Location-Aware Shopping Application Powers Virgin Mobile USA Customers
with Local Products at Nearby Stores
NEW YORK, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Slifter, a popular mobile
shopping tool that employs LBS technology to search and share products and
promotions at neighboring retail locations, announced its partnership with
Virgin Mobile USA, a leading provider of wireless service without
contracts. Now, Virgin Mobile USA's five million customers can shop smart
and fast by searching over 300 million products at more than 150,000 local
and online retailers, seeing price and availability, and getting detailed
directions to the nearest store.
As the leader in local mobile shopping, Slifter allows users to: find
hot deals and products nearby, create a mobile shopping list packed with
favorite products and promotions, and spread the savings around to friends
and family.
"Virgin Mobile USA is excited to bring another great solution to our
members. We think that the Slifter site is amongst the best mobile shopping
experiences available today. Its a blending together of search and location
information that really gives our members an advantage in finding the
products they want, at the right price, at the most convenient retail
location, said Wes Radez, Director of Mobile Content, Virgin Mobile USA.
"Slifter and Virgin Mobile USA are giving consumers the ability to hold
on to their dollars, by saving on products and even gas," said Alex Muller,
CEO of Slifter. "Slifter allows the user to search by price or distance,
allowing the customer to find the product they need at the location they
want - without breaking the bank."
Slifter is immediately available on all Virgin Mobile USA phones at no
additional charge on VirginXL and the mobile Web.
About Slifter
New York City-based Slifter, is a popular mobile shopping tool that
enables millions of mobile users to search and share products and
promotions, straight from their cell phones. It is accessible for free via,
wireless web, or java application on almost any mobile device. For more
information on Slifter, please visit http://www.slifter.com.
About Virgin Mobile USA
Virgin Mobile USA, Inc. (NYSE: VM), through its operating company
Virgin Mobile USA, L.P., offers more than five million customers control,
flexibility and choice through Virgin Mobile's Plans Without Annual
Contracts and postpaid offerings through Helio By Virgin Mobile, with
national coverage for both powered by the Sprint PCS network.
Virgin Mobile USA is known for its award-winning customer service, and
90% of its own customers report satisfaction with its service. Virgin
Mobile USA allows customers to earn free minutes in exchange for viewing
advertising content online through the innovative Sugar Mama program.
Virgin Mobile USA's full slate of smart, stylish and affordable handsets
are available at approximately 40,000 top retailers nationwide and online
at http://www.virginmobileusa.com/, with Top-Up cards available at more
than 140,000 locations. Helio's advanced devices like the Ocean and
unlimited All-in voice plans can be explored at http://www.helio.com/.
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