I recently purchased the Flare originally for my wife to upgrade from her previous phone. After having used the Flare on a quick family call I came to love it. The Flare has great call quality, it looks great being all black and so damn shinny as well as having all of the standard things like bluetooth, external display, etc...I ended up purchasing a second Flare the next day to replace my phone, the Slice. We've been with Virgin Mobile for about 10 months now after having left Sprint. Our main reason was that we are not huge phone users and hated paying $90.00 - $110.00 a month for two phones giving us 3 - 4 times the amount of minutes that we actually need but never getting any kind of refund for unused minutes. I now love the fact that we are paying about $50.00 a month for two phones and still using Sprints network but not being molested by their charges. Granted, the Virgin Mobile phones could be of a better quality, having gone through about 5 different models myself, but overall we are very happy with the service. I would be willing to pay more for a phone, even up to $200 to get some of the bigger names in cell phones such as the razr, krzr, etc but Virgin has yet to bring them to the states even though Virgin Mobile does supply those top tier phones to other countries such as Canada and England.
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Gregg @ Mar 17th 2008 12:17AM
I recently purchased the Flare originally for my wife to upgrade from her previous phone. After having used the Flare on a quick family call I came to love it. The Flare has great call quality, it looks great being all black and so damn shinny as well as having all of the standard things like bluetooth, external display, etc...I ended up purchasing a second Flare the next day to replace my phone, the Slice. We've been with Virgin Mobile for about 10 months now after having left Sprint. Our main reason was that we are not huge phone users and hated paying $90.00 - $110.00 a month for two phones giving us 3 - 4 times the amount of minutes that we actually need but never getting any kind of refund for unused minutes. I now love the fact that we are paying about $50.00 a month for two phones and still using Sprints network but not being molested by their charges. Granted, the Virgin Mobile phones could be of a better quality, having gone through about 5 different models myself, but overall we are very happy with the service. I would be willing to pay more for a phone, even up to $200 to get some of the bigger names in cell phones such as the razr, krzr, etc but Virgin has yet to bring them to the states even though Virgin Mobile does supply those top tier phones to other countries such as Canada and England.