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 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
Clearwire’s Rover service goes live, offers $5/day 4G service
Looks like the prepaid wireless data market is starting to heat up: Clearwire just launched its Rover service, which offers 4G wireless data for as little as $5 a day -- with two free days included when you first sign up. That's not bad if you just need a quick hit here or there, although you need to pony up $150 for that Rover Puck WiFi hotspot we saw at the FCC last month or $100 for a USB stick, and anything more than a day quickly becomes less of a deal at $20/week and $50/month
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: clearwire, competition, data, entry, mobile wifi hotspot, pony, prepaid, roverpuck, Stick, usb, virgin, wifi, wireless-data
Virgin Mobile rolls out payLo: your choice of two $20 prepaid plans
Ironically, we doubt payLo's presumed namesake -- J-Lo -- is going to be taking advantage of this service with her zillions upon zillions of entrepreneurial profits, but Virgin Mobile's new line of plans should find a happy home with plenty of customers. The service actually consists of two pay-as-you-go plans from which you can choose, both running $20: 400 voice minutes good for a month, or three months at 20 cents a minute.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: ironically, light, namesake, pay, paylo, plans, plans-should, three-months, virgin, zillions
Free Virgin Mobile-to-Virgin landline calling coming to UK starting April 1
The BBC's crack team at Click managed to out a juicy morsel from the boys and girls at Virgin : its mobile and landline divisions are about to get a whole lot more cozy.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bearing, bearing-outside, entry, granny, minute, thinking, virgin, virgin-perhaps
Virgin Mobile Canada lights up HSPA+ network, iPhone 3GS, Bold 9700 in tow
Well, it's a bit earlier than the invitation to the big launch event suggested , but it looks like Virgin Mobile Canada is now officially part of the HSPA+ club, and it's now also selling a couple of new phones you might be interested in.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, blackberry-bold, bold 9700, complete, download-speeds, entry, hspa, invitation, iphone 3g, offerings, result, virgin, virginmobile
Virgin Mobile Canada launching HSPA network on February 2?
Saying that CDMA-based Virgin Mobile Canada is "launching" a network is a bit of a stretch, actually, since it just rides atop Bell's airwaves -- but for what it's worth, it looks like we now have a date for an official HSPA launch. Bell, of course, has been wasting no time aggressively building out and marketing its HSPA network the past few months, and to get Virgin switched over, they'll likely be getting a variety of BlackBerrys and iPhones -- a far cry from the low-end fare its American cousin offers. Anyhow, the wholly-owned MVNO has scheduled a shindig for the evening of February 2 to launch its "huge new HSPA+ network and some of the world's sexiest phones" -- and hey, even if you don't like the new hardware, any party with Jay Sean sounds like a win to us
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, cousin, engadget, far, from-the-low, iphone, like-the-new, mobile, result, sexiest, virgin
Women Prefer Mobile Phones to Boyfriends
Sync is the new buzz word for connecting technical products such as mobile phones released or updated in 2010 and the next few years and companies that get it right will be leaders in the delivery of content and services. ...
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: browser, google-phone, industry-news, microsoft-phone, Mobile Phone, technology, Tool, virgin, yahoo-mobile
Funkadelic Advertising: T-Mobile flashmob reenacted for Movie
On Sunday last week (16th August), people passing through Liverpool Street station must have thought they were going mad when a reenactment of the T- Mobile flashmob was performed for new film St Trinian's 2: The Legend Of Fritton's Gold ...
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Street, nintendo, Other Tags: calvin-klein, facebook, flashmobbing, guitar-hero, online, super-bowl, twitter, video, virgin