3 Italia Brings Best of Mobile Internet to 3G Phones with X-Series
IT News Online Staff
2007-06-02
3 Italia, the mobile media company of the Hutchison Whampoa Group, has launched X-Series, an all-inclusive offer that extends several of the core applications and features of the broadband Internet to 3G mobile handsets. The company said X-Series will allow its customers to communicate, find information and be entertained in ways they have never been able to do before using a mobile handset.
3 Italia said X-Series marks the beginning of the mobile broadband at 360°, thanks to the support of the leading Internet companies, cutting-edge handsets from leading mobile manufacturers.
Customers will be able to make unlimited calls from their mobile using Skype, have unlimited access to the best of Internet and messaging services from Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 and Windows Live Messenger. Just like on fixed line broadband, all XSeries services will be free, subject only to fair usage limits.
X-Series will allow 3 customers to use Instant Messaging with Windows Live Messenger, send and read emails with direct access to MSN Hotmail, Windows Live Hotmail, Google GMail, Yahoo! Mail or any Webmail using the browser WWW3 powered by Novarra, surf any Web site with WWW3, search the Internet with Yahoo! oneSearch and trade on line with eBay, call for free by the Internet with Skype, use photosharing Flickr services with Yahoo! Go 2.0.
Vincenzo Novari, 3 Italia's CEO, said, "Mobile broadband offered by X-Series is the natural next step for mobile services, extending the full power of the Internet to 3G handsets. Thanks to the partnership with leading Internet companies and handsets makers, 3's X-Series will allow everyone to access what they want, when they want it, however much of it they want, all free when they use it."
3's X-Series will be priced like fixed line broadband. For old and new prepaid customers, X-Series will offer the usage of all the Internet mobile services, free when they use it, for 3 EUR a week or 9 EUR a month. For both old and new Zero5 or Zero7 postpaid Customers, X-Series is free and included in the monthly fee.
For X-Series offer, 3 Italia chose the best videophones available on the market, to offer its 3 customers a unique and complete usage experience. X-Series handsets portfolio includes Nokia N95, Nokia N73, Nokia E65, LG U970 and the TVphone LG U960. Further handsets will be available in the next few weeks.
Buying an X-Series handset, 3 customers will find pre-installed and ready-to-use applications: to start exploiting all the power of mobile broadband, it will be enough to access the X-Series menu. 3 customers will be able to download new applications in a fast and easy way, by simply entering the X-Series menu.
All current 3 customers will be able to upgrade their Videophone or TVphone into an X-Series handset by simply downloading and installing for free the compatible XSeries applications from Pianeta3 Mobile Portal.
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