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The Nokia 6600 Fold is a very good looking clamshell phone that is aimed as a mid-range product and is now available at Telecom 3. The cosmetically pleasing handset fell into Nokia’s “Cool & Funky” department on its way to the product line. This includes an invisible outer display which comes to life when you tap it twice. It then lights up to show the time, and displays messages and missed calls. You can also simply reject calls by tapping.

The phone comes in a metallic colour (black/purple) and is very compact, although it’s fairly heavy, weighing in at 110g. Upon opening up the phone with a special button that unveils a compact and usable keypad, it also shows the display which is 16 million colours and 240×320 pixels.

The Nokia 6600 Fold has a wide range of features. The camera is rated at 2 mega pixels, and has a double LED flash. It can also record video at 15 FPS and make video calls. The music player can play common music/sound formats, such as MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+ and eAAC+. Stereo FM radio is also built into the phone. The internal memory is a mere 15MB, but can be expanded via microSD memory of up to 4GB which can store approximately 1000 songs.

Supporting a good variety of connectivity methods such as Bluetooth 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) and micro USB also. You can send messages via SMS or MMS, as well as e-mail or the audio messaging service.

Connectivity is good, with support for Bluetooth 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) and a micro USB connection too. You can send messages via SMS or MMS, as well as email or the Audio messaging service for sending voice clips over-the-air. The 6600 Fold has a web browser (Opera Mini browser) and also has the Nokia Mini Map browser with the Nokia Maps.

If you have any enquiries on either this phone or any other products/tariffs to suit your requirements, contact our Telecom 3 telesales staff at 08714246012 for more information.

The Nokia N96 is probably the most eagerly anticipated phone release of 2008 and Telecom 3. Due to the success of the N95, every N95 owner couldn’t wait for the N96 to hit the market. The handset is still a slide form factor, slightly heavier than its predecessor and a smoother finish with more curves to its body design.

The phone is almost similar to the N95 in terms of specification, so it’s a mystery why the device took so long to be released. Significant changes would be the upgrade of the Series 60 user interface from 3.1 to 3.2, an increase of the flash memory from 8GB to 16GB, and the addition of Live TV. The Live TV feature includes an integrated antenna and a DVB-H TV tuner, the Nokia N96 has been designed to allow you to watch TV on your phone. Many home users enjoy using the BBC iPlayer on their computer systems. It’s now possible to use the BBC iPlayer on the N96 which enables you to stream BBC TV and radio content on your phone.

The upgrade in the Series 60 user interface resulted in a more stable environment of the N96’s operating system. The rest of the system is pretty much the same as the N95 8GB. Built-in GPS navigation with the Nokia Maps application, which can be updated on Nokia’s website, digital camera on the phone is still 5 mega-pixels with the addition of Carl Zeiss lens and Tessar optics, video camera for recording and video calling capability, Wi-Fi internet connection, 2.8 inch display with 16 million colours – one of the largest screens available, 3G/HSDPA connection at 3.6Mpbs. Music player which supports all the common music formats (AAC/MP3/WMA etc.), a stereo FM radio with RDS and Visual Radio support, integrated hands free speaker, speaker voice dialling. The N96 has a full range of connectivity possibilities, with support of Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, Wireless LAN, TV-Out and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The memory upgrade to 16 GB with the support for microSD memory cards.

Although there’s not a whole lot of matters to discuss about this handset that hasn’t been covered in the N95 review, the phone is still a big improvement due to its upgraded OS, making the phone much faster and more reliable to use.

If you have any enquiries on either this phone or any other products/tariffs to suit your requirements, contact our Telecom 3 telesales staff at 08714246012 for more information.

The LG Renoir was released at the end of October this year and is the replacement for the LG Viewty and is now available at Telecom 3. The Renoir, much like the Viewty, is a pioneering imaging device, nicknamed after the famous impressionist painter. It boasts an 8 mega-pixel camera, and it pushes the highly capable photographic abilities of its predecessor to a new level.

The Renoir looks similar to the Viewty. It’s a flat touch screen phone that’s a little larger in size (108 x 55 x 14.5mm) and weighing in at 110g, giving the phone some weight for the user to hold the handset steady whilst taking pictures. The handset uses Haptic (vibration) feedback to confirm that you’ve pressed a “button” on the virtual screen, whether it’s the virtual onscreen keypad or QWERTY.

