• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Father's Day Deal @BB - Optimus V for $149

greg4android said:
Wal-Mart is also pulling Sprint and Virgin Mobile in some markets.

Overnight, Sprint and Virgin Mobile disappeared. the clerk said they "weren't on the new mod", and they were keeping Verizon and AT&T only.

P.S. This is NOT a strong Sprint coverage area.....Makes sense why the drop.
Click to expand...
I was just hoping for c. $120 for mine as it has bit of minor cosmetic damage(corner) from when it fell out of it's temporary case once...

the lack of storage and a really good solution is pushing me for the Triumph. (Yes I know there are several ways that I could work around it, but they're pretty much all a PITA to me... though about manually re-partitioning the uSD and symlinking the apps directory to it, but...)
 
Walmart pulled all VM phones from the store here back around the first of April. They even pulled the top up cards, except you could still find a few in the displays around the cash registers. I had bought two Optimus V phones from Walmart a month before that. Looks like they are starting to pull them from other stores around the country.
 
I seen last night on Amazon that some place is selling brand new Optimus V for 129.99 and no shipping cost. Says sealed in original unopened box. The place has over 500,000 postings and a 94% rating. Just thought I would throw this out there. Happy 4th of July to my fellow V users and everyone else.
 
smankins said:
Walmart pulled all VM phones from the store here back around the first of April. They even pulled the top up cards, except you could still find a few in the displays around the cash registers. I had bought two Optimus V phones from Walmart a month before that. Looks like they are starting to pull them from other stores around the country.
Click to expand...

Doesn't Walmart have their own plan, partnered with T-mobile? called "Family Mobile". kicking out the competition, maybe??
 
Depends on what carriers have good presence in a market.

Wouldn't make sense to carry Sprint, T-Mobile or any other plan if there wasn't good coverage there.

ScottLive5 said:
Doesn't Walmart have their own plan, partnered with T-mobile? called "Family Mobile". kicking out the competition, maybe??
Click to expand...
 
why would there need to be any "OFFICIAL NEWS" about this??????

different walmart's in different markets might make their own decisions about what products they carry/sell. alot of that might be based off sales.

Its doubtful you'll see any kind of "press release" from wal-mart about any products they decide not to continue to carry any longer.


NoNameFace said:
Anyone have links to official news articles about this?
Click to expand...
 
greg4android said:
why would there need to be any "OFFICIAL NEWS" about this??????
Click to expand...
Why does a sincere and honest question trouble you so much?

As a consumer, I want to know why Sprint and Virgin Mobile products are being pulled from the shelves. I want to know how or if this is going to affect me as a customer. I want to know if all the money I've spent on phones over the last year and a half are going to be for nothing because of.... what?
 
NoNameFace said:
Why does a sincere and honest question trouble you so much?

As a consumer, I want to know why Sprint and Virgin Mobile products are being pulled from the shelves. I want to know how or if this is going to affect me as a customer. I want to know if all the money I've spent on phones over the last year and a half are going to be for nothing because of.... what?
Click to expand...
Take a look at their coverage map. There are states that pretty much just aren't even covered, and in the western half of the US it looks like coverage is only around major cities and as a matter of fact it looks like they have better coverage in PR & US VI than some areas of the mainland...
 
My local Wal-Mart pulled the VM equipment also and it is in the DFW Metroplex. Should have as good a coverage as is available.
 
cutterjohn said:
Take a look at their coverage map. There are states that pretty much just aren't even covered, and in the western half of the US it looks like coverage is only around major cities and as a matter of fact it looks like they have better coverage in PR & US VI than some areas of the mainland...
Click to expand...

What maps are you looking at?
 
NoNameFace said:
What maps are you looking at?
Click to expand...
Well VM has a brochure outlining their coverage areas, and IIRC VM and/or Sprint have an interactive map on their web page(s). I don't recall offhand where I looked at it, but I did BEFORE buying the OV and that was over 3m ago now...
 
A legit concern and question/concern.

BUT

My point was.....Don't expect Wal-Mart or any other retailer to post a big "press release" because they dropped a product line. Alot of it has to do with sales within a projected period of time.

I;ve worked in retail many years...it a product doesn't move in a period of time, its replaced with something else. that's common business knowledge in any business sales environment.

Sprint has poor coverage here. so it got dropped. Your market might have different reasons

NoNameFace said:
Why does a sincere and honest question trouble you so much?

As a consumer, I want to know why Sprint and Virgin Mobile products are being pulled from the shelves. I want to know how or if this is going to affect me as a customer. I want to know if all the money I've spent on phones over the last year and a half are going to be for nothing because of.... what?
Click to expand...
 
cutterjohn said:
Well VM has a brochure outlining their coverage areas, and IIRC VM and/or Sprint have an interactive map on their web page(s). I don't recall offhand where I looked at it, but I did BEFORE buying the OV and that was over 3m ago now...
Click to expand...


