Virgin Mobile Announces “Connect” and “Lounge” – Mobile Social Networking apps for Internet Addicts

Virgin Mobile Announces

Virgin Mobile USA announced today the official launch of two new first-of-a-kind features designed to empower its prepaid and postpaid customers with the latest mobile social networking technology. These new initiatives, both available at no additional cost beyond normal internet access charges, offer Virgin Mobile USA customers new and innovative ways to hook up:

• “Connect,” a new social networking dashboard designed to give Helio By Virgin Mobile members quick and easy access to the latest updates from certain social media and networking sites. Virgin Mobile connect will allow users to display friend updates and activity from social media and networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Twitter and YouTube in an easy-to-use, dashboard-style mobile interface. Connect will roll out to Virgin Mobile USA prepaid mobile phones during the first quarter of 2009.
• “Mobile Lounge,” a Virgin Mobile USA customer-exclusive mobile community now available on the VirginXL storefront. Mobile Lounge provides a social network for Virgin Mobile USA customers to share ideas and opinions. Its robust user interface allows users to see which friends are online and features micro-blogging capabilities, discussion boards, chat rooms and profile creation and contests. Mobile Lounge is accessible on Virgin Mobile USA mobile phones such as the Shuttle, Flare, Slash and others from the VirginXL storefront, which provides members with access to all of the latest services, games, ringtones and news for just 15 cents per day.

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