INQ new cell phones: IM for 3G and INQ INQ Mini.

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Cellphone Maker INQ Mobile releases two new inexpensive CellPhones optimized for social networking applications for mobile subscribers to provide an alternative to more expensive smartphones.

INQ, which owns Hong Kong’s Hutchison Whampoa, launched its first low-cost “smartphone-Lite” device at the beginning of this year. And now the company is expanding its portfolio with two new devices, one of which has a full QWERTY keyboard.

On the phones do not work full of browsers and operating systems used on your Java-based and not as sophisticated smartphone operating system used in devices such as Apple iPhone and Research In Motion of BlackBerry.

But the INQ has included many of the most popular web services such as Facebook and twitter, on their phones to give users a smartphone type of experience to a much lesser price. And because the device is not a Smartphone, as a rule, the subscriber can subscribe to the less expensive data plans, using the INQ phones.

In addition to tight integration for one click access to Facebook, twitter and other web services, like Skype, INQ new devices can also synchronize with unprotected music stored in iTunes and Windows Media Player.

Just how cheap are the INQ phones? Well, if AT & T may sell the Apple iPhone for $ 99 with a two-year contract, INQ director Frank Meehan United States believes that the operators can afford to offer INQ mobile devices anywhere between $ 25 and $ 50 for two-year wireless contract for the services. And in many cases, operators can even suggest free phones in exchange for a two-year service obligation.

Two new phones announced this week are the INQ Chat 3G phone that has a full QWERTY-keyboard and looks like a BlackBerry and colorful INQ Mini, which is a candy bar and comes with a standard mobile phone keypad. The devices are expected to sell in six countries, the operator Hutchison 3 later this year. These countries include Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Italy, Australia and Hong Kong.

In the Mini, which will cost less than $ 150 without carrier subsidies, will go on sale in September. And INQ Chat 3G, which will retail below $ 200 without carrier subsidies, will go on sale in October.

Meehan said the company is still working on deal with American operator. But the phones could eventually on this side of the Atlantic next year.

Microsoft is trying to get a foot in the real-time search wars, adding the twitter messages in Google’s search results.

Bing now face the results of some celebrities (leading to the odd pairing search guru Danny Sullivan and American Idol host Ryan seacrest in the same sentence), when users search for their names and “chirp”, the company announced Wednesday afternoon. This does not index all the twitter, instead of selecting “a few thousand people to start”, and using twitter public API to display these results in a special box for other search results, such as a story that a person could be written about twitter.

Of all the nauseating chatter Adoration end is a real trend in the search for community: the desire to display the search results that contain elements of real-time communication services. Now it is done haphazardly in the Big Three, while smaller companies are trying to offer this service for those who just can not wait.

Both Google and Yahoo, for example, the return of the main page of twitter and a single chirp as the top two search results for “Ryan seacrest chirp.” They do not require multiple tweets within a single window to determine how Bing is now done with the new function.

Bing in the chirp function is gradually rolling in during the day on Wednesday.

“All your network belongs to us.” This may be Tagline for Zensify, a new iPhone application that allows you to view, update and share content from different social networks.

In other words, Zensify strives to take place offline Apps for such Facebook, twitter and Flickr - or at least, you save time bopping from one to another just to read and after the upgrade.

In addition to these three popular networks that can connect you Zensify 12seconds, Delicious, Digg, Photobucket and YouTube. (Support for more services in the works, according to developers.)

After logging into your various accounts (slow, but at one time procedure), Zensify lists all of your friends’ updates in a scrolling graph. She is also a scroll bar tag (the one above), so you can quickly narrow as possible on the basis of current trends.

Then there is also the view of the cloud of tags, which displays the aforementioned “fashion label” on the word cloud. I have never a fan, but this is definitely an elegant way to sift through the upgrade.

Zensify in the Track tool allows you to search all of your network, complete with modifiers for things like tags, users, and types of content. It also provides a convenient installment Saved searches so you can quickly go upgrade, which, say, photos or links, or Flickr, or Facebook.

Want to save the update for use in the future? Click the star to mark it as a favorite. Would you like to update your photo or that one or more of their own networks? Click on the icon theme. (Finally, an easy way to update Facebook and giggle at the same time!)

Unfortunately, while Zensify allows to share or respond to other people’s twitter posts, there is no easy way to do the same with Facebook notes. You can click through “to another Facebook page with the integrated Zensify browser, but it is slow and inconvenient. Annex really need to add a low-level option.

Of course, it is technically called Zensify view, so that some rough edges to be expected. In its current form, Zensify looks very promising, and I suspect avid social-networkers will like it a lot.

You are trying to climb the corporate ladder? The work helps, but it can not hurt to understand some of those who reached the top. ExecTweets for iPhone units in the twitter feeds nearly 100 managers.

These execs include top brass from companies such as Best Buy, Digg, Microsoft, and Zappos. After them you Networks Nuggets business wisdom, links to stories they deem important, random thoughts (twitter is, after all) and even significantly quotables (not sure why, but the execs really in quotation marks).

Application allows you to easily and quickly browse tweets, with separate views for all the most popular and the most popular. You can also explore “hot topics” (which can be sorted by selected keywords) and view the broad categories of government, health and technology.

Best of all, you can tap any tweet to open its accompanying URL, retweet it, send a response, or share it via email.

Even if I’m not in sales, management, or something similar, I must admit I find this story truly impressive. I feel like Bud Fox hanging from a hundred Gordon Hecke, digestion of priceless gems of business advice.

ExecTweets free. He said that is only compatible with the iPhone, but I see no reason why it will not work on the IPod Touch. Anybody care to confirm? At the moment it is only compatible with the iPhone, but ExecTweets EXEC I talked to said IPod Touch-compatible upgrade is inevitable.