Samsung Galaxy Prevail coming to Boost Mobile
Samsung, Boost Mobile, To Host Joint Event, Will Announce Samsung Galaxy Prevail
This Tuesday Samsung and Boost Mobile are getting together in New York City to host a joint event. Engadget received a 19-page document from Sprint’s Prepaid Group outlining the updates and devices coming to Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile this month. This event was going to unveil a lower-end Android handset named the Samsung Galaxy Prevail. Engadget called it similar to a Samsung Galaxy Gio, but with a CDMA radio.
Samsung Galaxy Prevail: It’s Cheap, it’s, um, cheap
This device comes equipped with 3.2 inch screen, a 2 mega-pixel camera, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, along with expandable memory up to 32 GB. For these older entry-level specs the price of this phone will be $180. Now the only thing that justifies the price is that you pay as you go. You can get a higher-end device for the near price range of $200 IF you decide to get a two-year monthly contract from a bigger name brand of a company.
So Boost Mobile customers where you at? We’d like to hear from you to see if you have any interest to this entry-level Samsung device. Is the Samsung Galaxy Prevail on your radar? Tell us what you think.
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personally,
there is nothing special on the samsung phone
it's just looks like other Android based devices such as HTC and Motorola
Yea, nothing special at all about this phone. I'm surprised specs like this are even put out by companies anymore. But it's a cheap device for a certain target market.
[...] mentioned, Boost Mobile would be announcing their newest member of their Android line-up, the Samsung Galaxy Prevail. Boost offers prepaid wireless service, with an option to lower the $50 monthly unlimited talk, [...]
I am looking forward to buying this phone. It will be my first smartphone and I’m not looking for anything to fancy. If I pay $200 dollars with any other company and $99 for unlimited per for 2 year I will end up paying a total of $2576 just for the phone and bill minus taxes surcharges and any extras. With Boost, I pay $200 for simple smartphone and $50 for 6 months and then $5 off from each payment each month until I reach $35 with the Boost shrinkage plan. I end up paying $1145, approx, for two years. For someone who simply wants internet access and an unlimited plan for calls and text msgs, I end up saving for than 50%. I believe the Samsung Prevail will be a big success for those who are money conscious and have enough paying other bills and these increasing gasoline prices.
Not a bad device for two years ago, but it needs to be cheaper. It's basically a way for manufacturers to sell off their obsolete hardware inventory. It would be interesting to know what the margin is on these devices… they should sell at a loss with service revenue shared between carrier and manufacturer.
The problem with pay-as-you-go in the USA is that, unlike in the EU, your phone is locked to the carrier. Sure it's possible to reflash phones, but most consumers lack the technical knowhow. That removes much of the element of competition which would otherwise drive down the price of device and service. Thank "free market" Uncle Sam for oligopolistic telecom cartels.