I’m a gadget freak as some of you may know…. many years back when i was at uni a new Network called ‘3′ was lauched as the first 3G service in the UK.
As a curious person my g/f at the time and I decided to visit the ‘3′ store on oxford street london, where you could try this next generation technology, we was so impress we preordered our phones. at the time the minimun monlthy contract on ‘3′ was £60 (Kit plan). This made sense to for use as we would spend maybe £130 a month calling each other…. these was the days where cross network calls costed you an arm and a leg.
So £60 was brilliant at the time this got you 1000min any network and loads of texts as well…
Anyway to this day we both have similar phone numbers to each other but sadly i gave up first and left the network mid 2006. When I was first on the network the customer service was great (glasgow call centre) they were friendly knew what they were talking about etc. As the months went on the new call centre was really bad… if felt like a production like where they were trying to pick up as many calls as possible and to get people off the phone…. one example was my tariff pack changed on its own for no reason so i was being charged for every call. So I ask why this was? person had no clue just changed it back and said it wont happen again.
Anyway early this year something caught my eye with Three. It was the X-Series.
X-series is basically a Mobile Broadband service from the network. It’s equivalent to T-mobile’s Web’n'Walk but I believe with much more benefits and features.
X-series features:
SlingsBox: My fav and most used.
“Slingbox is a new piece of kit that’ll change the way you watch TV forever. Plug a Slingbox into your normal TV and it’ll send the live signal to your mobile. So whatever you would’ve watched on the sofa, you can watch elsewhere instead. In the room next door, down the pub, or on the beach a thousand miles away. And if you forgot to record your favourite show, you can use your mobile to tell your satellite and digital TV to record it while you’re away. ”
So basically you can stream any audio/video device from your home to your phone… i.e sky, freeview etc
Orb
This service lets you remote into your computer at home or work and pick up pictures, documents etc.
MSN Messenger
what more can i say…
Mobile Web
After downloading the king of the mobile browsers “Opera Mini” you can go on almost anysite you want….
Skype
This can save you a packet in overseas calls. …. but this also means you can call international via the web
There are other features that i don’t really use as well, but check them out here.
http://www.three.co.uk/xseries/index.omp
The best thing about Three now that i don’t know why they don’t advertise is the 3 Like Home (No Roaming Charge ) service… This means you can use your phone on any 3 network around the world without incurring a roaming charge. How good is that.
So this means i can go to Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Sweden and used my phone as if i was in the UK. So I can go on the web, stream my sling box, etc… you won’t get charged for people calling you and your min are used if you call UK numbers.
This is a handy program i came across the other week.
