Courtesy of 3 and 3mobilebuzz, I have an INQ1 mobile phone on loan for the next few weeks. Check the Flickr slideshow for some pics of this phone that I took this morning (with a Nokia N95 8GB)
My immediate impression: the INQ1 is clearly aimed at digital natives – I’ll even call them ‘the Facebook younger generation’ – with its focus on easy connectivity and sharing on the move with that social network.
According to 3:
Everything you’d expect from a great phone plus access to Facebook like never before. You can get Facebook notifications direct to your INQ1. Status updates, on-screen profile pics and loads more, straight to your address book.
Sounds great although on my first try to connect to Facebook, I couldn’t connect to my own account (see the screenshot in the slideshow). Maybe a poor connection to 3’s cellular network at that moment, something I’ve experienced before. I’ll be trying that again when I’m out and about during the Christmas break.
I like the packaging and overall presentation. And its affordability (£79.99 on pay-as-you-go) puts this phone in a different segment of the market than iPhone or any of the high-end Nokia smartphones.
Plenty of talk already about this phone. I’ll have a initial video review soon on my tech blog.
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Heh, sometimes I do use them them as phones, ie, to make and receive phone calls
As all the devices I test come with their own SIM cards, courtesy of the networks concerned, I end up with a lot of different phone numbers. Pointless advertising those, though, as they're purely temporary.
Neville: Curious about all these new phones that you test out. Are you actually use them as a *phone*, too? Are you setting up a temporary second (or third or fourth) phone number for testing purposes? Perhaps the carrier arranges that for you?
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