{"id":405,"date":"2009-05-12T08:56:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T14:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2009-05-12T08:56:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T14:56:50","slug":"virgin-launches-blackberry-pearl-flip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Launches BlackBerry Pearl Flip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I had predicted by the product page being up on the weekend, Virgin Mobile Canada launches the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginmobile.ca\/vmc\/en\/phones\/product-details.do?productId=10-20026\">BlackBerry Pearl Flip<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The pricing on the new phone is very competitive and beats out the big players in Canada.\u00c2\u00a0 Virgin Mobile has it priced at $0 \/ 3 year &#8230; $299 \/ 2 year &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 $349 \/ 1 year &#8230; and $399 \/ no contract.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Comparing that to Telus puts the pricing all $50 cheaper (Telus would have the upper hand in terms of plans though&#8230; Smartphone Combo!).\u00c2\u00a0 The Flip comes with newer software than whats is on the Curve or Pearl thus making the phone a little bit more attractive.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, Virgin isn&#8217;t throwing in an 8gb card with this phone like they did with the Pearl and Curve at launch (probably reducing costs).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Overall though, for a $0 smart phone this is a great device, fully capable of much more than people will give it credit for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I had predicted by the product page being up on the weekend, Virgin Mobile Canada launches the new BlackBerry Pearl Flip.\u00c2\u00a0 The pricing on the new phone is very competitive and beats out the big players in Canada.\u00c2\u00a0 Virgin Mobile has it priced at $0 \/ 3 year &#8230; $299 \/ 2 year &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=405\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virgin Launches BlackBerry Pearl Flip<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}