Before I start, you should know a little about me.

Having owned 10 different phones, I feel I'm pretty well endowed in terms of experience to be able to discuss a mobile phone on here.

Firstly, there's the usability of the thing its self. The menus are pretty tacky, but I can get on with that. What annoys me is the speed at which the thing works. It's a bit like using a 10 year old computer with a new operating system, to be honest. It's like it just can't quite cope.

Navigating photos is a pain. On my previous phone, a Sony Ericsson K800i, flipping through photos was a breeze. I have 1GB's worth of 3.2 megapixel shots on there, and it'll whizz through them quickly and easily. The iNQ takes an age to load each full sized photo, and even has an issue with loading thumbnails too. I take a lot of photos, so this annoys me immensely.

Then we move on to the phone's supposed main features. A dedicated Facebook application, for example. Personally, I've found this to be largely useless, doing little more than providing me with a basic RSS feed of what's new. Which is fine, but it takes ages to gather this too - usually more than 2 minutes. 2 minutes to load a few bits of text is unacceptable, quite frankly. The dimwittedness kicks in again here. I wanted to view someone's profile yesterday, so I had to type in their name to find it. The iNQ behaved like it couldn't be bothered. It took me 20 minutes to type out the name 'Elliott Webb', purely because the phone just refused to react to any input for most of the time. I had to keep going back and making sure it had every single letter correctly. And then, just as I got to the first letter B of his surname, the application mysteriously closed! So I sat there typing it in again, and it did the same thing again. So I threw it at a wall, and got out my laptop and did it there instead.

Another feature I spotted was the Last.fm functionality. For those who don't know, Last.fm is a sort of free, legal internet music streaming service that's proving very popular at the moment. 'Great!' I thought, I'll be able to listen to music streamed to the phone. No. The functionality on here is there purely to 'scrobble' - a feature of last.fm that updates your profile page based on what you've been listening to. Something that is of no use to me whatsoever.

Which brings me on to my next point: the phone reception. Now, I'm an avid 3 customer. I've had absolutely no problem with their service. I've even got mobile broadband with them, and that's been great too. So it's pretty safe to say that any reception problems are on behalf of the phone its self. On my K800i, I've got 100%, 5 bar reception here at home in every room. And yet somehow, the iNQ manages to get about 1-2 bars no matter what I do. It's awful here, in a high signal area, and in lower signal areas (such as my school) it's absolutely hopeless. Nobody can get through to me anymore because it just denies all knowledge of a signal and goes into emergency call only mode. Not helpful. I mean, all this fancy camera, facebook, youtube-y-ness is great, but at the end of the day I want it to be a phone. And this doesn't seem to manage that either.

Oh, and here's the weird bits. The battery life is woeful, which is ok as I always charge it at night anyway. However, the iNQ has a habit of lulling you into a false sense of security. Let me explain. It can be at 60% battery, and then 5 minutes later just suddenly die. I mean... wtf? What's stranger is that just before it dies, it vibrates about 5 times over the period of 15 minutes to sort of 'warn' me. Only nothing comes up on the display about the battery level - it just randomly vibrates. It's almost like the phone is holding the battery hostage and it's desperately trying to warn me that it's about to run out, despite what the display says. Very odd, and very frustrating when it happens the first few times and you're left with an inexplicably dead phone.

If you're considering this and actually want to use it... I wouldn't. I mean 3 give you a certain number of days to see if you like it (I think it's 30), so you'll see for yourself to be honest. Don't go in with high hopes.