My Midnight Rant By Jagged Wraith

Boost Mobile is Sprint-Nextel’s low-price, month-to-month iDEN cellular service provider that markets themselves to young people. They’ve been rumored to be getting an Android phone for a while now, and being a subsidiary of Sprint-Nextel, they’re one of the few telcom’s using iDEN technology, speculation has got them pegged as receiving the Motorola i1.

This rumor has been out since July 2009, with speculation putting Motorola producing a low-end Android handset for the Boost Mobile crowd. The Motorola Opus One, which was confirmed last week as the Motorola i1, was pegged as the phone to do it, since it’s an iDEN phone.
Boost Mobile historically has offered only dumbphones featurephones, but recently, they offered their first smartphone, a BlackBerry Curve 8830 which they sold for a steep price of $249. With Boost experimenting with smartphones, it looks like they could be testing the waters again, this time with an Android smartphone. Hopefully, it’ll go better than AT&T’s first Android phone.
Recapping the Motorola i1, we don’t know much about it. It will ship with Android 1.5. That doesn’t rule out a later upgrade to Android 2.x, but, considering this will likely be a low-range handset, it might not have the memory space for the slightly bigger Android 2.0 and 2.1.
In pictures, the phone was shown running Motorola’s MOTOBLUR UI, which seems to be popular with a lot of people. While the phone is expected to be unveiled at the CTIA trade show later this month, Motorola has yet to confirm its existence. Everything we know about the phone, we know from leaked pictures, leaked names and FCC regulation filings.