Samsung Galaxy S ii work with WiMax?

Droidula said:

So here's the deal: I switched over to Boost from Virgin mobile earlier this year. I was sick of Virgin's phone lineup. I got the Marquee, which is horrible, one of my least favorite phones ever. It's slow, freezes, restarts, for starters. The 3G is also terribly slow, worse than when I was on Virgin, for some reason. I don't know if it's the phone, or the company, even though they are both Sprint.

Anyway, I was going to stick with the Marquee for a while, since I got it fairly recently, but I hate it. So I was thinking of switching back over to Virgin for the Evo V (3D). The Boost Evo Design doesn't appeal to me or appear to be anything special.

Thing is, I don't want to switch over to Virgin again only to have Boost come out with a better phone 2 months later again. I don't care for iPhones. Are there rumors of anything better, anytime soon? I heard something about the galaxy s ii, but this seems like pure rumor to me.

The Evo V seems good to me, but I was thinking that for that price, wouldn't it be better to buy the galaxy s ii and flash it to Boost instead? My question is, would the galaxy work on boost WiMax, to get the 4g speeds?

If tl;dr, a summary of what I'm asking is:

- Will the galaxy s ii flashed to Boost work on WiMax?
- Is the galaxy s ii a better choice over switching to Virgin for the Evo V? (As far as better specs and/or a better quality phone.)
- Anyone hear of a rumor of the galaxy s ii (or any other 4g phone) coming to prepaid, in which case it would make more sense to wait?

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Droidula said:

Thanks for the response.

Ah that is really too bad. I really want the S II, but would like to take advantage of the 4G speeds, since my Boost 3g is absolutely horrible. Someone told me that 4gflash might be working by August, but no idea if that's true or not.

I wonder if your antenna issue could be a battery drainer problem. My Marquee's battery usage stat is always dominated by cell standby...mine currently says 96% time without a signal.

Since I don't want an iPhone, and don't like Boost's current offerings that much, I suppose my options are to switch to Virgin for the Evo V, wait to see if the S 2 4g flash works, or wait a while to see which new phones come out.

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