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Kyocera Wildcard Prepaid Phone (Virgin Mobile) | 
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| Brand: Kyocera
Category: Wireless
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $94.99
You Save: $5.00 (5%)
Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 4254
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: Wildcard
UPC: 836182001142
EAN: 0836182001142
ASIN: B000X9IG8Q
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Flip open to reveal full QWERTY keyboard, dual LCD screens; includes 1.3-megapixel camera for still photos | | • | Pay for only the calling time you use with Virgin Mobile's minutes or monthly plans--no annual contract required | | • | Send text/picture messages and chat using AOL/Yahoo! services with optional service; download games and ringtones | | • | Up to 195 minutes of talk time, up to 150 hours of standby time | | • | Includes: Battery and Charger |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Get ready for high-powered messaging, email, chat, and a whole lot more with the ingeniously designed Kyocera Wild Card. An update to the popular SwitchBack, the phone looks like just another candybar style handset. Flip it open, though, and you've got a QWERTY keyboard and a large internal display. It's also one of the first handsets available from Virgin Mobile with Bluetooth wireless connectivity for communication headsets. Other features include a 1.3-megapixel camera, mobile web browsing, and mobile IM and email capabilities (via AOL and Yahoo!). It runs on the 1900 MHz CDMA network with Virgin Mobile's prepaid service, which requires no annual contract. 
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
 Good for texting. December 21, 2008
I recently purchased my Virgin Mobile Wildcard phone on Black Friday for 40$
Having owned this phone for a few weeks and having no problems with it whatsoever, I have to say this is a sturdy, reliable phone.
The two lcd screens are convenient, but not the same quality. The exterior display is slightly smaller than the internal display and you can only play games on the internal display.
Making calls is simple, I found everything about the external display and keys to be average and had basically no problems using it. I will, however, say that everything on the exterior is small, so you have to pay close attention while handling calls, and the speaker phone is difficult to access.
I was somewhat disappointed with the picture quality on this phone. With a 1.3mp camera and built in flash, I was expecting better picture quality than my old phone's vga camera. Unfortunately the flash doesn't much help, and the 1.3mp resolution only makes the. image size larger, not clearer. On a scale of 1-10 I give the camera a 7 basically.
Texting is easy and perhaps the best feature of this phone. The text messages are inexpensive and its VERY easy to send and receive them.
Finally, the battery life is great. I can go about 3 days without having to recharge the phone, it does flicker a random "Hello" screen sometimes, regardless, I simply cannot complain.
Overall I'd say this phone is good for texting, web browsing, and sending picture messages. I didn't care for the call interface as it was usable, but difficult to get used to. I currently see this phone retailed at approximately 90$ If you can get it cheaper than that, then I'd reccommend it. However, Virgin Mobile just released a their new "Shuttle," phone for 100$ The difference is only 10$ and I'd pick the Shuttle only for its comparable price.
One Major Problem, Other Than That, Good Phone for Price. December 19, 2008
I've had this phone for over a year and a half now and have already received my second replacement phone. DO NOT ever try to cancel a picture message, while you are taking the picture, with the red cancel/off key! I'm not sure if it will happen the first time you do this, but eventually it will freeze up the phone and nothing will wake it...nothing. It sticks on the "hello" screen, flashing "hello" 10 times before it decides to give up and turn off. This is how both of my wild cards died...let's just hope I don't mindlessly try to do it again. Other than that, it's a great design and has great features for the price.
 Customer Service email awful December 9, 2008
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I was considering buying a Virgin Mobile prepaid phone (and joining their service) but I had some questions so I emailed them. The first reply I recieved was a "one answer fits all" reply - it appeared they had not even read the email. So I sent a second email where I was much more specific with my questions and their reply was so vague as to be useless. The read the email enough to determine the area asking about, but then the answer had little to do with what I was asking. So I tried a third time, and even worded my questions with all the possible answers I could come up with and asked which option was correct. And again I got the "one answer fits all" reply. My questions were primarily about items that I read on their website - nothing overly technical but I could not get any answers via 3 different emails. I will admit they answered each email within 48 hours. I tried to call their customer service but was told to send them an email. When I explained my problem with emails I was told that since I was not a customer yet they (telephone support) would not help me. Needless to say I discovered that even if they gave me the telephone I do not want their service since their customer service is awful. Hopefully, this review might be helpful to someone who is considering joining them - if you have any questions don't try to get any answers from them.
 good phone for the buck November 29, 2008
me and my kid each bought a phone yesterday, basically because of the qwerty keyboard. but we really like the other features that go with it. we basically needed phones for texting, and the wildcard seems like a good choice. i did goof a couple of times downloading a song i created in studio v, but when i called the 1800 number, after i got a "real" person (not alex, the friendly, but annoying computer voice who keeps you going around in circles...lol) they were helpful. we were lucky to get these phones for $39.99/ea. and if they weren't on sale, i probably wouldn't have been able to afford it. i've read a lot of reviews (after i got the thing) that were positive as well as negative, but hopefully these phones will last us for a while :)
Wild Card November 14, 2008
This phone was a decent purchase on my part. I am 14 years old and have owned this phone now for about 4 months. It is decent quality for the money though. The thing I hate about it is that while I'm in the middle of a texting comvorsation, my phone willjust go completely blank. It will stay like that anywhere from two to ten minutes. Then it will resart itself. The other thing I dont like is that twice now, it has said I was in a call and couldn'y send out texts and use many features. The first time the "call" lasted about twenty five minutes. The second time it stayed like that until my battery died, which was quite a few hours later.....There is one feature that I love, its the flashlight on the back, you wouldn't think that you would use it very often, but I actually use it all the time. lol And lastly, I don't like my service, I dont get very good service, and it doesn't have very clear voice during calls, its all staticy.
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