14 DAY TRIAL // Virgin Mobile has just released a special edition of its Wild Card mobile phone, named "Virgin Mobile Festival Special Edition Wild Card". The new handset is created by Kyocera, as the original one, and it comes to "celebrate" the upcoming Virgin Mobile Festival.
The Special Edition Wild Card is limited to only 15,000 units, but all the 15,000 customers who buy it will have access to Virgin Mobile's Guest Lounge during the mentioned festival. The phone can be bought only until July 31, from Best Buy (at this address), in either black or white, for the same price as the original: $99.
Being a special edition device, the new Wild Card offers no less than 50 free music downloads (from eMusic) plus a subscription for a whole year to the music-centered SPIN magazine. Aside from this, the phone brings the features of the original: a full QWERTY keypad, Bluetooth, a square 128 x 128 pixel TFT display, email and Web capabilities, a 1.3 Megapixel camera and so on.
Woozae Kim, director of strategic marketing and integration, handsets for Virgin Mobile USA, said in a press release: "With the introduction of the Virgin Mobile Festival Special Edition Wild Card, we've made a highly popular phone even more desirable. The killer custom design, together with a host of perks designed specially for music lovers, makes this new handset as hot a ticket as Virgin Mobile Festival itself. We're thrilled to partner with Kyocera to put Virgin Mobile Festival into the hands of consumers across the country."
This year's edition of the Virgin Mobile Festival will take place on the 9th and 10th of August, in Baltimore (Maryland), at the Pimlico Race Course. The bands invited to perform live include Nine Inch Nails, Foo Fighters, Stone Temple Pilots, Gogol Bordello, The Offspring and so on. For full details about the festival you should check out its official website, found at this address.