Rating  - Good phone and good service.
The Phone:
I originally had Virgin Mobile's Kyocera K9 phone. The K9 was very basic and very cheap but it got the job done. I just wanted a phone for emergencies. But I wanted something a bit cooler and a bit more functional. I managed to score the Snapper for only $40 new so I had to get it. Well, I'm loving it and I'm glad I snagged it for so cheap. I don't know if I'd pay full price, I need some sort of sale being I'm frugal, but it's definitely a good phone.
The flip phone is much better than using a keyguard and the speakerphone feature is nice. External caller ID and time display, check.
I think the reception might be better than my K9. I don't hear the fuzziness I heard with the K9 -- the difference isn't really huge, but it's there, and I like it.
The games kind of suck. There is a game called Bejeweled which is similar to Tetris or Columns and there is Tony Hawk's Underground which I tried once and couldn't really get the hang of. But, the worst part is they games are only demos. You need to buy the game for the full thing. You get to play for about 5 seconds before it says the demo is over and asks you to purchase the full game. Pretty bootleg. I miss classic games like Snake or Tetris anyway.
The camera is much better than I thought it would be. When I read that it was 310 pixels, that sounded awfully pathetic when you look at most digital cameras being a few megapixels. But the pictures are decent. You don't have to waste money buying new wallpapers at $2.00 a pop for the phone either -- you can assign any of the pictures you take as wallpaper or screensavers. I uploaded one online (for 25 cents) to see how it looked full-size. It looks like a webcam picture, not bad at all.
The ringtone choices are limited, but I managed to find one I liked. (The other four were crap.) This phone can play real music ringtones, but I don't feel like paying $2.50 -- especially when the selection on Virgin Mobile's website is so limited.
The one feature I do miss from my cheap little K9 was the outside flashlight. Believe it or not, that little flashlight was very useful for me and this phone doesn't have one.
The service:
If you plan on using your phone everyday for more than 9 minutes a day, don't get Virgin Mobile. Just get a monthly plan with one of the big cell companies. But if you're like me and you only using your phone a couple times a week and only for a couple minutes at a time, then Virgin Mobile is what you want.
I've shopped around and Virgin Mobile is the cheapest pre-paid wireless provider out there. At 18 cents a minutes, if I talk for a total of an hour a month, I only spend about $11. I don't think you can get cell service that cheap anywhere else! If you talk even less than that, then you're set. You only need to spend $20 every 90 days. There is nothing cheaper out there. Virgin Mobile doesn't make you pay BS access fees like the other guys.
And 5 cent text messaging is more than fair. When I want to drop a note, instead of spending the 18 cents to make a 15 second call, you can txt the message for only 5 cents.
My main problem with Virgin Mobile's service would be that I've tried setting up auto top-up and it hasn't been working correctly. When I check my account on their website, it asks me to register my credit card for auto top-up even though I already have done that. Previously I tried to do it with PayPal and that was a disaster because PayPal was telling Virgin Mobile I wasn't approved even though I am and have made tons of transactions through PayPal. The auto top-up thing has been annoying for me but luckily, I only need to worry about my Virgin Mobile account balance every 3 months.
The truth is, if it wasn't for Virgin Mobile, I probably wouldn't even have a cell phone. I don't use it that often and I can't afford to pay $50 a month for something I don't need. Virgin Mobile makes it affordable and this cool phone makes me feel like I'm not missing out by being with one of the big wireless companies. I'm glad I found Virgin Mobile, and I'm glad I upgraded phones.
Rating  - Great phone, great plan options...written by a mother
Love this phone! (And you can change the face plate!) My daughter and I BOTH own this telephone and enjoy the Virgin Mobile pay as you go plan. You can't beat 18 cents a minute when you are like me-I rarely use my phone and $15 a month sure beats the $50 a month I was spending on a base plan with Verizon-OR like my 15 year old-she loves to text (.05 to send and receive). I tried Virgin because I wanted to control my daughter's cell bills, so I provided her with a twenty dollar a month budget. She has no problem staying within that margin.
Rating - answered questions
Q1.how old do you think a person should be to get this phone?
A:any age between 9 and 18!if you are older than that age you should probley get a phone that has a plan.not a prepay
Q2.when you take pictures does it use yoor minutes?
A:no it does not use your minutes.and you can zoom and add a frame and store many many photos and send and recieve photos as well as text!
Q3.do you think it is the best pre paid phone there is?
A:well i havent tried all the pre-paid phones but the minutes come in as money so if you had $20.00 worth of minutes each minute is 10 cents and each text is 5 cents.
i am 12 years old going on 13 and this phone is great and has many awesome features on the camera and on the phone.it is a very good phone that will please any kid or tween or teen!!!=)
Rating - this phone has it all!
i got this phone for christmas of 2005 and let me tell you it is a great phone!the camera works great!if you have shakey hands the camera aslo works well. the camera also has cool features like you can add a funky frame around your picture.the sound is great you can hear the phone from far away. and it has a virgin xl on the phone where you can buy games, ringtones, wallpaper, and screensavers! and you will always know your balance in minutes because that is also in the virgin xl.you can set a picture to be your background as well.and if you are taking a picture of yourself you can push and hold a button on the side and on the front screen it shows how the picture will look.you can send and recieve text as well as picture text.there are even little smileys you can add to your text.this phone has it all.and if ever you decide to have a plan on your phone you can get it easily by going to the virgin mobile web site.it aslo includes real music ringtones.and it has a speaker phone!and it has internet!and you can record!this phone has it all and i suggest you buy it!
Rating - GREAT!
The virgin mobile snapper is a great prepaid phone.And it looks nice too.The camera on here takes really good pics and the zoom on here is pretty good too.The snapper has so many cool features and I really like the voice memo.this is my seconed virgin mobile phone and I thank its the seconed best phone on virgin mobiles sight.The ringtones on here stink and so does the wallpaper on here.There really cheap so if you are interested in the wallpaper or ringtones than I suggest that you to there sight buy some off of there but otherwise the phone is great and it doesnt cost you any money to take pics.It only cost money to send the pictures to my pics.I love that you dont have to a contrat or anything I top up my fone 20 bucks and thats more than enough! so i give this phone a 2 thumbs up for sure!!GET today!
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