keisukehonda
Member
Certainly makes it more likely, as it would make sense for Sprint to clear out the excess inventory by giving it to Virgin Mobile.
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Certainly makes it more likely, as it would make sense for Sprint to clear out the excess inventory by giving it to Virgin Mobile.
SuperAfnan
Android Expert
Looks like we're likely to get the optimus g since sprint wants to kill it, and early. Hopefully it will be less than 500 USD.
Austrie
Android Expert
In the comments they're mentioning that the Optimus G is coming to VM
Edit: I believe The OG will come around early summer, and the LTEVO will come around December or November. Though we might get the S3 instead of the LTEVO.
keisukehonda
Member
lol downgraded version of LG Mach? Isn't it downgraded enough? I'm still optimistic about the Optimus G. Timing seems about right for VM to refresh its flagship device.
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Deleted User
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Just wish they'd give us any of those HTC One devices that isn't the One V, no matter the price point. I'm sick and tired of my EVO 3D's awful camera, and overall performance is getting bogged down no matter how I try clearing the clutter from its internal and SD memory.
SuperAfnan
Android Expert
You need to go to the evo all things root forum and root recovery and rom. Then soff and find some good roms.
The mach looked like a pretty good phone to me (saw it on Ting's devices page) for a prepaid. Professional reviews were positive. What turned me off was seeing the lack of interest in the Mach forum here, I don't want a phone nobody else has, that died in the marketplace before it got popular.
Any bugs, you gotta figure the fix yourself. Apps won't get supported by developers. Accessories like cases, nonexistent.
There are benefits to being part of the crowd when it comes to this stuff.
Like the Motorola Triumph I have is plagued with issues, but it was so popular that when they surfaced for me the fixes were easy to find.
24twentysix
Newbie
I can see it coming since VM already has the 4 & 4s and if I were to guess I would say late spring early summer
SuperAfnan
Android Expert
Give it at least one year.
There is no way it would come out that early. Maybe NEXT spring. It's virgin mobile. Lower your expectations.
At the end of June it will be just under a year since the iPhone 5 was released and it will be a year since the iPhone 4s was released for Virgin Mobile, so releasing it late Spring/early Summer sounds about right.
There is no way it would come out that early. Maybe NEXT spring. It's virgin mobile. Lower your expectations.
Again, it will be a year since the iPhone 4s has been released by VM, and the iPhone 5 will be at a similar point in it's lifecycle as the 4s was when it was released. While Virgin is slow, that seems to be the point (not quite to a year old) when Virgin releases many of the former high end phones.
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Any chance the iphone 5 or s3 will be coming this summer then?
Nate456
Well-Known Member
Do you have $300-$700 to buy a phone.
SuperAfnan
Android Expert
I would say 600 tops. Nobody is going to pay so much for a locked cdma phone on virgin mobile.
Austrie
Android Expert
Six hundred dollars is the off contract price for the latest and greatest devices; who in their right mind is going to pay that much for year a old phone. That phone will be collecting dust on their shelves. Unless the phone itself IS the latest and greatest, but Sprint would lose business since 20 - 40% of Sprint customer would come to VM.
Edit: Superafnan, how's T-Mobile treating you? The data cap affecting you?
Edit: Superafnan, how's T-Mobile treating you? The data cap affecting you?
mistichunter
Well-Known Member
well guys ive have noticed a throttle in 4g wimax on the evo it doesnt download as faster when i got it back in decmber. so yeah as soon as a cheap lte phobe comes out im gonna buy it.
Kahroo
Android Expert
well guys ive have noticed a throttle in 4g wimax on the evo it doesnt download as faster when i got it back in decmber. so yeah as soon as a cheap lte phobe comes out im gonna buy it.
How much of a throttle?
SuperAfnan
Android Expert
T-mobile has been great so far. It's coverage is like 2.5x bigger than sprint's footprint. Data speeds for hspa+ "4g" are around 8-13 mb Download and 1-1.5 upload. Hspa is also technically 3g but on steroids so it doesn't use up lots of battery compared to true 4G (lte). Wimax is half of it's speeds but has barely any coverage. Sprint 3g gets butchered compared to this.
The data cap doesn't really bother me. 5gb is plenty of data for the average user unless they decide to watch Gangnam Style daily on it.
Now that sprint is bought by softbank I hope they can eventually get lte in the same areas as 3g soon because their lte finally lives up to standard. Tmobile deployed lte as well but they don't announce cities until they're fully complete.
SuperAfnan
Android Expert
Virgin said it would he 10gb a while back but I don't really know because that was a while back when they attempted to throttle data now they finally can.
Droidula
Android Enthusiast
(Off topic, you reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyhTJXFBPyg)It's virgin mobile. Lower your expectations.
Virgin said it would he 10gb a while back but I don't really know because that was a while back when they attempted to throttle data now they finally can.
I got a text from VM after they completed the updates in my area last week and I believe it is 2.5gb now. Said they were going to throttle everyone so the bandwidth would not be overused and create problems. I believe originally they weren't going to throttle WiMax.