Virgin Mobile Phone News and Deals

For a limited time you can get a free year of service from Virgin Mobile when you purchase a Slash, Wild Card, or the new Shuttle. This could potentially save you $90 a year.

To qualify, you must purchase a new phone. Also, this does not mean you get any free airtime, you will need to maintain a balance on the phone to talk/text.

The Shuttle is also available only at Best Buy… Also, these promotions are stackable, so if you select a virgin mobile kickback code from the forum you can get an extra 60 minutes for free, on top of the year of activation.

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Virgin Mobile frequently bundles phones and airtime, making phones significantly less expensive.Bundles like these are rare wih prepaid phones, and hardly seen outside ofVM.

If you need a second line or are looking for a prepaid phone, I would suggest going with Virgin while these promotions are running. These offers are limited to new customers only.

Virgin Mobile is alsooffering free groundshipping until 12/17/08 for all phones. You can even pay later using Paypal bill me later.

Switch_back
$79.99 including 19.99 of airtime
Super Slice
$49.99 with $19.99 of airtime (blue, red, white, or black)
Cyclops
$39.99 with $19.99 of airtime (red or white)
Aloha
White or Pink Aloha Free with airtime purchase
Oystr
White or Pink Oystr free with airtime
Marbl
$9.99 and available in: black, blueberry, plum, green grass, or blue denim

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Virgin Mobile’s always got new promotions going for free minutes and for great deals on phones (usually bundled with airtime).

One of the emerging trends on our forum is to share your kickback codes. If you would like to share your kickback code, feel free to do so in the Virgin Mobile Promotions thread. Your code will be updated into the list. We also ask if you are signing up for a new phone to please randomly select a code! We will also continue to try and mix the codes frequently.

So what’s new at Virgin Mobile for October? You can check out the Aloha and get it free with an airtime purchase, or the Red Cyclops for $50 that includes $20 worth of airtime (stackable with a kickback!).

Need a kickback? Try ZscNpO6U for 60 free minutes when activating, or 3swsD6cH for $10 when you topup! There’s plenty of other codes to choose from on the official promo list if the previous codes don’t work for you.

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The new Virgin Mobile Shuttle is an impressive looking phone with some decent features that it’s predecessor (Starcom Slider Sonic)was lacking. It will be available on September 28th, 2008.

Impressive features include 3G (EV-DO), GPS, and fun stuff such as uLocate and Where.

The first thing that struck me as odd is the 1.3 megapixel camera. Why they skimped on the camera is beyond me, but it’s nothing new with VM. It’s amazing that the Wild Card that was released last year had a 1.3 MP camera, and a year later they still think that thetheninadequate camera is still enough.

If you can look past the unimpressive videocamera it is a 3G phone, a first for Virgin Mobile. In addition to being the first 3G device, it’s got GPS, bluetooth, a microSD slot, media player, voice dialing, and all your other standard features. Talk time is 234 minutes, and Stand By time is 13.3 days.

The addition of GPS opens up some fun features and indicates their aquisition of Helio. With the Shuttle, you get previous Helio offerings such as "uLocate" (Buddy Beacon look a like) and "Where" (local and nearby businesses).

Don’t get too excited about the bluetooth, though. It allows minimal access. Also, there is no USB cable and one is not offered. You will have to use the MicroSD card or internet to move files. They do make MicroSD to USB card’s that could correct this.

Don’t be fooled by the manufacturer, this is made by UT Starcom just like the Slider Sonic, but since then they have changed their name to PCD (Personal Communications Devices).

How about a promotion? If you buy a Shuttle, they will activate the phone for a year for you, removing the required top ups for 12 months. You will still need to pay for airtime, but you won’t have to worry about keeping it active for the first year by making your 90 day top up

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Virgin Mobile is now offering 3G Data Plans in anticipation of the release of the Shuttle on September 28th. The new data plans will bring substantial savings to users who are currently using these services on a $1.25 per 24 hours and per 1MB basis. You do not have to have a 3G phone to take advantage of the data offerings, but only 3G phones can take advantage of higher speeds.

The rate structure is rather fair, especially for users on monthly plans.

For Pay as you Go customers:

$5/month: 5MB of Data

$10/month: 20MB of Data + UNLIMITED access to VirginXL

$20/month: 50MB of Data + UNLIMITED access to VirginXL

For Month to Month customers:

$5/month: 20MB of data + UNLIMITED access to VirginXL

$10/month: 50MB of data + UNLIMITED access to VirginXL

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