Virgin Mobile USA partners with Walmart for Broadband2Go offer, $20 a month for 1GB
If you took a gander at Virgin Mobile USA's latest Broadband2Go plans you might have noticed a bit of a hole between $10 a month for 100MB and $40 a month for unlimited data. Consider it plugged, with a new $20 monthly 1GB plan that starts today. That's quite a bit nicer than the previous $20 for 300MB plan, but of course there's a catch: it's available only at Walmart , and only to owners of a Novatel MiFi 2200 or Ovation MC720.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 1gb, gander, mifi2200, mobile, novatel, ovation, partners, prepaid data, usa, virgin mobile usa, virgin-mobile, virginmobile, walmart
Samsung Galaxy 550 prepping for low-end Android duty on Virgin Mobile Canada
Americans on Virgin Mobile, you're going to want to keep on keepin' on with your Intercepts -- but our friends to the north are on the verge of getting an apparently exclusive new Android device out of Sammy, it seems. The so-called Galaxy 550 appears to be the same phone that we knew as the Galaxy 5 previously , featuring Android 2.1, a 2 megapixel camera, and integrated Swype atop some manner of smallish display. Needless to say, Virgin's billing this as a low-end smartphone in every sense of the word, saying it's "sweetly priced to fit all budgets" and pairing it with a new $40 plan that'll include 300 anytime minutes, 100MB of data, unlimited local incoming calls, unlimited nights and weekends, and your choice of unlimited messaging or Voicemail 10 / Call Display.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: duty-on-virgin, entry, friends, incoming-calls, sammy, virgin, virgin-mobile, virginmobile
Virgin’s payLo service breaks the $20 mold, adds third plan for $30
Virgin Mobile has been attacking the ultra-low end segments of the market with its two-pack of payLo prepaid plans this year, both of which retail for $20. Well, if you're looking for a slightly fancier package, Virgin is answering the call today with the introduction of a third payLo plan at the $30 mark, offering 1,500 voice minutes, 500 messages, and 10MB of data per month. That marks the first time that a payLo plan has included either data or text buckets -- and considering how important both of those are these days, we imagine the new plan will find a taker or two.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: data-or-text, imagine-the-new, introduction, marks-the-first, mobile, prepaid, service-breaks, taker-or-two, ultra-low-end, virgin, virgin-mobile
Virgin Mobile Canada getting Samsung Galaxy 5, Bold 9780, and more this quarter?
If only Virgin Mobile were this cool in the States, right? The company shares little more than a name with its American doppelganger, but the fact remains that Sprint's subsidiary could probably learn a thing or two from its buddy to the north ( Samsung Intercept notably excepted). MobileSyrup says that the Android-powered Galaxy 5 (not to be confused with the much higher-end "S" line) with a 2.8-inch display will be hitting on November 12 for free on contract, while the still-unannounced Bold 9780 -- specifically identified as a "refresh" here, presumably to the 9700 -- is in the cards for CAD $149 ($147).
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: cards, engadget, flick, galaxy, intercept, line, mobile, north, offerings, rim, subsidiary, sway, these-dumbphone, virgin-mobile
Nokia N8 going on general sale October 22, available online October 15
Been waiting for the N8 but weren't sure enough about buying it to get into the pre-order queue? Well, Nokia must have found your lack of faith disturbing as it's now stiffing those who didn't pre-order its all-new handset with another couple of weeks of waiting
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: belt, carphone, europe, mobile, nokia n8, phone, releasedate, slightly-later, united-kingdom, virgin-mobile, warehouse, web
Virgin Mobile scooping up Samsung Intercept
One great thing about being owned by Sprint is that you can sneak a handset here and there into your own lineup, which is exactly what Virgin Mobile has done in adding the midrange Intercept from Samsung to its range. Actually, it's not in the range just yet -- Virgin's Facebook page says that we should "stay tuned over the next few weeks" to find out the details, which leads us to believe we might see a launch (or at least a launch date announcement) around CTIA early next month. Not the awesomest Android phone in the world, sure, but for a carrier traditionally dominated by low-end prepaid gear, it's a solid addition, we'd say.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: handset, midrange, mobile, qwerty, solid-addition, sprint, the-awesomest, virgin, virgin-mobile, virginmobile
Virgin Mobile USA fortells unlimited prepaid mobile broadband for $40 a month
Whereas AT&T's move to tiered smartphone data pricing signaled "the end of unlimited" to some, Sprint subsidiary Virgin Mobile USA has just defied that notion with an all-you-can-eat broadband buffet priced at $40 per month.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: Carrier, Data Plan, data plans, data-pricing, facebook, network-packets, plans, totally-sweet, unlimited, unlimited-data, virgin mobile usa, virgin-mobile
HTC Wildfire priced by T-Mobile, coming to UK on June 14
The biggest outstanding question about the Wildfire has now been answered by at least one carrier -- T-Mobile will be delivering HTC's student-friendly handset at the
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: availability, been-answered, commitment, contracts, financial, htc, lingo, point-on-two, Texts, virgin-mobile, virginmobile, wildfire
Kyocera Zio M6000 hands-on: you get what pay for
It's totally unfair to Kyocera that we played with its new Zio M6000 mid-tier Android smartphone mere hours after our first look at the HTC EVO 4G , but while we were excited to see a cheaper phone with an 800 x 480 screen, the end result is pretty disappointing. The device crams that resolution into a 3.5-inch screen, which wouldn't be so bad if the capacitive touchscreen element wasn't so low-end
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: doors, haptics, incredibly-thin, kyocera, mobile, norm, optimization, phone, virgin-mobile
Sprint turns in larger loss in fourth quarter, subscribers still leaving
Though you'd have to argue that Sprint is a leaner, smarter company than it was a couple years ago, it's not out of the woods yet. The company's fourth quarter earnings show that it's still losing money to the tune of $980 million -- a $502 million decline from the quarter prior -- and net wireless subscribers declined by some 148,000, though there's a lot of hand-waving here (iDEN lost 504,000 subs, for example, while the CDMA network actually gained 3,000, and there were a couple big acquisitions thrown into the mix). Churn decreased slightly against both the third quarter and the fourth quarter of '08 -- a good sign, to be sure -- and ARPUs were generally up, though prepaid ARPU specifically took a hit as a result of the Virgin Mobile buy ; who knew that Virgin customers had lower ARPUs than Boost's
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: decline, earnings report, faith, financial, flow, fourth, htc, mobile, money, quarters, sprint, virgin-mobile