It’s been quite the week for Virgin Mobile. They’ve enhanced their website, they’ve announced new family postpaid plans, and they’ve unveiled a prepaid broadband service. To cap off the week, they announced a new handset, the Samsung m340. Otherwise known as the Mantra, the m340 is a basic clamshell featuring a VGA camera, Bluetooth, and an external display. You can nab it for $60 at Virgin Mobile’s website.]]>
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This phone is a step back for them. After the Shuttle and X-TC, why sell a phone like this. I can see why they have The Jax. A basic starter phone. All of there other phones should be 3g, 2.2 qvga displays, ev-do, 1 mega p. camera, at least a 20 key partial keyboard. They should hire me.
@John
With the new unlimited plans, I think Virgin Mobile is trying to appeal to the previously contract bound crowd with a phone that looks like it belongs to someone over the age of 14. If a businessman/woman is going to use Virgin Mobile, IMO, they would look a bit silly with an Arc; it’s too colorful and youth inspired.
Just my thoughts.
I have always felt out of place using Virgin Cell Phone because it is so over the top youthful. I find it so irritating that I am thinking of changing plans, even though yours is the most economical one for me.
@Barbara, we love to be considered youthful at the ripe old age of 7…what is that in telecom years? But remember, we have customers of all ages. Prepaid phones offer flexibility and value in many ways…and hey, so what if you get carded?
The Samsung Mantra comes with amazing features,can be easily assessed by new users.The price is quiet reasonable. The look is very simple and decent. The phone book is the asset of the mobile as there is the capacity of 500 contacts. For more details refer http://www.etechreviews.net/samsung-mantra-virgin-mobile/
Well having 500 contacts is an entertaining notion. But here’s the kicker that show whether any thought went into design… what can you do with the contacts?? Can you save them to your PC… or do you lose them as you do with other VM phones. When my phone pairs with my Bluetooth car… can my car access the contacts (as competitors have offered for years) or do I have to type those 500 contacts into my car as well.
Like most cell customers I have a spreadsheet of all my cell numbers because boring “mature” phones that aren’t target at the tweens are often dumbed down and lack quality of basic features: Loud, unannoying rings; loud, clear speakerphone; address book backups & transfers; customized alerts and rings; intelligent call handling; decent battery life; basic text messaging(not necessarily w/keyboard). Most of the people I know want these items–and their current phone fails at least one of these basic features.
this phone is trash, all it does is make phone calls,serves the net on certain web sites, cant play video from web, can download music. and also can text. garbage!!!! plans r cheap thats all that is good
the phone is not junk. cause it does not offer every bell and whistle does not make it junk. guess what, there are people out there who don’t need or want all that extra crap that you never use anyway. its like a car, you don’t need all the extras, it is supposed to take you from point a to point b ,and anything else is just wasted money.you kids expecting all these extras are just spoiled brats,who think you have to have that extra crap to keep up with the jones’s next door. I make call,and thats it. I don’t need a camera, i don’t need blue tooth, i don’t need all that extra crap.i need and want a basic phone to make calls when i need to make a call. thats it.who the heck needs wifi on a cell phone? who needs to access internet on a cell phone? nobody. thats what they make computers for.who needs to down load songs on a cell phone? thats what an Ipod is for.I pods can hold 65,000 songs,what can your cell phone hold? 100? 50? 25? . you don’t need all that extra crap on a cell phone.its a phone,designed to make phone calls ,thats all you need.
S
I love your comments and I totally agree with you. I only need a phone to make phone calls, everything else is just a waste of money!!!!!
the cell phone is crap. all you can do is make and receive calls. should be able to download but cant do that. dealing with the problem four 4 weeks now and virgin mobile cant figure out why it wont work the way they say it should