News 2006
Virgin Mobile introduces the Lobster 544 for music lovers
18/07/2006
18.07.06: Virgin Mobile today unveiled the next handset in its exclusive brand of mobile phones, called the Lobster 544. The phone offers a MP3 player and full range of features and technology at a great price.
The Lobster 544 is a small clamshell handset that’s perfect for music lovers with a direct access MP3 music key and USB cable to download tunes, an integrated 1.3 megapixel camera, stereo headset and 64MB memory card. This desirable phone is only £69.99 on Pay As You Go and free on contract. This palm-sized phone in silver will be widely available from Virgin Mobile Stores and other high street retailers in the UK from mid July. Customers wanting to be one of the first to get their hands on this great phone will be able to order by calling 0845 6000 600.
A number of further stylish Lobster-branded phones will be launched throughout 2006. All Lobster phones feature a Virgin-branded red shortcut key, giving fast access to Virgin Mobile’s entertainment content service, BITES. Updated daily, it covers music, celebrity news and gossip, humour, and sport exclusively for Virgin Mobile’s customers.
Graeme Hutchinson, trading director at Virgin Mobile, said: "The Lobster 544 is a great phone that’s perfect for looking very stylish without breaking the bank. For those that love music it has all the great features that you need combined with an excellent design.”
The Lobster 544 comes with £5 airtime, battery and charger
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Virgin Mobile Press Office: 0845 600 6272 or press.office@virginmobile.com
Jo Baker : 07941 233300 or jo.baker@virginmobile.com
About Virgin Mobile:
Virgin Mobile is the UK 's largest mobile virtual network operator and uses T-Mobile's network. Since its launch in November 1999, Virgin Mobile has attracted more than 4 million customers.
Virgin Mobile is part of the ntl:telewest group. The Group is the first to be able to offer `quadruple play' to customers: mobile and fixed line telephony, broadband internet and television.
In the UK, Virgin Mobile phones are available direct on 0845 6000 600; on the web at www.virginmobile.com or on the high street at approximately 5,000 outlets including Virgin Mobile Stores within Virgin Megastores and selected WHSmiths, The Carphone Warehouse, The Link, Phones 4 U, Currys.digital, Comet, Tesco, Asda, John Lewis, Argos, Woolworths, Toys R Us, Ryman, web retailer Dial-a-phone plus hundreds of independent mobile phone dealers and available via Shop Direct / Littlewoods, Grattan and Empire home shopping channels.
Virgin Mobile Pay Monthly (contract) is currently available in Virgin Mobile Stores, The Carphone Warehouse, The Link, Phones 4u, at concessions in WHSmith and from www.virginmobile.com
Virgin Mobile employs approximately 1,700 staff at three sites, Trowbridge, London and Daventry, and has an outsourced customer service centre operated by approximately 200 staff in Middlesbrough .
Virgin Mobile was voted 22nd Best Workplaces in the UK in the Financial Times survey for 2006.
