Virgin Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II 4G Prepaid Smartphone (white) $230 + Free Shipping (expired)

Thanks OP. I usually check the Virgin Mobile site every day but didn't today. Popped onto Slickdeals and POOF, there's the phone I want at about the price I was waiting for.

Quote from dancergrrrl3 : don't forget $22.50 cashback!

could you please provide the link? THANK YOU



Virgin Mobile says 2/13 is National Break Up Day HAHAHAHHA

in 4 1 to use with on my Straight Talk plan.

Quote from fatbb : in 4 1 to use with on my Straight Talk plan.

This phone will not work on Straight Talk. This particular model uses CDMA, Straight Talk uses GSM.

Virgin Mobile has lured me back on multiple occasions with their, sometimes very, slick deals. Unfortunately, I couldn't take the coverage and have ported out a few times now. Just spent this much on an iPhone 4 and am currently on Straight Talk's AT&T sim. If you don't live in a Sprint coverage black hole, this is awesome. Their customer care has always been great with me (even on Twitter).

Quote from stuff14 : This phone will not work on Straight Talk. This particular model uses CDMA, Straight Talk uses GSM.

I hope he was being facetious.

Quote from chefjw : This phone is Wi-Max not LTE so pretty much limited crap 4g coverage isnt it?

Current 4G technology is actually based of Wi-Max. If you really think 15-30 mbps is 4G then you are believing the provider crap. You are seeing a precursor of 4G technology. 4G is suppose to be in the gigabit range.

shopcelldeals has been selling them for $249 on ebay

I have this phone from the last deal. I paid about 245 including taxes. The phone build appears a little cheap. The back cover is flimsy and doesn't fit properly.
As for the phone itself I felt the response a little sluggish, meaning, OS responses to touch, app startup etc. Screen unlock is slow, When I want to end a call and take the phone away from my ear I need to wait for about 5 seconds for the screen to come back on and then disconnect (Yes, 5 seconds is a long time). GPS lock is pretty fast, screen is nice and sharp (not as sharp and contrasty as my wife's Nexus 3 though). Jelly Bean is nice. The screen size is nice and biggest of all the SGS2s out there.
Speaker quality is ok, call quality is about 7.5/10. 8mp camera quality is about 7/10 in fairly well lit scenes. Dim light photography is very noisy/grainy.
Battery lasts about 24-30 hours - full charge to completely dead with little more than moderate use.
It's just a personal preference, but I feel I need a hardware button on the phone. The capacitive buttons are not very responsive at all.

Overall you need to distinguish between an OS/software issue vs hardware/phone issue. If it's software you can at least replace it with something else.

To confirm - this is not a GSM phone, people! There is no SIM slot!!
There is also no NFC.

Quote from krnrice : could you please provide the link? THANK YOU Virgin Mobile says 2/13 is National Break Up Day HAHAHAHHA

Sorry, I can't, it is against SD rules, but if you google Virgin Mobile USA cashback, you should find it.

$45 Cash back at b3fruga1

I bought this phone last time it was on sale at this price. Paid 250 shipped to door.

Initially I was on the cusp of leaving VM to switch over to T-mobile's prepaid. Was very close to purchasing a Galaxy SIII for 500 Plus. If T-mobile had offered the 32gb variety in other colors I may well have not purchased through VM again. Nevertheless I went VM again in the end.

As far as the houston Market goes. My speeds vary at different times of day, and I can fully tell that VM piggyback's sprints network AND places Sprint contract users as priority before VM users.

This means I have experienced pretty extreme speed tests:
Down: 498kbps Up:267kbps @ 7:43AM
Down: 9371kbps Up: 1439kbps @ 2:57AM
Down: 204kbps Up: 38kbps @7:59PM

I have had the phone for a couple months now, and even with the much improved hardware capabilities, I still don't find myself neglected by the somewhat shoddy data access. I tend to operate at night however, and I can see this not being everyone's cup of tea. Hope this helps someone.

Quote from dealmanpr : Current 4G technology is actually based of Wi-Max. If you really think 15-30 mbps is 4G then you are believing the provider crap. You are seeing a precursor of 4G technology. 4G is suppose to be in the gigabit range.

You should check your facts before you tell such BS.

You can start reading here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP..._Evolution

and here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comp..._standards

I think I'd get this if someone was willing to buy my $25/month plan. Any takers? I'm to much of a slickdealer to just toss it out.

Quote from mahou : really doesn't have GSM/UMTS 3G support ? I know Virgin Mobile uses Sprint network and uses CDMA. BUT I read the specs. on PCmag http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2...?tab=Specs and Future Shop in Canadai http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/pr...75605.aspx and GSMarena http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_g...m-4059.php It seems it has GSM in the phone... That's why I wonder if it can be unlock and use oversea when I travel ?

true dat! well worth the mention! if it has 800mhz GSM, then your golden. i was unlucky enough to have sprint as my carrier and am stuck with 1900mhz cdma. for those that are scratching their heads, i am told that GSM penetrates walls much much better, thus giving you a better signal in your home. i always have 1 bar or less or am roaming constantly. luckily my service with sprint ends this year.

another thing worth mentioning is to stick with the default gingerbread OS. ICS ended up doing nothing better than draining battery and resources. ICS really did nothing for me in the long run. If Virgin Mobile pushes OS updates, i would strongly advise against the ICS update. Read everyone's nightmare about it here: http://community.sprint.com/baw/c...c_4g_touch
if you unfortunately got pushed to ICS and wanna go back, you could always wipe the phone and install the original stock ROM on the phone, just dont forget to load the stock modem too as they are separate.

Quote from dealmanpr : Current 4G technology is actually based of Wi-Max. If you really think 15-30 mbps is 4G then you are believing the provider crap. You are seeing a precursor of 4G technology. 4G is suppose to be in the gigabit range.

I think you are believing in some magical provider crap yourself

I would rather have REAL WORLD 4G speed than your "suppose to be" speed. 15-30mbps wireless speed is QUITE GOOD, IMHO. actually amazing if you ask me as only a few years ago people are using 15mbps on their cable lines. thats alot of speed for a phone.

That gigabit speed range you are referring to is probably theoritical communication in terms of going wireless from tower to tower (wimax) as in backbone traffic capacity used by carrier to transport subscriber data.

Subscriber data rate. you will not get gigabit.

btw: Alot of wireless carriers are using "gigabit circuits" provide by major communication carriers (ex out of TLS service, or dropped off from Sonet or DWDM rings,) as backbone for their cell sites to provide.

ex. in NYC, Terrible-mobile, MetroPieceCrapService. are buying 100mbps circuits off TLS service from verizon to provide backbone service for their cell sites to provide 4G service. some sites uses gigE circuits. You might have read wrong and confused backbone speed with subscriber speed.

Maybe newer generation of 4G may reach gigabit speed to subscribers IN THEORY but I doubt you will be getting that kind of speed anytime soon.