In short, I think this phone is possibly the worst phone I have ever owned. There are many and vast reasons why:
1. The UI looks like it is still in development stage. Honestly, I could have done better myself. There are almost no personalisation options and really, they could have put some thought into it.
2. The camera has no flash. If I was coming from any other phone than the Sony Ericsson, this may not have been a problem. But it is. Almost every photo I have taken has been blurred, and none of the photo's I have taken indoor are any good.
3. The web interface is appaling. The time it takes to get to a website is (no joke) the length of time it would take me to get my laptop out, start it up, connect to the web, get to that website.
4. The network coverage is almost as bad. I was in central London last week, and I had 'no service' for most of the day. The best reception I have is at home. POINTLESS!
5. This was a phone that was touted as competitive to the iPhone, Blackberry etc. If you believe that you are as big a mug as I was. It really really isn't and the who wrote the amazing reviews should be ashamed.
6. It is the self-styled 'Facebook phone'. Self styled possibly because if I was working at Facebook I wouldn't put my name to it at all. Two reasons why this is rubbish. The phone takes a feed from Facebook (which when it is updating takes an age and stops the phone working). So you get to see the things the phone wants you to see - essentially status updates. The second problem is that if you click any of them, you automatically get taken through to the mobile version of the Facebook website - which, again, does not give you all the info you would want. I went to Facebook on my PC today, and saw loads of notifications that my phone has decided I don't care about!
7. Mobile versions of websites. This does my head in, why am I still looking at a poor man's internet site? surely not much to ask. The default translator to the websites is so bad that for one small website, you get 24 pages to look at. No point.
8. Finally. Again, this is a 'cutting edge' phone - which doesn't have the latest java, which if you want to download a twitter app for example, it will either crash the phone every chance it gets; or not download it at all.
9. There are very few reviews out there for the INQ1 from real people. How many of the reviews are people using the phone on a regular basis?
10. If you have a choice between this phone and a brick. Go for the brick.
