New Virgin phone, Motorola Triumph | JULY19 | $300

[jmleon92]

Meh. That's rather off-putting to hear. Can the bootloader be unlocked? Hopefully, if not, then Motorola will pull through on its promise to let off the locking.

Then again, I mean, why would they lock the Triumph? It's a prepaid phone on Virgin Mobile for goodness sake. I can maybe understand the incentive on the higher end ones, but not this.

this^
+1

 

[johnnyl]

Called Radioshack today. The Radioshack rep told me the VirginMobile rep was in today and said they would have the Triumph in stock for "release day", price $299. I asked for the Radioshack SKU/Stock# for this phone and he provided the following info: 1706369. Enjoy!

 

[ceejay83]

Called Radioshack today. The Radioshack rep told me the VirginMobile rep was in today and said they would have the Triumph in stock for "release day", price $299. I asked for the Radioshack SKU/Stock# for this phone and he provided the following info: 1706369. Enjoy!

was hoping it would be $250 :\

 

[Dk564]

The Optimus Black is going to be way better than this

 

[Eollie]

From what I understand, if you can't get to the bootloader, you can't upgrade the phone to Gingerbread or an entirely different ROM. You can only modify the existing ROM.

This is false.
You can build custom roms for the phone just not custom kernels.
The DX has had Gingerbread custom roms for a long time and it has a signed bootloader.

The biggest thing about having a unlocked bootloader is you can tweak the kernel and most of the time over/under clocking is not available. Other things like apps2sd, data2ext those type of things arent do able because the coding has to be built into the kernel.

The Optimus Black is going to be way better than this

Careful the fanbois will eat you for saying that in this thread.

 

[munkyvirus]

This is false.
You can build custom roms for the phone just not custom kernels.
The DX has had Gingerbread custom roms for a long time and it has a signed bootloader.

The biggest thing about having a unlocked bootloader is you can tweak the kernel and most of the time over/under clocking is not available. Other things like apps2sd, data2ext those type of things arent do able because the coding has to be built into the kernel.

Ah. Thanks for the info.

 

[Lanzeelus]

The Optimus Black is going to be way better than this

In terms of performance, it is supposed to be worse.

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[one80oneday]

The Optimus Black is going to be way better than this

Have fun waiting for an inferior phone

 

[Lanzeelus]

Have fun waiting for an inferior phone

Its not exactly inferior either. It just has a less powerful processor. The Black has a better display, sleeker design, the G button, a better front facing camera, and a better battery.

You guys just love to make uneducated assumptions don't you?

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[koopakid08]

Its not exactly inferior either. It just has a less powerful processor. The Black has a better display, sleeker design, the G button, a better front facing camera, and a better battery.

You guys just love to make uneducated assumptions don't you?

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Nobody knows how it will preform with stock android but I for one am not going to a wait for a phone with similar specs as the Triumph

 

[Lanzeelus]

Nobody knows how it will preform with stock android but I for one am not going to a wait for a phone with similar specs as the Triumph

The Black uses a TI OMAP processor which has pretty much been proven to be less powerful than the second gen Snapdragon processor that the Triumph uses. It is meant to be more power efficient. So going on hardware the Triumph is most likely going to be faster, and since they both (are expected) to run the same software, stock android, it only makes sense for the Triumph to be faster. Obviously we can't know for sure yet, but there's no reason why it shouldn't.

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[one80oneday]

A dealer got the phone today and uploaded some pics on HoFo
Motorola Triumph official (coming late July; no price yet) - Page 63

 

[lou61166]

A dealer got the phone today and uploaded some pics on HoFo
Motorola Triumph official (coming late July; no price yet) - Page 63

Thanks. if you go further into that thread it shows a shot of the phones storage,it is nearly 1 GB of internal,much better then the 178 mb you get with the V.

 

[johnnyl]

It has Gorilla glass also. See the link provided on HF:

CORNING? GORILLA? GLASS | MOTOROLA

The Triumph is shown in the last row, 3rd from the end of the "Related Products" which also have Gorilla Glass.

Nice!

 

[one80oneday]

RS will have the MT for $300 on 7/19
www.androidcentral.com/htc-status-m...mpaign=Feed:+androidcentral+(Android+Central)

 

[Raptor5150]

need to see if the bootloader is locked before i even think about buying it..

 

[Grimmlokk]

It has Gorilla glass also. See the link provided on HF:

CORNING? GORILLA? GLASS | MOTOROLA

The Triumph is shown in the last row, 3rd from the end of the "Related Products" which also have Gorilla Glass.

Nice!

Very good news, was this a late addition or something? Some folks were complaining that it would have an easily scratched plastic screen.

 

[one80oneday]

If you aren't watching HoFo some people are able to by the MT at Best Buys

 

[zedorda]

Gorilla Glass imho sucks. I have 3 devices with the crap and 2 of them have cracked from a less than 12" drop to a wooden surface. Yes they resist scratches great but break from shock forces WAY to dam easily.

 

[cbill]

Some one just posted that they purchased, today, a Virgin Motorola Triumph, from Best Buy. No particulars provided!

http://forums.androidcentral.com/mo...best-buys-have-triumph-now-just-got-mine.html

Cbill