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Virgin Mobile USA Deals Itself a Wild Card

Oct 19, 2007, 7:41 AM by (staff)
updated Jul 28, 2019, 3:56 PM

Today Virgin Mobile announced that it has begun selling the Kyocera Wild Card, a sideways opening clamshell that has a full QWERTY keyboard. Like the Cricket Lingo, the Wild Card is based on Kyocera's M1000. It is an update to the SwitchBack, and has a 1.3 megapixel camera, speakerphone, and Bluetooth. It is available in retail stores for $100 and will be available online beginning October 24.

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