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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%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 517
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
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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 12 more reviews...
 Poor quality, fun phone September 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got this phone about 8 months ago and find it fun. I don't really use it for much other than texting so I can't tell you about internet accessability or how good it is with bluetooth. I noticed I couldn't really hear any of my ringtones so I kept buying them and buying them hoping some of them would work for me but nothing. Also, the thing would freak out on me (freezing, turning itself on and off, random screens having nothing to do with what it was doing, ringtones going off for no reason) After about 6 months of this ($45 of ringtones later) I contacted virgin. They told me all new phones are under warranty for 12 months after initial activation. I asked if they could give me some kind of credit for the ringtones on the broken phone and they first said only $3 and then only $6. They sent me a "new" one the next day and I noticed it was a refurbished one (nothing too bad, no gouges or anything) and while my ringtones were loud with it, the camera was absolutely horrible and it would freak out just like the other one but not as often. I could only make out basic shapes, not even recognizable photos. My husband upgraded his basic virgin phone to one of these thanks to a very good sale and his camera is crystal clear; i didn't realize mine was that bad until I looked at his. I called them yet again and this person was incredibly helpful. I received another "new" phone (apparently they only send an actual NEW phone if it's within it's first 30 days) and so far it's perfect. crystal clear photos, no freakouts and has loud speakers. This time when I called and asked about a credit for the stuff on my phone she said she doesn't have the authority to credit the $18 for my ringtones and games but her boss did and I would get everything back within 48 hours. she was wonderful!!!
ANYONE WHO WANTS TO GET IN TOUCH WITH A PERSON THROUGH THEIR PHONE SYSTEM, HERE'S HOW TO GET THERE:
"ENGLISH", "ASK A QUESTION", "LIVE ADVISOR", "RETURNS OR EXCHANGES"
 Buyer Beware (phone is locked, hard!) August 23, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Buyer beware, although the phone itself appears to be quite capable, it is locked down in the following ways:
1- No web other than what Virgin Mobile allows you to have
2- No bluetooth other than headset
3- No data cable or similar access
4- Only J2ME apps approved by Virgin Mobile
You can't run random J2ME apps, only those for sale through virgin, you can't browse to arbitrary sites on the internet (403 Forbidden), you can't put ringtones on except those for sale through virgin, etc, etc, etc. Supposedly data cable access is disabled (I'm afraid to buy and try it out).
If you were looking for a phone that does what you want it to do, keep looking. If you are looking for a basic phone that works well and has a keyboard, it's a pretty decent piece of hardware however I'd strongly recommend looking for the "Lingo M1000" hardware as opposed to the "Virgin Mobile WildCard" hardware ... supposedly the Lingo doesn't have all the phone<->PC features disabled.
--Robert
get what you pay for August 12, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was paying upwards of 65 bucks a month for verizon and was terrified of breaking or losing my phone, because they're so expensive to replace(the last time I ran over it with my car, thank god I had the $5 per month insurance plan, but there was also a 50 dollar deductable. That adds up!)
To be honest, I hate phones of any type. I avoid them at all costs when it's not business hours, so for someone who has it attached to their ear 24 hours a day, this may not be for you.
I looked over phones and pricing plans, this is the phone I chose because I really wanted the full QWERTY keyboard. I got it in white from best buy on sale and they honored the price of $90 bucks I found on the virgin mobile site AND i got a free CD, all in all a super deal. Throwing in an extra 10 bucks got me a coverage plan with best buy if I break the phone(but doesnt cover water damage) or it malfuctions.
After using it for a month, this is what I've got to say.
Bad things:
1. Crappy battery. I don't talk on the phone more then 5 minutes a day if that, and it barely lasts a day or two without being charged. Thankfully, I'm around a plug.
2. Also, it seems to turn itself on and off a lot. You hear it in the middle of the night making little noises because of that.
3. not very good reception in houses
Good things:
1. very easy to use with keyboard
2. nice and loud with the volume up so you can hear it ring and vibrate
3. blue tooth enabled, works good with my GPS
4. has an alarm,scheduler,calculator, tip calculator,voice memo, stop watch and even a flash light! (in tools, you hit flash light and it puts your camera "flash" on)
All in all, I'd buy it again despite it's minor downfalls. It's a cheapy phone, so if I hurt it, its not 300 dollars to replace. I also love not being locked into a contract and paying about $30-$35 bucks a month vs. $65 for more then enough minutes for $25 a month(I think I have 200 daytime and 500 nights and weekends) and 1000 texts for $5 a month, with tax its about 32. Perfect!!!
 Love this Phone July 18, 2008
I have owned this phone for two months and I love it. I have been with Virgin mobile for over a year and have had no problems with them. This phone is easy to use and takes photos that are o.k. I love to Play games on it too, even though the screen is a little small.
