According to the latest news, Virgin Mobile Canada is set to release the Samsung Vice, its new mobile phone which is displayed on their official website. Further details are awaited. The new launch is likely to come shortly after the introduction of the Samsung Vice in Bell's offering and is the result of the acquisition of Virgin Canada by the company.

The carrier is reported to have accelerated the release of new devices. The commencement of the BlackBerry Pearl Flip proves that the Samsung Vice should also land on its airwaves in the near future. The company used to sell mobile phones at $49.95 on a 3-year contract. Of late, they're selling the same mobile phone for $19.95 with the same conditions.

The device offers a full sliding QWERTY keyboard that is meant to offer easy texting and messaging, a 2-megapixel photo snapper, a 2.2-inch display that supports 265K colors, a 3.5mm headset jack, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and speakerphone and microSD memory card slot, which supports up to 8GB of additional storage space.

Samsung Vice contains some features such as an MP3 player, radio, GPS, social networking sites connectivity, support for Windows Live and HTML web browser and a wide range of other tools and applications.

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