3 posts tagged “wham brands”

I'm quite fond of trees but stop at hugging them.  I'm quite fond of gadgets but stop at reading the bloody manual!  INQ Mobile's solution (as it would seem I'm not alone) is to get rid of the manual altogether.  Who needs something the size of the Yellow Pages that is in 25 different languages?  Not me!

Sure I want to know how to use the item properly, and yeah, it's good to find out how something works without Googling or praying for Yahoo! Answers.  But really?  Do they ever need all those pages?  No, and companies realise this - hence the 'quick start' guides that, in addition to a tome, most things come with now.

Trees look better in the ground

Okay, so this is a rubbish round up as I'm just spurting it out (hey, I can't even think of better words...!)

• It's quad band
• Features A2DP Bluetooth stereo
• It can make videocalls (if you don't mind using a mirror/being creative)
• Facebook and Skype contacts are fully intergrated into the phone's contacts
• You can task switch between a java and any other app (couldn't do that on the Skypephone S1)
• It doesn't have GPS, but future handsets will
• It doesn't have WiFi
• It is HSDPA ('3.5G') and works as a mobile broadband dongle
• It isn't a QWERTY device, but one will follow
• It is almost the same form factor as the Skypephone S1 but seems bigger
• The screen is bigger than the S1 and is nice and bright
• It has Last.fm support but only 'scrobbles' doesn't stream (I think I've said this numerous times already, but whatever!)
• It has 'flight mode' so can be used on airlines (unless the airline is fussy!)
• A lot of the phone has been designed to work just as well when offline (obviously you can't communicate though!)
• Facebook avatars get imported into your contact list too, so you see those when you receive a call from a Facebook bud.
• And last but not least, push email from Seven is also integrated into it.
  

Something I often say is... I'll er, tidy this up later!

Talking about being frank, I've got INQ Mobile's CEO Frank Meehan's speech already to upload to YouTube.  He's quite a cool guy, I spoke a little to him at the end.  Might see if I can grab him for a video later.

I've got plenty to blog about, bar pictures!  I'll do more blogging later but I'm in the middle of a Maccy D's and it's already kinda cold. :o(

Just a quick note.  Last.fm are on board with INQ.  This was an unexpected, yet welcome, surprise. Unfortunately due to 'licencing issues' it can only scrobble the tunes you are playing, not stream them.  I got my hopes up earlier!  I'll see if I can get to the bottom of these issues later.  Is this a problem with the recording industry or CBS?  If it's the BPI, why?  What makes a phone different to a PC?