While other carriers fully embraced full QWERTY phones, Virgin Mobile in lacked in this department. Until now, there were only two options: Helio Ocean 2, which may be too trendy for some, and obsolete Kyocera Wild Card, which debuted back in 2007. Fortunately, now Kyocera X-TC, to bring a new face to the mix. Telephone brings a new design and a keypad in addition to their e-mail and instant messaging. X-TC is now also part of Facebook and MySpace Mobile application, which must please the young audience of the carrier. There are some issues with navigating the phone and call volume, but in general we would say X-TC is a good choice for clients Virgin America needs a basic phone messages. Kyocera X-tc, aka Kyocera G2Go, available for $ 99.99.
Design
Kyocera X-TC has a simple but attractive design of the standard black case and rounded edges, it is certainly more stylish option than older Kyocera Wild Card. Slider is a fairly compact at 4.3 inches by 2 inches wide by 0.6 inches and 4.8 ounces and has a solid design. It is easy to hold during a call or print messages.
Kyocera X-TC is a good updated look for the Kyocera Wild Card.
At the front, there are 2.4-inch QVGA display with 262,000 color output and 240×320 pixels. It’s bright and sharp, but the interface Virgin Mobile is a bit monotonous. You can customize the phone with a variety of wallpapers, themes, graphics, screensavers and much more.
At the bottom of the screen, there is a standard navigation array of two soft keys, Talk and end buttons, a speakerphone on / off button, press return, and 4-way navigation toggle with center select button. Except for the latter, the navigation keys a bit smaller and hard to insist that we do not have the best user experience. On the side, we wanted the ability to activate the speakerphone with just one click. Kyocera is also dedicated to music buttons above display–play/pause, forward, back – which is nice and convenient.
X-TC keyboard is very easy to use, but the scheme was a bit cramped.
X-TC is supplied with a full keyboard QWERTY, which you can access by clicking on the screen to the left. The sliding mechanism is smooth and the screen orientation automatically switches from portrait to landscape mode. Function keyboard rectangular buttons that are very good size, but, unfortunately, the layout feels a little squashed so it kept us slightly.Nevertheless, we like the fact that Kyocera did away with the internal navigation toggle, which was on the Kyocera Wild Card.
The numeric keys on the keyboard marked with silver, but the numbers are printed vertically, unlike the rest of the letter keys, so you have to tap on the neck or turning the phone to enter numbers. To raise the on-screen dialer when the phone is closed, press the center select button, but our first inclination was to press the call key.
On the left spine, there is camera activation / capture, and the volume button while there is Micro-USB port, 2.5 mm headset jack, and an expansion slot on the right side. Finally, the camera is located on the rear panel.
