Regional carrier Cricket surprised at CTIA today by showing off a pair new units that aren’t out yet — but they’re within the pipeline for the second one quarter, which the corporate points out is coming “very soon.” First up is the Huawei Ascend 2, which — you guessed it — could be the follow-directly to the original Ascend that the corporate launched last year. The display’s still HVGA; WVGA obviously would’ve been nice, but Cricket is promising to launch it on the same sub-$150 price point because the first model and it’s got a 5 megapixel camera around back (up from 3.2 before).
Next up, the Indulge is customarily the similar midrange QWERTY Android slider that already launched on MetroPCS , albeit with one difference: this one has no LTE compatibility (Cricket has no live LTE network, of course). As with the Ascend 2, we might’ve preferred a WVGA display — this one’s just HVGA — and the four physical buttons up front seem somewhat out of fashion, but Cricket’s still capable where any new Android hardware is an exceptional thing. Seek it to launch for less than $350 — off contract, in fact.
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