We’ve not heard much from INQ since it launched the INQ1 late last year, but now it’s back with a brand new handset, the INQ Mini 3G, combining almost all the features of the original Facebook phone into something smaller, cheaper, and with a crucial new addition: Twitter. Read on to get the lowdown.
We loved what newcomer INQ tried to do with the INQ1: bring social networking and mobile internet to the mass market, but the slider phone didn’t exactly turn heads looks wise. The follow up INQ Mini 3G corrects that, with a tiny 3G handset that still offers all the Facebooking, IMing features of the original inside a shell that’s much slicker.
The inside the 2.2-inch screened INQ Mini 3G is a 2 megapixel camera, microSD slot for filling up on tunes, a 3.5mm audio port, and for the first time, Twitter, so you can let everyone know what you’ve had for dinner without even leaving the table. INQ’s pushing the personalisation aspect by selling different coloured back covers, but our favourite feature? You can tether it to a PC for mobile broadband at no cost. That’s right O2, no cost.
Not bad, eh? In fact the only way the INQ1 bests its little brother is in offering Windows Live Messenger integrated into the phone’s inbox, but if you can live without that, the INQ Mini 3G is the way to go. It’s out on 3 later this year, and while price has yet to be confirmed, expect it to be even cheaper than the INQ1.
Out Q4 | £TBC | INQ
