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The 3 Skypephone is manufactured by a Chinese company called AMOI, although is co-designed by 3 and Skype, and it has all the features you’d expect of a mid-range modern mobile phone.
It’s a 3G phone with a 2-megapixel camera, an mp3 player, a MicroSD card slot with an included 512MB card (and expandable to 1GB), a full range of mobile TV channels, web browsing internet, full access to Skype functionality with contacts, call logs and presence (although no SkypeIn or SkypeOut), access to Java and 3D games and Bluetooth.
Talk time is rated at 199 minutes (or 3 and a half hours), has a standby time of 202 hours and has a video talk time of 118 minutes, although there is no front mounted camera.
It comes with a stereo hands-free, a USB cable, a mains charger (that plugs into the USB slot to charge) and the manuals, CD and other bits and pieces you receive with a new phone.
The 3 Skypephone costs AUD $179 for prepaid customers who want the certainty of a defined spend, or comes free on any of 3’s caps or their ‘Talk Business’ plan. It comes with 4,000 minutes of free Skype to Skype calls (around 2.2 continuous hours of talking per day for 30 days) and 10,000 free Skype chat messages each month.
In addition, 3 Skypephone customers whether on a cap or on pre-paid still receive free call time to other 3 customers.
The cheapest pre-paid rate is $30, which includes a generous amount of free SMS and call time, and is valid for 60 days. That means, at its cheapest, the 3 Skypephone costs 50c per day to use to call up to 4000 mins of Skype per month and up to 10,000 messages – and has SMS and call time included as well!
Purchasers of the $50 or $100 pre-paid recharge get their credit doubled as well, adding extra value to an already valuable offering.
This makes the 3 Skypephone incredibly good value at any level, and shows just how radically far the world has shifted – communications technologies have never been better, more advanced or more affordable.
If you use Skype with any regularity, or want to use it on the go, the 3 Skypephone is a tempting new model that is only just the beginning of the converged world of communications we live in today!
David Bass
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