News 2001
No turkeys at Virgin Mobile this Christmas!
26/11/2001
Virgin Mobile, the UK's fifth largest operator, today takes the wraps off its Christmas phone range, and unveils a must-have array of accessories. The Christmas collection is complemented with a money-saving promotion, which runs through the festive season, giving top value to shoppers and gift-hunters.
Virgin Mobile phones are easy to buy: there's no nasty contract to worry about, no line rental - but you can still pay monthly or pre-pay, it's up to you. And the tariff offers the best value in town.
The fantastic phones - no chunky old clunkers here (or turkeys!)
- Sony J7 - £119.99
Exclusive to Virgin Mobile, this phone is Sony Ericsson's ultimate fashion icon and comes in icy-cool blue. A gadget-lover's dream, the J7 has mobile email and WAP. Creatives can record any sound as their ringtone, send picture and musical messages to other Sony J and Z7 series users, and even give their phone-arms a rest by using the in-built speakerphone. - Nokia 5510 - £229.99
Due early December, this phone is engineered to entertain with its radical design - it has a full keyboard for easy texting and gaming. It's also got a digital music player and in-built FM radio under its bonnet, and can be enhanced with download games. - Ericsson T65 - £179.99
Ericsson's first handset with an internal ariel and large screen, the T65 offers great features including enhanced SMS messaging with pictures and sounds, voice activated dialling and downloadable and programmable ringtones along with WAP and predictive text. - Alcatel 303 - £69.99
This is an extremely competitively priced phone that comes with a changeable front cover and desktop charger. It's got predictive text, in-built speakerphone, WAP and programmable ringtones.
Other perfect phone presents for Christmas are the Nokia 3310, Britain's best-selling handset at £99.99 and the Sendo S200, which has a unique animated cartoon menu system at £79.99.
The must-have accessories and other goodies
- Snapshot covers - £29.99-34.99 plus p&p
Got a favourite picture - of course you have! Put it on your phone! With Virgin Mobile's Snapshot service you can put an image of your loved one, your dog, or whatever takes your fancy on the cover of your phone - it's the ultimate in phone personalisation. Just visit www.virgin.com/snapshotcovers and follow the simple steps to create the design and phone of your choice. Covers are delivered in around a week. If you don't have a digital image of your own, just choose one of ours - there are some great designs to choose from. This service is only available for Nokia 3210, 3310, 3330 and Sendo S200 phones. - Nokia Music Player - £199.99
The latest and greatest in phone-ware, this digital music player, is also a FM radio and comes with a handsfree headset and voice dialling. It snaps on to compatible Nokia handsets (3310, 3330 or 8210) or can be used independently, and includes an automatic mute function when receiving calls. - Ericsson Communicam - £129.99
This great gadget lets snap-happy mobile users take pictures and send them as jpeg files to any email address. It clicks on to compatible Sony Ericsson handsets, is small enough to fit in a pocket and weighs just 25g.
The sensational Christmas promo - beat this for value!
Virgin Mobile customers who buy £20 of airtime get £20 discount on any phone over £99.99 along with a really cool Virgin Mobile rucksack. If the phone can download ringtones, you'll get a free ringtone voucher too. The promotion is running at Virgin Mobile direct on 0845 6000 600, V.SHOPs and Virgin Megastores until 20 January 2002.
Customers shopping at www.virgin.com/mobile can take advantage of a similar promotion as any handset purchase of over £99.99 will give the customer £20 free airtime, a free rucksack and ringtone voucher (for compatible handsets).
The full Virgin Mobile Christmas collection is displayed in glorious 3D in the enclosed catalogue. Put on the 3D specs and prepare to be amazed!
For review units and / or artwork, please contact Big-mouths PR on the details below.
For further press information, please call:
Virgin Mobile
Press office hotline 0845 600 6272 or pressoffice@virginmobile.com
Alison Bonny - Virgin Mobile, 07802 430 276
Steven Day - Virgin Mobile, 07931 777777
Joanne Baker - 07941 233300
Big-Mouths PR
Julie Watson or Lisa Hulme - 020 7385 0009 virginmobile@big-mouths.com
About Virgin Mobile:
Virgin Mobile is now established as the most successful virtual network operator in the world, and is the UK's fifth network. Since its launch in November 1999 it has attracted 1.25 million customers, making it one of the fastest growing mobile phone companies in history.
Virgin Mobile is a 50:50 joint venture company between Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Deutsche Telekom's One 2 One, and is the UK's first mobile virtual operator.
It has scored a number of firsts, including being the first operator to scrap peak rate calls, introduce a daily discounting tariff and was the first company in the world to introduce an integrated MP3 mobile phone.
In the UK, Virgin Mobile phones are available direct on 0845 6000 600; on the web at www.virgin.com/mobile; or on the High Street at over 5,000 outlets including Virgin Megastore, V.SHOP, Carphone Warehouse, Argos, Phone People, Sainsbury, Tesco, WH Smith, Co-op, Asda, Somerfield, John Lewis, Littlewoods and Morrisons.
