Motorola Evoke QA4 now available from Cricket Wireless
Starting today, Cricket customers can get their hands on the Motorola Evoke QA4, Cricket’s first full touchscreen handset. The Evoke will be a sweet addition to Cricket’s lineup and will feature:
- CDMA 800/1900/1700/2100, 1900MHz and 2100MHz EVDO Rev. A
- 2.8-inch WQVGA 240×400 touchscreen display
- 2 megapixel camera with 5x digital zoom
- 256MB Internal storage, microSD expansion
- GPS
- Bluetooth
- Widget-Based, customizable home screen
- MySpace, YouTube and Picasa integration
- Full HTML browser
- Centralized & conversational style SMS and email (POP3/IMAP4)
- 108mm x 50.5mm x 17.5mm dimensions
The Evoke will retail for $299 and should go live soon on mycricket.com. It will also be available shortly in Cricket retail locations across the country. Woo! Hit the jump for the full press release.
Cricket Debuts Feature-Packed, Full Touch-Screen Motorola Evoke™ QA4
Advanced Multimedia Features Include Integrated Home Screen Widgets, Real Web Browsing and IM-Style Messaging over Cricket’s 3G EVDO Network
SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cricket Communications, Inc., a leading provider of unlimited wireless services and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Leap Wireless International, Inc. (NASDAQ:LEAP), today announced the immediate availability of the Motorola Evoke™ QA4 to Cricket customers. The feature-packed 2.8 inch full touch-screen device keeps users constantly connected to friends and family via texting with both a full touch-screen keyboard and slide out traditional numeric keypad. Web info is displayed on the home screen, which can be customized using integrated widget and personalized RSS feeds. Evoke also features a full HTML browser – all over Cricket’s 3G EVDO network.
“When our customers ask us for a “smartphone” what they really want is access to personal email, fast Web browsing, great multimedia features and a cool phone form factor. Cricket has worked closely with Motorola to deliver the Evoke and the recently launched Motorola Hint QA30 devices that fit the desires of our customers but at a much more affordable price and no expensive service contract,” said Jeff Toig, vice president of product marketing for Cricket. “In addition, Cricket’s 3G EVDO network allows our customers to take full advantage of Evoke’s many capabilities and features.”
“We designed the Motorola Evoke to give consumers multiple ways to stay in touch, whether they prefer IM-style texting, mobile blogging or simply a phone call to keep up with friends and family,” said Dan Papalia, vice president, Motorola Mobile Devices. “With Cricket’s 3G network, customers can get instant gratification with real Web browsing, RSS feeds, one-click social networking and more.”
Evoke is highly customizable with widgets to provide real-time access to the information that is most important to users, such as Google Web Search™, MySpace, YouTube™, Picasa™, weather forecasts and customizable RSS feeds. With a 2.0 megapixel camera/camcorder, Cricket customers can quickly and easily upload their pictures and videos directly to their MySpace page, blog or photo sharing sites such as Picasa™, straight from the device over Cricket’s 3G EVDO network. Additional features include an integrated music player and microSD card slot with removable memory for music, stereo Bluetooth®, preloaded BREW games, voice activated dialing and more.
Motorola Evoke is available now at www.mycricket.com for $299.99 and will soon be available at Cricket retail stores and Cricket dealers. For more information, please visit www.mycricket.com/evoke or www.motorola.com.
OH EMM GEE!!! This was posted at 9:11am!!! BGR is a terrorist group!!! BGR is Al Queda!!! No wonder they are so biased!!!
/idiotic conspiracy theorist bullshit BGR commenter logic
That is a misleading picture. I have seen this device and it is no where near as large as it looks in this photo.
I love the blatant overuse and misuse of the word “terrorist”.. ANYTHING can promote terror, like ANYTHING can be “sexual harassment”..
Moving on..
Its a sweet phone for a PAYGO provider, I will say that, but why not EVDO in 800?
To bad it does not have MMS… I mean c’mon already even the iPhone is getting MMS…This phone is a JOKE….
great!
now, for those of you who are tou tuo Tour obsessed, (including myself) there is news today. is it possible BG? it instantly took me back to the CNBC report a while ago. if its true it gives ‘prototype’ a new ground-breaking definition.
http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/BlackBerry-Tour-to-have-a-touchscreen-article-a_5405.html
i will guess that its not so credible info, otherwise we would’ve see a posting here @ BGR
@joeTOUR if it is true and it’s surepress, then i’m not buying. save surepress for the atlas. NO WOBBLY SCREEN ON MY TOUR!?!
@ grr
i doubt the whole report. first of all they have the number wrong, they call it the 9030, instead of our 9630. while its possible that a 9030 is going to debut one day, the Tour is the 9630.
and add the fact that people are beta-testing it as we speak, without a touchscreen.
but then again, 9630 sounds like a successor to the 9530, or at least in the same catagory, family. that would point to a touch screen.
so much for a ‘prototype’, boys.
s p e c u l a t i o n. anybody?
@joeTOUR agreed!
that thing is fat as hell
….U R A IDIOT.
ENOUGH SAID…..
L
Now the Cricket users will not want to buy my used VZW Dare to flash them over…
Screen Real estate has been raped!
Motorola Echoke QA4!
Will Moto just die already? Jump off a bridge will ya??
JoeTour
Its 3 r’s.
Sound the r out
Grrr
Lol
This phone is also available at nTelos wireless, for VA, WVA customers… no MMS is somewhat of a dealbreaker but for those who do not use MMS it is a great phone… oh that pic is way oversized, unless the person holding the phone has baby hands… LOL for those wanting info on the nTelos Evoke including pricing check out this link http://nteloswireless.com/phones/motorola/motoevoke.php
Moto tried… they did… but when you build a phone with a built in G Sensor atleast make it so that you can tilt the phone left AND right without it showing an upside down screen. Yes, it really will show an upside down screen if tilted the wrong direction. But they tried right?
$99 at nTelos!
This phone should be *rEvoked*.
Does this phone support yahoo messenger?
To add to my other comment, I’ve heard that u can’t add any apps in addition to the ones pre-installed, but are we able to download other programs from different websites?
Take this over that storm peice of junk any day…
I MMS all the time with my Evoke. I just use the email to MMS gateways. Same as I did with my MotoQ with Sprint. No longer am I taken by my service provider and charged for MMS. I just stick it to them by sending everything via Email. Then they can’t restrict the size of my files.
word!
This looks awesome, especially with the MySpace and Youtube intergrations.
Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).
The phone is okay…just have to use email to MMS…hopefully motorola will make updates so it can mms.
this phone is the biggest mistake cricket has made
can someone help me with setting up the email on the evoke? …i have cricket.. and can’t do the mms and i can’t figure out what to put in all the fields.