This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Boost Mobile. All opinions are 100% mine.

How many of you have a smartphone? Raise them hands because I can only imagine like maybe 5% do not. You have the Androids, the iPhones, and the Blackberries for the most part that everybody knows about and/or owns. I, myself, own a Blackberry 9700 and love it to death.

The problem most of us have is trying to find the best coverage, price, and amount of options we can get for the least amount of money. Having no contract is a bonus as well if you can find one. Re-Boost is one of the companies that let you have cell service without a contract. You know what else? Their blackberry plan is even cheaper than my plan as well as all the other companies that are in my area that I know of. The plan is only $60/month. You can pay by debit/credit card, in person, or by phone. If you like doing the automatic payments that is an option as well.

Using Boost Mobile gives you the freedom of using all the social networks and internet without worry of going over in data usage. You have seen how the companies are now having set plans each month. Not good in my opinion. I was lucky enough to get in on the unlimited before these started up. I receive all my RSS feeds on my phone, leave UberTwitter on 24/7 posting and reading, all my emails and surfing. Not to mention when I listen to Pandora. That’s a lot of data usage. Last month I had about 1000 SMS texts too and with football season starting up it will only become more as I get text messages during my Eagles matches because I cannot get the NFL network.

It pays to shop around and find the best coverage and plans you can find for the least amount of money. If a contract is an issue Boost Mobile is an option.

So recently I finally upgraded my blackberry to the 9700. This ones got the trackpad which at first I was iffy about because I loved my trackball on the other one but it’s growing on me especially when I’m scanning through my pictures and I just swipe it and its off to the next one. There are a couple things that I don’t like about the trackpad though like the fact that if my thumb is even somewhat tacky from water or heat that I can’t get it to work right. Then the other thing is that it is not sun friendly what so ever. The thing will move on its own from the sun.

Positive things, a wicked fast OS with more memory so I can put way more apps than I had on my other one and lets face it we all need more apps to play around with but honestly I still think I have only about 20 or so. Maybe I’m just that picky and don’t want to bog down my phone. I now have the Wi-Fi which I had wanted on the first phone but got the shaft on that when the rep didn’t tell me it was only available online. Doofus. I’m also on 3G now, superfast woo hoo!

Oh another thing I despise but its not the phone’s fault per say as it comes with the OS 5.0 is that shitty visual voicemail. I hate that with a passion. Just more wasteful space and annoying. I like the old way of getting my voicemails by pushing 1 and not seeing them on another app.

BBM 5.0 is way cooler than the original one too with barcodes, colors and the nifty group feature. Just need to get some more BBM friends as I haven’t been that active on that end. I am in the NFL group though which is nice.