Boost Mobile, a brand of Sprint Nextel, announced the availability of Motorola W385, expanding this way its Unlimited by Boost mobile phones offering.
Motorola W385 is the richest featured handset that benefits from the Unlimited by Boost service. Among its features, it has GPS, Bluetooth, Wireless Web, Text and Multi-Media Messaging, VGA camera with video recording, access to Yahoo, MSN and AOL Instant Messaging, Customizable Photo Caller ID and hands-free speakerphone with Voice Recorder and Voice-Activated Dialing.
With a fashionable design and coming in a combination of two colors, Black Slate and Café Brown, Motorola W385 is a phone for young people. It also features a Bright Color TFT internal screen and an external Black-out screen, vertically-oriented.
Neil Lindsay, Vice President of Product Management at Boost Mobile, said, “The W385 is among the most feature-rich phones available from any regional flat-rate prepaid wireless service. And the handset comes preloaded with some of today’s hottest mobile social networking applications, and connects customers to Boost Mobile’s extensive selection of Real Music Ringtones, Exclusive Wallpapers and Java®-enabled Games and Applications.”
The new phone comes with demo versions of entertainment applications, like Boost Hookt, a large mobile community chat room, and Boost loopt, a location-based social mapping service that allows users to share locations, photos, status messages and other various on-the-go experiences with other users. For the full version of these services, monthly subscriptions are required.
The first month of Boost Mobile’s unlimited voice service is offered free of charge for clients that purchase and activate the Motorola W385 phone. Its price is $130 and, since the Boost Unlimited service is only available in California and Texas, the phone can be bought from these states only, at participating wireless dealers or on-line, from Boost Mobile’s website.
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