The Q10 is the first in the series to feature a Qwerty keypad which has been re-engineered for effortless typing. In fact there are many things about this phone that are designed to make things quick and easy. Not least the fact that you can peek at your messages from whatever you’re doing with one swipe, and then it’s just one swipe to return to where you were.

There’s a really nice 8MP camera, featuring Time Shift camera mode which takes lots of shots when you press the shutter. You’re then able to select the best shot for each person in the picture and the Q10 merges them together to get the perfect picture.

Of course we can’t talk about a BlackBerry phone without mentioning BBM™, which now includes face to face video calling with BBM™Video, which actually allows you to share documents, your browser or anything else on your screen with whomever you’re talking to. This is where having All You Can Eat data really comes in to its own!

With 16GB of internal memory and running on a Dual 1.5GHz processor, the BlackBerry Q10 makes a nice addition to BlackBerry 10 series. Order yours today.

We’re very pleased to announce that we will soon be ranging the highly anticipated Nokia Lumia 925, Nokia’s latest offering in the Lumia series.

It’s slimmer and more stylish than the Lumia 920, but there’s more to it than that. Nokia’s innovative PureView camera is back, but with vast improvements. There’s an additional focus lens, taking the total to 6, meaning the Carl Zeiss optics take in five times more light than other smartphones. What this means in laymans terms is that you still get amazing photos in low-light and even with the flash off! In addition the image stabilisation for video has been significantly improved.

Nokia Smart Cam will take 10 images at 4 frames a second, meaning you can enhance your pictures as soon as you’ve taken them and really get creative by adding animation or swapping faces around, if you feel so inclined The options to then share your photos are plentiful; upload to Facebook, email or even share them via NFC.

HERE maps with Livesight comes pre-installed, it’s a really fun way to find out about the things around you like restaurants and shops etc. through the camera’s viewfinder. So it’s pretty nifty to boot. The Lumia 925 is Ultrafast enabled and that’s when features like this can really come to life. With Ultrafast and All You Can Eat data you can really make the most of this impressive phone.

Of course we have to mention wireless charging too, really one of the key features of the Lumia 925.

There’s a 1.5GHz quad-core processor thrown in to the mix as well, making the latest in Nokia’s Lumia series a phone to really aspire to.

It’s certainly a serious contender in the smartphone range for a number of reasons. Not least the 8MP camera which has a dedicated button, allowing you to take pictures at any time in less than a second.

One of the things that strike you about the RAZR i, and what makes it feel like a premium device is the KEVLAR® back and Gorilla® Glass front. Which make it not only feel classy but also sturdy and tough.  A combination that’s hard to beat.

Speaking of tough, one of the best features of this phone is that it’s splash resistant. No more worrying about getting a bit of rain water on your phone or drink spillages.

The edge to edge 4.3” display is a nice feature too, there’s no wasted space here. With a vibrant screen to boot it’s a really nice visual experience.

The RAZR i also boasts a 2GHz Intel® processor and Android Jellybean software, which make for a really smooth experience. Couple that with the network built for the internet and All You Can Eat data and you’ve got the perfect combination for all your mobile internet needs!

Get this great all rounder with Three today.

We’ve had a really successful partnership with Huawei for a number of years, ranging many of their mobile broadband dongles and mobile wifi devices, but we’re very pleased to announce that for the first time we’ll be ranging one of their fantastic smartphones.

The Huawei Ascend P2 is a great place to start and comes at an exciting time for our network, Ultrafast  enabled and future proof so it will work with our 4G network when it rolls out; the Ascend P2 is the perfect partner for Three.

But that’s not all this phone has to offer. Starting with a really sleek yet durable design, it is beautifully thin at only 8.4mm, but the 4.7 inch elegant infinity screen features tough second generation Corning® Gorilla® Glass. The huge 2420 mAh battery coupled with a 1.5 GHz quad-core processor; also make this a pretty powerful phone.

There’s also a 13 Megapixel camera that comes with a dedicated camera button meaning shots can be captured in an amazing 0.2 seconds.

