3 announced the pricing for X-Series services on Friday, placing the basic Silver package at £5 per month and the premium Gold package — which adds on Slingbox place-shifted TV and Orb remote PC access software — at £10 per month. These tariffs are in addition to the price of the contract the user must have with 3, the lowest being £20 per month.

Both analysts reacted positively to the data limits imposed within the X-Series pricing plans. General surfing is limited to 1GB per month, which Delaney said would be "quite difficult to break" on a phone. Skype calls are limited to 5,000 minutes a month, Microsoft Live Messenger to 10,000 messages a month and — if you have the Gold package — Orb and Slingbox functionality to 80 hours a month.

However, 3 does discourage customers from using their X-Series handsets as modems for their PCs, so they can't be used as replacements for domestic ADSL lines.