Motorola i9 touches down at Sprint stores, available March 12th on Nextel
That saucy little Motorola i9… It just can’t stop posing for your pals at BGR. If you’re a Boost Mobile customer you probably already know that the i9 has launched in all of its deceptively bulky glory, well, because it’s far and away the sexiest handset Boost has ever seen. What about poor Nextel customers though, don’t they get any love from Motorola’s new iDEN RAZR? Thanks to one of our trusty ninjas we can confirm that this puppy is indeed headed to Nextel — in fact, it’s already slowly but surely making its way to various Sprint stores. As far as availability goes, you’re looking at a March 12th launch and pricing will be $249.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate . Sit tight, PTT addicts! Hit the jump for a few more pics, including size comparison shots next to a Curve.
Thanks, Teck!
Updated at 5:30 pm EST to reflect price correction — the final price after rebate is $249.99, not $299.99.
Nice but I will prefare the Blackberry that’s next to the moto lol!!!!!
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They got to be stupid to charge $300 for that phone
people have paid more for crappier phones.
“hey buy a nextel berry”
This phone is like 6 years to late!
I doubt that it will be for 300 dollars though.
Maybe 350 without a contract and 300 without a contract extension. With a one year discount it’ll probably go down to somewhere around 200-250 dollars and with a 2 year contract maybe 150-200 dollars. That’s way too much for a Nextel but i can definetly bet money that it’ll be popular seeing as NEXTEL and BOOST Mobile phones are making a comeback. Well atleast it will in New York
If that price is fixed it could be hot
The price is too high for such a phone!
This phone is long awaited, but very nice. Multi-media devices on Nextel have always been priced this high. If it were CDMA-we’re talking 99.99 after 50 MIR. But its cool Ive got customers lined up for this phone.
Good god that looks huge.
But I love motorola, so I forgive them
It is massive. Huge. But it’s the coolest nextel phone I have seen since the… well I don’t even know. Maybe the 580 or 880? The Nextel berry isn’t bad either.
DAMN that phone is big. Its an expensive phone yes….but you have to realize that most people with a boost plan Chose not to have a Contract. But if they did, in sum capacity they woulda paid 300 for a phone anyway
hmm… its huge but looks cool. like a razr with ptt.. and looks like thats in a corporate store.. sweet
and FYI, SRP on this is 299.99… so the price is probably gonna be 149.99 with a $50 MIR making it 100 bucks
I recognized the back office of a Sprint store as soon as I saw the Dell keyboard. But at least its a decent looking Moto.
This is as big as the flip berry. And that’s BIG. But the features matter more than the size, and it looks thin enough.
Perfect combination between Motorola Razr 2 and Motorola Rokr E8. Huge external display and ModeShift concept. Start from Motorola Razr 2 with big external display; other brand copy that’s big external display concept.
Motorola i9 Fact Sheet.
http://mediacenter.motorola.com/content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=10650&NewsAreaID=22
300$ is a bit high.. should be around 250$
anyways, we pay 300$ for these phones in India
(unlocked)
so it is justifiable to pay 300$. also it looks sexy!!
I want to see this in store to check it out myself it also makes me wonder with this huge flip coming if they will get the Flip Pearl?
i luv athens