All Posts Tagged With: "3"
Three of the big boys on the block have just kicked off their tax breaks for the UK mobile telephone market place, some for handsets others for tariffs and all for the greater good.
First up, Orange put into play their cuts starting from today and way ahead of the new tax initiative being launched next [...]
The INQ1 or ‘The Facebook Phone’ is launched today. Our man RobK is on the scene. We’ll have more from you shortly — plus I’m hoping to be able to meet with one of their top executives tomorrow for a sit-down interview on camera.
We’ll bring you more on the handset shortly — but [...]
This Thursday we’re at the launch event by the network 3 of their latest handset the INQ 1 – a purpose built phone by their parent company Hutchison Whampoa.
Supposedly this handset has great Facebook and social networking integration; some are calling this the very first Facebook phone.
Pronounced ‘INK’, the phone is set to be the [...]
This is another one I was contacted on Facebook by someone on Three asking to promote the opportunity to win £25,000 (Credit Crunch anyone??) to blow on a party for the winner and all their Facebook friends.
For more details checkout their Facebook Page.
Once again it is great to see companies like 3 embracing Social Networking [...]
The Sunday Times picked up the story that 3 is planning to add SkypeOut to their Skypephone package, on top of the existing Skype to Skype and Skype Chat offering. However, buried away in the detail, I noticed that SkypeOut is only supported for international calls. Calls to UK destinations can only be made via [...]
Continue ReadingFinally, the Nokia N96 is available for ordering from 3’s UK website. I’m not sure whether you can actually walk into a 3Store and pick up one of these yet. But I’m pleased to see they’re online and orderable.
Our very own James Whatley isn’t a fan because the N96 is missing a graphics [...]
I was actually working on a post about 3’s new Skypephone S2 and the handset’s integrated Facebook application when a reader, Ken, sent me this overview of their Skypephone S2 Facebook experience. Have a read…
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I’ve never been much of a FaceBook fan. Who needs it? I have plenty [...]
I just got this bit of news in from UK operator, 3. They’ve got one of the best priced business services in the marketplace (have a look here). Independent analyst, Pure Pricing, has verified this.
They’ve done a bit of research to find out just how mobile mad we are. Have a [...]
After my call for questions for Mr Operator, I had one in today:
Question:
What does it take for a smaller handset manufacturer to get ‘into’ the operator stores? Aren’t consumers bored of Nokia or SonyEricsson (like you are Ewan)? Or is it all based on size and rebates and not on market innovation?
A bit of [...]
Mobile Industry Review Show - Episode 22 from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo.
This week we’re bringing you an absolute WHOPPER of a show. A veritable whopper.
1. We’re committed to bringing you our show from different, unusual and picturesque locations around London. I think we’ve beaten everything so far by filming from the Tower [...]
I was at Lakeside Shopping Centre buying yet another Mac Pro the other day (there simply isn’t anything better for processing video than a top of the range Mac — although buy your RAM and HDD elsewhere!).
Whilst I was waiting for them to stick in a wireless card, I took a tour around the shops. [...]
If you want to get your hands on 3’s Skypephone S2, the operator’s already taking pre-orders for the device through its website, and it won’t be long til the device is out in the wild (next week online, 1st September in store).
The S2 looks like a series step up from its predecessor, with a 3.2 [...]
No surprise, actually, is it? Have a read of this:
3 UK’s Mobile Broadband offering has been named “Best Mobile Broadband” by the UK’s most popular dedicated broadband comparison site, www.top10-broadband.co.uk. The independent site, which claims over a million unique users each month, has given 3 UK the award based on [...]
A little while ago I got a note from 3.
“Would you like to try out one of our new handsets?” asked the chap.
“Sure!” I said. I’m always interested to see what’s coming next.
The chap wouldn’t be drawn on the identity of the handset. Quite a good idea, if you want to [...]
After fellow contributor Dan Lane figured out how to unlock the Apple iPhone 3G with just 16 pounds and a hole punch (full details including a video coming on Monday’s video podcast), I’ve been considering the way ahead for me.
I think the ultimate iPhone 3G experience must be on UK network operator, 3. Their data [...]
Kudos to 3.
They led the way, in the UK at least, with the tenner-a-month USB mobile broadband revolution.
This shows demand is strong for mobile broadband in all 3’s territories, including the UK, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Austria…
… says the press release I got in this morning.
Christian Salbaing, MD of European Telecoms at Hutchison isn’t [...]
Very shortly, you’ll be able to pop into a 3 store and get a free laptop.
You’ll need to sign up to a 24 month contract. But you can walk out with a free laptop. And what’s more, it’ll be a decent one.
They’ve really gone to town, 3.
You can choose from a decent HP [...]
This was the biggest surprise of the day for me. Walking into the 3 launch event I thought it was a Motorola Windows Mobile device I was looking at, not the Blackberry Bold.
It looks and functions like a dream based on the few minutes I played with it.
HDSPA. Nice. That’s going to absolutely rock [...]
I was hoping that 3 would be looking to launch the E71 shortly. I was really surprised to find that the slated launch date for the handset is today!
I checked the 3 site and couldn’t find it — but I suspect it’ll be available to order within the next few days.
3.2 megapixel camera. 110mb [...]
The brand new 3 Skypephone S2 is looking shit hot. 3 have taken a heck of a lot of feedback from their users and upgraded the device big time.
Obviously it’s got the usual Skype goodness included as standard. But they’ve sooped it up. It is, of course, HSDPA. But plug it [...]
I was mega impressed with the Sony Ericsson Xperia. It’s a piece of gorgeousness. There’s not much in the way of details about the Xperia except to say it’s coming. Toward the end of the year I reckon.
I took a look at it along with the Samsung Tocco too. Here’s the [...]
Weighing in at 125g with 16GB of memory and HSDPA brilliance, the Nokia N96 arrives on the 3UK network in September.
It’ll be available for around £15 per month on mix’n’match. I’ll take two, please.
I think I need this one.
Here’s the QIK video of it in action:
In Australia, it looks like three of the four main mobile operators are getting the iPhone: Optus and Vodafone have got the official nod, and Telstra is rumoured to be announcing a deal soon. Who’s left out? 3. Despite its best efforts to get the device on its inventory, there’s still no deal in the [...]
Continue ReadingWhen an operator says you can get ‘up to 7.2Mbps’ what sort of speed do you actually expect from your mobile broadband modem? According to the the BBC, 3 has reported Vodafone to the Advertising Standards Authority over the wording of its mobile broadband advertising, contending that ‘up to’ just isn’t good enough.
The Beeb says [...]
The Competition Appeal Tribunal has referred the question of wholesale mobile termination rates - the fee each operator charges another to connect a call on their network - to the Competition Commission after appeals by BT and 3.
The appeals come after Ofcom changed the controls on mobile termination rates early last year, which it said [...]
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