Update: It didn’t take long to get some more info on this one. It seems there is definitely a Red variant floating around, hence the updated image, and also it doesn’t seem it will be a Virgin exclusive. Thanks for the update. We received this little tidbit of info along with our Optus Atrix/Xoom [...]

Well look what has arrived in my inbox this morning. The Virgin display cards for both the new HTC Incredible S and the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, and packing very nice pricing along with it. The Incredible looks to launch on the 39 Easy Cap and the Play to be $10 a month on the [...]

HTC is finally coming back to Optus, in the high end of the range. Launching May 1, Optus will have the Incredible S at their disposal, in an exclusive agreement for 1 month. Official pricing has not been confirmed, however our sources tell us, $0 on either a $49 or $59 Cap. We have also [...]

With the Galaxy S 2 not very far away, Samsung and the carriers, are stepping up their moves to clear the remaining stock of the original Android powerhouse, the Galaxy S. Vodafone and Three have dropped the handset to $0 on a $29 and now Virgin have joined the fight, adding the Galaxy S to [...]

We have a lovely little tipster who send us in some information regarding the Arc and Virgin. It seems as though Virgin is going to be the one, to lead the race to the bottom with pricing, by launching the Arc at $5 on a Easy Cap 49. This makes it $54 dollars a month, [...]

  LG have been trying hard but it seems to all be in vain. I have received information, from a number of different sources, and they are all saying the same thing: the Optimus 2X is looking like it’s not going to be picked up by any Australian carriers and will go it alone via retail [...]

In this month’s edition of the Allphones Buyer’s Guide, three handsets have showed up in their Handset Showcase pages: Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, LG’s Optimus 2X and Optimus Me. All are slated as coming soon and no further details are found in the catalogue. The strange one for me is the Optimus Me: it’s not [...]

Virgin Mobile have recently lowered the minimum $0 cap for the HTC Aria to $29 on their Easy Cap range. The $29 Easy Cap will give you a satisfying $190 credit and 100MB of data for most of your non-video browsing needs. If the recent HTC leaks (we’ll cover these in a minute) are anything [...]

As always, our friends over at Techanist have come through with the goods, breaking the news that the HTC Aria will be on sale at Virgin Mobile from Boxing Day (26th for anyone completely oblivious). You won’t find it heavy discounted for the Boxing Day Sales, but you will be able to get your hands [...]

It was only a week ago that we first informed you of the Huawei IDEOS coming to Virgin, being sold through Dick Smith retailers, now Virgin have decided to drop the price $20, to $159, in order to match the price of the same device on Crazy John’s. Dick Smith still list the IDEOS as [...]

Touted as being the device to bring high-end specs with a low price, the Huawei IDEOS has is also calling Virgin Mobile its new home. A tipster sent us in the news and told us that it’ll be available from Dick Smith stores, with a little searching of the Dick Smith site it can be [...]

There are a few people out there that want the LG Optimus One, and I can’t blame them, it appears to be a pretty good looking mid-range Android device that has a capacitive display. You’ll be even happier to know that, although it was delayed for a while there, it is coming to Optus and [...]