Virgin Mobile offering new Optimus Vs for sale!

[Phil42]

I was totally amused to find out that Virgin Mobile's offering brand-new Optimus V phones for sale, at $69.99.

It's part of a special promotion for new customers only - $25 per month for unlimited voice and text, but no data.

There are nine phones available and they appear to go from $29 to $179 at first glance.

Not sure I'd ever want a smartphone plan without any data (what about maps while you're mobile?) but it might be suitable for some folk.

I'm just tickled that a phone which has been around for many years is still being actively sold.

I love my Optimus V - it's strongest cell phone I've ever had and while it doesn't have a lot of memory or the fastest processor, it does 99% of what I want it to do.

 

[kate]

I believe the Optimus V only has around 160MB of space available to the user and it doesn't allow moving apps to the SD card unless you root, correct? That could be tough to manage.

For maps you can download an offline navigation app... if you can get it to store the maps on the SD card.

 

[hiwatt]

You can move to SD without rooting. M question is why would anyone waste their money on this phone? It's obsolete. I couldn't wait to move up from that phone. Used, they are worth about $20.

 

[Phil42]

I strongly disagree that the OV is obsolete. I've got one and a friend has one and we're quite happy.

First they're built extremely well. I've dropped mine at least seven times and each time the phone splits into three pieces - the main body, battery, and back cover. Plug it back together and it's worked each time. Never a scratch on the screen or broken screen.

I'm not saying it's impossible to damage this phone, I'm just saying it's better built than a lot of others. And even if it is permanently damaged, a used replacement OV in excellent condition is just $10 to $20.

While it does have a small screen, not as powerful processor, and limited amount of RAM it does everything I need. You can most certainly move apps to the SD card even on unrooted phones.

I've got about 50 apps and still have 12% memory free.

Once rooted the phone is even more powerful and there is active development of a variety of ROMs.

I've certainly thought about moving to a more powerful phone and may do so at some point, but so far my little OV does everything I want.

I'm just amused that Virgin Mobile is still selling this model brand new.

 

[hiwatt]

At $69 it's a ripoff. I don't know anyone that is still using 3G, either. But yeah, it was a well built phone and it lasted me two years. Not complaining.

 

[badblue1]

At $69 it's a ripoff. I don't know anyone that is still using 3G, either. But yeah, it was a well built phone and it lasted me two years. Not complaining.

Well, i'm still using 3g and my only phone is the Op V just over 3 years and still going strong, same battery, same sd card, not a scratch on it!

Heck, we got kit-kat running on this thing and it's still under development thanks to bigsupersquid ... OS2SD unbelievable!

Amazing what this phone can do, i'm keepin mine!!!

@Phil42 ... that gave me a chuckle when i read your post that VM still has this phone.
Not trying to force anything on you, but if you love this phone as much as i do, the V is very easy to root and opens up a whole new world at what this phone is capable of. Just for the heck of it go to the all things root guide and click on bigsupersquid's kit-kat rom OS2SD, it's just amazing how far development has gone and getting better by the day. I know you probably wouldn't want to read 40 some pages of his rom, but read a few at the beginning, skip some, read some, skip some, very interesting how this rom works, great read.