I have Virgin Mobile now and use an Audiovox-8500 phone. The phone is nice and small but it just borderline functional. I borrowed a friends Motorola (V550) and was shocked at how much better it sounded. It was like talking on a land line. I'm not sure how much of that is my phone and how much is the Spring Network.

I'd love to buy a highly rated CDMA phone and use it on Virgin Mobile. Their reps tell me it can't be done. Is this true ? Can't I just take my sim card equivalent (not sure what is used in CDMA) and put it into a different phone ?

Otherwise, are any of the other Virgin Mobile phone's far better then the 8500 for sound quality ? I don't have much faith in upgrading unless I was pretty confident the new model would be MUCH b...
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