Virgin Mobile Launches Kyocera K10 Royale
Apr 5, 2005, 4:05 PM by (staff)
Virgin Mobile will launch a new Kyocera phone on Friday. The K10 Royale has the familiar form of the K9 and Rave models already offered on Virgin. It adds a color screen and compatibility with Virgin's XL services, offering superphonic ringtones, WAP access, and downloadable Java content to existing features like voice recognition and a flashlight. Kyocera had previously announced they were ready to offer Java phones, this will be the first one the company has launched with Virgin Mobile, or any carrier.
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Off Topic: Sprint
Looking over the article, it mentions that this is the first Kyocera phone using Java instead of its traditional BREW. Is Kyocera making plans to once again produce a phone for Sprint? Not like I'm eager to purchase one, just curious.
Yes. No confirmation yet, but it says on the article that it is going to be for the Virgin Mobile, which runs on our network. To be honest though, I'm sure this one is not going to be a good seller. It will probably run somewhere around $80 to $100 an...
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Attack of the clones
And here I thought Samsung was bad...this thing looks like the OTHER 15 models Kyocera's released in the past couple of years (except for the Koi and Slider).
Pretty much... but in a way that's the point. Using a standardized hardware platform allows them to bring down costs and keep reliability high.
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what an fugly phone
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Where's the Flashlight?
What happened too the Flashlight?
I need it!!!
Is KWC getting rid of the greatest idea since sliced bread??
Wireless_Guru 🙄
I need it!!!
Is KWC getting rid of the greatest idea since sliced bread??
Wireless_Guru 🙄
its in the same place that it is on every other Kyocera with a flashlight...
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Now Available!!
This phone is now available at WalMart for $88.00 or you can pick one up at the Swap Meet for $40.00. 🤣
Wireless_Guru said:And I wouldn't pay either amount for this phone. I've had time to play with a few models in...
This phone is now available at WalMart for $88.00 or you can pick one up at the Swap Meet for $40.00. 🤣
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Superphonic?
Clearly marketing speak, but wth is "superphonic ringtones" supposed to mean?
Only dogs can hear them?
Only dogs can hear them?
I believe that is what Virgin Mobile calls it's Music Ringtones.
Roadkill said:Terrorize your neighbors' dogs!
Clearly marketing speak, but wth is "superphonic ringtones" supposed to mean?
Only dogs can hear them?
Now available @ Walmart
This phone is now available at Walmart (or at least my local one; Jackson, MI) for $88.88.
jfwjxn said:WalMart you say? I can see tons of hip, young folks streaming into their local store for this phone. Or maybe not.
This phone is now available at Walmart (or at least my local one; Jackson, MI) for $88.88.
Royale with cheese?
In Europe this phone will be called the "Royale", but in the US we call this a "Quarter Pounder" 🤣
🙂 Great! Thanks, makes me want to go home and watch Pulp Fiction.
