The INQ manufacturing company is owned by Hutchinson Whampoa, the company who own 3 Mobile. As you can imagine it will be be released on 3 as a network exclusive to begin with then other networks may be offered the chance to sell it depending on how well it sells ;o).

So what is it all about? Like we mentioned its dubbed a facebook phone purely cos of the features that the phone has that have been built around facebook. You can poke, message and view status updates of your friends through your phonebook. There is a common inbox that stores text messages, photo messages, Skype messages and facebook messages, pokes and updates. The INQ also has Skype for FREE international calling to anyone else on Skype! You can also use the Skype application to call internal numbers via credit in your Skype account. The INQ 1 Phone also has Windows Live Messenger, a 3.2 megapixel camera a music player and you can also use it as a USB modem! It has a neat carousel switcher menu system that allows you to whiz through all your options at the bottom of the your screen with one simple touch of a button!

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The INQ 1 Phone is free on every price plan on the 3 network! If you connect to either the £15 texter (75 mins & unlimited texts) or £20 texter (200 mins & unlimited texts) 3 Mobile are giving you unlimited internet access for free!! You can surf facebook as much as you like! If you’re more a talker then 3 offer a great range of Mix & Match tariffs starting from £15 a month!

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