The phone still comes with many more upgraded features such as the camera capabilities. Equipped on this are a high quality Schneider-Kreuznach lens, autofocus, powerful xenon flash and new features such as face tracking and beauty shot. Xenon flash is a more powerful feature compared to the LED, and gives substantially improved after-dark shots. Beauty shot is an innovated feature that automatically detects faces, brightens them and removes spots and other imperfections. The phone also uses TouchShot, which enables you to use the touch screen to focus on a particular area of the shot and the shutter fires when you remove your finger from the screen. Result of all these key features means that the Renoir can take pictures which can be passed as printable quality, even though it’s not a dedicated digital camera. The Renoir also features an outstanding video camera too, capturing upto 120 FPS (frames per second) and also allowing you to playback your videos in slow-motion. 3G video calling is also supported.

The phone doesn’t only excel in camera capabilities, but video and music playback. The Renoir is the first phone to feature Dolby Mobile which processes its sound to enhance music, in particular by boosting the bass output. The music player can play all popular music formats (MP3, AAC, AAC+, & WMA) and has an inbuilt FM radio. Video player supports DivX and XVid formats so you can watch your downloaded files from the internet on your phone. With all these media files, the Renoir has 100MB of in-built memory and comes supplied with an 8GB microSD memory card which enables the user to store approximately 2,000 MP3 tracks or 15 DivX/XVid video files.

But there’s much more to the KC910 than just its camera. This is the first mobile to feature Dolby Mobile. This brand new technology from Dolby processes sound to enhance music, in particular by boosting bass output. The music player can play virtually all popular digital music formats including MP3, AAC, AAC+, AAC++ & WMA. It can also play back video in DivX and Xvid formats so that you can watch movies on your phone. An FM radio is built in too, so you have a very wide range of music and video options available.

Connectivity variety on the Renoir is impressive also. The 3G phone offers 7.2 Mbps HSDPA speeds, USB, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi enabled, so you can connect wirelessly to a home, office network or hotspots. All these connectivity options allows this device to formidably access the internet to browse the web, use the Assisted-GPS feature, check e-mail with it’s e-mail application which supports attachments. The document support allows you to view TXT, PDF, DOC, PPT & XLS.

The feature packed KC910 Renoir is a very impressive handset which does everything one could hope for. It’s also a strong candidate for phone of the year 2008.

If you have any enquiries on either this phone or any other products/tariffs to suit your requirements, contact our Telecom 3 telesales staff at 08714246012 for more information.

The Samsung is a popular product which is now available at Telecom 3. The Samsung F480 Tocco (”Tocco” is the Italian word for “Touch”) is another touch screen model which is their third one this year, using the award winning Croix UI with haptics (vibration) for tactile feedback. The Tocco has a brushed metal finish and is supplied with a leather case to protect the handset from daily tear, the screen is just 2.8 inches and the phone is ultra slim at 11.6mm.

The Samsung Tocco sports a solid 5 mega-pixel camera with auto-focus, digital zoom, LED flash and a Tocco specific feature called the ‘Smile Shot’ which is a feature designed to detect when the subject is smiling before it takes a snap shot. The music player plays most file formats (MP3, AAC etc.) and a FM radio included. The Tocco also has a new feature called “Shazam” that also acts similar to Sony Ericsson’s TrackID service which identifies songs when you hold it to the music source. With this handset, comes with 240 mega-bytes of internal memory which can be expanded with another 8GB via a microSD memory card.

Another addition to the Tocco is the inclusion of a 3G connection. The 3G implementation uses HSDPA which connects at 7.2MB’s similar to most broadband connections.

In fact the Tocco is a brilliant platform for the mobile internet, with its big touch screen and dedicated Google application.

If you have any enquiries on either this phone or any other products/tariffs to suit your requirements, contact our Telecom 3 telesales staff at 08714246012 for more information.

The Nokia E71, rival to the BlackBerry series phones is available from Telecom 3. The near fully functional handset comes equipped with QWERTY keypad and push e-mail systems which are all displayed on a 240 x 320 pixel screen of 2.36 inches.. Nokia have improved their user-friendliness and power to their “E” brand of phones also which comes to compete against the BlackBerry phones whom have been the sole solution to business/corporate users in the past. The E71 uses some extra one-touch keys for the primary uses of the handset (Calender/Contacts/E-Mail). Navi Key works just like the mouse pad section on a laptop to provide accelerated scrolling up and down on the screen when browsing through the internet/e-mails/messages which is Nokia’s solution over the BlackBerry Bolds trackball.

