Motorola's i856 iDEN slider takes a mind-bending journey through the FCC

Remember that Motorola i856 we told you about way back in March? It's now lost its FCC innocence, garnering external photos and a user's manual for our excited perusal. As phones go, it's nothing much to look at -- but this is iDEN we're talking about, where sliders and multimedia features are still awfully hard to come by . Indeed, the i856 has a dedicated music button right on its face, a far cry from the ultra-rugged workabout Nextels of yore. Probably not a fit for construction site types, but for your average Boost Mobile customer, this'll definitely be a win. No word on a release date or a full list of carrier partners just yet.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 17th 2009 2:26AM]

Nice this should help my Boost Sales

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 17th 2009 2:17PM]

i hope this phone comes out for NEXTEL too not just boost. phone looks nice for a long time iden user who really wants a slider, however i cant really stand that keypad, bad color and to small looking cheap plasticky keys. come on moto this could be the hotttest iden phone ever...so lets fix that keypad and make this right.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 3rd 2009 12:53PM]

its not going to sell,i sell a dozen clutch a day,and thats it....boost customers wont spend more than 120,130 tops