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    Sprint Pushing Android Update to Samsung Galaxy Victory

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    Michelle Maisto
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    April 12, 2013
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      Sprint has begun rolling out an Android update to users of the Samsung Galaxy Victory—the first Long Term Evolution (LTE)-enabled phone on the Virgin Mobile network.

      Virgin Mobile began selling the Victory Feb. 25, with Android 4.1, a flavor of “Jelly Bean,” on board. Sprint’s April 11 news of an update is to Android 4.1.2—a subtle boost up, but one that nonetheless brings with it:

      —Swype, a method of typing that lets a user drag her finger or a stylus around in one single gesture, instead of lifting and tapping at letters or numbers;

      —notifications now display the full text of incoming SMS messages, and recipients of MMS messages can see the whole photo in the notification;

      —users can now pinch notifications, to expand or collapse them;

      —notifications from the same application are now grouped together, with just the first item expanded;

      —text-to-speech capabilities are available in English;

      —voice typing is possible without an Internet connection;

      —there’s the ability to manage and create Google+ Events;

      —Zagat ratings and reviews are built into Google Maps;

      —and indoor walking directions integrated into Google Maps.

      The Victory features a 4-inch touch display and a 1.2GHz dual-core processor. There’s a 5-megapixel camera with HD video capture on the back and a 1.3-megapixel up front. Connectivity options include Bluetooth, WiFi, Near Field Communication (NFC) technology and S Beam, which allows a user to share information—ranging from video files to a business card—with another person with an S Beam device by tapping the two together.

      Google Wallet is also included.

      Virgin offers the Galaxy Victory contract-free for $249.99, down from the $299.99 Sprint announced in February.

      Virgin Mobile, once the relative bad-boy of the industry, has recently taken aim at T-Mobile, which is going after value-minded customers and reinventing itself as the feisty no-more-Mr.-Nice Guy. (Or, Nice Girl, as it were. In recent ads, its hot-pinking-wearing spokesperson has traded in her frocks for motorcycle leathers.)

      Virgin Mobile has begun advertising, “Ditch T-Mobile and Get a $100 Credit. … It’s a No-Brainer.”

      T-Mobile, in addition to undergoing a brand overhaul, hiring a foul-mouthed, immensely likeable new CEO, finally working out a deal to sell the iPhone 5 and launching its first LTE networks, is in the process of acquiring prepaid carrier MetroPCS. None of this is good news for Virgin Mobile.

      T-Mobile’s deal with MetroPCS, it’s been suggested, was also a motivator for Virgin Mobile parent company Sprint—which had earlier been working on a deal with MetroPCS—to strike a deal with the Japanese carrier Softbank, which now owns 70 percent of Sprint.

      The prepaid market—which now includes high-end devices and a wide demographic of users—is now growing at a rate that’s surpassed the postpaid market, and is expected to continue at a clip.

      IDC, in a December 2012 report on the prepaid market, highlighted its particular importance. “Prepaid is critical to revenue and subscriber growth,” it said, “at a time when wireless providers are striving to boost performance in an increasingly saturated market.”

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      Michelle Maisto has been covering the enterprise mobility space for a decade, beginning with Knowledge Management, Field Force Automation and eCRM, and most recently as the editor-in-chief of Mobile Enterprise magazine. She earned an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University, and in her spare time obsesses about food. Her first book, The Gastronomy of Marriage, if forthcoming from Random House in September 2009.

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