iPhone coming to VM in June 29, 2012!

[RealIzm]

Apple = poop But all the sheep will line up.

Exactly.
Great idea! Lets spend more money for a phone light years behind the 3D. Just make sure to get a different case than the one your grandma has.

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[503ducati]

This is NOT the 1,000,000,000,000,000th Android vs Apple thread. In the future if it gets locked, now you will all now why.

[Sepurb]

There is a point where the primary motivation for prepaid service (lower monthly bills) becomes nullified by steep upfront costs for a device.

it's likely to be interpreted as simple minded of me, but ON THE SPOT savings are always more admirable to me than "in the long run" tally ups. because I will STILL be paying $55 monthly while Joe is paying $120.

I never get what the point of them are unless one were to pay their phone bill for the year like car insurance.

[503ducati]

it's likely to be interpreted as simple minded of me, but ON THE SPOT savings are always more admirable to me than "in the long run" tally ups. because I will STILL be paying $55 monthly while Joe is paying $120.

I never get what the point of them are unless one were to pay their phone bill for the year like car insurance.

I have an older sister(I'm 40yrs) who has an LG Optimus on Verizon, her first smartphone. She has a corporate discount through her company but she made a comment the other day after looking at my new EVO that she pays like $115/mo. This is about what her husband pays AT&T on his iPhone. Of course when she asked I told her I too have a discount and pay $66/mo, my other sister switched from T-Mobile to Boost Mobile almost a year ago now. Some people just don't like change when they feel comfortable regardless how much they are paying.

[vmobi]

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The reason why the iPhone and High End Android and other smartphones are now being offered on prepaid is Churn Reduction. The carriers have discovered that by providing Premium Prepaid Phones, subscribers are LESS Likely to switch to another carrier, than subscribers that purchase value priced devices. The primary reason carriers had been reluctant to offer better devices and services for prepaid subscribers had been the very high churn rates from early prepaid paygo users. Sprint seems to have successfully developed a prepaid device and service combination that is providing consistent results while reducing their prepaid churn rate each quarter. Someone investing $250+ on a device is less likely (not unlikely) to move to another carrier. After having paid over $150 per month on average for limited contractual wireless service during the 90's, I find it rather amusing that some complain about $55 Unlimited Everything service plans.

[Sepurb]

I have an older sister(I'm 40yrs) who has an LG Optimus on Verizon, her first smartphone. She has a corporate discount through her company but she made a comment the other day after looking at my new EVO that she pays like $115/mo. This is about what her husband pays AT&T on his iPhone. Of course when she asked I told her I too have a discount and pay $66/mo, my other sister switched from T-Mobile to Boost Mobile almost a year ago now. Some people just don't like change when they feel comfortable regardless how much they are paying.

oh don't get me wrong, I have a soft spot for Sprint but you know why that's not an option LOL.

I'd have no qualms if I was with Sprint, again any non-three digit bill is rad to me. oh and I gotta have my iPhone, too.

[503ducati]

After having paid over $150 per month on average for limited contractual wireless service during the 90's, I find it rather amusing that some complain about $55 Unlimited Everything service plans.

Seems like yesterday the Virgin Mobile forum was dead, the only activity was complaints about inequality with Boost Mobile's new $50 Unlimited plan. The only common smart phone was a "Boost Berry" Nextel Blackberry 8350i good times!

Gotta love the choices we all have today not just from Sprint's Prepaid Group but all the others who've jumped on board of the prepaid smartphone train. It's not an official done deal but with the outlets who've run the story this far chances are Cricket won't be the only prepaid iPhone out soon.

[RandIndustries]

Seriously Mr, Moderator, I started to lurker these forums in January, and a lot of it had to do with Boost getting better phones. Low and behold, it's June, the Evo V is about to hit everywhere, and there may be iPhones on VMUSA in less than a month. That's absolutely tremendous. Here's hoping a press release shows up some time soon announcing the iPhone, because the prices point being anywhere past 400 bucks, seems like a stretch given that once you get 500 bucks, people draw a line for a device.

[billm261]

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In a perfect world your assumed scenario's mathematics would be "spot on". In the real world, late fees, ridiculous post paid contract taxes, and other factors drive the total cost of ownership to much higher figures.

Upgrades are also cost prohibitive on 2 year contracts, if at some point you decide you want a different device.

Not really.

I never had to pay a late fee (although I never am late) and I have never seen that penalty stated other than my mortgage. You might be right but if that is true and one can't pay their bill on time I guess they are better off getting service disconnected on prepaid.

Taxes, fees and surcharges vary by State. One who receives a discount can usually mitigate those fees. In the case of 503Ducati the cost is about 7 or 8 dollars a month more to be on postpaid (using unlimited) which is under 200.00 for the 2 year contract. Postpaid clearly wins there factoring in the device subsidy.

You can upgrade your device any time you want on postpaid but you just pay full boat or purchase said device in the secondary market.

You love prepaid, I like them both equally and think each has their own unique benefits depending on the subscribers needs.

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[aml1025]

iPhone 4S just showed up in a banner ad on the VMUSA website... that's about as official as it gets!

[Love Souljah]

Here's the official site that I got through one of @virginmobileus' tweets:
http://www.virginmobileusa.com/iphone

[Saad87]

http://www.virginmobileusa.com/iphone

[Love Souljah]

There's already...a huge thread about this...right below this one :P

[mfrerkes]

Holy...

$30 per month for an iPhone plan?!?!

[mfrerkes]

There's already...a huge thread about this...right below this one :P

That thread lacked an "official" announcement from the company. Now that everybody knows the specifics (as released by Virgin Mobile) all the speculation and prognostication in that thread is irrelevant.