3 INQ1 Comments

I agree that the hardware lets this phone down, it's pretty slow sometimes when loading photos or opening media items, but the review I felt scratched the surface. It's integrated so well with facebook. From the contacts pictures appearing. To it automatically importing all your contacts from their respective programs and allowing you to merge windows live id, skype name and facebook account under one name is extremely useful and will mean it's hard to migrate from this phone unless other manufacturers start designing similar software. I've owned Sony Ericssons before, and despite them having advanced hardware (for their time) I can't remember as good an experience as this, where I wasn't underwhelmed by the features after using a phone for 2 weeks. I'm still finding little features in the software that make the experience great.

Yes, this really is quite a neat phone in many ways. My main device is an O2 BlackBerry Bold, but I like to have a small 'spare' phone with me when travelling. Much as I dislike 3's 'customer experience' - I am happy with this phone on a simple PAYG tariff - topping up £10 every 3 months. I use it for its Skype functionality, and when in Hong Kong and other 3 'Home' countries I get effectively free roaming and full Skype functionality. In this sense it supplements the BB. I like the handset; it is really well made for a cheap handset and the interface is refreshing to use after years of Nokia, SE and BB. I just got a Facebook account, and while my BB handles that too, it is useful to have pushed Facebook messages. I don't use this device to its fullest, integrated social networking limits, but it really serves my second handset purposes well. Call quality etc is very good. Battery life disappointing, but that comes with being 3G I guess. Fortunately it uses the same charger as my BB so only need to take one on travels.

Best camera in a PAG phone under £80? I don't think there is anything to beat it.

How much is the data allowance /price?

Looks great! Looking forward to see what INQ come out with for the INQ2, touchscreen perhaps? Amazon mp3 marketplace purchases over 3g? A flash on the camera? All would be very welcome..

It's a nice phone and I am perfectly happy with mine. But just to be clear, the Last.fm integration does not mean you can stream music from Last.fm over the phone, you can just access your profile. And the phone does crash sometimes but does reboot itself quickly.

Despite what the other review says there is no Twitter client for this phone and it's almost impossible to download anything else which is a bit of a pain in an otherwise excellent phone. I used to use Shozu (www.shozu.com) all the time to upload pictures to various sites like Picasa, Flickr and Twitpic and the Shozu client is not available for the INQ1 and according to Shozu support there is unlikely to be one. Trying to attach photos to emails in the buit-in email client is not possible and MMS resizes the photos to something tiny and then forwards it as an online link to the 3 photo site!

The missing Twitter client is a HUGE hole IMHO for something that bills itself as "The social networking" phone. With one added it would be unbeatable.

It is a great phone...just wish

the problem with 3 is that with updates over the air, often the updates do not happen automatically. So unless you are following an issue (such as with the Skype client upgrade on the skypephone that enabled you to call landlines abroad) you won't ever know of the update. So we can wait and keep checking the app store. All that seems to exist there is something called "machblueclient" whatever that is... I want the twitter client. How can it be so easy for them to create an amazing facebook application, and stumble on a service that works like text messaging?

Hello ... You can twitter on it.
I put this one it http://www.getjar.com/products/17347/MobiTwitter
There is a few Jave apps that work on it Wikipedia Mobile http://www.getjar.com/products/25140/WikipediaMobile Discovery net work You tube applications etc

Hi dbdb
Just checked on the website listed on your post regarding the Twitter app & I don't see a INQ1 device listed. Which did you use?
Ta.

After owning one of these phones (PAYG from 3) for nearly 6 month I feel qualified to comment on it. This phone is not fit for purpose, it may integrate with Facebook, Skype etc. really well but I wouldn't know - if you don't live under a mobile mast, forget it because you won't get a signal so can't even make a call or send texts.
My phone has been 'repaired' at a 3 repair centre and it is no different, still no signal. And if you're thinking I'm saying this because I live in the boonies and no phone gets a signal you'd be wrong, my wifes phone is the original Skype phone (contract with 3) - it works just fine and always has at least 2 bars of 3G signal.

I will be trying to return my INQ this weekend and if (as I expect) they won't accept it it's going on eBay.

As an aside, due to all this I've spent a lot of time on talking to the 3 support people in Mumbai testing the phone and booking it in for 'repair', if you bear in mind the cultural differences it was mostly a pleasant experience and I have no complaints (with them). The UK repair centre and Customer Services (India again, I think) weren't so good (I'd possibly go so far to say useless) when I rang them to report that the phone they'd returned was 1. in worse condition than the one I sent them and 2. still not fixed.

I feel you should not get this phone, i have had it for 9 month now, the computer software doesnt even work so i cannot connect it to my computer, and already the buttons are going faulty and that happend after the first month.