Cricket has announced that it is carrying the Kyocera Luno, a basic flip-phone that is targeted to the no-frills consumer. The Luno is about as basic as you can get nowadays, with its clamshell design and standard keypad. Kyocera managed to include two displays, one on the outside of the flip to display time and caller ID, and a 1.8-inch screen on the inside for main phone functions. The Luno has a VGA camera for pictures of the grandkids, and it has a WAP browser so you can look up what time the early bird special starts at the Sizzler.

The Luno can be paired with Cricket’s $45 per month plan that offers unlimited talk, texting, web browsing, 411 calls, international texting, and turn by turn navigation, but it will most likely be used on the $35 plan that retains the unlimited talk and text and drops the other features. You can pick up the Luno in purple for $59.99 from Cricket.

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Customers can purchase Huawei’s Ascend II from Cricket branded retail stores, select dealers and online for a suggested retail price of $179.99. It will be offered on Cricket’s all-inclusive $55 Android plan, which provides users with unlimited talk, text, 411 information, international text, unlimited and video picture messages, unlimited data services on Cricket’s 3G network.

Huawei’s Ascend II comes with a mid-size 3.5-inch HVGA capacitive touchscreen display with virtual keyboard, powered by Google’s Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) operating system and is equipped with a low-performance 600 Mhz processor. Other interesting highlights of the Ascend II include a 5-megapixel camera with video recording capabilities, MP3 player and microSD slot for memory expansion. This handset also gives customers access to more than 200,000 cool apps on the Android Market as well as great Google applications such as YouTube, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Search and more.

The Samsung Messager Touch aka SCH-R631 is a new lineup from Cricket. The Smartphone comes with a 2.6-inch touchscreen display, a slide-out pad,and a 2 megapixel camera. this low-price smartphone is available in either black or white and you can purchase this for $159. Read the Press Release after the jump.
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Last month Cricket and Sanyo announced that they will launch the Sanyo Zio by Kyocera, and today the Android Smartphone is ready for pre-order. The handset is expected to ship on August 21st, the ZIO is available to be purchased for a $249.99 price tag if you order it online then you could get a $20 discount bringing the price down to $229.99. Just for a quick reminder the ZIO packs a 3.5-inch touchscreen, 600 MHz processor, 3.2 megapixel camera, and Android 1.6. Kyocera is planning to upgrade the Android OS to 2.1 or even 2.2 in the future but there is no official confirmation yet. [phonedog]

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The Kyocera Zio is the very first Android smartphone from Cricket and Kyocera company, the android phone has been announced months ago but today Cricket wireless has just put up the pre-sale page for the Kyocera Zio. According to our sources The Kyocera Zio will go on sale August 15 with a special $55 unlimited rate plan.

The Zio is an entry-level Android phone and it features a 3.5-inch WVGA display, 600 MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 processor, 3.2 MP camera, and Android 1.6. No price point has been announced, but look for the Zio to debut around $249-299. Unfortunately the smartphone packs with the Android 1.6 OS though Kyocera plans to offer an upgrade to the Android 2.x OS sometime in the future until now there is no official announcement bout that. The Cricket wireless also announced coverage in all 50 states after signing new roaming agreements with MetroPCS and Sprint Nextel. Watch the demo video after the jump. [AndroidandMe]