New Virgin phone, Motorola Triumph | JULY19 | $300

[sdxben]

So this may be a coincidence, but this morning I saw in the ads Target selling Optimus V for 179 and a 20 gift card. THEN in Best Buy as they are selling the Samsung Intercept for 179 with a 40 gift card. I think this is in preperation of the Triumph coming out sooner than later. Get people to buy their old Android VM stock before bringing in the Triumph. Am I too hopeful or could this be a correct hypothesis!

 

[zedorda]

So this may be a coincidence, but this morning I saw in the ads Target selling Optimus V for 179 and a 20 gift card. THEN in Best Buy as they are selling the Samsung Intercept for 179 with a 40 gift card. I think this is in preperation of the Triumph coming out sooner than later. Get people to buy their old Android VM stock before bringing in the Triumph. Am I too hopeful or could this be a correct hypothesis!

Its being released in July that only 3 weeks away. How much sooner u think it will come?

 

[sdmark]

LED Notifications?

Any word on if this phone will have an LED for notifications? I've looked at some pictures. It kind of looks like a proximity sensor only on the left side of the speaker?

 

[nin]

Any word on if this phone will have an LED for notifications? I've looked at some pictures. It kind of looks like a proximity sensor only on the left side of the speaker?

Could be the camera. I don't think it has one though, in some of the videos you can see the notification bar has multiple stuff on it but no LED seems lit. That could be that it turns off once the screen is on.

 

[gimmi80]

I look forward to this phone, I hope is not more than $250, otherwise it's out of my budget.

 

[jmart981]

I plan on buying this phone, and I also am curious about the LED notification light, every moto phone that I can remember thats running android has had a notification light so I hope this one is no exception, yeah 250 would be great

 

[mmarz]

I plan on buying this phone, and I also am curious about the LED notification light, every moto phone that I can remember thats running android has had a notification light so I hope this one is no exception, yeah 250 would be great

If not, you can always drill one into the case

 

[anon(182107)]

So what is the chance of the Triumph getting CM or AOSP ROMs? What if the bootloader is unlocked, because I hear the new Moto Photon 4G (Sprint) will have an unlocked bootloader.

Not wanting to start an arguement but CM7 with Google AOSP IMO is my favorite ROM of all time.

It would be sort of difficult to adjust to no AOSP considering it is from source and up to date.

Sent from my Optimus V using Tapatalk

 

[pre]

I plan on buying this phone, and I also am curious about the LED notification light, every moto phone that I can remember thats running android has had a notification light so I hope this one is no exception, yeah 250 would be great

Watching all the video hands-on reviews, doesn't appear to be a LED, nor camera button, nor physical softkeys.

 

[randyist]

AHHH. Don't say how much you'd pay for it! That's like the news reporters saying, "Gas Prices Expected to rise to over $5 a gallon!" .. Now we tell them how much we'll pay.

I'm j/k. seriously. This should be a great phone!

 

[00_wrath_00]

May be a great phone when it comes out but the service and customer support is far from par. The phone is only as good as its provider.

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[Ticojpunk]

May be a great phone when it comes out but the service and customer support is far from par. The phone is only as good as its provider.

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Sprint service is like AT&T service. In some places it's fantastic. In some places not so much. Both Sprint and AT&T are great where I live, so no issues. Always best to check the coverage maps carefully.

As far as VM cust service, I have dreaded calling them the few times I've had to. They are slow to get the ball rolling, barely know what's going on half the time, but they will get whatever it is done eventually. Totally worth the monthly savings IMO.

 

[thexxoffspring]

VM support is great! I dont know what you guys are talking about.. lol

 

[dansho]

[QUOTE:LeslieAnn

This post makes absolutely ZERO sense. If they want to slow sales, don't release a new phone. Just because the OV went up, and it was speculated to be because of growth, doesn't mean this will start higher for that reason. I still doubt the increase was to slow sales. That would be pretty silly considering only two weeks before they were blowing the OV out at $129. If you are near saturation, you don't hold a sale just before raising your rates.

Second, in business, lack of growth = death.
Sprint bought VM because pre-paid is the only growing segment in cell phones now. Post-Paid growth is almost at a standstill due to saturation.

As for the contract, Sprint owns Virgin Mobile.
Oh, and if Virgins network fails, so does Sprint, they are the same network.

Sprint is scared to death of the At&T T-Mobile merger. Raising prices right now would be the worst thing they could do. However, it could be a planned rate hike, but the explanations given so far have been pretty silly.


LeslieAnn,

In typical fashion you have responded with cogent analysis and pinpoint accuracy (IMHO). Makes no economic sense to spend boatloads of $$ on customer surveys, hardware manufacturer discussions and production, and an upcoming new product marketing campaign by sabotaging your efforts through exorbitant pricing of your new phone offering (and yes $350 for a VM phone IS expensive). I always enjoy reading your comments and opinions...they're interesting and incisive!

 

[freedomispopular]

If the bootloader is unlocked, I'll probably jump on this right away.

If the bootloader is locked, I might just crawl into a hole and cry.

 

[theboundless]

LeslieAnn,

In typical fashion you have responded with cogent analysis and pinpoint accuracy (IMHO). Makes no economic sense to spend boatloads of $$ on customer surveys, hardware manufacturer discussions and production, and an upcoming new product marketing campaign by sabotaging your efforts through exorbitant pricing of your new phone offering (and yes $350 for a VM phone IS expensive). I always enjoy reading your comments and opinions...they're interesting and incisive! [/B]

haha, because your comment was so laudatory I totally thought you were being sarcastic at first

 

[staticmaal]

Where did yall get the $350 price from?

 

[mmarz]

Where did yall get the $350 price from?

From a user's cousin's roommate's father's best friend who works at Virgin Mobile.

 

[dansho]

Speculation...at best

VM will be releasing it at $349 with a limit to each store of 5 per 2 week period and plan to raise it to $399 or more after the first 30 days. Sorry I can't offer a sweet link to this info but its kind of a family leak. Its not sure but a rumor to also have a $10 line premium required so $35 minimum monthly.

Here's the OP...

 

[ceejay83]

I don't think it'll be 350+. thats too expensive for just a prepaid phone. virgins customer base are mostly people that want to save money on their phone bills. Only tech savvy people would pay that much