Some new phone deals come with free access to Facebook or Twitter for a limited time. Virgin Mobile’s going the extra step to give all mobile and broadband customers access to whatever they want with a bonus 1GB of mobile internet data until June 2010.
A Winnipeg man has been dumped by his girlfriend of two-and-a-half years, after she found his phone riddled with sext messages. Only problem? He didn’t write any of them. Virgin Mobile did.
At the end of each month, do you know what happens to all those unused minutes of talk and text in your phone contract. They DIE! Dead! Gone forever into the ether, with nothing to remember them by. Unless you’re on one of Virgin’s new rollover plans, which rolls over any unused talk and text to the following month. Then you get an extra 30 days to say a proper goodbye…
Imagine this: you’re part of a highly trained squad of three former SAS soldiers on a mission critical to the survival of this country. We’re talking top secret. Classified. You get to the rendezvous point in a regional centre of NSW, pull out your military-grade laptop to connect to the Internet to perform your mission. Your two soldier buddies do the same thing. You reach into your bag to pull out your wireless internet key, but there’s nothing there. You look to your squad members and realise that due to budget cuts, only mobile broadband solution was issued. Which means your mission fails and the terrorists win. If only you had a Virgin Mobile Wi-Fi modem…
Virgin Mobile unveiled its swanky new concept store on Pitt Street in Sydney today ahead of tonight’s launch event at the rebranded Virgin Metro Theatre, and it represents some exciting changes for the telco.
A slew of car manufacturers are offering delayed/cancelled payments for those who lose their jobs. Now Virgin Mobile will be the first mobile phone service provider to follow suit. UPDATE
The Helio Ocean was an amazing phone in its day, so we were excited to see all the cool updates hitting Virgin Mobile’s Helio-branded Ocean 2. Turns out, there’s not much cool to be found.
MobileCrunch has lots of photos of the Helio Virgin Mobile, which we last saw in a spy shot a few months back. It’s definitely real now.
Virgin Mobile has a new service that allows its customers to send text messages into space, with a “formal confirmation” costing $US15.
Virgin Mobile USA is soon to launch its first handset that uses tech from newly acquired Helio. Just as predicted, the slider phone will indeed include advanced features like social networking and other mobile services “through partnerships with Accuweather, ESPN, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Yahoo!” and others. There’s also Virgin Mobile’s first location-based services like “Buddy Beacon” (a friend-finder) and “Where,” which supplies local service info. The 3G EV-DO handset is set to cost below US$100, have a 1.3-megapixel cam, Bluetooth and a 2-inch screen, and will be exclusively out at Best Buy Mobile and BestBuy.com on 28th September. Press release below.
