Virgin Mobile has introduced a new sleek and stylish trendy phone for global customers.
The new vTrendy cellphone with color-screen FM Radio-enabled phone claimed to be one of the most stylish phone at an affordable price. At around 65gms, the “vTrendy” appears sleek and comes with a 65K color screen, speaker phone, organizer, FM radio, stereo headset, up to 500 contacts phone-book memory, up to 150 additional contacts on RUIM or SIM card, and Long Messaging Service (LMS).
In India, Virgin has collaborated with its Indian ally Tata Teleservices for marketing of the new phone. This phone will be available in India for a price of Rs 1499. The phone has been introduced targeting the youth segment in India. Every vTrendy phone comes coupled with a lifetime validity recharge and a starter user kit for its consumer. Virgin Mobile’s latest offering is bundled with an array of features including one touch access to Vbytes – Virgin Mobile’s fun filled and exciting data portal, speaker phone and organizer.
As a value-add, the phone offers access to Virgin Mobile’s VAS data portal aka ‘Vbytes’ wherein users can get unlimited to Virgin Mobile select content and other applications for just Rs 5 per day.
Announcing the launch of the “vTrendy”, Virgin Mobile Chief Sales Officer P Madhavan, said that now Indian youth has no option to avail a stylish CDMA handset at a price range of below Rs 1,500. With vTrendy, Virgin wants combine a stylish handset to suit their budget, is loaded with features such as FM Radio, 65K color, and Long Messaging Service (LMS), and is bundled with an offer tailored just for them” , he said.
The handset is now available through 1,000 modern retail outlets including The Mobile Store, Univercell, Croma, Convergem, Big C, Vishal Mega Mart, Vijay Sales, and Sangeetha, among others. Virgin Mobile will also make the handset available across 34 kiosks at malls across the country.
PATHETIC!!! ABSOLUTELY AND DISGUSTINGLY PATHETIC! Want to know why? Read on… 2 months after I bought the VTrendy, the battery charging system displayed errors, my phone began to hang indefinitely and my display screen stopped working completely. I couldn’t see anything except a dark blue glow on my screen. I couldn’t read messages or see who had called me. Although the phone is under a 1 year warranty, I’ve gone to 4 locations, 2 of them listed by Virgin mobile as authorized service centres, and they told me that THEY DON’T ACCEPT THESE PHONES ANYMORE. The only remianing services centres are in New Bombay. That’s practically in another city!!! The VTrendy was an absolute waste of money, a pathetically slow and error-prone phone that made even simple text messaging a herculean task. Moreover, I had to use it with handsfree because of the heat and radiation it produced, which often gave me a splitting headache and made me feel nauseous. I wouldn’t recommend this phone to anyone.