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Virgin Mobile is Shutting Down, Customers Being Moved to Boost

Kellen January 8, 2020

Virgin Mobile USA is shutting down soon and customers of the service will be moved to Boost Mobile starting in February, a freshly posted support site indicates. Some Virgin Mobile customers were notified of the change in recent days via text message. The...

Virgin Mobile to Offer No-contract Data Sharing Plans at Walmart

Tim January 16, 2015 12

Sprint and Virgin Mobile announced new no-contract data sharing plans to be sold at Walmart beginning January 17. The Data Done Right plans start as low as $30 per line, with 3 options available. The first option is $65 a month for two lines, featuring...

Sprint Makes the Sharp Aquos Crystal Official, No Bezel is Yours for $10 Per Month

Kellen August 19, 2014 184

The sort-of-awesome-looking-but-how-do-you-make-a-call-with-no-top-speaker, bezel-less phone from Sharp that was announced yesterday, also known as the Aquos Crystal, is now official for Sprint, Virgin Mobile, and Boost Mobile, here in the US. We knew this was...

HTC Launches Budget-Friendly Desire 600 and 800 Devices in US

Tim August 11, 2014 27

HTC announced the launch of the Desire 800 and 600 series for the US this afternoon, kicking off with the announcement of the Desire 816 smartphone for Virgin Mobile, priced at $299 off-contract. The Desire 816 features a 5.5” HD display, 1.6GHz quad-core...

$12 A Month For Facebook – Sprint Tramples Over Net Neutrality With New Prepaid Plan

Kyle July 30, 2014 252

Today, Sprint dispensed with all subtlety. Without any pretense of net neutrality whatsoever, the carrier unveiled a plan with options to pay more for unfettered access to social media and streaming music, depending on the tier. The Virgin Mobile Custom plan,...

Virgin Mobile Might Dislike Skins, But Hates Root

Tim June 13, 2011 43

Last Friday we were practically praising Virgin Mobile for disallowing manufacturers "skins" on their mobile devices, stating that the end user should have the freedom to customize their phones to their liking without all the mess. Well they have now rephrased...

Virgin Mobile Prefers Stock Android on All of Their Phones, We Wish Other Carriers Would Take Note

Kellen June 10, 2011 117

I know this has nothing to do with Verizon, but we just wanted to point out how awesome it is as we head into the weekend. Remember yesterday's post that we got all excited over which had to do with the Motorola Triumph as a surprisingly stock Android device...