Messaging on the E71 is very well adept. The device supports IMAP, POP and SMTP e-mail protocols as well as Nokia Intellisync Wireless E-mail. Attachments are supported and the QuickOffice GPP also to allow the user to view and/or edit word processing documents/spreadsheets/power point presentation. The E71 comes fully equipped for security, with a keypad lock, remote lock and encryption for data stored in memory or on the memory card. Full support for Virtual Private Networks is provided.

Multimedia features are as followed. A 3.2 mega-pixel camera with autofocus and flash functionality which also allows you to record videos in MPEG4 or 3GP formats a resolution of 640×480 at 22 fps a second or 320×240 (QVGA) at 30 fps. Music player capable of playing all common formats and has a FM radio inbuilt.

Like many smartphones, the E71includes Assisted GPS satellite navigation, with the Nokia Maps application pre-installed. The built-in browser can handle XHTML, Javascript, stylesheets and Flash, so is able to display most websites correctly. For connectivity, this handset supports bluetooth 2.0 (with Enhanced Data Rate), micro USB, WLAN and even Infrared. The WLAN connection can be used to make VoIP calls. A 2.5mm Nokia headphone socket is provided, so you can plug in a compatible headset, but it would have been nice to have a universal 3.5mm jack, like the BlackBerry Bold has. The phone also features FOTA (firmware updatable over the air.) A comprehensive suite of personal organiser functions is included.

Everything you need to organise yourself, communicate on the go, send/recieve data is on this handset.

If you have any enquiries on either this phone or any other products/tariffs to suit your requirements, contact our Telecom 3 telesales staff at 08714246012 for more information.

Sony Ericsson bring out yet another “Walkman” series phone in an attractive slide form factor, the W595. The phone resembles the W910i which was released a year ago. It looks the same on the outside and inside with identical list of features, except, with an upgraded camera and the wrinkles which made the W910i unstable ironed out. The firmware has been extensively upgraded to make the phone very reliable and a joy to use which is why we now have it in our Telecom 3 product catalogue.

The W595 has the “Shake Control” that lets you change to a new track just by shaking the handset slightly. The motion sensor also auto-rotates between portrait and landscape.

The walkman player has received plenty of praise in the past, and this is the latest version 3.0. You can create and update your playlists, shuffle songs, randomised, equalise, etc. and album art can be displayed when music is playing. Supplied software along with connectivity, allows your music to be transferred or ripped from music and can be transferred between phone to PC or vice versa easily. The music audio quality is excellent, whether it’s being played through the loud speaker, a conventional stereo headset or a Bluetooth stereo headset. The Mega Bass feature helps enhance the bass frequencies to give the user a stronger bass sound for a fuller music experience. In addition, the phone also comes with a FM radio with RDS.

The W595 is a great music phone, as you’d expect. The Walkman player has received plenty of praise before, and this is the latest version 3.0. You can create and manage playlists, shuffle songs, equalise, etc, and album art can be displayed when music is playing. The supplied software lets you transfer music from PC to phone, and rip music from CD’s. The W595 has excellent audio quality, either through the loud stereo speakers, or via a conventional stereo headset or a Bluetooth stereo headset. The Mega Bass feature helps to enhance bass frequencies for a fuller sound. In addition to the music player, there’s an FM radio with RDS.

With all these music features, you’ll want the space to store all your files. The built-in memory is only 4 mega-bytes but it comes with a 2 giga-bytes memory card which is enough for about roughly 500 MP3 tracks. If this however, is not enough, then the phone supports memory cards of up to 8 giga-bytes.

The camera has been upgraded to 3.2 and can also record video, and video calling is possible on a 3G network with the front mounted video camera.

The W595 is a brilliant phone. It’s what the W910i should have been and everyone that has picked up the phone hasn’t managed to put it down.

If you have any enquiries on either this phone or any other products/tariffs to suit your requirements, contact our Telecom 3 telesales staff for more information.

