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Summary: Great phone & product
Review: I have this phone now for over 20 months and its been pretty beat up in my purse. Still works great.
Its easy to use and enjoyed using the phone. I just got the K9 - for only $40, and because I wanted a "sleak", yet cheap, phone.
People keep forgetting Virgin is a PREPAID calling plan, you make calls and you pay for it. This is great plan, and I love it, I am a big seller of the Virgin. I had Sprint and got tired of using only 5 min of airtime and paying $40/month for sporadic coverage (I live in New England). I got tired of paying for service that I may or may not have, or hardly used.
With Virgin, I pay for the minutes I use, which is about $80/year. A savings of $400/year!! To keep my banked time low, I "waste" time which is fine with me. I plan on giving my Party Animal phone to a friend, who wants a cell phone but with out the commitment. Even switching to a new phone was easy - only took 5 minutes to get it activated.
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Summary: Great!
Review: I love this phone! I recommend it for anyone who needs a phone. My mom and I both got one, her for emergencies, and me for whatever I want.Virgin Mobile has absolutely NOTHING! to sign. You go to a store like Best Buy, Media Play, or somewhere that cells cell phones and buy one. Once you purchase the phone all you do is call the central intelligence or go to the virgin mobile website. You type in your name, serial number on your phone, and your done. The service is great. Sometimes you cant get service in some non metropolitan areas but I live in a metropolitan area so I'm fine. I have never got a dropped call and the sound quality is great. Yeah yeah yeah you all heard the good stuff but heres what I dont like and why I gave it 4 stars and not 5. The screen scratches kind of easy. Its not like if you put your fingernail on it then its scratched up beyond use, but i got a big scratch on mine from just a house key touching it in my pocket. Also, the ringtones arent that great. NEVER EVER EVER! I repeat NEVER! get ringtones directly off the phone in the VirginXtras menu! Use the website. You can preview them before you buy them there, also they are only monophonic or something, which means 1 beat at 1 time. They are $1 each and kind of a rip off. Unless you really love the song, dont buy them. Also it seems kinda big after a while and hogs your pocket. Enough with the bad stuff. But what I really want to point out is that this phone is perfect for anyone. To call someone you dont need a super duper phone with cameras and all that. This phone has all you need. You can send text messages and tons of stuff - It even has voicemail. If you are a parent who wants your kid to have a phone, I recommend this one because its all your kids need. If you are a kid or teenager or just someone who wants a phone, get this one because it has the basics and a lot more. Give this phone a try and I bet you will like it.
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Summary: Amazing phone for the money!
Review: I picked this phone up originally from Circuit City, for $40. The pay-as-you-go plan appealed to me, and it's hard to find a phone that cheap without signing a 1- or 2-year contract to go with it. Virgin Mobile (the "plan"):
The best part about this plan is that there really isn't a plan at all! When you buy any Virgin Mobile phone, you automatically get $10 of starter airtime. Each minute of talk time costs 25 cents. There are no catches based on the time of day--plus no long-distance or roaming charges! After ten minutes of talk-time, your charge becomes only 10 cents a minute. Text messages are free to receive and 10 cents to send. More time can be purchased with your credit card via phone or internet, or you can purchase a Top-Up card at several vendors which gives you a pin # to enter. In order to keep your phone number active, you must add at least $20 every 90 days. All minutes roll over. Along with great reception, Virgin Mobile offers caller ID and voice mail for no extra charge. Also, setting up your phone is quick and easy and can be done online or over the phone. The Phone itself:
The "Party Animal", as Virgin Mobile calls it, is a Kyocera 2119 phone. It weighs 4.5 oz. and has dimensions of 1.9" x 5.1" x 1.0". The phone is bigger than most, but is easy to handle, easy to hear, and not heavy enough to weigh down a purse or pocket. The phone will remain charged for over 6 days of standby time or 4 hours of talk time. To completely recharge the phone takes approximately 4 hours, though it is easy to charge for portions at a time. The phone does come with a charger and a car-charger can be purchased separately. The backlight is great, and the screen is very easy to read. However, be careful--I've heard it scratches easily, though I have not had a problem. Navigation through the menus is easy, mostly using the up and down arrow keys. The phone will store up to 200 contacts, and for each you can have several phone numbers, an email address, and an address. However, sometimes the buttons stick (especially after changing faceplates), but the phone has substance. Along with all that, the phone is entirely convenient. You can simply switch between a ringer and vibrate mode, adjust the volume or lighting, or turn on the keyguard. Other features include 2 games (a simple version of Pong and another game which involves shooting space ships), a calculator, stop watch, alarm, tip calculator, countdown timer, and all pay-per-use "VirginXtras" such as downloading new ringtones, horoscopes, and MTV/VH1 news. One of the things I like best about this phone is how you can set it to beep at the 50 second point, so you know you can wrap up a conversation if need be. You also are sent a message when your balance is getting low. Overall, this phone is great for standard use. It allows you to determine how much you want to spend, be it for emergences only or for regular chats.
