Tim Wade's Blog

3 Skypephones are shit and I would totally advise everybody not to get one. Firstly they take about a week to activate any service, and secondly they fail to tell you at the point of sale that your phone will give us, and not turn on, within three months of purchase.

Yes, they will offer to send it away for repair, which takes 1-3 weeks and the 3 network will not offer you any replacement handset for that duration. On further reading, after repair, you will be lucky if you get another month out of it, before it does it again.

So you’ll be left with a very useful 3 SIM card and a charger for your 100 euros!

Read more about it here -

1. 3 Skypephones are shit
2. And here
3. And even here on the 3 and Skypephone web site

But certainly don’t buy one!!! Use a proper network!

And 3, if you willing to replace my handset with a new one, I might consider removing this post from my blog – not that I should have too. You can contact me – tim at timwadesblog dot com.

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At last, the 3 SkypePhone that I bought last week and has taken 5 days of battling 3′s incompetence is on and working, and I can now Skype my friends whilst walking down the street, drinking in the pub, lying in the bath or sat on the toilet!

“At fucking long last!”

So, you want my number and SkypeName? Be serious – you are not even a registered user of my blog, and haven’t even had the decency to have left me a comment on my web site! If you are important enough to know me, then you already have it anyway.

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A new 3 SkypePhone and my beautiful girlfriend are being difficult again today. The new 3 SkypePhone because their website for registration of a new phone (believe it or not, you cannot register it or activate it in the 3 shop), and my beautiful girlfriend because she is just in the mood to be difficult today. Bless her.

Anyway. I’d better hurry up and clean the whole house, because she is already in a mood, because she can’t work the 3 website, moaned at me for not cooking her breakfast that she said she was taking upstairs, and all the stuff in the kitchen (that she put there) is suddenly my fault too. Good job I love ‘er eh?

Ciao4now!

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