T-Mobile Vibrant: $199.99 on July 21st

By on Jun 28, 2010 at 2:59 AM
Retail June 28, 2010

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The Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant has been a long time coming, but today an official release date and pricing were finally announced. As of July 21st, T-Mobile will be selling the Vibrant for $199.99, that price of course assuming a new 2-year contract. T-Mobile might have a bit of a tough sell on its hands considering that AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and even U.S. Cellular will be offering the Galaxy S in one form or another, but T-Mobile has a trick up its sleeve: anyone who purchases a Vibrant will get a free copy of The Sims 3 Collectors Edition, and a 2GB microSD card pre-loaded with Avatar. Triple win, right?

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  • Channan

    Enough with all the skins, PLEASE. Samsung, you’re ruining a fantastic phone with a crappy UI.

    • JR

      So turn it off. From what users are saying you can turn off Touch Wiz and run the stock Android interface.
      Personally I don’t like the stock version and prefer this. At least it’s better than the Touch Wiz of the past.

  • Sharquawnda@SprintPOS

    I like this version of the Galaxy S the best. Something about the back of the Captivate just looks wrong.
    http://www.att.com/media/en_US/images/samsung_captivate/i897_Vegas_back%20pattern.jpg

    inb4 where is the front camera/t-mobilesukz

  • http://(null) Jordan Brown

    nice to see a company give their phone to everyone virtually the same. but the naming is dumb.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Hanford Americas

  • 3 Phones Jugglin

    Sorry…think ill take that Sprint Version. Heres hoping that keyboard is decent and the UI isnt butchered.

    Dont care for the Sims…and 2GB? Thats a joke…

    • JAG

      Well I think you’ll be stock with 2.1 durin all your life phone

      • JR

        They will update the “Galaxy S” line to 2.2 and beyond because they are releasing the same phone over all four networks, that in of itself is reassuring.

        This is Sammy’s top of the line phone and they’ve dropped a lot of money advertising it along with the fantastic show they did at CTIA.

    • Sharquawnda@SprintPOS

      The phone itself has a good amount of built in memory.

      I’ve had a monstrosity of a phone like the Epic before and I don’t want another brick in my pocket. I’ve adjusted to using an onscreen keyboard and with Swype, everything should be great.

    • Alex

      there’s 16 GB internal memory. the 2 GB is for Avatar and whatever else they want to put in it.

    • B Dogg

      2 gb for the movie. 16 gb built into the phone. external mem slot up to 32 gb = 1st phone to have a combined total of 48 gb if you wanted it to. nuff said.

      • Matlock

        No its not the first phone to offer that, The Nokia N97 offered that first!!! It had 32Gb of built-in memory and had an expandable slot for up to 16GB!!!

    • otsuigm

      it’s a 2GB micro-SD card which is upgradeable to 32gb. The Vibrant also has 16gb internal storage. The Sprint version you are waiting for has 2gb internal and ships with a 16gb micro-SD card. The most the Sprint can go to is 34gb total while the Vibrant can go 48gb total.

  • SlappySlappySlappy

    So you can get the same phone on networks that do not have swiss cheese coverage and the best incentive they have is to throw in a game and movie? Pretty weak. T-mobile is gunning hard for the number 5 spot in the U.S.

    • Sharquawnda@SprintPOS

      Because Sprint and AT&T have coverage that is like, amazing! Thanks for the laugh stevenfailsburg

  • broke CEO

    Sharquawnda@sprintpos your comments are truthful and hilarious.

  • BDot

    Very interested in this phone but I hate custom UI’s. I hope the boys over at XDA devs can do something with this.

  • Idaho Jones

    A phone with no camera flash (yes, VERY important, for me anyway), A game I hate, and a movie I don’t give half a crap about. Guess what phone I’m NOT getting?

  • http://twitter.com/techrss Ziba

    Yeah I saw that last night on
    http://www.mwd.com/2010/06/here-comes-the-evo-4g-killer-called-galaxy-s-by-t-mobile/

    Thing is: Phone does not have Flash..! Come on.. :(

    • JR

      Up until last year very very few cell phones HAD a flash, now everyone has to have one on their phone and are crying that this one doesn’t? You’ve survive before without one, plus how ofter do you think you’ll use it? Unless you want it to find you car keys in your purse. lol

      • Ziba

        I feel your ignorance but If you had let’s say Droid Incredible , you would take pictures all the time day/night. Example: Forgot my DSLR at home went to wedding this sathurday. I got 8mp shots that look outstanding in darkened room.

        I agree with you that I don’t need led flash, just 2-3 years ago we all had 1.3mp cams on our, hell iPhone had it until 2009.

        Is just that the way technology advances you can’t go backwards or stay put…come on dude it’s not ME or W2K era…

        To me your statement is like: oh hell I can live without flash on my phone for next 10 years with 1.3mp cam …my friends can easily enjoy 10mp with zeus lens cams and flash ….don’t be f*** ignorant …

        Tech noob.

