Motorola i776 headed for Boost Mobile

While the information is sparse, what you see above is the Motorola i776 from Boost Mobile, soon to be available through Target. While it will surely be carried elsewhere, it looks like Target’s the one that slipped up and leaked the info early. Honestly, I saw this at Phone News a couple of days ago, and I’m surprised as hell it hasn’t been taken down yet. Not much is there in terms of specs. We learn that it has GPS, and that, duh, it’s a flip with text messaging capabilities. It does boast 3.5 hours of talk time. Yet, all is not well. As you can see below, it still contains the signature Nextel stub antenna. Not saying it’s the ugliest thing in the world…but it’s sure close. No, we haven’t heard anything on pricing or availability date yet. But at least we know it’s coming, and have the images to prove it.

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  1. chris on January 6, 2009 at 5:10 pm

    Yo hey im Chris MVP I really think that your boost mobile i776 is the best phone ever I have not got it yet, but when I do man it well be spectacular! keep on the goods and make more cool phones peace love respect yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



  2. billy on February 6, 2009 at 11:52 pm

    i had the i776 it is one of the worse phones i have ever bought. For starters the main Screen is way to small for the face, second the camera is the worsed, all pics come in blurry and you cant zoom, third the speaker sounds like crap even at low volume, forth the memory is almost none if u take 4 pics your almost out of memory, and last but not least they seem to lose connection to the network for no reason. I had sent it back to motorola 6 times all for the same reasons i finally just told them to keep it and send me a differant type of phone which i love and thats the i885. Motorola should just recall all i776’s and just burn them so everyone save your money and dont buy the i776



  3. yogibear on February 23, 2009 at 2:15 am

    DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE!!!!!DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE!!!! Phone is bad..Boost unlimited plan will nickel and dollars you to the poor house…No ring tones worth paying for nor game. Camera gives blurred pics. No video.I missed my KRAZOR.Signal strenght is a joke…



  4. diana_1840 on February 25, 2009 at 6:09 pm

    I have boost mobile and I haven’t had any
    problems with them or this phone neither has my bf we love this phone i have the i776w which is cute but basically the same as the normal i776(only color difference) unlimited plan rocks!!!$50 buck a month is great and i talk and text all day and send pics and video b-4 they did charge for pic (not anymore)this is definitely a phone for someone who wants to just talk and text!!!its awesome just wish i could watch YouTube videos



  5. Nora H. Matos on April 2, 2009 at 8:49 am

    This is the worse phone I have ever bought. When you speak with somebody you lost the signal, they dont heard you or you dont heard them. I send two times to Motorola, and when the phone back is the same thing. Dont buy this phone, pretty outside, fake inside



  6. Cindy on April 12, 2009 at 5:01 pm

    DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE! This is the worst phone EVER!!! My husband and I paid 100 dollars for this and it isn’t even worth $50! the camera pictures come out sooo horrible that it shouldn’t even have a camera feature on it! The screen is so small and has poor quality! Texting is wierd and for some reason every time I receive a text it says “DOWNLOADING” and it takes a minute or two before I receive a text! There are so many other things I HATE about this phone but I could go on and on. This is the WORST phone ever.



  7. rj on April 25, 2009 at 1:08 pm

    i have this phone and it works great. All the people complaining about signal or the “downloading” should realize that its part of boost’s service, not the phone… It should only have to download if its a picture message. I have 5 bars of service in WI and haven’t dropped a call yet, nor have I had any complaints about call quality. Unlimited plan ftw



  8. Real Talk on April 27, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    this is the worst phone i have ever had…stupid shit says downloading before every text message you get, and you lose signal all the fucking time! dont buy this phone…real talk



  9. Harry on May 1, 2009 at 9:34 pm

    This phone ???Really Sucks. This phone is not worth the aggravation to set up. Do NOT buy this phone



  10. Dee on May 18, 2009 at 2:38 am

    wish i would have read this before i bought it,bad phone always hanging up on calls,it does not want to call out sometime.the volume is low,i feel like a old person talking loud because the other person cant hear me,and i keep having to ask them what did you say,i cant hear you.im gonna try and get my money back it was a waste and my money dont grow on trees



  11. Katie on May 18, 2009 at 3:47 pm

    i got the i425 it works great for me im getting a facecover for it so it will look nice i love boost you rock with your 50 dollars a month plan



  12. vero on May 19, 2009 at 10:22 am

    I’ve had problems charging my phone. it says its charging but really its not. I even had the screen get all snowy on me. I really dont like this phone and I just got it a couple of months ago.



  13. Shannon on August 20, 2009 at 7:56 pm

    I bought this phone for my daughter for her 12th birthday. Her first phone, and after 4 days, it is broke, the screen is showing lines and no picture. I am very disappointed. The place I bought it from won’t take it back, so now I am pissed…have to call the damn Motorola peeps and send it in…which means spend more money…PISSED



  14. dprince22 on September 17, 2009 at 1:25 am

    This is the worst phone I’ve ever had. I haven’t even had it 6 months and first the sound went out. It only works on speakerphone. Now the screen is stuck and I have no function of my menu. It stays stuck on the main screen, or if someone calls it stays stuck on connected to screen until another person calls. I can’t check my texts, get to my phonebook or anything else because of this. I know another person who has the same exact problem with this phone.



  15. Myesha on September 23, 2009 at 8:48 am

    this isnt the worst phone but not the bestt but is iight



  16. Juan on November 21, 2009 at 10:15 am

    Horrible phone, drop calls, can not hear a thing and people think I am stupid cause the way I sound. I need to use the speakerphone to have a conversation. Do not buy it!



