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3 UK Offers 6 Month Mobile Contract For Commitment Phobes!

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Want all of the perks of a contract deal like a free phone or decent minutes and texts, but don’t want to be tied down to one network for too long?

3 have decided to take advantage of this by offering a pay monthly plan lasting only 6 months, with a mix of 300 anytime, any network minutes or texts, free Skype, Instant Messenger and voicemail, and a 3 Skypephone, Skypephone S2 or Nokia 3120 all bundled in!

For only £15 per month, it’s another 3 offer which can’t be ignored for those on a budget, alongside their new super-cheap £9 tariff.

3 Launches Tariff For Less Than A Tenner A Month!

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The change in economic climate is certainly being reflected in some of the deals being offered by the networks and retailers.

First there was the sub-£3 mobile phone, and now 3 are about to offer a new tariff which can only be described as credit-crunch friendly…

From tomorrow, they will offer a mix of 100 cross network minutes and 100 texts, 300 minutes to your friends on 3, free Windows Live Messenger and a free Sony Ericsson K660i for only £9 per month!

The deal will be available both in stores and online, and leaves you with plenty more money to spend on Xmas presents!

Source: Electric Pig

Try Out The 3 INQ¹ Facebook Phone : Sample Your Social Life!

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The INQ¹ from 3 is a very exciting handset, with the ability to organise your Facebook affairs and everything else on the move making the phone a real asset to users far and wide.

If you can’t quite get your head around how it works, 3 have a cool simulator to test out the INQ¹’s friendly functionality on their site! See how Last.fm, Twitter, MSN and Skype all intermingle seamlessly on the device, offering a truly socially aware phone experience!

Play with the INQ¹ phone simulator here.

The INQ¹ Facebook Phone Is…Released On 3!

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Well, if ever there was a phone to fly off the shelves in time for Xmas, it is the socially aware INQ¹, only on 3 and out today!

New-kid-on-the-block INQ brings the Web 2.0 experience to the mobile phone, with the INQ¹ offering one button access to user content filled sites like Windows Live Messenger, Facebook and social music platform Last.fm.

With instant messaging support and the ability to directly upload photos taken with its 3.2 megapixel camera, the INQ¹ finally gives Facebook addicts the chance to leave the house!

The ‘live contact book’ features merges your friends contacts details with their Facebook profiles, meaning their online status and self-indulgent photos are constantly updated and beamed to your INQ¹.

As for the tariffs on 3, the INQ¹ remains very price-friendly.  It will be available for free on a pay monthly contract from £15 per month, which offers unlimited Facebook, Skype, Messenger and web access plus 75 minutes of cross-network calls, unlimited texts (kids love texts), unlimited e-mail and unlimited calls to other 3 customers.

£20 per month gives you the above, but with 200 cross-network minutes instead of just 75.

As for Pay As You Go, the INQ¹ will cost £79.99, whilst net packages will be available from £5 per month.

Kevin Russell, 3 UK’s CEO, said: “3’s own exclusive handsets have already delivered the first unlimited data tariffs, the first free, open Instant Messenger services and the first fully-integrated Skype-enabled phone. INQ¹ takes these services, and more, to offer a uniquely powerful and competitively priced mass market internet phone. INQ¹ on 3 offers you the most sociable phone on the most sociable network.”

It’s out now, and I’m very close to getting one, to keep tabs on my status updating mates if nothing else!

Look out for INQ¹ deals on Omio in a minute…actually now!

Sky Mobile TV Now Available on 3 Mobile Network

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3 subscribers in the United Kingdom can now enjoy a selection of premium Sky output on their mobile phones, as the television service can now be streamed over the air on the 3G network.

Separate from the existing ‘Planet 3′ media service for customers, Sky are offering this for either a monthly fee of £5, or a daily rate of £1.

This now allows customers a choice of live streamed content over the air to their handsets, from channels including Sky News, Sky Sports, CNN and The Box.

There is also load of looped mobile content, offering the best bits of Sky’s other channels to be viewed at any time. Sky Mobile TV is also available in the UK through Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile, with the company claiming over 200,000 subscribers across the networks.

BSkyB General manager of mobile David Gibbs commented: “We are excited that 3 UK customers can now watch the latest breaking news from the RTS award winning Sky News; the best of the FA Premier League, UEFA Champions League, Premiership Rugby Union or Test Match cricket from Sky Sports, 3 UK customers need not miss a minute of the action.”

Sounds great, yes? However, the only setback is the fact that the service is being offered by Sky rather than 3 themselves, which means data charges can be incurred whilst viewing. A safe bet is to purchase an unlimited Internet add-on if you haven’t already got one, at a cost of around £5.

This means that all your web downloading will be covered, and no nasty surprise bills in the post!

Not sure if the whole ‘TV on the go’ thing will necessarily catch on. The Nokia N96 touted BBC’s iPlayer and bite-size shows as a reason to purchase, but all of that online multimedia content is often ignored in favour of chucking some favourite movies and music on a memory card and watching those.