  • StevenGlansburg

    This phone is crap no matter what carrier its on.

    Oh and Sharqaunda, again, I’m confused why you think you I’m out to get you on here. Granted I agree with the post your are replying to, but why would I have to use another name to say something like tmobile sucks and so do their phones? Why don’t you back to selling this crap in your pink shirt, fagboy.

    • SkOrPn

      Lets Compare shall we?

      Evo = Standard AMOLED
      GS = Super AMOLED
      Evo = Standard AMOLED Brightness
      GS = 20% Brighter than Evo
      Evo = Standard AMOLED hard to see in direct sunlight
      GS = 80% LESS REFLECTION than Evo
      Evo = 22 Million triangles processing power
      GS = 90 Million triangles about 3-4 times faster
      Evo = 30 Frames Per Second refresh
      GS = 60 FPS, twice that of Evo
      Evo = 6 oz of dead weight
      GS = 4.1 oz 30% lighter and lightest smartphone of this size
      Evo = .5″ thick
      GS = .39″ 20% thinner than Evo
      Evo = Flash on back
      GS = Advanced low light engine mode that produces images equal to a physical LED flash

      Oh and lets not forget Evo costs an extra $10 per month just to own it. AND, comes with 4G for which half the country wont get until 2012. w00t, the Evo is one amazing phone, I better ignore all the amazing specs on the GS and get me an Evo asap, because I love extra thick and extra heavy phones that cost more to own…. lol

  • Tdot34

    Why the hell would anyone care that Avatar was pre-loaded? What kind of idiot would watch a 3-hour movie that was designed to be watched in 3D… on a 4″ 2D screen?

    • JR

      You know, if getting copy rights approvals for SIMS and Avatar where the reason that it took Tmo sooo long to get this phone officially released, I will be PO’ed and they are just stupid. For some reason they are thinking that it’s a selling point to have these pre-loaded. Hey Tmo, NO, just forget about that crap and release good phones as fast as possible, you don’t need to differentiate yourself from the other three. Wait, actually you kind of are with your slow released and three month build up of the Vibrant. Please take a clue and look at what Verizon is doing.

      • jboi

        TMO is the first carrier to ACTUALLY announce a launch date. Everyone else has said “coming months”, so for that alone, way to go T-Mobile. now let’s see if the others try to catch up…

      • otsuigm

        If it weren’t for T-Mobile android wouldn’t be where it is right now with 2.2 out and 3.0 in the distant future. T-Mobile was the only carrier with the balls to release the first Google Android phone (G1) which I still own and use to this day! Yes you can hate on them that they haven’t done much since and Verizon has released 3 nice phones with Motorolla, But I think the tide will turn with this Vibrant. It’s replacing my G1 and I’m looking forward to the huge leap I’m taking going from 1.6 android to 2.1 with a 2.2 update by end of summer!!!

  • TC

    so we now have a release date for the kindle app for android – July 21
    (the specs on this phone say read books on Kindle!)

    once this phone has it – my N1 will have it too – by hook or crook :D

  • pjcamp

    With no HSPA+, triple lose.

    I was waiting for this phone to replace my seriously disliked Blackberry and T-Mobile has to crap it up. Seriously — all this tech and no HSPA+? How brain damaged is that?

  • Steve Span

    the super amoled display, android and the 1 ghz hummingbird processor is for all the tech nerds out there(you all posting on this page, myself included), the sims and avatar are for the casual idiot…the sims will make stupid females buy the phone, and dad will get it for avatar, and watch it one time…
    avatar and the sims isnt for you morons…

    • SkOrPn

      I disagree, the excellent specs on the GS are for people who want more for their money. Both phones cost the same when signing a contract but Sprint will charge you $10 extra per month just for owning it. Even if you will not be getting 4G for another two years, they will charge $10 per month. Only an idiot would buy this phone and pay the extra $120 a year for service they will not be able to take advantage of for a long long time. Now if you just happen to live in a 4G enabled area or 4G is just around the corner like maybe only a few months away at most, than I say the Evo is a great phone, otherwise its just wrong to have to pay extra for a phone that is no better than its competition. The extra $10 per month is just one of the reasons why I hung up on the Sprints sales dept. This is coming from someone who absolutely loves HTC phones, but I refuse to be a stupid fanboi and will go with the obviously better option at this time.

      Best Regards

  • babygirl

    @ Steve span, maybe the only idiot and stupid female that will buy the phone for Avatar and Sims is you. I will buy it bc it is a phone with specs I want and additional toys to play. Grow up idiot.

  • laurie

    after I see some movement of 2.2 toward the phone, then I’ll maybe think about it.

  • t-mo custumo

    I just got off the phone with t-mobile,and the vibrant is hitting the stores on the 15th.

  • http://alghienkad06.student.ipb.ac.id thea

    hilarious

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