I had to say goodbye to the triumph, because my wife lost it
However upon replacement, I totally ditched VM because in the last year the Sprint network in my area has become absolutely abysmal and I was lucky to get 128kbps.
So I replaced it w/ a tmo mytouch 4g which supports cyanogenmod directly and within 20 minutes I had the new drop and the phone is ROCK solid. I paid $120 on ebay, with a couple of cases. My new carrier: Straighttalk, now 45 BUT I rarely see less than 2 Mbps (1 bar-ish), but in good areas it hits 7 Mbps. For grins, I threw my tmo SIM in a buds ST AT&T phone and it even looks like TMO has refarmed in my area so I could use an At&t phone down the road w/ a Tmo ST SIM.
Downside: $45 + tax (NY is no joke)
Upside: No minute limit (regularly went over 300min), voice quality way better, network WAY faster (20-30x), phone has CM 7.2 (no ancient froyo), and the CM is rock solid with holo launcher.
So as these phones die and so do the $25 plan, does it make sense to step into a clearly inferior network for $35 and 300 min or drop the extra $10 and go all in for a vastly superior network.
I could have gotten the At&t SIM, but I have so much hate for T treating me like s**t in the past and I don't want the Mrs being aggravated by some random throttle from AT&T. My take is I'm not sending a dime to those vultures.
So until Sprint gets it's network together, I'm going over to ST. And guess what, no contract so I can change whenever I want. I love prepaid....