New kid on the block Ting will soon earn itself major kudos in the U.S. carrier market when it delivers what could be the best Android smartphone so far – the Samsung Galaxy S3 – to its customers. Early September is the timeframe (stated in a post on Ting’s official blog) for Ting to start shipping the Galaxy S3 in all its variants to pre-order customers. And if all goes well that shipping date could be bumped forward.
Ting offers an impressive list of high-performance Android smartphones in addition to the Samsung Galaxy S3, for example soon to come are the HTC EVO 4G LTE, Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE, and LG Viper.
Mid-September will see the availability of the EVO 4G LTE at $520. You can pre-order the slider Photon Q even sooner – possibly next week – with a price tag of $500. And for “a little less than $400” you can get that oldie-but-goody, the LG Viper, available in October.
If these smartphones are little pricy for your budget, check out the Kyocera Rise. This is Ting’s best lower price range offering. For $200 or thereabouts you get this slider phone with a 3.5-inch display, powered by a 1GHz processor.
It hasn’t been all plain sailing for Ting though. Despite their best efforts to bring the pure Google Galaxy Nexus phone to MVNO side, it seems as though – for now at least – it’s just not compatible to run on Ting.
If Ting’s offering looks suspiciously similar to that on Sprint, it’s no wonder – Ting uses the Sprint network. And before you ask, yes, the same 4G LTE coverage should be available very soon.
Any thoughts about Ting’s Android offerings up to now? Are you liking the carrier’s snappy name as much as we do?
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