"Mums On Three" or "Three Moms and an App" or "All You Can Eat Data" something equally as geeky

Another parent blogging event recently, this one down in Laaahhhndahn. That’s “London” to us northerners. *pfffft*

Three UK (you know, the mobile network provider) are running this campaign where they reckon that loads of moms aren’t managing internet time as effectively as they could do. Loads of us have smartphones (iPhone, HTC, Crackberry, whatever), but apparently we’re not using them to the max. So Three are all about time saving, being cost effective and using our phones to do more than sex-text our partners and play Angry Birds.

I only do one of those things.

The event they had in London a few weeks ago saw various moms from different walks of life talking to other moms in the same situation. It was also cool that we had Denise Van Outen with the ambassador moms, as she described similar situations to many other moms using a mobile phone with internet access. Up in the middle of the night, tweeting through midnight/3 am feeds, asking for help on facebook. Basically just that feeling of not being alone. Like any other mom, she’s a human being, regardless of being a celeb. Makes no diff to me; she’s a mom with needs like the rest of us.

My iPhone is crammed full of all kinds of apps, mostly photography or games. There’s the odd app which is designed to save time and/or money, but at the moment, I’m yet to find a favourite. So our goal is now that – design an app for “mums on the go”. Now, before all you blokes reading this start having a rant and a rave about how sexist this is, I am in no way going to take on board your arguments. This is not my campaign, it’s theirs. However, I will say I assume they’ve approached moms since the majority of parents looking after the kids during the day tends to be the mom, and supposedly moms aren’t as tech savvy as dads. THIS IS MERELY SPECULATION. So put your balls back in your trousers and calm down.

Just because it says Mums On Three, doesn’t mean you can’t get involved if you want to. In fact, it would make sense to get involved, then at least you can state your case fairly.

MOVING ON!!!!!

It was a fun event, lots of info going back and forth. Plus there was cake.

Three sent me an HTC Desire HD with All You Can Eat Data to trial. Well I gotta be honest, the phone made me want to throw things. It’s pretty, it does stuff, but no. Sorry, no. I’m an Apple Fan Girl. Can’t help it. Nothing wrong with HTC, I just don’t want to spend donkeys years customizing my phone trying to get it right. I just want it out the box, turn it on, put my crap on it and go. So Three took back the HTC and sent me an iPhone 4. Oh GOD I has a happy, oh yes I do.

Well I have no probs with the phone at all. And I tell you what, the data guzzling plan is just brilliant. I’ve downloaded LOADS of stuff, purposely spent forever browsing the net, streamed all manner of stuff on YouTube and haven’t panicked once about hitting any kinds of limits. I am LOVING this idea, and I’m yet to understand why it wasn’t done sooner. In fact, I’d like to know the availability options for this to use abroad, because if the package is just as good, I’ll pimp it like a pimped out pimpy crazy pimpable thing. Thumbs up, Three. Well done!

So now that “us moms” have all this data to guzzle and all this time (or lack thereof) to manage, our next step of the campaign is to have regional meet-ups to design time saving apps for moms on the go. If you’ve got any ideas I would LOVE to hear them. Whether it’s scheduled to-do lists or general time management (with alarms going off every 15 seconds) I’m genuinely interested to hear. You can find out more info on the page too.

And now, some pictures.

Cbeebies presenter Katy Ashworth is mental. Lovely, but mental. She has more energy than any other human being I have ever met in my entire life. I do like her monkey though.

Some of the “Celeb Mums” working with Three, including Denise and also the lady who founded JojoMamanBebe. Now if I was clued up on celeb moms, I would remember what her name is and tell you. I’ll get back to you.