Perhaps looped videos of the ‘new’ Gladiators and watching Ross Kemp speak in a gruff voice to ex-cons could be the content that changes everything.

Or not.

Source: What Mobile

Samsung Light Edge Pink: New Beauty Announced On 3 Network!

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3 UK has recently announced a few new additions to their network before the year’s end, and they are filling out an already impressive roster with something for the ladies!

The Samsung Light Edge Pink is a gorgeous little slider handset, taking a cue from the successful U900 Soul as far as looks are concerned.

The similarities go beyond the cosmetic as the Light Edge also inherits the touch controls of its bigger brother, making it an impressvely specced handset at a mid-range price point.

It has a 3 megapixel camera (as opposed to the Soul’s 5 megapixel snapper), but is equally ultra-slim at only 13mm, managing to also maintain the 3G connectivity and multimedia playback.

Due for launch later in November, and exclusively pretty in pink on 3, the Samsung Light Edge looks to be a handset to pique the interest of those who love form and function in equal measure.

INQ¹ Facebook Phone In The Flesh!

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We were just about to pull the big Omio ON/OFF switch for the day, when Shiny Shiny swooped in with an eleventh hour video showing the new social networking phone from 3, the INQ¹ (which we in the office have renamed ‘Inky’ after initially mistaking the ¹ for an ‘i’)!

Yummy! (Sorry, that remark is directed at the phone, although she is also an attractive lady.)

3 Presents The INQ¹, World’s First “Social Mobile”

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Well, as we magically predicted the INQ¹ handset was unveiled by 3 today, touted as the ‘world’s most advanced social networking mobile phone’.

New-kid-on-the-block INQ brings the Web 2.0 experience to the mobile phone, with the INQ¹ offering one button access to user content filled sites like Windows Live Messenger, Facebook and social music platform Last.fm.

With instant messaging support and the ability to directly upload photos taken with its 3.2 megapixel camera, the INQ¹ finally gives Facebook addicts the chance to leave the house!

The ‘live contact book’ features merges your friends contacts details with their Facebook profiles, meaning their online status and self-indulgent photos are constantly updated and beamed to your INQ¹.

As for the tariffs on 3, the INQ¹ remains very price-friendly.  It will be available for free on a pay monthly contract from £15 per month, which offers unlimited Facebook, Skype, Messenger and web access plus 75 minutes of cross-network calls, unlimited texts (kids love texts), unlimited e-mail and unlimited calls to other 3 customers.

£20 per month gives you the above, but with 200 cross-network minutes instead of just 75.

As for Pay As You Go, the INQ¹ will cost £79.99, whilst net packages will be available from £5 per month.

Kevin Russell, 3 UK’s CEO, said: “3’s own exclusive handsets have already delivered the first unlimited data tariffs, the first free, open Instant Messenger services and the first fully-integrated Skype-enabled phone. INQ¹ takes these services, and more, to offer a uniquely powerful and competitively priced mass market internet phone. INQ¹ on 3 offers you the most sociable phone on the most sociable network.”

As for a release date, one has not yet been scheduled.

Oh, and it is pronounced ‘INQ’ as in ‘ink,’ not ‘INQ’ as in ’silly name.’

3 To Launch ‘Facebook Phone’ On Thursday

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The first handset from new manufacturer INQ is set to be announced on the 3 network this Thursday. The phone is centred around social networking on the go, and the manufacturer is in fact owned by Hutchinson, 3’s parent company.

3 is targeting the Web 2.0 savvy consumer who wants to spend their time online on their phone, but cannot afford the high-end mobiles that make browsing easy like the iPhone or Blackberry Bold.

It also seamlessly integrates your Facebook experience with your phone, as contacts and Facebook friends merge and texts sit side by side with Instant Messages. It is also clever enough to work as a USB modem when attached to a PC, giving a truly always connected experience!

It is earmarked to be at a very competitive PAYG pricepoint for web loving teens, with rumours it could be as low as £99!

Further INQ handsets will be launched throughout 2009, both on 3 as well as the other service providers. Watch this space for an Omio review!

Source: Mobile Today

Amazing Phone And Mobile Broadband Deal on 3!

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If the whole broadband dongle craze hasn’t grabbed you yet, then 3 Mobile has an offer bringing phone deals and mobile internet together at an awesome price!

For only £20 a month, 3 offer a free handset (the Sony Ericsson K660i) with any mix of 500 minutes or texts, free unlimited 3 to 3 calls and voicemail, and a USB modem stick with 5GB download limit!

With the 5GB broadband service worth £15 per month on it’s own, it means that for only £5 more you get a brilliant mobile tariff in the bargain! Simply connect the modem included to the USB slot on your laptop and enjoy wireless broadband for next to nothing!

If you want to check out this great mobile deal from 3, just click here!