What is inQ?
INQ is a standalone company wholly owned by Hutchinson Whampoa, 3’s parent company. The INQ 1 is the manufacturer’s first handset. The name is an abbreviation of the word ‘inquire’, and the branding was created by the same firm that devised the Orange and 3 brands. Pricing Contract The INQ 1 handset is available for free on £15-per-month contracts, which includes free Facebook, Skype, Windows Live Messenger and web access, plus 75 minutes of cross-network calls, unlimited texts, emails and calls to other 3 users. The £20 monthly tariff will give you all this with 200 minutes of cross-network calls. Pay-as-you-go The device is available for £79.99 and internet packages are available from £5 per month.
Hutchison Whampoa has created a handset manufacturing company led by 3’s former group handset chief. The idea came after Hutchison developed the Skypephone. Hutchison wants to make a range of mass market handsets built around data services and has total ownership of the INQ hardware, user interface and brand. The intention behind INQ is to penetrate emerging markets, and sell the handsets to operators around the world, as well as to its own businesses. Hutchison expects demand to be high given its focus on devices that appeal to customers interested in more than voice and text. INQ (pronounced ‘ink’ and a contraction of ‘inquire’) will focus on fast and simple access to data services. The company is headed up by Hutchison veteran and former group handset chief Frank Meehan.
inQ is a graphical SRB client for Windows 98/Me/NT/2k/XP. In a nutshell, inQ provides a familiar file-manager-like interface that SRB users can use to manage their data stored on SRB; actually it’s more like a file-manager interface on steroids. inQ looks and acts a lot like Windows Explorer or Nautilus but also throws in features found in several web browsers like Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. It offers an easy way to manage metadata and access permissions, as well as a query builder capable of performing nested queries. It also throws in friendly, context-sensitive buttons that show you which actions can be performed on any given item in SRB.
