{"id":226439,"date":"2010-01-25T12:15:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T17:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/?p=54679"},"modified":"2010-01-25T12:15:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T17:15:46","slug":"boost-mobile-throws-a-curve-%e2%80%94-offers-contract-free-blackberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/226439","title":{"rendered":"Boost Mobile Throws a Curve \u2014 Offers Contract-Free BlackBerry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show, Boost Mobile announced new unlimited calling plans<\/a> using Sprint’s network. Those plans seem a dime-a-dozen today<\/a>, but tucked in the press release was mention of special unlimited plan for BlackBerry devices. Sounds great, except for one small problem — Boost Mobile doesn’t carry<\/em> any BlackBerry devices. Or at least they didn’t. As of today they do<\/a> — while the BlackBerry Curve 8330<\/a> isn’t the latest and greatest ‘Berry out there, you can scoop one up from Boost for $249.99 with no long-term contract<\/a>. The same device on a Verizon month-to-month plan is $429.99 as of last check.<\/p>\n

Of course, the upfront cash outlay is only part of the equation and that’s where the new BlackBerry Unlimited Monthly plan from Boost comes into play. For $60 each month, Boost offers nearly unlimited everything: 3G data access for the web, email, voice minutes, and texting. But if you need beefy hardware, this might not be the BlackBerry for you. The 8330 doesn’t offer Wi-Fi and only sports a meager 2 megapixel camera. The Verizon version also mentions that it’s an EVDO Rev 0 radio, not the faster EVDO Rev A. But for small business owners or productive-minded consumers, the no-contract deal might trump some hardware shortcomings, no?<\/p>\n

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Earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show, Boost Mobile announced new unlimited calling plans using Sprint’s network. Those plans seem a dime-a-dozen today, but tucked in the press release was mention of special unlimited plan for BlackBerry devices. Sounds great, except for one small problem — Boost Mobile doesn’t carry any BlackBerry devices. Or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}