Kyocera Wildcard [special edition] is AMAZING! I highly recommend it! July 3, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I purchased the Kyocera Special Edition Wildcard, not the black one. the special edition is just white, and has a speaker design inside. it is the EXACT same thing as the black one, just a different color, and a different design. That being said, I'll get to the review...
I have owned several phones prior to buying this one. One Tracfone, One Virgin Mobile, and others. This one is undoubtedly the most expensive one I have every purchased, and the nicest. I was very cautious about buying it, but after reading all the reviews and doing a lot of research on it, I enventually settled into buying it. I was hoping it wouldn't be a mistake on my part, and luckily, it wasn't. The phone was $100, and expensive. But I am defenitly getting my money's worth out of it. Their is no activation fee, no daily service fee, and it offers two plans. Pay-as-you-go, and a monthly plan. A monthly plan works the same way, but you have to register with a credit card, and each month, it withdraws money from it for whatever plan you signed up with. The lowest monthly plan costs $15 and the highest costs $99, obviously varying hugely it what it offers. You can add unlimited texting for $10, and if you have the pay as you go, you can still get unlmited texting, but for $20. I have the pay-as-you go plan, since it varies in how many minutes I use each month, and its cheaper for me to use. For pay as you go, you simply add prepaid cards [virgin mobile calls them top-up cards] and that amount of money is added to your balance. With that money, you can pay for the unlimited texting, or buy games, ringtones, wallpapers, screensavers, or just use talking minutes. If you want a texting plan with your pay as you go, but not unlimited, they offer that too. they offer a $5.00 a month fee for 200 texts [which I have] or $2 a month for 30 texts, or $10 a month for 1000 texts. You can pay for this without a credit card, and can use top-up cards, which is extremely convenient. The plans can be a little confusing with everything they offer, but you get used to it quickly.
On virgin mobile's website, you can purchase games for $5.99, ringtones for $2.50, and wallpapers and screensavers for $1.99.
Now, for the Phone. The phone is pretty sturdy, although it seems kind of cheaply made. The inside of the phone, however, is very tough, and the buttons are wonderful. They're easy to push without being to hard on your fingers, and you aren't constantly bumping them accidentaly. The external keypad is pretty much the same, but a little flimsier. The toggle key is very useful, and the buttons are easy to push. It also offers a keyguard feature so it won't accidentaly call somebody while it is in your pocket. [Though I would consider buying a $10 case if you are going to spend $100 on the phone. You don't want to make a little mistake or drop it!]
The phone is extremely fast to navigate, and never freezes. The internet is very quick, reliable, and easy to use. TO use the internet does cost money though. You can check your account to see how much money you have for free, but other than that, you have to pay. It costs 15 cents a day if you use it only a little bit, or you can sign up for the $4.99 a month for unlimited internet access [i recommend that one- the 15 cent one lasts only a little bit each day, and will cut you off of the internet if you go over a time limit!]. I really love the internet on this phone. You can access your e-mail, myspace, facebook, or any website. You can also go on your Yahoo IM or AIM, but those are the only two IM's it offers. Sorry Google or Hotmail fans...
It doesn't come preloaded with any games, which kind of stinks. It comes with three demo games where you can play them for about 30 seconds, but then stops. They want you to buy them, so they give you a demo. THe games are really addicting though! And If i could recommend one thing about the games, do not buy ANY TV/MOVIE GAMES!! on virgin mobile's website, you can buy dozens of games. they offer tons of games that are based on TV shows too. Unforunately, I bought two of them! The TV games only have ONE game in them, and when you finish, thats it! either you're done, or you replay what you just did. For example, I bought the CSI game. Their is ONE case to work on, and it was awesome! So naturally, I played the entire game straight through, and then it was done! I was so dissapointed. It's like that for all the TV games, so its a waste of money.
The two screens on the wildcard are extremely bright, and crystal clear. They are very easy to read, clean, and see. When you open the phone, whatever you were doing on the external screen will automatically transfer to the inside screen, and visa-versa. so you never loose what you were doing!
The wildcard has tons and tons of features which I love. The camera is actually decent to be on a cell phone, and I really like it. It has a built in flashlight also, which is super bright! extremely convenient. The phonebook holds up to 500 contacts too. It has a calculator, tip calculator, stopwatch, alarm clock, timer, and tons more! The back of the phone has a rubber coating on it so its not as hard to scratch.
Overall, I 100% recommend the virgin mobile phone. I really like the phone, and it has been good to me! Its awesome, great for teens, and a really cool phone too!
ALSO... Virgin mobile has amazing customer service. Somebody taged this phone with "bad customer service"?? Virgin MObile has been rated "best prepaid cellular customer service" by JD power & Associates 2 years in a row--and I agree! they are extremely helpful, and email back within 4 days. [with other companies I've been with- thats fast!]. I really like them!
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