After looking at my budget for a while, I found that I could reduce my phone bill by about £10 a month due to the fact that I used over my allowed minutes and what have you with Three. Picking the contract first then the phone, I had the INQ delivered. This is free with a £15 contract: 75 mins, unlimited texts and free internet. Not expecting much of the phone, I read some reviews and they seemed to really like it. And when it got delivered, I did too.
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The cube it was packaged in was well thought out, with playing card sized manuals explaining important actions the user would like to do. It did take me a while to find out how to put in the battery (am I getting old?). Once the phone was switched on, the setup screens were easy to follow. The menu systems are really simple and there isn’t a complicated process for anything.
On the home screen you have a scroller. You can add your favourite applications to this and use the side button to easily look through this on any menu screen. This reduces the amount of time spent finding the app you want in a complicated directory system.
Next to the contacts shortcut on the scroller you can find the Facebook app. Not like any other FB app, the INQ integrates the information with your telephone numbers and other details of your friends. I wouldn’t say I overly use the features to post on to someone’s wall from the contact menu. However, the awesome feature of the Facebook integration is that the profile pictures of your friends become their contact picture. So if you receive a call from them, their profile picture appears above their name.
INQ phone features Skype integration, that I must say haven’t used yet as my contact list is somewhat limited. This seems to overcome the problems with the limited number of minutes in the contract.
Like most phones, it boasts JVM so you can install any Java app you like. I have Google Maps, Google Mail and Twitter on there. The free internet in my contract package allows me to use them without having to worry about hidden charges.
NB. Twitter will be integrated into the new version of this phone when it is released: INQ version 2.0 (name to be confirmed).
I was very surprised at this phone. It is on the cheapest contract (at the time of writing) from Three and therefore I had the preconception that this would mean a very clunky, budgetted user experience. Not a competitor of the iPhone but well worth a thought if you are coming up to the end of your contract soon.
Updated 2.0: So after 2 months of use I have say that I am noticing the small contract price per month! But I am also finding out more about the phone. Facebook integration is great but……
After not receiving texts for a number of hours, I realised that I didn’t have any friends or the INQ was playing up. On this occasion it was the phone. I had 1003 messages in the memory and had no warning that it was full, subsequently the phone couldn’t retrieve any more text messages.
I noticed on many websites and reviews that the battery life was poor. It is. Compared to other phones, yes, but I feel it is a case of just changing your habits. The charging is done through a standard mini A USB cable so it can be done anywhere. Every two nights you charge it up. It works for me as I have the charger near the bed and simply plug it in before going to Bedfordshire. However, I don’t make too many calls as the contract doesn’t include many minutes.
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