Huawei have added some nice features of their own too.  ‘Magic touch’ enhances screen responsiveness, even with gloves. Quite a breakthrough if, like me, you’ve been suffering with numb fingers every winter trying to use your smartphone out and about!

The Ascend P2 has it’s own customisable interface in the form of Huawei’s Theme application, which is so easy to use and gives you loads of options to completely change the look and feel of your phone. A change is as good as a rest, as they say! Transitions; another of Huawei’s unique applications, changes the way your homescreen and it’s icons behave. Huawei have really gone to town in terms of making this phone customisable to you.

If you’re hankering to learn more about this great new Ultrafast smartphone, take a look at the sneak peek we’ve made.

Thank you for all the competition entries. You’ve shared images that scream Ultrafast, All-you-can-eat, Celebrate and Silly Stuff. Well done winners, an S4 will be winging its way to you soon and we’ve shared a few of the winning images above.

If you haven’t already checked the specs out and you want to learn more check out Brendan’s S4 video. Panic not if you’re new to Android, Smart Switch makes it really easy to move your music and contacts across, it allows you to connect your Samsung Galaxy S4 to your home computer.

Order your S4 from three.co.uk.

When Brendan Arndt, our Handset Portfolio Manager, returned to his home country Australia for the first time in four years last month,  he took the amazing HTC One with him. He decided to use it to tell the story of, amongst other things, the emotional reunion with his parents, who’d been through some pretty tough times since he’d last seen them.

Brendan knew that HTC’s innovative Zoe™ feature would be the perfect way to capture his holiday in the best way. With Zoe™ you press the shutter just once to capture a video and a sequence of pictures at the same time; video is even captured just under a second before you press the button, as well as three seconds after, so you’re sure to always get the best shot.  The HTC One can then make a Video Highlight of your pictures, videos and Zoe’s creating an easy to share slideshow of whatever event you want to share with your friends and family. It even adds music which is a really nice touch.

Brendan spent three weeks in Australia and since he’s been back, all of the best bits have already been shared with his friends and family on Facebook and Twitter in the form of Video Highlights made by his HTC One. They’re like living photo albums, so much more than endless files of static photos.   It’s the perfect way to capture and share the really important memories, especially if you can really make the most of it with All You Can Eat data on Three’s Ultrafast  network.

In the first 5 days of our campaign alone our hashtag #DancePonyDance was used a staggering 142,430 times, and across the whole campaign it was used 190,328 times. After airing on TV, there were 500 hashtag mentions in a single hour and we were even trending on 6 days of the campaign. Everyone was really getting in to the spirit of sharing the silly stuff. It’s easy to see why – those moves, that hair!

Even celebrities were getting in on the act, from Dame Kelly Holmes to Clare Balding and Joey Essex;

We decided to take a look at emotional engagement across our campaign using the hashtag and key words people were using in their tweets. We found overwhelmingly that the main emotion induced by Socks and his amazing talent was ‘Happiness’ closely followed by ‘Delight’ and ‘Awe’. He was doing exactly what we hoped he would do. It only serves to reinforce the findings of our research a few weeks ago, which indicated that people share online mostly to make their friends and family smile, the positive effect on recipients is what drives the sharers to share.

The music also played a big part in making the ad such a big hit. And it certainly worked both ways, for the first time in 25 years Fleetwood Mac were in the Official UK Chart Top 20, peaking at number 14 with ‘Everywhere’. We’re proud to have been a part of that.

And how can we forget the beautiful and stunning Shetland Islands in this? The 3^rd star of the ad. What an amazing place. The people of Shetland were proud of their home and the attention it was receiving;

The PonyMixer.com also became something of a sensation. Can you believe that 1,305,366 ponies have so far been created? Wow. With Hip hop pony being the most popular. Well, who can resist a bit of Run DMC?

To date our ad has been viewed over 5 million times on YouTube and was shared over 13,000 times from our Facebook page.  We hoped to create something that people would want to share, to spread a bit of joy and I really think we achieved this.

