Today INQ Mobile took the next measure in its missionary work to bring easy-to-use mobile internet to the bulk marketplace with the launch of two new 3G Social Mobiles complete with internet-based Twitter and media sync capabilities.
The new phones offer high gear-spec functionality without the hefty price tag – shaking up the market by giving operators a unique proposition – a 3G sociable mobile with the speed, usability and suite of applications capable of drive information usage in the bulk marketplace.
The INQ Chat 3G is the troupe’s first base qwerty-style phone, while the powder compact INQ Mini 3G expands the cooking stove and provides an entry-level sociable mobile apotheosis for the monetary value-sensitive prepay marketplace. They full complement the award-winning INQ1.
For the two new phones, Twitter joins the suite of communications applications that INQ has already woven into the spirit of its sociable mobiles: which include Facebook, Skype and Instant Messaging.
Working closely with the Twitter squad, INQ has developed an authentic Twitter diligence for both its new Social Mobiles. After the initial logarithm in, Twitter will be ‘always on’. Consumers can send tweets and retweet via the internet rather than exploitation SMS. With the INQ Chat, a specially designed Twitter widget will deliver Twitter updates straightaway to the home screen.
The INQ Chat 3G was developed in response to consumer and operator demand for a qwerty-stylus computer keyboard device from INQ. It has a new email node developed by INQ that incorporates free push Gmail – removing a monetary value for push chain armour typically borne by operators or passed on to consumers. The INQ Chat 3G comes complete with the expanded suite of INQ applications; Facebook, Skype, email, IM and Twitter.
The INQ Mini 3G is a slimline Social Mobile that offers Twitter, Facebook, IM, Skype and web-based email services like Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and GMail. It brings the usability that INQ is known for to a new shape factor. Like the INQ Chat, the INQ Mini offers impressive capableness at a fraction of the monetary value of other diligence-rich devices.
Both phones have plug and play HSDPA modems enabling high gear-speeding radio broadband on PCs and Macs.
The INQ Mini 3G and the INQ Chat 3G represent a new design steering for the troupe; both tin be customized with a range of seven coloured backs.
The INQ Chat 3G and INQ Mini 3G applications tin be updated over the air travel – a unique feature necessary to hold pace with how online applications variety and consumer custom evolves.
INQ is also introducing seamless media syncing between its devices and PCs or Macs. The software, powered by doubleTwist, syncs medicine from iTunes and WMP straight to your INQ mobile and, unlike most other sync solutions, doesn’t require the customer to give up using their favorite media role player on their computer. The new mobiles from INQ will also be able to sync video and photos.
INQ’s primer coat-breaking chopine was built from the ground up for the mobile internet and offers unprecedented integrating throughout the French telephone. Popular internet applications are not simply bolted on (as they are with proprietary systems which ar primarily part and text) – but embedded within the underlying software, delivering benefits such as indigen messaging and an address volume that consolidates earphone contacts with those from relevant applications.
This allows INQ to remove many of the cumbersome stairway that have made exploitation these services on ordinary bicycle mobiles frustrating or meter-consuming. INQ phones multi-job, so key applications like Facebook, Skype, IM and email are ‘always on’ and accessible with one click from the habitation screen; a logarithm-in to any application is required only once.
Frank Meehan, INQ’s chief executive officer, said: “We build phones that centering specifically on what citizenry wish to do most on mobile, and deliver it at a monetary value point that’s easy for consumers and profitable for operators. We have completely broken the frailty clutches hold that high gear remainder smartphones had on great mobile internet experiences, and made them available to everybody.”
“With the INQ Chat 3G, we’ve reinvented the qwerty for consumers by creating a fantastic sociable mobile. With the INQ1, we were blown away by how much consumers were writing just exploitation the standard 12 keys – thirty of them were regularly sending emails. So we know that a computer keyboard volition go down a violent storm.”
INQ Mobile launched in 2008 to give consumers high-caliber yet affordable mobile internet, and enable carriers to stimulate information custom across their client base. The company recently released information detailing gimmick custom on UK and Hong Kong networks that show custom patterns typically seen only on high-remainder smartphones. An norm of 65% of INQ users use Facebook regularly, thirty use their INQ frequently for email, and Windows Live Messenger activeness is trey to quartet multiplication greater than on comparably priced 3G phones. In Feb 2009, INQ1 North Korean won ‘handset of the year’ at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The INQ Chat 3G and INQ Mini 3G volition be available in Q4 2009.
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