Slide in style with vGlide

BANGALORE, INDIA: Virgin Mobile, India’s first national youth focused mobile service brand, today announced the launch of its ultra stylish slider handset, vGlide, with 65k color and 1.8 inch large screen, FM radio, a unique Paprika Red color and soft touch finish at a price point of just Rs. 2399/-. The phone comes with lifetime validity and a starter user kit worth Rs. 499 that offers prepaid connection, lifetime incoming validity, 499 free local minutes and 499 free local SMSes valid for 60 days.

 The phone's features include access to Vbytes - Virgin Mobile’s data portal, from where one can download wallpapers, ring tones, games, Tring Tunes (Virgin Mobile's ringback tones) at a daily access charge of just Rs. 5/ - , games, speaker phone coupled with the travel charger and stereo headset that provide an enriching mobile experience.

True to its brand philosophy of ‘Think hatke’, vGlide was launched in a unique manner in the Kolkata city. The phone was unveiled with the theme of ‘Glide through life with vGlide’. In keeping with this, the handset inflatable and Virgin Mobile India CEO came sliding onto the stage post an engaging performance by skate dancers.

Delighted on announcing the vGlide phone in India, M A Madhusudan, Chief Executive Officer, Virgin Mobile India, said, “Mobile phone is a lifestyle device for youth and has become an extension of their personality and entertainment requirements. Keeping this in mind, we have introduced vGlide, the first CDMA handset in India with the slider form factor in the sub Rs. 2,500/- category. Besides offering the most wanted ‘sliding feature’ vGlide is stylish, matches the attitudinal needs of youth, is feature rich, and affordable.”

Virgin Mobile handsets are currently available across 33,000 outlets nationally and over 1200 organized retail outlets including The Mobile Store, Hot Spot, Go Mobile, Univercell, Croma, Convergem, Big C, Vishal Mega Mart, Vijay Sales, Sangeetha, Mobile NXT, Planet M to name a few. Beyond this, the handsets are also stocked at Virgin Mobile kiosks across the country.

To appeal to the youth segment, Virgin Mobile handsets have been designed to present a blend of competitive pricing, style and features. Besides the bundled offers on handsets such as vKewl and vTrendy, Virgin Mobile has recently introduced vDesire, vBond and vRage into the market.

vDesire is a slim, measuring just 11.5 mm, stylish, chrome finished mobile device and is endowed with 1000 SMS storage capability and supports a large internal phonebook with 500 X 5 entries. The phone comes with an attractive 65K color screen, FM Radio, Stereo headset, Speaker phone, Prepaid connection and Lifetime Validity at a price point of just Rs.1,699/-.

vRage is available in the market at a bundle price of Rs. 1699 including a Rs. 499 starter user kit, Life time Validity,499 local outgoing minutes and 500 local SMSes. All Virgin Mobile phones are color and stereo FM enabled.

vBond is a phone that comes loaded with 0.3 megapixel camera, 262k color screen, a speaker phone and can be used as a modem. It allows net surfers to get back upto Rs. 900 spread over 3 months and this amount can be utilised by users to make Virgin Mobile to Virgin Mobile calls. The phone is priced at Rs. 2799 and comes with lifetime validity and start user kit worth Rs. 499.

vKewl has features like video recording, 1.3 mega pixel camera, MP 3 player, FM radio and is loaded with MMS, speakers and headset. All this is available with lifetime incoming and prepaid connection for just Rs. 3,499/-.

vTrendy is a combination of an extremely stylish color screen phone loaded with FM Radio. This is available at an attractive price of Rs. 1,499 and comes bundled with lifetime validity recharge and a starter user kit.