Comments on: Three’s X-Series, unlimited. Kind of. Sort of. Maybe. On a Tuesday in the rain.

By: ewan

ewan — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:26:32 +0000

John, I hope to have some kind of answer from the blog shortly. I think you may well be right, however what the hell does that say for their ‘unlimited’ offering? Ah well. I agree with you John — rough edges but X-Series still rocks.

By: John Campbell

John Campbell — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:09:28 +0000

AFAIK the reason you were charged is that they view threemail as a messaging service (like SMS), whereas Mobile Mail and Yahoo mail are treated as data services, hence you don’t get billed for them. I suspect this is due to how they’re implemented on the network. I’ve sent quite a few large attachments through the mobile mail app and have’t been billed anything extra. The web browsing is also pretty unrestricted – I’ve managed to stream radio programs from the BBC website for instance. Incidentally, you don’t get charged for browsing if you type in the address directly.
It might be worth getting in touch with the xseries blog about threemail – virtually all mention of it seems to have disappeared from the three website (about the only thing you can find is billing info…).
There are a few rough edges, but generally X-series is everything it was said to be. It’s remarkable to think that when I first got a phone on three last year they still had their “walled garden” and didn’t look to be ending it any time soon.

By: steve procter

steve procter — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 09:24:20 +0000

how utterly depressing. we were all raving a week ago, finally we said, it is here…the future is no longer orange, the future is now brought to you by the number three and the letter F (for free).

but in actual fact it is no different to the rest. That’s it, I’m packing my bags and heading for Second Life.

steve

By: Steve Paine

Steve Paine — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:38:24 +0000

X-Series is a great bit of marketing. Shame about the product. I’m very worried that it’s going to introduce people to the mobile internet in a way thats going to leave them with a sour taste in their mouths.

Regards
Steve.

By: John

John — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:33:57 +0000

so I’d guess that you’ll be charged for web browsing if you type the URL in directly, and don’t go via Yahoo’s search engine first. Could get very expensive if you are a savy internet user and don’t like their rendering engine.

Good thing Shozu and lifeblog aren’t on there, you’d have racked up a fortune this week otherwise.

By: dan lane

dan lane — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:12:50 +0000

do they mean 1gb of web browsing?

They might as well just give up and go home… Even if Frank Sixt wants to provide the service we all want it’s obvious that SOMEONE at Three obviously has no interest in actually pleasing the end users!