Stop reading the iPhone 5 rumour mill for a second and consider your options: If you’re yet to upgrade your smartphone this year, now is the best time to bag an iPhone 4. Network 3 has just teamed up with Recombu to offer the iPhone 4 on its all you can eat One Plan, with a huge £169 cash back. That’s unlimited data, and a fantastic phone, along with a fat cheque in your pocket. What’s not to like?
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Mobile network Three has unveiled an extraordinary new sales tool: live video customer service. ‘It’s like advanced video calls, but so much smarter and with more interaction, around a custom built touchscreen’ say B-Reel, the Scandinavian digital gurus who built the bizarre-yet-brilliant tool.
Imagine a Skype video call – except that the sales person on the other end can drag or drop photos of the latest Three phones onto the screen, using a specially-made, multi-touch display. It’s all very Minority Report, you really have to click through and see the video….
3 is offering its customers free access to Facebook via a special mobile-optimized URL, even to those with no data allowance in their contract.
Did you see our Nokia C3 review? We were quite taken with this little device – it may only be running Symbian S40, but it packs quite a punch for the price. Want one? Check out our Nokia C3 review: Ultimate buyer’s guide.
Just days after Vodafone confirmed it’ll be stocking the new HTC Desire in the UK, 3 has followed suit and confirmed the Nexus One-alike will also be at home on its network. Not surprising news, but welcome nontheless. We hear HTC has been innundated with interest in the HTC Desire from operators, and virtually all carriers will soon be stocking it.
We’ve revealed this week just how Wi-Fi hotspots are often hamstrung by sluggish speeds which just can’t live up to our insatiable appetite for the web. And on top of that, we’ve seen that the prices the big players charge don’t necessarily get you much bang for your buck.
So just what kind of value do Wi-Fi hotspots offer? And what could you get for the same monthly fee elsewhere? Are Wi-Fi hotspots really a better route to the web than a trusty 3G dongle? We’ve stacked up the stats, crunched the numbers, and delved behind the scenes to see which providers are taking the Mickey with low Wi-Fi speeds, and which are still trumping our tried and tested 3G sticks.
UPDATE: You can sign up for the 3 on demand service on 3′s official site, here.
3 has just inked a deal to start streaming on-demand TV straight to your handset, letting you pick and choose what you want to watch, when you want to watch. First on-demand music, now video – what’s next?
When we reported on Monday that all the major mobile networks were struggling to get their mobile broadband dongles working with Macs running OS X Snow Leopard only two of the big players offered a fix.