We always knew Socks would be hard to resist, but we couldn’t have predicted just how much he would be taken to people’s hearts. And how he would serve to illustrate so perfectly that sharing the silly stuff really does matter. Thank you to everyone who got on board, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did

We know the weather is making everyone feel a little bit glum, but if anything’s going to warm your cockles it’s a shiny new smartphone isn’t it? To celebrate the rather amazing Samsung Galaxy S4 now being available for pre-order on our Ultrafast network, we’re running a little competition. This time you need to get your creative heads on to be in with a chance to win.

We want you to have a bit of fun with this one, so starting today and then on each Thursday for the next 5 weeks (April 4^th, April 11^th, April 18^th and April 25^th), we’ll send a tweet from @ThreeUK  at 11am to let you know a theme linked to us and our network. Then, all you have to do to enter is share with us a picture that you think best fits that theme, this can either be one of your own creations or something you find on the web. Make sure you include the hashtag #GetSomeGS4, but there’s no need to mention @ThreeUK. The competition will close at 2pm each Thursday. The best and most creative picture we see that day will win. What could be simpler?

We’ll tweet the winners at the end of the day to let them know they’ve won a Samsung Galaxy S4, which they’ll receive on or around launch day!

To help make the most of your new phone on our Ultrafast network, we’re also throwing in a month’s worth of All You Can Eat data too on a PAYG sim, so you can share the silly stuff to your heart’s content!

So everyone, good luck and most of all have fun!

Ts&Cs

You know a new phone is going to be exciting when the launch takes place in New York. So I think it’s safe to say there’s a certain amount of excitement surrounding Samsung’s latest Galaxy S offering the Samsung Galaxy S4. We travelled to New York to find out more about this amazing new Ultrafast enabled smartphone.

The S4 is being billed as a true ‘life companion’, with many new features that make this phone feel like it’s actually looking after you, making your life easier and better . It learns about you just as much as you learn about it. You’re going to get close to this phone.

S Health is one of those features. It helps you to better manage your health by recording your activity, the food you eat and your sleep patterns with the sleep monitor. All for a healthier you.

But the real magic happens with Samsung Smart Pause and Samsung Smart Scroll. Yes, that’s right; you can actually control the phone with your eyes! Smart Pause means that if you’re watching a video and you happen to look away, it will pause, starting up again once you look back. With Smart Scroll you can scroll up and down without even needing to touch the screen. The S4 detects your eyes and the movement in your wrist and the page moves accordingly. Amazing.

Similarly, with Air View you no longer even need to touch the screen to scroll through menus or preview emails, image galleries or videos. You simply need to hover over them with your finger.

Another feature that is all about making your life easier and bringing people together is S Translator, you’ve guessed it, it’s an in-built language translator that provides instant translation from speech-to-text and text-to-speech.  No more language barriers wherever you happen to be

The camera is definitely worth a mention too, now at an impressive 13MP, it takes stunning shots. But more than that, you can now take a photo with the front and back cameras at the same time; the S4 overlaps them so you can be in any pictures you take. And this goes for videos too; film yourself as well as others at the same time with the Dual Camera, pretty nifty!

The gorgeous 5inch full HD super amoled display, which is a world first, makes watching and viewing an absolute pleasure and the highly crafted, super sleek design is a winner too.

All powered by an immense Octo-core 1.6 processor and running on the very latest Jellybean 4.2.2, what better network to make the most of everything this phone has to offer than our Ultrafast network and All You Can Eat Data. The S4 is Ultrafast (DC HSDPA and LTE) enabled, so if you’re in an area this has been rolled out, you’re in for an incredible mobile internet experience.  Even better than that, when we launch the LTE strand of our Ultrafast network, you won’t be charged a hefty premium.

You can register your interest here.

Register your interest now and we’ll make sure you’re one of the first to hear all about it, and how you can get yours. Then you’ll be able to enjoy all the internetting you want  with all-you-can-eat data on our Ultrafast network – without paying a hefty premium.