With a sleek clamshell design and metallic finish, the LG Aloha comes equipped with all the essentials--from real-music ringtones to multi-messaging capabilities--at an affordable price that's combined with Virgin Mobile's affordable no-annual-contract prepaid service. The lightweight Aloha features a jack for wired communication headsets, speakerphone, voice dialing capability, and an internal 1.8-inch color screen. It runs on the 1900 MHz CDMA network.
Weighing just 2.7 ounces, the LG Aloha clamshell phone is easily pocketable. See an overview of the phone's control buttons. |
Virgin Mobile Service
With Virgin Mobile, you pay only for the calling time you use. You can choose a plan that's based just on minutes (with rates between 10¢ and 20¢ per minute) or a monthly plan with no annual contract (with select plans offering unlimited calling on weekends and after 7pm on weekdays). You can also choose from a variety of mobile messaging plans, which includes text and picture messaging. Virgin Mobile USA's national coverage is powered by the nationwide Sprint PCS network. Virgin Mobile contributes 5 percent of profits from downloadable content to The RE*Generation, its pro-social initiative to help homeless teens, as well as provides postage-paid return envelopes in every new package for customers to recycle old phones.
Phone Features
The phone measures 3.5 inches long by 1.9 inches wide, and is just 0.9 inches thin. It's also light on your pocket at only 2.7 ounces. It can hold up to 199 personal contacts, with five numbers, three email addresses and one URL slot available for each. You can save callers to groups and pair them with any of 10 polyphonic ringtones. Other features include a scheduler, an alarm clock, a tip calculator, a world lock, a voice memo recorder, a notepad, headset jack, a speakerphone, and a vibrate mode. It has an internal 3.5 MB flash memory.
With its polished, modern look and array of features, the Aloha wraps a great deal into a sleek package. It sports a metallic front and a durable, matte back finish, with an internal 65K-color display (1.8 inches, 128 x 128-pixel resolution). The phone has capabilities to play real music and animated ringtones, and comes equipped with a speakerphone and voice-activated dialing. It's also preloaded games, including ZooZoo Club and Battle Reversi, and you can download more via the Virgin Mobile web site.
The Aloha covers the messaging basics with support for sending and receiving text messages easily and quickly (Virgin Mobile text messaging charges apply). The phone fully supports Virgin Mobile's wireless content service, VirginXtras. Use the pay-per-use service to download ringtones, get content and vote in TV-based polls via the MTV area of your phone, or get jokes and updates from Comedy Central. Pick a celebrity voice to answer your voicemail, or get a Sponge Bob thought of the day.
Vital Statistics
The LG Aloha weighs 2.7 ounces and measures 3.5 x 1.9 x 0.9 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3 hours of talk time, and up to 150 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the CDMA 1900 frequency.
