As you can see from the picture there is a delicious 2.8 inch touch screen, but the Tocco Ultra also has a slide-out keypad so you can input text without your fingers getting in the way. At only 12.7mm thick and with a beautiful AMOLED display, it is certainly one of the prettiest phones on the market.

The new Samsung Tocco Ultra upgrades its camera to 8 megapixels (from 5) and includes some pretty amazing features like face detection and geo-tagging of photos. The camera can shoot VGA video at a healthy 30fps, which you can also edit by cutting footage and adding subtitles.

The phone is GPS enabled so you’ll never get lost again (well, as long as you have a phone signal and some life left in your battery). It’s also got all the features you’d expect from a high end mobile phone including a MicroSD card slot, email, instant messenger, Skype, FM radio, music player, HSDPA web browsing and more.

3 Mobile are making the Samsung Tocco Ultra Edition available as PAYG or on Texter and Mix & Match plans from just £15 a month or £30 a month if you want the phone for free.

3 has brought back its hugely popular six month contracts to give you loads of minutes and texts each month, but with out the added responsibility of a lengthy contract. Available on Mix & Match 300 and Mix & Match 500 call plans (from £15 and £18 a month respectively), 3 has also given you the choice of some really great phones – including the INQ1 Black and Silver.

The fantastic free iPod Shuffle offer has now been made available with the stylish Sony Ericsson G502 (Black or Hazelnut) and the Sony Ericsson K660i Black/Silver on a Texter 75 plan.

3 has reduced the monthly price of the GPS enabled Nokia 6220 on an 18 month contract. There is now £5 off a month on Mix & Match 300, 500, 700, 900 and 1100 call plans. Also, the Nokia 6500 Slide (Black) and the Nokia 6600 Slide are available on the £20 Texter plan for just £15 a month on an 18 month contract. All these discounted call plans will save you £90 over the life of your contract.

These offers won’t be available for ever – so get them while they’re hot. Also, keep your eye on this blog and the site for the latest offers and 3 Mobile exclusives.

The iPod Shuffle 2Gb offer is available to UK residents and will come in the form of Comet vouchers for customers living in England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Island customers will receive the hardware and not Comet vouchers. This very generous offer also includes the choice of one of three free USB modems that have space for a MicroSD card – up to 4GB.

If that wasn’t already enough, existing 3 customers receive a 25% monthly discount on their mobile broadband tariff. This means you could end up paying only £11.25/£22.50 a month for 5GB/15GB of superfast mobile broadband (usually £15 and £30 respectively). 3 Mobile Broadband users can expect speeds of up to 3.6Mbps in high speed areas and the freedom to throw away the wires and take the internet on the move.

Check out this awesome FREE iPod Shuffle 2GB offer before you miss out!

If you fancy a pay as you go alternative, 3 have reduced the price of their Ready to Go starter kits and modems. You can now purchase a PAYG modem from just £29.35 or a prepaid pack from just £58.71. Check out 3’s pay as you go mobile broadband page to see.

Texter 2
The already great value texter 2 plan has been reduced from £20 a month to £15 a month on an 18 month contract when you choose one of these stylish Sony Ericsson mobile phones:

> Sony Ericsson L770 Pink
> Sony Ericsson L770 Silver
> Sony Ericsson W890i
> Sony Ericsson Z750i Pink

For your £15 a month you’ll get unlimited texts and 200 minutes each month to any network at any time of the day.

Texter 4
The texter 4 plan has been reduced from £35 a month to £30 when you sign up for 18 months with any one of these great phones:

> The awesome Nokia N95 8GB
> Samsung U900 Soul Pink
> Sony Ericsson C902
> Sony Ericsson W595

The texter 4 plan comes with unlimited texts and 750 any network, any time minutes a month.

Take advantage of these great offers from 3 and remember that when you become a 3 customer you can get amazing discounts on mobile broadband products and second mobile phone contracts:

• Get 25% off any mobile broadband contract.
• Get 25% off the data allowance cost on laptop packages.
• Get 50% off a wireless router, when you already have a mobile broadband contract.
• Get 2000 3-to-3 minutes if you buy a second mobile contract.

Are you considering getting a new phone? Something which has touch of elegance about it? Well then maybe it’s time to upgrade to a phone which was built with style in mind. Now available on 3 you can get the new stylish Sony Ericsson G502 either in a black or hazelnut colouring.

