Possible Droid phone coming to Virgin Mobile?

[Frozen_Droid]

My apologies if this has already been covered, but I recently found this article: Virgin Mobile teases 4.1-inch Android phone with Snapdragon in survey | Mobile Mashup

Seeing as how I just purchased an lg optimus v and I'm under the 30 day return warranty, I was wanting to get what information I could on this before that time passed.I read somewhere that its supposed to come out later this month, too.

 

[TampaShooters]

Crystal ball is fuzzy

 

[kcmartz]

I think it is a motorola phone but I don't know what the name is...

 

[xbrokdikdogx]

The latest one I have seen is the Motorola Atrix clone.

Motorola Atrix Lookalike Heads To Virgin Mobile, Pure Froyo?

 

[kcmartz]

That phone looks nice, but only 3 icon spaces is NOT enough for me.

 

[xbrokdikdogx]

That is just a sticker that goes over the screen. The Optimus had the same 3 column sticker.

 

[Skratte]

MOTOROLA TRIUMPH announced today!!

KEY FEATURES:

 

[getchevyn]

More info here:

Motorola Triumph - Motorola Triumph hands-on (photos) - CNET Reviews

 

[weddle]

Any guesses on price?

 

[Frozen_Droid]

At LEAST as much as the optimus, probably more. I'd venture to say 249.99 personally.

My biggest question, is how much of a "step up" this is from the optimus...

 

[nightcrawl3r]

Well, the Triumph will use the same processor as the HTC Thunderbolt. The Optimus V gets about 500 on Quadrant and the Thunderbolt gets about 1800.

 

[Frozen_Droid]

Well, the Triumph will use the same processor as the HTC Thunderbolt. The Optimus V gets about 500 on Quadrant and the Thunderbolt gets about 1800.

Does that mean it will be about 3 times as fast?

 

[gpz828]

phone arena have hands on demo for this phone.

Motorola TRIUMPH Hands-on - Phone Arena

 

[tli]

Virgin Mobile: No Android Skins For Us

 

[TampaShooters]

WTF is up with a 1400mAh Battery? That's what i hated about my Evo.. The Optimus is 1500.....

 

[ScottColbert]

WTF is up with a 1400mAh Battery? That's what i hated about my Evo.. The Optimus is 1500.....

That's what I thought-esp. with a 4" screen.

 

[Skratte]

New Incredible 2 has same processor and a 1450 mAh battery.
Vanilla OS should have a longer battery life than running Sense.

 

[androidfonefan]

Virgin Mobile: No Android Skins For Us

If that article is accurate then we will probably never see a HTC on VM.
HTC is more than just the phone hardware, it is also Sense UI. The phone without Sense UI is just another Android and no more or less interesting than the one before it, where then is the drive or interest to buy the new phone?
This is sad, I had hoped for a HTC Android phone in the future, but if they are not going to let the Sense UI on the phone it would not be worth buying.

 

[deljr]

I've been using the Triumph since Sept. 8. As a mobile device I'm very happy with it. I switched from Straight Talk, since they didn't have an Android phone at the time and their then-upcoming Android phone had a smaller screen. The call quality is inferior to Straight Talk (Verizon system), but mostly workable.

My one complaint so far has to do with the voice mail system. When I tried to record a personal greeting, the sound quality was terrible. I even re-recorded the message from a land line and it still sucked. Likewise when listening to voice mail, the sound quality was terrible. I'm quite surprised, actually. I'm not sure whether this is a phone issue or a 3g issue or an issue from the platform that hosts the voice mail, but it's serious enough that I'm 20% considering switching back to Straight Talk. I'll have to give it some time to think the issue through.