INQ1 Mobile Phone Review

For today's entry I am going to review the INQ1 mobile phone by the 3 network.

This phone is 3's first foray into the mobile phone market. It was released in December of last year and as you can see it lacks the touchscreen and other features that many other phones released around this time possess.

The navigation is pretty good but could be better. The slide menu works well and makes navigation very easy, but you can also access things from a traditional menu. This is one of my gripes with it, I think it would have been better to just have everything on the slide menu to make things a little less confusing.

It has a small collection of apps which work pretty well. Being a phone focussing on social networking, it is strong in this department. The Facebook app works really well and the scaled down version is nearly as good as having the real thing open on a computer's browser. Skype and Windows Messenger work well also and are also scaled down. You can choose to have contacts made from those on these social networking services which is a neat little feature. Other apps are things such as games as well as Google Maps and weather which is also useful. An email app is also featured, although this isn't the best. The app selection is small, but they cater for a range of needs.

Don't cound on using this phone as a camera. The quality is good where you have a lot of light, but it lacks a flash or a little light and so 90% of pictures and videos are too dark. It just doesn't sems to pick up light very well.

However the phone does work well for music and videos. You can make playlists although these can be a pain to manage sometimes, and they also take a while to load. Without the provided earphones, the sound is tinny when coming through the speakers, but with them the sound quality is much improved and is good enough to be used as an mp3 player. There is also limmited integration with Last.fm.

Overall I think this phone is good for myself, casual phone users and people use use a lot of social networking services I think this is a solid choice. However for people who use their phone a lot or for people who want a little bit more, I think they'd prefer something a little more advanced.

RATING: 6/10