  17. ms brittney hunt on November 24, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    I got to have uhat boost mobile i never had a phone like that before the only phones i had was a uerizon wireless and a blackberry curve 8330



  18. Charity on January 7, 2010 at 1:06 am

    I can only talk on my phone by using the speaker phone . . . very annoying!!! My calls are dropped. I am ready to change to a different phone service. I am very disappointed with this phone, which is not worth $100, nor the headache that comes with it.



  19. trece on January 22, 2010 at 5:20 pm

    this is the worst phone i ever had and the sad part is they havent recalled them a big joke taking our money dont buy this phone



  20. trece on January 22, 2010 at 5:22 pm

    and i can only talk on the speaker part and that goes in and out and now the screen is going blank dont buy this phone im mad less than three months old



  21. marisol on February 7, 2010 at 9:47 pm

    DO NOT DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE I HAVE BEEN HAVING TROUBLE WITH THIS I776 SINCE I GOT IT AS A GIFT THE PICTURES ARE NOT CLEAR AND YA YOU CAN’T HEAR ON THE PHONE NOT UNLESS YOU USE THE SPEAKER SO EVERYONE COULD HEAR YOUR CONVERSATION WHAT IS UP WITH THAT I TRIED TAKING BACK TO THE SHOP WHERE I HAVE BOUGHT IT FROM AND THEY TELL ME TO BUY A NEW ONE YOU THINK MONEY GROWS ON TREES THESE PHONE NEED TO BE FIXED THIS IS A PERSON THAT NOT HAPPY SO DON’T BUY



  22. leona on February 9, 2010 at 6:37 pm

    I cant get any multimedia messages for some reason. When I get a text message it says “downloading” for a few minutes before the message comes up.I cant get my gps to work. I lose signal. And when on the phone i hear a windy noise in the background.



  23. Ritta on February 22, 2010 at 9:37 pm

    all together we have had 4 of the motrola 1776 my daughter bought the first one and the speaker quit. Then it was replaced. Her husband bought 2 more fior him and gave 1 to me. First my daughters replacement phone qiit you could only use it on speaker. I just thought they were hard on them and used them alot. yesterday my speaker quit and you have to use the extermnal speaker. I think Motorola should recall these phones. They don’t last very long.



  24. kb on May 18, 2010 at 4:54 pm

    this phone is horribal! it was great the first 3 months, no problems at all.. then it wouldn’t charge.. so i sent the charger back to the store to be replaced again the charger sucked and my phone was not charged.. then two months after that which it present day my phone desides to not let me check my inbox for the messages… so evertime i select the inbox the phone fuzzes out and resets itself… so DO NOT GET THIS PHONE!! oh and it freezes a lot too!



  25. Yessenia on July 26, 2010 at 2:27 pm

    This is a terrible phone. I lose signal very often for no reason, I can’t talk to anyone without being on speakerphone, the pictures are blurry, and I don’t even recieve all of my texts, not to mention it says that all of my texts were sent but actually never made it.
    Don’t make the same mistake as I did, avoid buying this phone.



  26. kt on July 29, 2010 at 1:51 pm

    THIS PHONE SUCKS



  27. tim on August 3, 2010 at 2:21 pm

    BAD phone, Sprint & Walmarts have taken off their shelfs. Motorola should do the right thing like Toyota and recall all these phones. The phone gets really hot, it’l cut off in the middle of a conversation. You have to take the battery out 2-3 times a day to reboot.



  28. Shannon on August 6, 2010 at 9:25 am

    The phone really is a joke, sometimes. I have figured out that if you wait 2b alerted of a text, it will come through just fine. However, if you try to retrieve it beforehand, it takes a couple mins. to get (or you may not get it @ all). If i try to view my sent messages, it reboots itself- whci is annoying the hell out of me (I can’t even clear them).
    I do NOT suggest this phone for anyone, even a a ‘hack-around’ phone.



  29. ncis chick on August 18, 2010 at 3:33 pm

    DONT BUY THIS PHONE!!!
    I have this phone and it sucks. I get blurry pictures, no zoom. I can’t pictures see to my phone (the ones that people take. I takes forever to download, and sometimes I dont even get mesgeages. Now the charger won’t work so it died out on me. It leaves the peverouis mesgage on the one im sending so i have to delete it so the person im sending it too won’t get RE: instead of mesgage. I get bad sinagle, even thou im only a mile away from a tower. I can hardly hear when i call someone, and i when someone leaves a mesgage it doesnt show up in my reacent calls. It reboots, gets to hot, and wont charge, SO DONT BUY IT!!!!



  30. soups mom on October 12, 2010 at 2:26 pm

    do not get this phone.. My son hates it.. He has no service in some areas.. and to receive a text it takes way to long to download.. he may not get it till the next day. I cant believe I spent 80.00 on this peace of crap!



  31. ROBERT on April 2, 2011 at 2:12 pm

    THE I776 SUCKS AFTER SIX MONTHS THE PHONE WENT BAD YOU CAN ONLY USE IT ON SPEAKER .THEY WERE TO SEND ME A SHIPPING LABEL BUT DIDNT , AND NOW THEY SAY ITS PAST THE GARANTEE, BUT THEY STILL HAVE A RECKORD OF IT. NOW I WILL HAVE TO PAY TO GET IT FIXED. THEY SHOULD RECALL ALL THESE PHONES



  32. Priscilla on July 3, 2012 at 7:21 am

    The worst cell phone I have ever had-It work for the first year and now if you try to call out people can hear you but you can’t hear them. This phone is not worth the monies spent. It does not take very good pictures—to blurr. Please don’t invest your time or monies in this phone.