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Virgin Mobile Dumping Triumph

I will hold out until blackfriday/cyber monday and see what phones are out for VM and what deals (hopefully another 50%off deal)

But I do not like the idea of changing my 25month plan and paying an extra 120/year just to be able to use a 4g VM phone and to have a slightly better , less annoying phone.

No updates and support are my biggest issues with the MT. Mainly I use it on wifi at home anyways. I probably only use 3G 2% of my time that I use the phone. OH and I just cannot get into a touch keyboard. So a big screen with slide qwerty might get me to upgrade as well.

The keyboard for optimus slider is tempting but the screen is so small now that I am use to the awesome Triumph screen.:mad:

So I am pretty much stuck with the triumph for a while it seems.
 
makosinski said:
.....After taking the plunge and purchasing the Triumph I read and found that the Triumph is a mix match of parts, potentially a re-branded phone and not really manufactured by Motorola at all. There are way too many similarities with the Huawei Ideos X6. I'm sure since Google just acquired Motorola Mobility (the cell phone design and manufacturing portion of Motorola) the Triumph has no hope at all. I'm sure Google will look at it and give it a Pffft and move on.
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Maybe an official(employee of Google/Mobility division) android OS developer can be found that will take pleasure in trying to fix a mix match parts phone. After all wouldn't it be a good look for Google that Android would be able to run on such a screwed up device.

I say screwed up NOT based on performance, because even running Android 4.0 ICS the Triumph is amazingly fast, but because of the parts from different manufacturers inside. which the Design and Manufacturing divisions that were acquired specialize in.
 
jerrspud said:
did we ever get that link?
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No, because there is no link, some people are totally in love with a product and then they will bash it when they get tired, the Triumph is plenty with problems and good features, like any other phone.
My prediction is , in a few weeks the EVO V bashing will start...
 
Ha the curve is in plan c wtf! Lmao its a $75 phone...

Anyway, yea thats why i didnt get the insurance. I just demand a new triumph at the end of the 1 yearright now my warranty is good till july 2013, so when i send it in who knows what ill get.
Thats my way of telling them thanks for a defective phone.

The triumph is 199 now at walmart in ri, prolly not long till its discontinued
 
makosinski said:
I read on the VM site that the Motorola Triumph is set to be discontinued. That would mean the already poor support for the phone will get worse. I can understand people "jumping ship" over to the new HTC EVO, but looking at the issues I've read about with 3G, is 4G going to be better? My 3G is just plain weird. At home (Orlando area), 1 bar using Speed Test 900K down - 400K up. At work (near Disney property) where Sprint has a high concentration of 3G towers...3 to all bars lit with 190K down and 50K up. I called VM about it and never really got an answer as to why I'm getting results like this. They reset my 3G which helped for about 2 to 3 days, then it reverted back to the weirdness. Spending $300 for another phone with advertised 4G and getting poor performance would really be upsetting. Not to mention the purchase cost of the Triumph... One thought I had. I do have the $5 a month full replacement insurance on the Triumph. I thought maybe since VM is discontinuing the Triumph wait, see how the HTC actually performs, if it looks like actual 4G then the Triumph could have a catastrophic accident and be replaced with the HTC :D Not sure how long VM will keep Triumph's in stock, but since they will not take the Triumph on a trade in this might be an option. After taking the plunge and purchasing the Triumph I read and found that the Triumph is a mix match of parts, potentially a re-branded phone and not really manufactured by Motorola at all. There are way too many similarities with the Huawei Ideos X6. I'm sure since Google just acquired Motorola Mobility (the cell phone design and manufacturing portion of Motorola) the Triumph has no hope at all. I'm sure Google will look at it and give it a Pffft and move on. Now that I've ranted about this, has anyone had solid 3G coverage with actual 3G speeds with the Triumph? It makes the HTC with 4G sort of a Pandora's Box IMO.
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The Triumph is what it is- an attempt to make a relatively inexpensive Android phone with good (at the time) specs. The good side of the MT having poor support from VM from the start is I think it spurred a lot of devs to try & improve it. There are tons of great ROMs for this phone that are vast improvements over stock (although even the sock ROM is decent with an OCable kernel dropped in). Mine continues to work well for me & I'll probably use it for a while. I have an OV and when I fire it up and updtae it (keep it as a backup), the difference is shocking. The MT was arguable one of the first no-contract Android phones out there that could even hope to compete with what the contract carriers were offering. It is what it is (or I guess now I should say, it was what it was) :)
 
Its still the best phone in the universe you can get for $25 a month. Sure. it's not perfect, but I'm not complaining
 
makosinski said:
I read on the VM site that the Motorola Triumph is set to be discontinued. That would mean the already poor support for the phone will get worse. I can understand people "jumping ship" over to the new HTC EVO, but looking at the issues I've read about with 3G, is 4G going to be better? My 3G is just plain weird. At home (Orlando area), 1 bar using Speed Test 900K down - 400K up. At work (near Disney property) where Sprint has a high concentration of 3G towers...3 to all bars lit with 190K down and 50K up. I called VM about it and never really got an answer as to why I'm getting results like this. They reset my 3G which helped for about 2 to 3 days, then it reverted back to the weirdness.
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When using a tower your bandwidth is pooled, having a weak signal on an unused tower will be faster than having full bars with 20 other people hammering the tower at the same time.
 
Allaneato said:
I don't understand. So, you buy it with a 1 year warranty, and if you replace it, you get another year warranty?

I like it, but I don't see why they do that.
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When you activate a replacement you begin with a new one year warranty from that date, I don't know why they do it either but I went through 6 Triumphs and everyone had a new warranty including my being eligible for insurance for the first 14 days after each replacement. Everyone else just gives you the balance of the original year or 30 days, whichever is greater. Another thing, the Triumph isn't screwed up because of a mish mash of parts, it's the extremely poorly and down right strangely written software and drivers. Case in point being the green blob issue, they aren't defective sensors causing the problem it's an incredibly screwed up auto white balance algorithm routine. And Google purchased Motorola Mobility for only one reason, their IP, they couldn't care less about the Triumphs issues.
 
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