INQ's next handset will get further up in your social networks

INQ's first handset, the INQ1, got cozy with your friends on Facebook, letting you check their updates and let them all know what's happening in your 'hood while making Skype calls and checking your e-mail. The company's coming back for more with the ingeniously named INQ2, pledging to add Twitter support into the mix in a move to get more social network-agnostic. No further details are available at this point on what (if any) other services the upcoming handset will interact with, or whether it'll have a somewhat more original name, but you can be sure we'll keep you updated.

[htd Posted Feb 6th 2009 10:20AM]

http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+mobile+twitter

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/02/twobile-a-twitter-client-for-windows-mobile/

http://www.google.com/search?q=iphone+twitter

etc

[weg Posted Feb 6th 2009 10:37AM]

The advantage is that all social networks are fully integrated in this cellphone, i.e., you can access the contact data available there and send messages using a uniform interface. Furthermore, 3 allows you to access the listed social networks for free if you buy an INQ1 with a contract (which is 15 pounds a month in the UK, 20 pounds less than the infamous price you'll be charged for an iPhone contract).

[1 Posted Feb 6th 2009 12:09PM]

How cheap are devices to run the apps in your links?
I bet not £79.99 cheap.

[flashpoint Posted Feb 6th 2009 10:27AM]

As soon as Adobe brings a full FLASH version to iPhone, the rest of these wannabe phones will die horribly.

Windows Mobile can handle these social sites already.

I love my iPhone's Myspace, Facebook and Twitter apps. I was surprised how well they worked.

[NewL Posted Feb 6th 2009 11:38AM]

You really aren't getting the point of this, do you?

[1 Posted Feb 6th 2009 12:08PM]

Hmm, lets see

INQ. £79.99 Pay as you go, no strings.
Iphone £3.50 Pay as you go

Please stop thieving my oxygen.

[Spartan2x Posted Feb 6th 2009 10:32AM]

It better be less then $50 and well built, that's all I got to say from the looks of it.

Like that's going to happen...

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 6th 2009 10:36AM]

"the bottom" AKA "butt-boy" AKA iEye and all his other nicks is still sleeping
on the west coast and gives us EST'ers a chance to view comments without seeing
his nonsense....... *refreshing*

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 6th 2009 10:56AM]

How true Bigpinekey

Sad to think that anyone could possibly put such an importance towards a stoopid ass'd cellphone.
For anyone to troll such a topic, obviously has issues way beyond anything anyone of us would
want to deal with. You do have to have a certain amount of sympathy for children like iEye, who have'nt
yet begun to understand nor seperate reality from toys. An gainefully employed adult would never
dedicate such energy towards trolling iphones. *it's sick*

As far as his sexual preferences ? One could most deffinatly assume he's the bottom of all things
related to "human" sex.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 6th 2009 9:08PM]

I really don't see a need for this phone. My Samsung Rant from Sprint has shortcuts to Facebook, YouTube, Google Maps, MySpace, E-Mail, and a ton of other applications. Plus, the Rant has a full QWERTY keyboard, 3G, and a 2 megapixel camera all for under $50 dollars with a two-year contract. If this phone ever sees the light of day, it better be less than $50 dollars.

[Beamo Posted Feb 7th 2009 2:59AM]

Joaquin I don't think you get the integrated experience. The first phone sorts your contacts out with their facebook profiles. Its a very integrated experience and much more useful that an app you have to run because its always on.
It was available on 18 month contracts for 15 quid a month which is what.. 20 dollars? with the handset being free iirc. I didnt think the first one looked very nice but it was built nicely. have one in my draw. Prefer to use my E71 tho.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 10th 2009 9:59PM]

You can set the Facebook application to run on power-up on the Rant.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 8th 2009 7:36AM]

Those who claim the iPhone-fan-club members are 'missing the point' are right. This is a phone that's available at a great price with a ton of features. Which is why I bought one.

Unfortunately, in just under a week it drove me insane. Which is why it's now on eBay.

Trouble is, INQ put so much emphasis on these pretty-looking features that they forgot to actually put any decent hardware in the thing. Mine can't cope with a simple task like searching for a friend on Facebook without horrific typing lag, for example. Nor can it ever pick up and hold a signal, or realise that I don't want the @^&*£ing T9 dictionary on. Or take a photo that doesn't look like it was through the eyes of Amy Winehouse. Or work out where I am on Google Maps. Or hold its charge for more than a day. Or spend less than an hour trying to open a single image on its memory card. Or show a YouTube video that wasn't garbled to hell. All things that my old Sony Ericsson managed brilliantly. Totally and utterly incompetent, this thing.

My point is, all these shiny features like Facebook and MSN Messenger (which are available on any other 3G handset anyway) are rendered useless by the user experience. INQ need to sort that out before they bother with Twitter.