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First Look: Venture out with the Virgin Mobile Venture

2012-05-25
hello everybody it's Lynn la here from cnet bringing you guys the Virgin Mobile venture now the venture is your standard entry level Android Gingerbread phone as a 2.8 touchscreen display a 600 megahertz processor and a 1300 milliamp per hour battery on the back there's a 2 megapixel camera with an accompanying flesh be aware that because a processor is on the slow side you're going to need to hold the handset pretty still after clicking the shutter as you can see the venture also has a physical on board QWERTY keyboard though each key is contoured in a unique pointed fashion instead of the usual bubble shape it's still pretty cramped I have petite hands and I had to use the very tips of my finger to type which can get really annoying really fast if I laid my thumb flat I could pretty much type out half of the alphabet in one press plus you have no choice but to type with a physical keyboard since the phone doesn't offer an on-screen keyboard one texting or emailing the venture also comes with mobile ID which are these package set of apps wallpapers and widgets that revolve around a certain theme like the environment or the e entertainment channel you can download these ID packs for free but as a default this device immediately starts loading the essentials pack which includes apps like BuzzFeed Twitter and Facebook now this handset is aimed for people who are maybe looking for the first smartphone and want to start off with something simple if you're interested the device is going for 79 99 average and mobile again I'm link resina and this has been the Virgin Mobile venture
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