would be such a difference of price between companies on the same network. Obviously, Sprint is interested in grabbing new, short term customers rather than keeping older, contract carriers – totally unfair. I think its time to let Sprint’s President know how unfair this practice is – http://sites.google.com/site/sprintcustomersunite/
Boost Mobile’s target audience is teens and young adults, who might use more of texting (which is cheap for the operator to carry) and less of Internet traffic (mostly Facebook, again, a mostly text site). Therefore I think this subsidiary of Sprint is able to offer a lower monthly plan price to its customers. Basically, it’s a gamble that since they’re targetting a different demographics, they can offer a lower price since the usage patterns are different. Only my assumption though.