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Virgin Mobile has a famous stylish handset lineup formed by Flare, Slash and Wild Card, and its latest addition is the UTStarcom Arc, a cool flip red cell phone with a combination of rich red and black lines, and a backlit keyboard, which just catches your attention at a glance.
Arc is an affordable red cell phone model delivering Bluetooth, digital camera capability and multimedia applications, with no annual contract, just calling and messaging plans matching anyone’s needs.
"The Arc offers a very reasonably priced camera phone with a fashion- conscious finish for consumers who want to capture spontaneous moments with a little style,” said Matias Monges, Virgin Mobile USA’s Director of Mobile Devices. “And with Bluetooth wireless technology, we're sweetening the deal with additional value."Available at just $50, Arc delivers VGA camera functionality, Internet browsing, Instant Messaging, email, games, Real Music ringtones, the Virgin Mobile USA user interface on a 1.8-inch 262K color TFT display, speakerphone, voice dialing, 500 phone book entries, and full-color internal display and 1-inch external screen.
The memory is of 512MB Flash and 256MB RAM.
It measures 3.6 x 1.9 x 0.8 inches at 3oz weight and provides up to 210 minutes of talk time and 14.5 days of standby, with a 850 mAh Li-Ion battery.
UTStarcom, the designer of Arc red cell phone, is a global leader in manufacturing, integration and support of IP-based, end-to-end networking and telecommunications solutions.
As we mentioned the other models included in the stylish handset family, let’s take a brief look at their features too! Starting with SLASH, we can enumerate some of its capabilities, along with the cool slider design combining rich red with black and silver lines. It has built-in camera, Bluetooth, Internet browsing, Speakerphone, voice dialing, and a 3.5 hours talk time, all in a 3.8 x 1.8 x 0.7 inch handset weighting 3 oz. It costs $80 at Virgin Mobile.

Flare is another flip phone available at $30, with Bluetooth, illuminated external display, Internet browsing, Speakerphone, voice dialing, and 3.5 hours of talk time. It measures 3.54 x 1.85 x 0.78 inches at 2.72 oz.
Maybe the best model for mobile communication is Wild Card, a cell phone available at $100 with a built-in 1.3MP camera and dual display, one with 128 x 128 resolution and 65K colors and the second one with 128 x 160 pixels and 65K colors, both TFT LCDs. In addition there is a QWERTY keyboard, mobile email, Instant Messaging, headliner, picture messaging, web browsing, speakerphone, Bluetooth, and a battery providing up to 195 minutes of talk time and 150 hours of standby. This model measures 3.94 x 1.97 x 0.79 inches at a weight of 4.1 oz.

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