Next virgin mobile phone?

[kofman13]

I just got the optimus v and I'm loving it but want something more high end.
Anyone know any rumors about any upcoming phones for VM?

 

[lornaevo]

I haven't heard of anything new for virgin mobile.

 

[wsoul1]

All speculation is pointing to this. June...ish

Huawei U9000 IDEOS X6 - Full phone specifications

 

[TibsterNumber13]

Any ideas on confirmation? I have 59 days until my account expires (lost phone), and I would like to know to wait for it (fill in with a cheap phone in the meantime) or just go for the Optimus...

I'd love to get this phone on VM in May.

 

[Jalarm]

Is Virgin Mobile CDMA or GSM? Because if it's GSM you could always buy an unlocked phone.

 

[TibsterNumber13]

Is Virgin Mobile CDMA or GSM? Because if it's GSM you could always buy an unlocked phone.

It's CDMA, runs on Sprint's network

 

[sadpanda]

Saw this on the web, thought I'd post it to see what everyone thinks? Motorola vanilla android 2.2 that looks like the droid X/atrix.

Motorola Atrix Lookalike Heads To Virgin Mobile, Pure Froyo?

 

[cmorty72#AC]

Saw this on the web, thought I'd post it to see what everyone thinks? Motorola vanilla android 2.2 that looks like the droid X/atrix.

Motorola Atrix Lookalike Heads To Virgin Mobile, Pure Froyo?

Looks quite interesting.

 

[witmah]

That looks a lot like a remix of the droid.

 

[shmutt1980]

hmmm I'll stick with my V

 

[rbess1965]

Heck with the phones, bring on the next great commercial
The ones with the crazy girl are my favorite commercials ever. Almost better than the E*trade babies

 

[salemwr]

I don't mind the optimus if it wasn't for the short battery life

 

[Godbilla]

You can make the Optimus battery last a day or two if you do the right stuff.. As for me it lasts all day listening to Pandora, going on the internet, ect. I love my Optimus.. I just wish it had a bigger screen and could handle some more intense games.

I can't wait to see what VM comes out with.

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[fatcat13sep]

hopefully something with a dual core but i doubt it though

 

[bjones72751]

The only 2 things I don't like about the ov are the resolution and the screen size. If they bring that huawei in I know what I'm saving money for.

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[beepFTW]

This seems like extraordinary news to me. But what would the price be?...

 

[watskyhotsky]

Well, it would seem most of virgins phones are spin offs from Sprints line of phones.

I would imagine that they are going to ride the Optimus V wave for awhile (i have one too, its awesome)

and in a few months or so when the next generation of high end dual core devices are on major carriers, the other carriers will pick up last years high end devices.


I can almost forsure see Virgin Mobile getting either the Samsung Epic (which is a galaxy S with a slider keyboard) or a really unique phone thats not on sprint.

Most likely it will be the epic. the Galaxy S 2 is rolling out soon and they will want to keep producing last generation high end phones to keep revenue coming in since manufacturing them will be cheap. (the product is already mature and costs are lower to make it then when it was new) also the epic is already compatible with sprints cdma network. its a shoe in for the next virgin mobile device.


Although if reality takes a strange left turn I can also see Virgin adding a slightly higher mid range device to their line up. I strongly strongly hope they put quality before all else...

They made a good choice using LGs Optimus series, its a solid performing phone, sells well, great middle ground between cost and performance. they also made a BAD choice with the intercept. I guess virgin just really wanted to say they offered an android phone, and Samsung pitched the intercept and since it was available in the price range virgin sells phones at, everything just kind of worked.

This is getting kind of long winded, I guess the jist of my speculation is that I believe when the next generation of dual core smartphones becomes as mainstream as 1GHz "high end" phones are today, then the older high end will become the mid range, and we ALL benefit from that.

 

[bjones72751]

My best guess would be either the epic or the evo/evo shift. The only reason I say the shift is because it kinda bombed at release since it's not a 1ghz phone.

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[91_z28_4me]

I don't forsee th Epic or Evo simply b/c they are 4g phones. Unless VM announces 4g plans it simply won't happen.

A new 3g offering like a droidx or similar device could sway me to jump ship.

 

[bjones72751]

Thats the problem. All sprint is releasing now are 4g phones. So unless they're gonna hook us up with a vm specific phone, then they'll have to give us a 4g phone, whether or not vm has 4g service. The 4g radio cost sprint what, maybe an extra 75? per phone. Doesn't mean it wont work perfectly fine on 3g. They'll just take off 4g option. Or maybe the rumored huawei or "Motorola" phone will come. I'd be happy with any 1ghz phone with a higher resolution and dev support.

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