Kyocera Wildcard Prepaid Phone (Virgin Mobile)

Kyocera Wildcard Prepaid Phone (Virgin Mobile) Features

Additional Kyocera Wildcard Prepaid Phone (Virgin Mobile) Information

The Kyocera Wild Card opens up to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard for easy emails, IM chats, and text messaging. See an overview of the phone's interior. Virgin Mobile Service
With Virgin Mobile, you pay only for the calling time you use. You can choose a plan that's based just on minutes (with rates between 10¢ and 20¢ per minute) or a monthly plan with no annual contract (with select plans offering unlimited calling on weekends and after 7pm on weekdays). You can also choose from a variety of mobile messaging plans, which includes text and picture messaging, email, and IM (via AOL and Yahoo!). Virgin Mobile USA's national coverage is powered by the nationwide Sprint PCS network.

Virgin Mobile contributes 5 percent of profits from downloadable content to The RE*Generation, its pro-social initiative to help homeless teens, as well as provides postage-paid return envelopes in every new package for customers to recycle old phones.

Phone Features
The Wild Card's face features a large, 1.5-inch 65K-color screen with a 128 x 128-pixel resolution. You'll also find a dialpad here and a five-way center button that controls most of the phone's on-screen menus. Flip the phone open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard, another five-way center button, and call control buttons. The design allows for calling functions to be performed with the phone open or closed. A horizontally oriented 1.8-inch screen (with a 160 x 128-pixel resolution and 65K colors) is placed above the keyboard between the phone's dual speakers. It can hold up to 500 personal contacts, with six numbers as well as fields for email, street addresses, URL, and notes.

Because the Wild Card is Bluetooth enabled, wireless communication headsets can be configured with the phone. It also incorporates a jack for an earphone as well as a speakerphone for total hands-free operation.

Support for basic text messaging and multimedia messaging (MMS) are built into the Wild Card. When used in combination with the phone's built-in camera, MMS opens up a whole new world of messaging fun. Instant messaging chat is also supported, thanks to an embedded AOL Instant Messenger client. A built-in wireless web browser lets you surf Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) 2.0 sites via the Virgin Mobile Web service. eZiText text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built into the unit-- a plus for mobile email and text messaging users.

A number of handy tools ship with the Wild Card, including an alarm, a calendar, and a calculator with a tip calculator. There's also a voice memo application for recording quick notes or numbers.

The built-in 1.3-megapixel camera captures great stills and comes equipped with an LED flash, multi-shot adjustment, and a self-timer. Because the Wild Card supports Java applications it is compatible with many Java-based games. Many games are available from Virgin Mobile's wireless download service. You can also customize the phone with custom graphics and wallpapers, many of which are also available from Virgin Mobile.

The phone fully supports Virgin Mobile's wireless content service, VirginXtras. Use the pay-per-use service to download ringtones, get content and vote in TV-based polls via the MTV area of your phone, or get jokes and updates from Comedy Central. Pick a celebrity voice to answer your voicemail, or get a Sponge Bob thought of the day.

Vital Statistics
The Kyocera Wild Card weighs 4.1 ounces and measures 3.94 x 1.97 x 0.79 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 195 minutes of talk time, and up to 150 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the CDMA 1900 frequency.

What Customers Say About Kyocera Wildcard Prepaid Phone (Virgin Mobile):

though for the past 6 months. Ive had this Wildcard for over a year now. when the Yahoo/AOL instant messaging stopped working. Virgin Mobile isnt bad. Im not even going to replace it. They sent me a refurbished one.

Shady reliability. Ive replaced it 2 times. Ive been getting maybe 6 out of 10 picture-mails. and the instant messaging went out after a few months. AGAIN. When the competition's rates are growing more and more appealing.

Im going to switch to Walmart's much better plan.

its ok,both screens are very small an could have easily been bigger.Has a very toyish feel.the hinges break very easy just from using the phone(opening an closing)small keys but i have big hands,might not be a problem for all.the camera is shockingly good outdoors or in well lite area's,but gets very grain in dark places.i dont know if this is a problem with all phones,but mine would randomly shut off,or if you even slightly tap it,it would shut off.also volume is very low when the phone is closed,vibrate is also weak.its a good starter phone or 1st qwerty keyboard phone.Highly recommend upgrading too X-tc

The Virgin Mobile Wildcard is a great phone if all you do is text message. The call quality wasn't anything to write home about, but it was fine. It has a great keyboard and I can type really fast on it. However, there is no media player, data services are slow, the camera isn't great and both the internal and external screens are small. If you're a heavy texter who doesn't do much else, this is the phone for you. If you need lots of special features however, look elsewhere.

cheapest plans I've found for my usage pattern. I picked this phone, knowing it's limitations. I'm not a texter, but I wanted a Qwerty keyboard. Get a ways out and you'll cut out.With the pay-as-you-go, it is an inexpensive phone. I just keep a charger in the car, at the office, and at home.It was the best deal I could find for my needs. I thought I wanted web access, and can have it if I'm in a pinch, but rarely use it.

I've found it's not good to use when trying to meet people for a hike, because we're usually out of my coverage area.And if all else fails, you can play Tetris on the phone.Camera is annoying because you can't see the full image that you just shot, when looking through the camera. It worked for me. I use it for travel, and when trying to meet someone somewhere. Virgin's coverage is spotty. On major routes you'll get something. The whole image will show up when you scroll through your saved images.I've had this thing about a year and a half, and it seems to have started using more battery than before.

Virgin seems to be less predatory than the other pay-as-you-go plans.

Hinge gave out after 5 months, can't get repair service from Kyrocera or Virgin Mobil.