This trendy phone comes equipped with a 2 Megapixel camera with the ability to share photos and videos online with easy access to Blogger. If you love to surf the internet, chat online or get the latest news, with the G502 you can do all this and more including accessing Google Maps, check your e-mails and make free Skype calls plus with HSDPA fully supported you can experience all this at broadband speeds.

If you’re in need of a bargain buy then you’re in luck for this phone is available on Britain’s first £9 tariff price plan. With 100 minutes or texts for only £9 it makes this phone a real pound saver.

For more information check it out on 3’s website.

A better nickname might have been the “social” phone because the INQ1 also lets you make Skype to Skype calls for free, chat to your friends or work contacts with Windows Live Messenger and also access  the social music application Last.fm for free music on the move.

As well as all of this functionality you can also get RSS feeds direct to your mobile and you can link them with your contacts so you can stay up-to-date with your friend’s blog or find out what they are tweeting about on Twitter.

If that wasn’t enough, you get a 1GB microSD memory card, free unlimited 3 to 3 calls and a clever auto landscape web browser. You can also plug your INQ1 into your home computer or laptop and get HSDPA speed mobile broadband just like a USB modem.

The INQ1 is exclusive to 3 and is available from £15 a month with 75 anytime minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited internet – or £79.99 on PAYG. This fantastic deal runs out at the end of December, so grab it while you can.

Check out 3’s INQ1 on their website for more info…

The Nokia 6000 is a slick looking phone and comes with a number of desirable features, including a 2.0 Megapixel camera with dual LED flash, glide opening, feature control using gestures, an exterior heart beat light that pulses with information on your phone’s status and a MicroSD card preloaded with Nokia Maps.

3’s Mix & Match plans give you the freedom to choose any combination of texts and minutes a month to make sure you don’t have to pay for what you won’t use. You also get FREE 3 to 3 calls and Voicemail calls each month, plus access to cool 3G apps like Windows Live Messenger, Skype, Yahoo, eBay and Planet 3.

So hurry up and grab this great deal before your time runs out!

Go to the Nokia 6600 offer…

3 Mobile’s opening weekend offer is for the Nokia 6220, which is now FREE on all available Mix & Match plans – saving you £5 a month. You still get 50 video calling minutes, free voicemail, instant messaging and Skype and a choice from five Mix & Match plans that start from as little as £15 a month.

The Nokia 6220 is a feature packed mobile phone with a 5mp camera and Xenon flash, built in GPS with UK Nokia maps and geotagging capability. You can get online at up to broadband speeds on 3’s Turbo network and surf sites like Facebook, eBay or Google as well as chat to friends using Windows Live Messenger and Skype.

So if you fancy saving £5 a month with the Nokia 6220 Weekend Offer visit 3’s site from 12pm today, but remember the offer ends on Monday at 10am so be quick or you’ll miss out.

The laptop bundles are available on 3 Broadband Plus and 3 Broadband Max 18 and 24 month contracts when you add a text add-on. This means you can get your inclusive laptop with up to 15GB worth of monthly usage, plus up to 250 texts a month.

There are three laptops to choose from:

HP 530
Celeron 530 processor
1GB RAM
120GB hard drive
Windows Vista Home Basic
15.4″ screen

HP 2133 (not available on 18 month contracts)
Via C7 processor
1GB RAM
120GB hard drive
Windows Vista Home Basic
8.9″ screen

HP DV6000 (not available on 18 month contracts)
Intel Core Duo processor
3GB RAM
250GB hard drive
Windows Vista Home Premium
15.4″ screen
Webcam

For more information on costs and hardware jump over to 3’s new laptop and mobile broadband bundles page.

Having those extra 200 anytime, any network minutes or text gives you the peace of mind that unless you are on your mobile 24/7 you should only pay your standard monthly rate throughout the term of your contract. Just pick your favourite phone and add a Mix & Match 500 plan for an extra £3 a month over a Mix & Match 300 and choose 500 minutes or 500 texts a month or any mix of the two.

To keep your costs down, 3 also give you 300 inclusive voice minutes to other 3 mobile network users, free voicemail, low cost voice, text and video call charges outside you allowance and a number of inclusive video minutes depending on the mobile phone you pick.

You can choose a Mix & Match 500 call plan here and then pick your favourite phone to see you total monthly cost. For example; you could get a super slick, feature rich Nokia N95 8GB with a 500 minutes or texts combo, a massive 150 video calling minutes, free voicemail and 300 3 to 3 voice minutes for only £33 a month!