Okay, so the question was going to get asked sooner or later, and given we are only a month or so out from the big day, I thought I’d jump in with it:

What Mobile devices/accessories are you planning to buy this Christmas?

There are a few reasons behind me asking the question – one is of course, that this dilemma is faced by many with some kind of gadget-fetish, but also perhaps from a more altruistic perspective, we might be able to help each other with suggestions, if we ‘crowdsource’ everyones plans together! I’ll get it going with some suggestions:

• Devices: The HTC Hero, which I thought was a very good device when I had hands-on time with it, should now be doing the rounds with the Operators at a slightly reduced price, compared to when it came out – that would make it good value if you fancy some Android goodness! Alternatively, if you want Maemo in your life, then the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N900 is going to slip in to the market just before Xmas it seems. The eponymous iPhone 3GS is also now becoming more widely available (in the UK at least) with Orange now selling it (and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) to join shortly after Christmas).

• Accessories: 2009 has really been a year of Mobile speakers as far as I’m concerned, and Altec Lansing are as good as any. Particularly for me, their Orbit-M speaker was a breakthrough combination of portability and high fidelity. Other accessories I like are cases, and in that respect the recent addition to my accessories grotto is the iPhone 3GS variant of the Beyzacases Slimline Vertical Leather Case.

But never mind me – what are you planning to purchase within the mobile sphere, in the next month or so? It doesn’t have to be for you, it can also be a gift for someone near and hear – but hit us up with a comment and let us know where your hard earned moolah is going this Christmas!

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So I was typing away this evening, and thinking about the movie Swordfish – an enjoyable romp featuring John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, and of course (who could forget) Halle Berry

There are several priceless moments in that film where the lead characters are spewing techno-babble that is devoid of any joined up thinking – trojans, firewalls, ciphers, you name it – all mashed together in meaningless, cringe-inducing, gibberish. But that’s kind of what makes the movie good!

It got me thinking, there must be some of these types of moments involving mobile devices – and then suddenly a couple hit me – but before I name them, feel free to zing a comment on the end of this piece if you can think of others – as I said, there must be lots, right?

Great moment #1: Die Hard 4.0 (2007) - Justin Long is using a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Communicator, when the mobile networks all drop (as the bad guys are busy taking them down). He turns to Bruce Willis and says something along the lines of surfing the military satellites, and lo and behold, one dodgy cable later, he’s up and running with a mobile data connection!

Great moment #2: Cellular (2004) – a thriller movie, with Kim Basinger and Chris Evans. There’s not a specific moment as such in this film, but they sure do eke out the moment the battery on the mobile phone is running down – it goes on for seemingly forever. As we all know from the irritation of real-world calls, once the battery bleep comes on in-call, you are very soon going to be out of juice!

So what moments can you think of – and no using ‘The Matrix’ as an example please, although there are some quality moments in there too

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I’ve reported on the Amazon Kindle International Edition before (here), which is an interesting device, because its packing a SIM card in it that can roam seamlessly across network in Europe – in fact you could argue it’s the main way of acquiring e-books for that device.

Well now there’s another (yes, another) e-book reader, the Bookeen Cybook Opus, which has a couple of interesting traits:

1. Some kind of landscape mode
2. A price-point that is worryingly close to the Kindle

Yep, that’s right, this bad boy isn’t packing 3G data, yet it’s only $40 cheaper – that’s not good, is it?

Right now, from a mobile data connection perspective, Kindle is cream of the crop – but could we see a newer revision of the Opus coming soon, with 3G or WiFi data? Quite possibly.

[Via: e-reader-info.com]

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Want to totally customize your new Curve 8900, but really don’t want to send the whole device in? I can’t blame you, going without your ‘baby’ for more than a day is a hard thing for most of us. Thankfully, Colorware is now offering a ‘parts only’ option for their Curve 8900 customization. How does it work? You select the colors you’d like to have, and Colorware will send you the parts. From there, you get to do all the nitty-gritty dirty work and install for yourself. Pricing for this option is $175 (rapid return of your device is $159, and the purchase and customization of a new device is $599)…

In my eyes this service is truly a luxury… Not necessary at all, but ranks high on my personal ‘BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) goodness’ scale. Yeah, Colorware is awesome

Get started over at Colorware >

[Via: CB]

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The most visited technology blog, Engadget, recently changed their design. People appear to have mixed feelings about the new look, and I could personally care less since I read Engadget via RSS. That being said, I think I speak for everyone at IntoMobile when I say that Engadget was what inspired us to start blogging in the first place, and eventually, one by one, come together to form IntoMobile. Engadget has done, and continues to do, a fantastic job at throwing fuel on to the fire known as techno-lust that is deep inside our cores. That being said, their RSS feed has changed, subtly, for the worse.

