I'm confused. I don't know anything about Straight Talk, whose network do they use? It can't be Sprint AND T Mobile, (can it?) Sprint is CDMA and T Mo is GSM.
Straight Talk is a MVNO they don't own any hardware/towers persay, they buy time from the big six and resell it.
They sell and use both CDMA and GSM phones.
The two new ones are believed to be from both systems, the Black on CDMA and the 2X on GSM.
More to the point ST (depending on what phone you have uses AT&T, Sprint, maybe a few Verizon phones, and the hopeful new TMobile phone the 2X.
I know the Optimus Black is coming to Boost, which is Sprint. And why its the Triumph failed? I know it had some issues, but their forum has a big community, and a lot of people seem to be happy with it.(granted, a lot of people are unhappy with it as well, but that seems common for a lot of phones, including the LG G2X.
I say failed for a few reasons. One I put out 300.00 for one and it was the worst POS bar none I have ever purchased, had it been given to me I would have trashed the thing, but since I have 300.00 invested in it I am still trying to find a use for it other than a paper weight or a target at the range.
I don't know about now, but I do know at a point some stores here in Saint Louis would not sell the phone because of the hi return rate, people have returned their MT up to 8 times before they got one that was not buggered so bad that they couldn't use it. Virgin Mobile during this whole thing recalled the phone from the stores and only sold it from their web sight, I'm not sure if they are back in the stores now or not.
My guess is that they were replacing so many phones that they had to recall the ones at the store so that the warranty center had enough to send out while they refurbed the bad phones that were being sent in, before it was all said and done I ended up having to send mine in for a replacement as well.
It is true there are those that got working phones, but the percentage of people that received bad phones was far to hi for anyones liking. VM and Motorola should have recalled the phones and fixed them, they could sell them after that as working phones, but to date they have not, and continue to deny any problem with the phone.
Let me say that another way, VM has admitted that the phone has problems is some areas, but not admitted that the phone has major issues all the way around, their unwillingness to take proper steps to correct these problems on a 300.00 phone has lost them customers, they are still selling this phone on their sight and that will piss even more people off because if they have not fixed the ROM on this phone which happens to be 99% of the problem with it, the new customers will be getting the same old bag of dog poop that VM has been selling all along.
My first MT worked great for the first week and a half to two weeks, after that it was a avalanche, one thing after another in rapid succession, I finally put the phone away and moved to Straight Talk when it started rebooting 3 to 4 times a day on its own. That with all the other problems it was having and the 15 min GPS lock, GPS would not lock at all if I didn't use the app GPSFix. It had to run for about 15 min, then I could open my GPS and that still took about 5 even after GPSFix, but without that app it would not lock. Even after all that, the GPS would take me on wonderful adventures, going east when I should be going west, turning right when I should turn left, the one I thought was the funniest was when I was on a bridge out in St. Charles Mo and it said I needed to make a right, HA right in the middle of the bridge. Thank god for Garmin Nuvi.
Before I did the switch to ST I was using my little TracFone, not fancy but it at least worked.
All this and so much more is why I say failed.
Straight Talk hasn't put these phones for sale as of now, but, unless these are AT&T's first Androids for Straight Talk, they'll probably use Sprint. =/
What's up?
