Reply With QuoteAssuming the WSJ is correct about the coming iPhone, what do you think the plan prices will be? Will they be the same $35, $45, $55? Will VM force you to be on the $55 plan? More?
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Radiation is good
add me to the list of users who are happy about this. I have had an ipod longer then my optimus v and I still prefer the iOS to android. I prefer the apps on it and the gaming is a hell of a lot better on iOS. And while the 4s may not be bleeding edge compared to a galaxy S2 4g, its still great hardware and a superb camera. I would be totally happy with a 4s on VM, and screw siri.
Why yes, that is a bag phone
Assuming the WSJ is correct about the coming iPhone, what do you think the plan prices will be? Will they be the same $35, $45, $55? Will VM force you to be on the $55 plan? More?
My screen is bigger than yours
So much for every ones plan on getting the Evo...
Phone Collector
I ordered the Evo V and it should be arriving at my door tomorrow, but boy when that iPhone comes out, I'm selling the Evo V and getting the iPhone the first chance I get.Originally Posted by 100pre
Phone Expert
No fan of walled gardens, so this phone is not for me. Glad it will be there to give people a choice and possibly get some people off, of their 25 dollar plans! It will also hopefully wake people up to the fact, that postpaid is a joke. Phones are like game consoles, signing a contract for one, is just silly.
I have a blue tooth
If this is true, Sprints prepaid options are getting better and better. Now, just give us the network to support the devices.
Phone Expert
You have to live in a place where the network is strong, like the South. The problems you folks mention, I've never ever have had, even with my Triumph. Move farther into the heat, and everything will be fine, or in the northwest. My phone worked fine up there at well.
My screen is bigger than yours
So if they're both Sprint network devices, is there any chance the Boost would work on Virgin and vice versa?
Radiation is good
this is exactly how I feel. the iPhone ALWAYS works properly, and the fact that it has dual core is a futile selling point when the iPhone will run just as fluidly and possibly better than a super spec'd phone....And while the 4s may not be bleeding edge compared to a galaxy S2 4g, its still great hardware and a superb camera. I would be totally happy with a 4s on VM, and screw siri.
not to mention its going to run App Store apps anyway, if they don't require quad core processors then why would that matter to a person with an iPhone? I can only imagine what the 4S camera is like, my iPhone 4 took beautiful pictures!!
can't wait.
HoFo Moderator
Thankfully that's what they are working on, had Sprint not even announced that "Network Vision" project back in 2010 I'd most likely would've moved on. I can say in other forums EVO LTE owners are reporting LTE service in several markets so we know the vendors are kicking arse and S4GRU continues to inform on it's progress. It's unquestioned Sprint will now have the most modern cutting edge network with this overhaul. It's kinda wild that T-Mobile will be the only operator in all of this not selling the iPhone.
Phone Collector
I'm just glad it's finally true so I don't have to read all the idiots posting about how iphone or 4g will never come to prepaid.
Phone Collector
This is great news!
I've been debating which new phone to get to replace my loser Samsung Intercept...and I am sooo looking forward to getting an iPhone. I've used my iPad and iPod Touch for years, and it will be great to be able to download the apps I already own onto the iPhone. Doesn't really matter to me whether it is the latest and greatest iPhone or not--it will most certainly be a big improvement over the Intercept.
Post Machine
Good luck with that.
Recently VM is pretty bad in Downtown Brooklyn even I have hard time to stream 64kbps radios (I don't get any throttling note or whatsoever).
I've got more phones than fingers
Wirelessly posted (Virgin Mobile HTC WFS: Opera/9.80 (Android; Opera Mini/7.29952/27.1940; U; en) Presto/2.8.119 Version/11.10)
Even IF they required the $55 Totally Unlimited plan for the iPhone on VMUSA, it would still be a bargain compared to VZW and AT&T. It seems like Virgin Mobile is the brand that has been successfully capturing postpaid VZW and AT&T subscribers, with the new expanded coverage footprint (roaming) being added to Virgin Mobile along with the introduction of high-profile advanced devices, even more subscribers might now start to choose the freedom of NO Contract prepaid wireless service.
Operating without a contract makes you far more valuable.
HoFo Moderator
I found the "unlocked" version of that WSJ article requiring subscription, this is where today's story that's bee widely reported is sourced / initially started.
By THOMAS GRYTA And GREG BENSINGER
Sprint Nextel Corp. S -0.39% is set to become the second U.S. mobile-phone carrier to offer Apple Inc.'s AAPL -0.26% iPhone on a pay-as-you-go basis.
Sprint will announce this week it will offer the popular smartphone on its Virgin Mobile pay-as-you-go brand as soon as July 1, according to people familiar with the company's plans. The Overland Park, Kan., carrier follows Leap Wireless International Inc. LEAP +1.08% in selling the device with prepaid service.
Offering the iPhone may help Sprint satisfy its commitment to Apple to buy $15.5 billion of the phones over four years, an aggressive bet as more carriers are getting access to the once-exclusive device. Sprint's prepaid service, which also includes the Boost Mobile brand, has been the carrier's lone area of growth as contract customers have fled.
Sprint added 489,000 prepaying customers in the first quarter, though it lost 192,000 contract customers, which are considered more profitable. It began offering the iPhone on its Sprint brand in October, and has sold 3.3 million of the device over the past two quarters.
Pricing for the Virgin Mobile iPhone couldn't be learned, and it wasn't clear whether Boost would ultimately carry the device.
An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment.
The availability of the prepaid iPhone allows Sprint to sell the device to broader pool of customers. Aside from having no contract, there are no credit checks for customers.
The addition of the iPhone to Virgin Mobile also leaves Deutsche Telekom AG's DTE.XE -1.14% T-Mobile USA at a greater disadvantage. It is the last of the largest carriers without the device, which Chief Executive Philipp Humm has said is a major reason it lost 1.7 million contract customers last year.
The prepaid iPhone from Virgin would be more widely available than Leap's Cricket brand because Cricket is only in smaller markets. Although Cricket users can use their iPhone anywhere, it can only be purchased if they live within its network that covers about 60 million people, or 20% of the U.S. population.
Sprint's network, used by Virgin, claims to cover about 278 million people or almost the entire country.
Leap will begin selling the phone on June 22 and charge $499.99 for a 16-gigabyte iPhone 4S and $399.99 for the older 8-gigabyte iPhone 4. Those prices are about $300 more than those sold by the major carriers, but $150 less than what Apple charges for an unlocked 16-gigabyte iPhone 4S.
Sprint already offers various models of the iPhone at the same prices as the other major carriers when customers sign a two-year contract. That includes an 8-gigabyte iPhone 4 at $99.99 and a 16-gigabyte iPhone 4S for $199.99.
In order to carry the phone, Leap struck a three-year deal with Apple under which it agreed to spend $900 million in volume purchases.
Virgin Mobile USA has prepaid plans that begin at $35 a month and offer unlimited data, although speeds will be throttled after the user consumes 2.5 gigabytes a month. It is unclear if the iPhone will be allowed to work on the current plans.
In comparison, Leap is charging $55 for unlimited talk, text and data, with a similar limit on full-speed data, while plans with other wireless carriers are frequently $100 or more, and users are locked into two-year contracts.
Sprint says its Virgin brand is directed toward "subscribers who are device and data-oriented." Sprint acquired Virgin Mobile USA in 2009 for about $480 million.
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