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June 23rd, 2008, 14:20 GMT · By Florin Troaca

Affordable vTrendy Released by Virgin Mobile

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Virgin Mobile has just released a new mobile phone in India, the vTrendy, which comes as the sixth handset from the company's Indian line-up of products. The new vTrendy is an affordable candybar that costs only 1,499 INR (about $35 or 23 Euros).

It's very likely that the new phone is manufactured by Nokia, since it looks like only a Nokia candybar would. Anyway, regardless of who made it, the vTrendy has the following features: FM radio, speakerphone, organizer, a 1.5 inch CSTN display with 65K colors and 128 x 128 pixels, a phonebook that can store up to 500 contacts, MIDI ringtones and so on. The vTrendy weighs only 65 grams and measures 100 x 41.8 x 13.6 millimeters.

Talking about the new phone, Deval Parikh, chief officer at Virgin Mobile India, said, "This stylish looking, light weighted, sleek and feature rich handset has been especially designed to appeal to our young audience who consider personal devices an expression of their style statement amongst their peer group. To add to our users' delight, vTrendy has a one-touch access to Vbytes, Virgin Mobile's VAS data portal, where users can get unlimited access to Virgin Mobile selected content and other applications for a simple charge of Rs. 5 per day."

The vTrendy handset is available as of now across India in lots of retail stores, including the ones of Univercell, Vishal Mega Mart, The Mobile Store, Convergem, Croma and Big C.

Although Virgin Mobile has a history of almost ten years, the company offers services in India only since March 2008, after closing a deal with Tata Indicom, a leading Indian carrier. Virgin Mobile India was launched as the first youth-focused mobile service provider and its plan is to attract as many young users as possible.

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Comment #1 by: Farsheed on 22 Sep 2008, 07:33 UTC reply to this comment

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. I wouldn't recommend this phone to anyone.

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