Disqus
Telus is testing the INQ Chat 3G, the BREW phone out of the UK with heavy social networking angle. By and large, it’s a dumbphone with well-tailored preloaded software, but my contact said he hates the thing. It’s actually kind of too bad that Telus decided to ruin the INQ brand name in Canada with a year-old BREW phone, when they could have just held out for the Android handset due to land in Q4 and made a grand entrance. Here’s a quick rundown of the specs:
- Widgets automatically push Twitter and Facebook updates to the home screen
- Active address book is presence-enabled showing live status from all your contacts, letting you chose how to contact them
- Built-in plug and play HSDPA modem to give your PC wireless broadband access
- 2.4” QVGA TFT landscape display
- 3.2 megapixel auto focus camera
- Built-in GPS
- 120MB memory, (expandable to 8GB)
- Brew 4.0 and Java MIDP 2.0 for application development multitasking supported by dedicated Switcher hard key
For the full tour, check out our software and hardware video reviews. Telus is aiming to release this for the back-to-school crowd for cheap – expect the Telus INQ Chat 3G sometime in August.
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
