Cricket Wireless, the little carrier with big plans to go nationwide, added another handset. The Samsung Messager Touch comes hot on the heels of the Android-powered Sanyo Zio, which has given its official introduction last week.

The Messager Touch Specifications:
1. This isn't a smartphone, but it has a slider design with a full keyboard, messaging and multimedia features, and decent call quality.
2. We've reviewed the U.S. Cellular Messager Touch only, but Cricket's version of the handset shouldn't differ too sharply. Cricket will sell the phone for $159 for its no-contract service.
3. It comes equipped with a 2.6-inch QVGA touch-screen display, full QWERTY slide-out keypad, easy access to pre-loaded widgets, intuitive navigation through the Samsung TouchWiz Lite(TM) interface and MyHomeScreen customizing features allowing users the ability to place links of their favorite apps, web pages, or live web info; like horoscopes, news and weather, on any of their 3 homescreens.

Earlier this month, Cricket has announced a host of new initiatives including unlimited data plans and additional devices. Along with the RIM BlackBerry Curve 8530 and the Zio, the Messager Touch is part of a group of 15 new handsets coming to the carrier.
NEWS SOURCE: www.cnet.com

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