Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Friday, 14 November 2008 05:48
Opinion and Analysis
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So, how much will the INQ1 set you back?
3 Mobile say that the “INQ1 will be AUD $179 on 3 Prepaid when customers purchase one of 3’s new Prepaid Caps recharge vouchers starting at $29.”
3 also say that the INQ1 is available on a contract for $39 per month. With this contract plan, “customers receive $310 Cap value, 1GB of data, 4,000 Skype-to-Skype minutes, 10,000 Skype chats and much more each month.”
Frank Meehan, CEO, INQ, said: “The INQ1 is the first device from INQ with a new take on mobile user experience. It’s about taking the things people love most about the internet and building them into the very heart of the phone.
“Mobile is still mostly about voice and text for the vast majority of users, but those same people use the internet to communicate every day with Skype, Instant Messaging, Facebook and email.
“The INQ1 allows people for the first time to integrate their internet networks into their mobile so now their emails, instant messages and Skype calls are as simple to use as voice and text.
“With our Hutchison Whampoa backing we’ve got the experience of providing compelling mobile internet services to nearly 20 million 3G customers around the world. This experience has taught us that traditional handset manufacturers just aren’t delivering what customers are demanding and so we’ve had to develop our own, unique device in order to overcome this,” concluded Meehan.
Nigel Dews, CEO, 3, said: “Customers are increasingly using Facebook on the mobile and in the last six months we’ve seen access to Facebook on 3 more than double. With the way that we are packaging the INQ1, we are bringing unheard of value for an internet communications phone to consumers.
“Customers on 3 are discovering Facebook on their mobile, and that discovery is going to get faster and easier with INQ1. It delivers a Facebook experience like no other.
“Our customers want innovative devices that connect them to the services they are used to on their PC and at great value, and with the addition of INQ1 to 3’s handset line-up we’ve truly innovated the social networking experience and taken it one step further,“ concluded Dews.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook also piped in with a quote, with specs and links to YouTube videos on page 3.
