Cricket Communications Inc.,a leading provider of affordable wireless services and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Leap Wireless International, Inc. (NASDAQ:LEAP), and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the No.1 mobile phone provider in the United States1, today announced the launch of the Samsung Messager Touch™ (SCH-r631). The slender touch screen device joins Cricket’s feature phone line-up and offers a choice of service plans with unlimited messaging and nationwide talk options at highly competitive prices..

This latest addition follows two previous Samsung Messager devices launched by the value-driven wireless carrier. “Both the Samsung Messager™ and Samsung Messager II™ have been incredibly popular additions to our device offerings over the years, and we expect that this new touch screen version will be no different,” stated Al Moschner, Cricket’s chief operating officer. “The Samsung Messager devices allow our customers to take advantage of the unlimited multimedia messaging offered in our all-inclusive service plans, in a modern and stylish package.”

At a value-conscious price of $159.99, the Samsung Messager Touch is available in Cricket branded retail stores, dealers and at www.mycricket.comin either black or white color schemes. Providing room for movement between price plans each month, the no-contract wireless company will be offering an affordable, all-inclusive $45 unlimited nationwide talk, text and picture/video message plan with this device, which also includes unlimited web browsing on Cricket’s all 3G network and an even more value-friendly plan of $35 for simple unlimited talk and text capabilities.

The user-friendly Messager Touch comes equipped with a 2.6-inch QVGA touch-screen display, full QWERTY slide-out keypad, easy access to pre-loaded widgets, intuitive navigation through the Samsung Touchwiz Lite™ interface and MyHomeScreen customizing features allowing users the ability to place links of their favorite apps, web pages, or live web info; like horoscopes, news and weather, on any of their 3 homescreens. A full variety of multimedia options are also available on this light-weight device, including real web browsing at 3G speeds, a music player with optional microSD™ memory card support, a 2.0 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth™ and 100 MB of storage for image, video and music files, which will compliment the unlimited picture and video messaging options available with the Cricket all-inclusive $45 service plan.  Additional Cricket services supported by the Messager Touch include Cricket Navigator, Mobile Email, and mybackup, providing the user the security they need knowing their contacts are safely backed up.

“The highly affordable Samsung Messager Touch is a great full multimedia solution for our versatile handset line-up,” stated Matt Stoiber, Cricket’s vice president and general manager of devices. “With this new device, our customers have the widely-popular touch screen capabilities at a realistic price, with real-life rate plans they can afford. Cricket now offers everything from basic to Smartphone, and everything in between on our wide-reaching array of devices.”