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Thursday May 21, 2009
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 Boost Mobile has the cheapest truly national plan for unlimited talk and texting; their $50/month plan gives you phone calls, messaging, Nextel walkie-talkie and really slow Internet access. If you're willing to give up daytime talking, Web browsing and walkie-talkie, your rate goes down to $30. But up until now they haven't had a good affordable texting phone with a keyboard.
That will change when the Motorola Clutch i465 goes on sale next month. I got to spend some time with the i465, and I'm impressed with its design. It's a medium-sized candy-bar phone with a full keyboard of extremely pointy, almost diamond-shaped keys. The keys' sharp ridges are designed to help your fingers tell the letters apart. They work well, but it takes a few minutes to get used to the unfamiliar pointy shapes. After that, you're flying.
The i465 runs the traditional Nextel operating system, which is looking pretty hoary by now. Motorola tries to jazz things up with three quick-action buttons to the right of the screen, which start a new text message, jump to the (slow) WAP browser and start up the (low-res, VGA) camera. I'm pretty sure that as a Boost phone, the i465 also has a very loud, relatively clear speaker - though we'll have to test that, of course.
Yeah, sure, the i465 looks a little odd. All Nextel/Boost phones look a little odd. But I think it'll hit the spot for texters interested in that $50 unlimited plan. The i465 is going on sale in June for $129.99. There's another shot of the i465's unusual keyboard after the jump.
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May 22, 2009 12:22 PM
I honestly cant wait for this cute little toy to come out. It looks to be fairly priced and be a little better for the nextel/boost world. Face it, people who give up all the bells and whistles to have the Nextel service or the Boost pricing, just want something a little more comprable to the fancy phones you can have with a ridiculous monthly bill. I think this is a great step in the right direction.....now Boost just needs to really team up with Sprint and have the functionality of the Hybrid system for better reception.....then we'll be cooking with fire~
May 22, 2009 2:09 PM
i just got boost and I'm very excited about this new phone, and the price is very nice. I cant wait to get my hands on it. I heard tons of horror stories about boost, but so far so good, cant complain!!
June 1, 2009 3:49 PM
WOW this fone is unbelieveable i cant wait to get it its at a good price tooo!!!
June 11, 2009 3:51 PM
HEY HOW CAN U GET RINGTONES ON THIS PHONE I KNOW U GOTR TO BUY THEM BUT CANT U RECOED THEM THRU YOUR VOICE RECORDER AND SET THEM AS A RING TONE SOMEONE PLZZ HELP I NEED FREE RING TONES FOR THIS BAD AS PGONE I LOVE IT THANKS PPL'S!!!!
July 18, 2009 10:32 PM
Hey thankx for the info u really helped out cause im planing on getting one and so is my mom. I'm 13 so im a little obsessed w/ texting 24/7 and this sounds like a good phone for that. Also this sounds good cause i neeed a full key bord on the phone i get!!!! :) thank you....
July 30, 2009 12:13 PM
this phone is totally cute :) i went to radio shack because its the only place around here that sells them since boost isnt that popular around here yet and i've been calling and going up there almost everyday they get a shipment of them in and they are always gone! they go in like the first hour of them recieving the shipment! that shows that its a pretty awesome phone. i cant wait to get mine! :D
September 6, 2009 1:23 PM
hey pplz i jus got this fone and i need to learn how to set recordings and my ring tones. i need then free. if they dont stupid boostmobile fone. and ifyou go to funformobile.com it wont let you have any anything cuz its not compatible so plz help me pplzzzz.
September 9, 2009 11:07 PM
There are tons of free ringtone websites but u have to have this any phone better than the i335 and tha sucky flip one cuz those arent compatible and now boost is actually steppin there game up cuz im embarrased to show my gay i335 in frnt of people cuz it sucks balls . but now i got tha black i465 and u can get ringtones and acual songs on here. but u can get ringtones from: www.myxer.com , www.mytinyphone.com, and there are lots of em jus search it on google or yahoo and you'll find tons of them.
October 10, 2009 10:25 PM
I want to know how to get ringtones on this Motorola Clutch i465 for free cuz I tried everything. Can u record and set it as a ringtone oe can your friends bluetooth you some ringtones.