Telecom 3 brings you the first Sony Ericsson Cybershot series phone that breaks the 8 mega pixel camera barrier and delivers it to your door. The Sony Ericsson C905, unlike it’s predecessor (Sony Ericsson C902), is a slide form factor phone with a lovely square/curve design which recaptures the moment by re-implementing the xenon flash which is more powerful than the normal LED to allow users whom enjoy the nightlife the pleasures of making high quality snaps to reduce the chances of night photography to end up blurred and grainy in contrast. The camera packs in more tools and features to allow the tweaking of images which appeals to camera enthusiasts, but at the same time, is easy to produce good looking images regardless if you understand the principles of photography.

Camera features include 8 mega pixels, autofocus with face detection, an image stabiliser and red-eye reduction which have been adopted from the C902. The C905 brings a new feature called ‘Smart Contrast’ which allows the auto level/auto balance of brightness and colour/contrast. Best Pic technology is also included as a feature on this phone which takes 7 pictures in 1 snap to allow you to choose the best picture.

Along with the camera features, the phone also contains many other goodies. Assisted GPS for your satellite navigation which has Google Maps embedded along with a Way finder Navigator software bundled. This gives you turn by turn instructions from A to B, suitable for car or walk journeys. Geo-tagging of photos is also part of the GPS feature which allows you to identify points of interest by taking a picture and marking a spot on the map identifying the location.

A fully functional media player is included, even though this isn’t a walkman phone, it still allows superb music playback allowing us to play the common formats (MP3/AAC). The music player also includes album art within your music playlist, TrackID which identifies a song just by holding the phone up to the source. The phone doesn’t come with a huge amount of memory, but it’s easily expandable with a memory micro stick supporting up to 8 GB’s. Mobile e-mail is quite a premium feature available to business phones, the C905 features ActiveSync, which synchronises with your Microsoft Exchange mail server to allow push e-mail. Auto rotate feature switches display of your phone depending on if you turn your phone from portrait and landscape mode.

Connectivity such as Wi-Fi to connect to the hotspots, USB to connect easily to your computer to transfer data/media, Bluetooth for your data transfer and peripherals, 3G connection for high-speed data transfer/internet.

The world eagerly waited for the C905 as the successor of the Sony Ericsson C902 and wasn’t disappointed. Telecom 3 are proud to have such a robust, feature packed phone available.

If you have any enquiries on either this phone or any other products/tariffs to suit your requirements, contact our Telecom 3 telesales staff for more information.

Once again, we’re blessed with the wonderful changes of the mobile phone industry as we present new products to Telecom 3.

For more information, call our Telecom 3 telesales staff.

Long time no post. We’ve been very busy here at Telecom 3 and at long last, I can announce some of the newer products we have available for distribution.

Nokia N96	Samsung F480
Nokia E71	Sony Ericsson C905
Sony Ericsson W595

Our telesales team have been prompted on our new products. Reviews for each will follow shortly hopefully. Please contact our Telecom 3 sales team for more enquiries on our latest products.

Added: (Wed Oct 08 2008)

Telecom 3 Direct, part of the VoiceStream group of companies is now confirmed to be part of 3 network’s elite VIP club to be launched on the 30th of October. The VIP club, a privileged group of the best dealers in the country replaces the erstwhile Q-Club of which Telecom 3 was already a part of

A few weeks back in 3’s annual summer ball in London dealers were updated on the network’s new VIP club and the growth plans of the network which aims to double its business in the next five years and is looking to dealers to contribute.

The members of the VIP club are selected on the ability to deliver both volume and quality in selling consumer, business as well as broadband connections. In addition to having direct & personal access to the who’s who of the network, Telecom 3 will now get opportunities for bespoke training, offers and support to grow and enhance the partnership.

Telecom 3 is part of the top 3 distance sellers in the country and is the largest offshore distance seller. In addition to having its in-house sales team in Scotland, Telecom 3 also works with a number of contact centres in India and around the world through its direct subsidiary, Helios Outsourcing (www.heliosoutsourcing.co.uk). Helios an international call centre consulting firm manages the sales performance as well as the quality control & assurance for Telecom 3 thereby ensuring a third party quality process that has resulted in exceptional quality of business.

A spokesperson for Telecom 3 has this to say – ‘We are proud of our imminent entry to 3’s VIP club in recognition of efforts and achievements. Quality has always been the forefront of our business and we reap the rewards today. Our aim is to work closely with our partners in India and elsewhere to grow volumes and enhance partnerships’.

Original Article located here.