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Regarded as India’s ‘first’ mobile service aimed exclusively at youth in India, the Virgin Mobile brand via Tata Teleservices introduced vTrendy handset in Mumbai, India on July 23.

The Virgin Mobile vTrendy handset features:

Colour screen

Speaker phone,

Stereo Headset

Organizer phone book memory of 500 contacts plus 150 contacts on RUIM (SIM) card, One-touch access to ‘Vbytes’ which Virgin Mobile’s data portal

Weighs just 65gms.

More importantly the phone features FM radio and is very attractive owing to its stylish looks.

Also it comes with a lifetime validity recharge and a starter user kit!

All this in a very cheap price of Rs.1,499!

“Youth today are faced with a situation where they have no stylish CDMA handsets in the price range of below Rs. 1500. Even a GSM service provider’s handset bundled offer does not really appeal to them because of lack of attractive handsets. vTrendy is a ‘no compromise deal for youth’ since it combines a stylish handset to suit their budget, is loaded with features such as FM Radio, 65K Color and Long Messaging Service (LMS) and is bundled with an offer tailored just for them,” said P Madhavan, Chief Sales and Distribution Officer, Virgin Mobile India.

Deval Parikh, Chief Officer, Handsets, VAS & Procurement, Virgin Mobile India said, “This stylish looking, light weighted, sleek and feature richhandset has been especially designed to appeal to our young audience who consider personal devices an expression of their style statement amongst their peer group.”

Along with a stylish looks, happening features, the one thing that users will especially like, according to Parikh, is Vbytes feature which is the VAS data portal exclusively from Virgin mobile that offers “unlimited access” to Virgin Mobile select content and applications at a charge of just Rs. 5 per day!

The vTrendy phones are available across 1000 retail outlets like The Mobile Store, Univercell, Croma, Convergem, Big C, Vishal Mega Mart, Vijay Sales and Sangeetha and across 15,000 outlets all over India. The handset will also be available at 34 kiosks of the most popular and frequently visited malls in India.

Users can use the toll free number 1-800-209-4444 from BSNL/MTNL landline or 125999 from any Virgin Mobile phone or just log onto virginmobile.in for any queries on vTrendy.