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Hello, I must be going ...

Hello all, well the time has come for the X-Series blog to close its doors for a while. We are going to re-ignite a new blog later in the year, but in the meantime there's plenty of places for you to say hi, including:

3 neXt
3 neXt on Facebook
3 Skypephone Forum

And of course, for links to all 3 countries, go to

www.three.com

And don't forget our .mobi sites

three.mobi
3next.mobi
3skype.mobi

In the meantime, I just want to thank everyone who contributed to the X-Series blog over the past 18 months or so. It's been a great experience and hopefully along the way we've helped out a few folk. I'll be turning off the comments ability in the blog but you can still read everything that's gone before, and if you want to get in touch we will still be here on email: blog.xseries@three.com!

:-)

de

Don't do this when driving!

Our X-Series moblog contains lots of great posts and hints and tips for those trying to get the most out of their X-Series mobile. While it's UK-centric it's useful for everyone.

To check it out go here: 3 X-Series Moblog. You're free to post whatever you'd like - pics, comments, helpful hints. And, of course, you can set up your very own moblog.

It caught our eye this morning with a couple of posts from 540air and gerrymouth who have been catching their fav football games while on the move or unable to find a pub showing it. -- de

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Fav sites: 3next.mobi and next.three.com.

X-Series reviewed

Very detailed review of X-Series by someone who has used it for over six months both in the UK and overseas (well, abroad if you must) on SMS Text News site has just appeared.

To read it go here.

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Talking to the X-Series blogger

Morgo posted the following: This blog seems to be all one way...how can we pose questions of you and your team to get answers and info without the need to reply to posts? That would be a much more effective way of working with your customers.

de replied: Hi. Although we've been a bit slow posting new items recently due to work load (I was told things slowed down in summer in Europe when I moved here 3 years ago!!), we try our best to reply to all emails we receive via the blog. We answer all the questions we can, usually within a few days and mostly to people's general satisfaction -- although as someone famous once said, you can't please all the people all the time, etc!

Areas we have trouble is helping on unannounced stuff, like handsets or software. This information is usually kept quiet until an official announcement or release for competitive and, sometimes, other reasons.

As always, however, we remain an open channel of communication so ask away and we'll always try to answer you asap. Email us at: blog.xseries@three.com

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ps: I've answered your two other questions in reply to your post ;-)

Most read post on SMS Text News

Most read.

X-Series and Ireland

After a flurry of comments about 3 Ireland and X-Series recently -- posted on our announcement of the new and excellent 3 neXt site of all places -- mostly around why it hasn't arrived there yet, we put our 3 Ireland colleagues on the spot and asked: what's happening.

Here's their response: "X-Series  is definitely coming to 3 Ireland  soon , but our priority this year has been to roll out our broadband offering. This is the most competitive offering in Ireland  whether you want to use the internet on your mobile or, with one of our datacards or modems, on your PC, Mac or laptop.  X-Series adds applications that are tailored for specific  mobiles. These will be available in  q3 in Ireland."

I know it's not what people may have wanted to hear, but at the least you can get some amazing mobile and other surfing on broadband for a great price in Ireland.

Check out the 3 Ireland site for more details of the broadband offering. Or if you want to learn more about 3 neXt go here.

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Finally...we're almost there

At last we're getting ready to go live with a new and exciting thing! It's only days away...

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Write On Bloggers!

If you want to write for our little X-Series blog there's still time (in fact, there will always be time!).

Just send us an email at blog.xseries@three.com. While we don't have any $$/££/€€ we do have the ability to link back to your own blog/flickr or other site everytime you post.

So come on, let us know about yourself by this Friday. It's easy!

:-)

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The X-Series Blog Needs You!

It seems like only yesterday, but in reality the X-Series has been with us for over seven months. Since its launch to an eager public in November 2006, the X-Series has arrived in almost every country that has a 3 business, with our colleagues in 3 Italy and 3 Austria joining us most recently.

Throughout that time the X-Series blog has been exploring the world of the mobile internet, helping out X-Series users when it can, and generally trying to keep an open line between you and us.

We've explored stuff like Jaiku, set up our own Flickr group, and been busy moblogging.

While we will continue to do this, we are now keen to open up the blog to more contributors.

So, want to write for the X-Series blog? Email us at blog.xseries@three.com with a short (50-200 words) sample submission of the type of thing you think you'd like to write about. We'll be picking a handful of volunteers (yea, sorry, probably should have mentioned that earlier!) to become authors on the X-Series blog. 

We're after people with a point of view about the new world of the mobile internet, and people who want to write about what's happening now and what should happen in the future.

We're interested in getting people from around the globe to write for us. So whether you live in Hong Kong, Australia, Indonesia, Austria, Sweden or Italy it makes no difference. We welcome people from anywhere - even countries where 3 doesn't yet have a presence.

So come on, get writing. Applications close on Friday, June 29. We'll let you know within a few days of then if you're on board or not and then we'll send you our editorial guidelines and we're away!

To apply send an email with your sample post to blog.xseries@three.com. Mark the subject "X-Series Blog Author Application".

:-)

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PS: even though we tweaked it a little, the picture we used here is in the public domain and from the US Department of Defence.

moblog.co.uk getting active

We've noticed a lot of unofficial activity happening over at the X-Series moblog as fellow X-Seriesers help each other push their X-Series mobiles to the limit.

If you want to see what all the fuss is about drop by. Even if you don't want to get into the geeky self-help stuff going on, you can always just upload a photo you've taken for others to comment on or even set up your own moblog. Just remember, the moblog is mainly there as a place for you to upload any images you take when out and about, and any suggestions or help from users of it is quite unofficial (i.e., we can't offer support on it).

Warning out of the way ;-)

Click here to visit: http://moblog.co.uk/blogs.php?show=13641

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