Those coverage maps on the VM site are extremely outdated (theirs says my entire state has no 3G coverage and barely any voice coverage lol), and the Sprint map is a bit better but not by much. Gotta keep in mind that maps are only as good as the people who update them. :)

As for the dropped VM/Sprint phones in some stores... I can see that happening. Some made it seem like it was this huge widespread issue, so of course I want to be sure I won't wake up in the morning to find VM/Sprint gone in my area. Being a single mom with two teens, it would really piss me off after spending all this money on phones. Better to be safe and ask for official info rather than going off half cocked due to rumors and speculation. ;)
 
I don't think VM/Sprint has any intention of dropping the prepaid line (specifically the Beyond Talk Line).

But, due to the fact that it IS prepaid (without a contract), the carrier can change terms and conditions of any plan at any time.

Based off experience with VM in the past (especially with the BroadBand2Go usb device), I've seen terms of service change.....whamo....new TOS, new caps, and new rates.

Worse case scenerio that I see (again based on their whim of changes), I predict......

(1) The $25 beyond talk plan will remain @ $25 BUT "unlimited data" goes away. More like a limit of 2 or 5gb per month (this will keep legit users in-line, and get rid of all the data hogs....maybe).

(2) The plan will increase to from 25 to 35 (just as the broadband2go increased from 40 to 50 with 2.5/5gb limits).

Who knows what Sprint and VM are thinking. Enjoy it while it lasts!

UNLIMITED is becoming a thing of the past. Verizon (a long time "unlimited for 29.99) is changing this July to usage based pricing)...Only a matter of time til Sprint hops on the bandwidth wagon!

NoNameFace said:
As for the dropped VM/Sprint phones in some stores... I can see that happening. Some made it seem like it was this huge widespread issue, so of course I want to be sure I won't wake up in the morning to find VM/Sprint gone in my area. Being a single mom with two teens, it would really piss me off after spending all this money on phones. Better to be safe and ask for official info rather than going off half cocked due to rumors and speculation. ;)
Click to expand...
 
Let me rephrase. It would suck to wake up in the morning and not be able to hop in the car and physically go to a store and purchase a top-up card or VM/Sprint phones... which was kinda the current topic. ;)
 
NoNameFace said:
Let me rephrase. It would suck to wake up in the morning and not be able to hop in the car and physically go to a store and purchase a top-up card or VM/Sprint phones... which was kinda the current topic. ;)
Click to expand...
It's cheaper for me where I live to use callingmart to get a pin... also much faster...
 
^^
I haven't really seen some in depth reviews yet.

I'd definitely go with the LG provided it has as glass screen. (which I don't the Moto has).
 
Kool Breeze said:
For those of you not holding out for the Motorola Triumph, you can get the Optimus V on Amazon.com for $129.99 now
Click to expand...
Was just getting ready to post the same thing. It is sold by an Amazon Market vendor, not Amazon itself. So no free Prime shipping.
 
That particular vendor DID offer free shipping. I added one to my cart, and it was FREE shipping (for the vendor in the link).

MacFett said:
Was just getting ready to post the same thing. It is sold by an Amazon Market vendor, not Amazon itself. So no free Prime shipping.
Click to expand...
 
insertusername said:
^^
I haven't really seen some in depth reviews yet.

I'd definitely go with the LG provided it has as glass screen. (which I don't the Moto has).
Click to expand...
Makes zero difference to me if the screen is glass or plastic which is NOT yet known at this point.

Black has had several indepth reviews already and they're not very encouraging. TI OMAP3 is OK, but I'm inclinced to believe that the MSM8655 is the superior SoC which is MUCH more important to me than the screen being glass or plastic anyways.

The deal breaker will be IF the phone only comes with a measily 512M of internal storage, although I can't see that being the case IF the retail does indeed turn out to be $299.99, but if it does I'll be going Black simply for the 1GB of internal storage. (I really don't know why these phone makers are so miserly with internal flash RAM, the stuff is so damned cheap and all of their other components aren't exactly high cost so it's not like they don't already have a hefty margin... esp on the Black as it's already made in so many variants that they must be able to get the best volume discounts on the components and mfg...)

The Huawei thing I still think is a red herring, as it sounds from a Shanzai.com article that Huawei merely designs phones and contracts out mfg that is IF they even are capable of designing their own phones and not just contracting an ODM like Foxconn and others for re-badging of a generic phone. (Actually weird thing about the article is that they're contracting out to all Taiwanese mfgs... go figure...)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom