Virgin Mobile is releasing yet another Kyocera phone. The Kyocera Adreno S2400 is being released by Virgin Mobile as the TNT. So, is the new TNT just another cheap flip phone or is it something to check out?
It’s not going to impress your friends unless your 12, and it lacks most of the features you would hope for. After you get past the fact that it’s a $20 phone and it’s lack of impressive features, the TNT does have one redeeming quality: it is very rugged and very blue. Blue is the only color it’s currently offered in, but only time will tell if they switch the colors up. Phone’s like the slice were also intially offered only in 1 hue. The blue does seems to accentuate the cheap look and feel.
Honestly, the phone isn’t all that bad looking for the price when compared to the Shadow Mouse or the Oystr, and it does have that tiny external display that other phones in it’s range are lacking.
Features:
- Affordably priced making it an ideal backup
- Lightweight at 3 oz’s (0.2 lbs)
- External display with caller id
- Supports Real Music ringtones and downloadable games
- Virgin XL support
- 200 minutes of talk time, 5 days of standby time
- Voice Dialing
- Speakerphone
The Bad
- External display is miniscule
- Voice quality is lacking
Virgin Mobile will be offering the phone on their website beginning August 20th, 2008. The TNT is currently available at Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target, and other retailers.
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Most targets currently have the Virgin Mobile Flare on sale for $23, and the $20 top up cards for $18 through the rest of this week, and possibly longer.
The Virgin Mobile flare (which is made by LG - aka the LX175) is actually a pretty decent phone for the price. You get a sleek flip phone with a nice external LCD display, bluetooth, web browsing, and it doesn’t look like it’s from the 80’s.
The discounted top up cards can be combined with a promotional code, netting you even more savings! Target frequents offers discounted top up cards and phones, and I have never heard of their top up cards being blocked from stacking with promo codes. If your in need of a new phone, though, your better off going with a bundled phone and airtime from Virgin Mobile USA’s official site. They frequently offer their phones for free with the purchase of airtime for new customers.
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Virgin Mobile is currently working on an aquisition of prepaid provider Helio. Most likely this acquisition will lead to Virgin Mobile offering a wider range of products and services including contract based plans (in additon to pay-per-minute) and FINALLY some decent phones such as the Helio Ocean.
This is great news for any current Virgin Mobile customer. My major complain with Virgin Mobile has always been their lackluster phones, but with the aquistion of Helio, there will be an amazing new range of phones and plans that could make even me happy!
Only time will tell what really happens with the acquisition of Helio. A friend working with VM in the Dallas call center tells me that their internal system has a detailed announcement in which they blatantly state that they will offer contract plans and helio devices after the acquisition is through.
Link:
Official Announcement
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I’ve been seeing it everywhere lately, and having had worked for a 3rd party company associated with Virgin Mobile USA, and having known many people in VM’s call centers, I can tell you that the monthly promotional codes that are floating around are false…
Most sites, and people, will tell you to call in and give this code: 102007
That would be the october monthly promo code, and for example 112007 would be novembers, and 122007 would be decembers.
These codes ONLY work if you have not used your phone in awhile and virgin mobile has sent you the offer. Read more
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The new Virgin Mobile Switch_Back, AKA the “Wild Card”, has been acknowledge with it’s manual being posted on Virgin Mobiles websites..
The new switch_back features blue tooth and mostly the same features as the original switch_back.. The addition of blue tooth to this phone is proof that Virgin Mobile is finally catching up with the other prepaid service providers in basic features.
The new Wildcard is expected within the next 2 months, but information from virgin mobile has been vague, and the Wild Card has yet to be added to Kyoceras website. The Wild Card is rumored to be the M1000 with a different case, which would explain the missing phone on Kyocera’s website. The M1000 sports a very similar Read more
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