3Skypephone - Quick Introduction
Okay, just a quick blog on the new 3Skypephone, will post more tonight hopefully, so been playing around with my 3Skypephone since the start of the week. Now those nice people at 3 have put £30 credit on this PAYG little phone, so first thing I did was buy the Internet add-on for £5pm, so £25 credit left. This internet add-on has a fair usage of 1GB, I think, so what to use it for as the built-in web browser is a mobile version?
Lets install Opera Mini V4.0 Beta 3 (mini.opera.com/beta) and have near like full internet access, lets install Google Mail java app (www.gmail.com/app), lets install Google Maps java app (www.google.com/gmm), lets install Mig33 java app (wap.mig33.com) for MSN/Yahoo/AIM messenger.
Now a £50 PAYG with £10 min top-up and you can use £5 of that top-up for internet is a bargain, still to try if you can use as a modem, will do this tonight and get back to you. Will be searching through www.getjar.com tonight to see what other useful java apps I can install on the phone.
The always on Skype app which reconnects you automatically if you switch between 2G & 3G areas works a treat for both Calls (4000 mins allowance) & Chat (10000 message allowance).
Oh and normal mobile calls and text works okay as well!
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If you want SkyAnytime on your 3Skypephone to remote record on Sky+
http://mobile.sky.com/SBM/SonyE_novid/SkyMobile_SonyWithoutTv.jar
Downloaded and working fine on both of mine.
If you try to download Windows Live Messenger from the 3 Internet area you get a message stating 'Coming Soon', so hopefully they mean it, but I added the Internet Add-on to the phone for £5pm to allow me to use Mig33 in the meantime.