Could Virgin Mobile be getting the LG Rumor 2?
We don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up, but there’s a rumor going around about the next handset for Virgin Mobile. It’s the LG Rumor 2, a slide-out full QWERTY device. MobileCrunch has the scoop, though as they note this is not confirmed, just a rumor with strong backing. As such, there is no word on pricing or availability, but it could reasonably go for under $100 without a contract. We’ll try to confirm or deny this either way.
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While the rumor 2 would be a great addition to VM, it seems that Virgin Mobile has one major downfall to people who text a lot. You can only send and recieve a message of 160 characters mazimum. If you send long messages (like me and a lot of people I know) you are stuck writing the first half of the message, saving it, writing another message, saving it, (saving any other messages too if it is very long) then going into drafts and then sending them one at a time. This is very annoying to have to do. No other carrier does this where it just stops typing after 160 characters. This was one of the main reasons I switched from VM to GoPhone. In order to grab more text oriented people, VM should fix this problem.
Posted on July 20th, 2009 at 9:57 am
Virgin Mobile Canada already has this phone, and several other phones that they should have here in the states. They have 2 Blackberry phones. What we don’t rate.
Posted on July 20th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
I did some research on Phonescoop. The Lg has a smaller screen than the X-TC and no video like the X-TC. No Ev-DO or 3g which the Shuttle has. What the point of adding this phone.
Posted on July 20th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
This is great news for Virgin Mobile USA. It’s about time they offered something better than the kyocera phones. The X-tc has too many bugs. Maybe this LG R2 will outperform the xtc.
Posted on August 25th, 2009 at 11:01 am
To John Brown:
I own the X-tc at the moment, and just to let you know… it doesn’t take video.
Posted on September 4th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
One advantage the LG Rumor 2 has over the Kyocera X-TC is being able to create and display graphical emoticons. The X-TC cannot do either.
Posted on September 23rd, 2009 at 11:13 pm
THE DAVID GUY IS WRONGGG!!! THE RUMOR IS AMAZING I HAVE IT AND NO U CAN WIRTE UP TO 12 PGS, U ARENT STUC WITH 160 CHARACTERS!! BEST FINE EVA
Posted on October 8th, 2009 at 7:16 pm