With its low-end VGA camera, the CAPTR is hardly worthy of its vowel-dropping name, but considering the asking price, we’ll let it slide this time.  Aiding the VGA camera, the handset also features voice-activated dialing, Bluetooth, and support for Cricket services like Mobile Web, Cricket MyHomeScreen, and Cricket Games and Applications.  The only feature that might impress anyone mildly would be its $129.99 (which drops a further $50 if bought online) price tag, which more than justifies the lack of higher specs.  Head over to Cricket if I still had you after the part about the VGA camera.

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Cricket Wireless has presented a new cellphone named CAPTR, or in other words, capture. The basic cellphone goes right into the “flip phone” category and costs $130 - it is already available for purchase today, online or at Cricket retailers.

The tri-band CAPRT phone boasts a VGA camera, bluetooth, speaker phone, and the obvious access to all the Cricket mobile services. With a battery life of 250 hours in standby mode, or 5 hour in talking-mode, the device comes with two displays screens: on in the inside, and the other on the outside. It measures 3.54 x 1.81 x 0.74 and according to a Cricket representative, the intention is to “deliver a high-quality phone with camera functionality at a very affordable price”.