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Summary: Party Animal works GREAT!
Review: I'm 13 and this phone is my 1st phone. I have had this phone for almost 1 year and it has great service and it's cheap. One thing I would like to point out is that it attracts all of the unwanted attention. All of my friends have the flip phones and I'm stuck with a chunky pixel background. The Ringtones are the worst unless you get them off of the Virgin Extra menu. This is a very cheap phone with a good service and the no contract makes it the perfect phone service. I would recommend this phone to people who don't care what kind of comments they will get on the street. My friend still tells me it was about time to get an up-to-date phone. It also takes up alot of room in my purse. I plan on getting the Vox 8610 in the very near future. I will then be up to speed in the technology world. Once again this phone is a good phone for the young to start off with.
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Summary: There are better phones...
Review: I'm not a big cell phone person but, got this for a little extra security. It's a great plan and an OK phone for people who don't plan on using it too much. However, my phone has broken in one way or another a few times in the two years I have owned it. The backlight got "stuck" on so I've had to turn that completly off to save battery. Right now I can't get a sound out of it, even if I try to call somebody. And like I said, I don't use the phone too much so I can't imagine how it would hold up for somebody who uses it regularly.
I plan on buying a new phone within the Virgin Mobile plan. I see that they offer a different brand of phone now so I'll probably go with that one.
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Summary: durable, and great for minimum usage...
Review: if youre the type of person who only uses a cell phone maybe once a week or more....(not more than maybe an hour every three months) ...this phone plan is AWSOME...its the cheapest prepaid cell plan out of all of the others out there...and this phone...is DURABLE! i've owned it for about 2 years now...ive dropped it since the day i got it...and it STILL WORKS!! it may be a little outdated, and kinda chunky...but it works for what it was meant for....! so this deserves every one of those 5 stars!!
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Summary: Pretty good
Review: its a good phone but its kinda big. i have great recerption and it even works in the subway sometimes (i brag about that to my friends when we ride home from school on the e train) and thats amazing because cell phones never work in the subway ( i live in new york). pay as you go is great and i can get ringtones from mtv (my ringtones are all 50 cent songs like wanksta) an amazing phone but not for people who like color screns. that, and the fact that it gets scratched easily are my only complaints
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Summary: Good For First Timers
Review: My father told me I would need a cell phone when I enrolled at a four-year university. Rather than get a cell phone with a contract, I decided on the Virgin Mobile Party Animal cell phone. I had to take the time to learn how to use one. Basically I use it to keep in contact with people outside of the city. There are other features that I don't relish myself so much on. This phone is a good one to start if you are not experienced with a cell phone and there are no contracts to be tied to. Although the phone has its faults, it's pretty useful.
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Summary: Dislike phone, love Virgin's service!
Review: The good: The phone works. I've never had a problem with it, and I'm kinda rough on my portable electronic devices. The bad: There's only 2 games on this phone and they both stink. There's a "Space Invaders" (like) game and a "Breakout" (like) game. Both are too easy, and as you level-up it never gets harder. The Breakout like game repeats the same 3 or 4 puzzles over and over (at the same speed), so if you loose at all its usually out of bordom. Also, the cost of making phone calls is a little confusing and high. It's something like 25 cents a minute for the first 15 minutes, then 10 cents a minute after that? I'm not sure. It's weird and high though. The service: Better coverage then I ever had with Cingular, and I really like the pay-as-you-go idea. I'm one of those people who use about 5 minutes a month, plus maybe 10 text messages. I compared all the plans I could find, and found that Virgin would let me pay every other month instead of every month, a minimum of $20, and the minutes roll over. I think they expire eventually, but if you're not using them for that long, who really cares? This was the cheapest way I could find to get the peace of mind that a cell phone gives me. Incoming text messages are free, outgoing are 10 cents. Not bad. Typing on the phone on the other hand... I'm sure that there are few phones out there that make it convenient, but this phone does have a feature where it'll guess the word your trying to type as you type it so that you don't have to push the button 3 times to get a "C", etc. It's pretty good, really. You can turn it off easily if you have to type a name or something that it won't be able to guess, and then turn it back on. Summary:
If games aren't important to you (thank ghod I have my PDA) this phone is probably good enough, and the Virgin service is excellent for those who don't use the phone that often.
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Summary: Does what it says
Review: The Party Animal Phone was a Christmas gift. I've had it for almost a year and have never had a single problem with it. Sure, it's a little bigger than most phones, but atleast it won't slip through your hands and break. Also, my phone has pretty good reception too. If you are responsible, it will last a long time. Mine doesn't have a single scratch and the antenna is perfectly straight.
Overall, this phone is durable and a great first phone or an emergency phone. The pre-paid option sends you an alert a week or so before the minutes will expire. And, if you re-new your minutes before they expire, your extra minutes will roll-over.
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