Archive for the ‘Virgin Mobile’ Category

The popular pre-paid service provider, Virgin Mobile, is getting ready to launch a new slider phone from Samsung known as the Slash. The Slash will be the second slider offered by the carrier after the Sonic from Kyrocera.

The Slash will feature Bluetoth, camera (resolution unknown), speakerphone, a full color screen and talk times of 3 to 5 [...]

Virgin Mobile has announced its new revised rate plans in a press release. The rate plans are intended to provide a balance between cost and overall value.
Starting with the revised Prepaid offering, customers can now “Roll Forward” up to 5,000 of their unused prepaid minutes similar to AT&T’s competing GoPhone Pay As You Go service [...]

Virgin Mobile has officially launched the second basic clamshell from LG after the success of the Aloha.
The Flare by LG features an external color display, 1xRTT data access, speakerphone, voice dialing, BREW support for games and applications, MP3 support, and Bluetooth.
The phone is now available from Virgin Mobile online for $29.99.
Virgin Mobile Product Page
LG Flare [...]

T – Mobile, U.S. Cellular, Virgin Mobile USA and Helio have been sued by Intellect Wireless Inc. for patent infringement. The lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
The Texas based company, Intellect Wireless, has accused the companies for infringing wireless image messaging patents. The three patents in [...]

Usually, plugging eBay auctions is rare on the newsfeed, but it’s a slow news week, so here it goes…
I’ve listed on eBay a V5 Slider that can be activated on Sprint PCS. Originally a Virgin Mobile phone, it has been reprogrammed and comes with an additional Sprint phone with the ESN transferred.
Porting it does [...]

Sprint has killed a plan to give LG 1200 owners SMS. Virgin Mobile was going to carry the LG 1200 with SMS, and Sprint had planned to release a firmware update to enable two-way SMS. The update would have been simple to make, as the LG 1200’s lack of SMS was by Sprint’s [...]

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