The Bottom Line Virgin Mobile puts a multimedia spin on its phone lineup with the sleek but ultimately disappointing Kyocera Slider Sonic. Visit for details. Kyocera Slider Sonic Virgin Mobile puts a multimedia spin on its phone lineup with the sleek but ultimately disappointing Kyocera Slider Sonic. Armed with a VGA camera, a video recorder, an above-average music player, and a 32MB TransFlash card, the lightweight Slider Sonic--easily Virgin's most powerful handset to date--gets off to a strong start but stumbles with its subpar photo resolution, lack of Bluetooth connectivity, crippled TransFlash and USB features, and stiff sliding action. The all-black Kyocera Slider Sonic is made for the nightlife; its smooth lines, silver navigation buttons, brilliant, ample LCD, and slider form factor is bound to make an impression.
Virgin Mobile getting the Kyocera Slider Sonic | Engadget
Just because you're rocking it pre-paid doesn't mean you can't share in the musicphone love, at least if you're a Virgin Mobile customer. They've just announced that they're going to be carrying the Kyocera Slider Sonic, a new version of the Slider Remix that comes with a music player that supports playback of WMA and MP3 audio files, a microSD card slot for storing all your music, and USB sync for presumably copying over all your music from a PC. Buyer's Guide. Log in.
The all-prepaid carrier Virgin Mobile is popular with our readers , but it doesn't offer high-powered phones. At press time, Virgin sold ten different models, but none of its other phones offered removable memory or MP3 players and none, including this one, had megapixel cameras. The Slider Sonic is a medium-sized 3. With the slide closed, you can navigate through menus, enter the music player, or use the cut-rate speaker-independent voice dialing, which lets you dictate numbers without training but forces you to record tags for names.