At CTIA there were also low-cost budget Android smartphones released. Criicket announced the Huawei Ascend with a no-contract non-subsidized price of $149.99.
The Huawei Ascend will be available starting mid-October. The Huawei Ascend has a 3.5" HVGA touchscreen, Wi-Fi, 3.2MP camera/camcorder, MP3 player and microSD slot, and a virtual keyboard.
Operating on the Android 2.1 with a 528 MHz processor, the dark blue Huawei Ascend will offer 3G web browsing, added home screens and access to the Android Marketplace. Cricket will be launching a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot called the CrossWave alongside the Huawei Ascent in mid-October.
This is not as full-featured as other Android smartphones; it doesn't shoot VGA video.
Cricket's all-inclusive $55 Android plan provides users with unlimited talk, text, 411 information, navigation, international text, unlimited video picture messages and unlimited data.
The $55 rate plan offers free access to MyBackup to store and edit contacts online and without the data cables.
Cricket is the first carrier to offer the new low-cost Ascend, the third of three smartphones recently launched by the value-focused, innovative wireless company. Cricket launched the Blackberry Curve 8530 and the Sanyo ZIO by Kyocera in August.
Cricket claims that their smartphone plans are half the price of post-paid major carriers.