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Now Free Oystr, K10, and Nokia Shorty

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:08:04 GMT

Virgin Mobile released today a new free phone offer. The free phone offer requires no promo code. To get a free oystr, just order the phone from the website and you will receive the phone, plus $20 in free airtime.

You get the minutes when you activate the phone. You do not have to do anything special to get the minutes, the second you activate you will have the minutes!

Virgin Mobile Phone Lineup

Sat, 12 May 2007 17:10:50 GMT

Today I'm going to review all of Virgin Mobiles Phones, and give you information on your favorite and least favorite virgin mobile phone.

Kyocera Slider Sonic
The "top of the line" Virgin Mobile Phone is the Slider Sonic

The slider sonic seems like a great phone, but it comes with a skimpy 32mb Transflash card. (most phones come with 1 or 2 gig microsd cards).. The phone's sliding mechanism is also prone to failure, though almost all slider phones/sliding phones face the same issues. It's a decent phone, but personally I'm going to stick with my T-Mobile exclusive Nokia 5300. I couldn't live with the 3 hours talk time of the slider sonic.

The slider sonic does have a couple good features worth mentioning. It can play WMA and mp3 songs (though you can't fit many), it has a decent? camera for it's price, and has a video recorder.

US Starcom Slice:
My personal favorite cheap phone is the Slice. The slice is a good, sturdy, non flip phone making it way more reliable. The internal antenna is better than all of the other virgin phones, and provides much better reception. It is a great phone with a great menu system. The Slice does not have the issues common with other Virgin Mobile phones.

Nokia Shorty:
Another good phone is the Nokia Shorty. The Nokia Shorty is a non-flip phone like the Slice and is nearly indestructable. You have to try to break a nokia shorty, it won't break on it's own. It has a tried and true design and it is really a great phone, although it's main issue is that it is out of date. The menus and design are lame and un-appealing, but if you want a phone that just works, the Nokia Shorty is it.

Kyocera Oystr:
The Oystr is know as the worst phone ever made. It's the cheapest phone you can imagine, and with a selling price of $20, it's obvious. The oystr is what we call a throw away. A throw away phone is good for a week, maybe a month, rarely a year. You use this for affairs, drug deals, and your 10 year old daughter. You don't rely on this phone. You can't rely on this phone.

Kyocera Marbl (shadowmouse):
This great phone is a re-branded Kyocera Oystr. It's the same exact phone, different case design. It is just as horrible as the Oystr. Avoid it like the plague, unless your having an affair, selling drugs, or you have a 10 year old daughter.

K10 Royal
The K10 royal is another tried and true phone like the Nokia Shorty. It's a little more out of date, and it's about 20 different colors. It's not a bad phone, it's just not a good phone. It's one of those phones you give your elderly relatives. It will work forever, it's just won't work like a PDA.

Audiovox Snapper
The audiovox snapper appears to be a cool phone that could almost compete with a helio... no, not really. It's screen is so small it's in the guiness book of world records. It has the lowest resolution camera on the face of the earth. It's screen dies every month and you have to order a replacement. It's another phone to avoid.

Kyocera Cyclops
It's a working Oystr. It has a camera, and did I mention it actually works? It's what the oystr started out as before $60 in price cuts. Camera works, and the phone works. Not a bad phone for the price.

Kyocera Switch_back
AKA the Takeit_back. The screen is the size of a pencil eraser and it closes like a rust iron gate. The keys are so small you have to use a stylus to press them. The outside keys also suck, and the phone just plain sucks. The camera is bad, and the camera flash is a joke. Get a slider sonic.

Get a free Virgin Mobile Phone when you buy a top up card!

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:41:11 GMT

Many people don't realize that new customers with Virgin Mobile can get a free mobile phone. Surprisingly enough Virgin Mobile's phones are so cheap that they can afford to give them away on a prepaid no contract plan.

To get these phones you have to order them from the Virgin Mobile USA website (virginmobileusa.com). Currently you can get the K10 royal and a Nokia shorty for free when you buy a $20 top up card. You can also get the Slider Sonic on sale for 79.99 and it comes with a $20 top up card, which makes the phone only $59.99.

The phones offered change monthly and I will be posting the late May phone offers in about a week.

The Oystr is the new Marbl

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:37:58 GMT

The Virgin Mobile / Kyocera Oystr had many issues and some of those issues were addressed when it got a new faceplate and was re-branded as the Marbl (aka the Shadowmouse). The shadow mouse had an upgraded battery and... and... well, the battery was about it with the exception of the new case. The screen still has the same screen issues. Both the oystr and marbl are plagued with a bad connection on the screen that causes it to go black. The connection can be jarred loose by something as simple as closing the screen and is one of the most common issues with both phones.

Honestly, all Kyocera phones have these issues. They are cheap pieces of plastic and are out of date the day they are released.

So if your looking to upgrade or replace your Oystr with a Marbl, all you will really be doing is getting a new faceplate. The battery still sucks, the phone still sucks.

New Virgin Mobile Phone

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:04:14 GMT

There will be a new virgin mobile phone coming out in about a month. It's impossible at this time to let you know the specifics of the phone, but you can browse kyocera wireless's site and draw your own conclusions as to what the new phone will be.

I can tell you that the phone will be in the $100 range and is supposed to be the best phone virgin mobile has offered thus far.

In the past, new phones for virgin mobile have been guessed by checking the newly released phones on their internation sites (Virgin Mobile Canada for example).

I will update this post when I have more information about the new phone.

Get a new phone for half price!

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:11:40 GMT

So you have a popular mobile cell phone provider that markets itself to drug dealers and virgins. Your phone is named after a shellfish from the ocean and it really sucks. Maybe you have a phone that you bought 8 years ago to use with this provider.

And you really wany to get a new phone for cheap....

Well, starting this month, this company will be including chargers in their "Replacement Phones". Replacement phones are offered to customers who call in to report their phone lost or stolen.

For example, the most expensive phone offered is $100 and is really the only phone worth purchasing. If you call in and say your phone is lost or stolen, you can get that phone for $45 shipped to your door overnight. Although you will just get a phone and charger and no booklets, it's a lot cheaper.

If you don't need a $100 phone, just a phone your clients can call you on to score a dime bag, then you could get one of the $20 or $10 phones for $10 or $5 respectively.

The catch is you need an existing phone and account, but you can open an account and then call back in 15 minutes later and report the phone as being stolen and get the reduced price. So for a $5 phone off ebay you can get the top of the line phone for $45.

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