When Engadget, and many other technology blogs, cover a story, there is almost always a source that is attributed. At IntoMobile we usually have a link at the bottom of our stories with pointing people to where we got our information. The text reads: [Via: NAME_OF_SOURCE]. Engadget does the same thing, and with the redesign they’ve made that source link stand out. Look at the bottom left:

This information is no longer present in the RSS feed however. As a reader I have to go to the page that has the article I’m interested in to locate the source of information. Here is a screenshot of the item above as it appears in my RSS reader, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Reader:

Why did you do this? You’re better than this and you know it.

Please consider fixing the “issue” or at least walk us through the decision to make your RSS feed the way it is now.

Update: And before anyone asks, there is another site that does this: Slashdot. Their RSS feed removes links that point to the sources of information used to write their articles. They’ve been doing it for a while now. I hate it, but they have not changed their ways.

Update: Looks like someone at Engadget has read this post (or at least my ego would like to think that) since I just saw this in my RSS reader. Notice the scrunch up text that says SOURCE? I’m assuming they’re working on fixing that bug, but at least they’ve started listing sources now!

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Time for a little off-beat fun. Ever want to throw down your mobile device, take a break, sip some whiskey and get involved in a rousing game of chess? I know I don’t. But if I did, chances are I’d pick up the Jack Daniel’s Lynchburg Chess Set for $197.50.

The description:

Highly-detailed, sculpted and painted pieces complimented by a top-quality wooden board branded with the Jack Daniel’s logo. Board doubles as a carrying case for the pieces. Comes in a gift box that includes detailed photographs of the individual pieces and historical/trivia information. This is one beautiful chess set!

Commemorate your love of deep thinking, the American Civil War, and smooth Tennessee sippin’ with this beauty of a chess set. Check it out here.

Happy Wednesday

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There aren’t too many things super-exotic sports cars, like the $1+ million Bugatti Veyron, hate more than being sentenced to a life of grocery-getting and night-on-the-towning. Salt water is high on that short-list. Being driven by a cellphone-distracted driver also makes that list. Combine those two super car pet-peeves, and you’ve got the makings of a disaster… the kind of disaster that ends with a Bugatti Veyron half-submerged in a salt water marsh Texas.

Rather than let his super car of super cars wind out its four turbo-chargers on some smoothly-paved track or a private airstrip, the Lufkin, Texas man took his million-dollar car for a drive on I-45 in La Marque. He tells police that he was startled by a low-flying pelican that caused him to drop his cellphone. He could have let the cellphone sit there until he pulled over, but apparently decided to reach down and retrieve the mobile phone while driving. The result? He took the Veyron off-road and into a briny marsh.

A driver on an adjacent highway lane managed to record footage of the accident as it happened. The video isn’t all that clear, but we can’t see any pelicans flying anywhere near the Bugatti Veyron. There does, however, seem to be an abundance of dumbass-ness surrounding the car at the time of the accident.

The cops say the Texas man wasn’t injured, but we beg to differ. Broken bones heal, bruises go away, but this guy is never going to live down the fact that his mobile phone distracted him enough to drive into a marsh. There’s also a lesson about not using your cellphone while driving somewhere in this story. If you find it, let us know.

This is the accident:

This is the aftermath:

[Via: Mirror.co.uk]

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Usually the construction of new a new cell tower meets opposition from surrounding communities… At least, that has been the case in my area, and in other parts of Canada. However, the good folks of Cranbrook B.C. are welcoming the build of a new $1,000,000 TELUS (NYSE: TU) (NYSE: TU) cell tower. I’m hoping this is a sign of the times!

The new tower will provide residents in the area with access to TELUS’ new 3G+ network… something most folks in Cranbrook have wanted and will no doubt enjoy.

TELUS service manager Frank Mungiello commented on the situation:

“Finishing this project is very rewarding not only because of the tough construction challenges related to the geography, but because of the community support shown to us for bringing new wireless coverage to the region.”

Congrats Cranbrook residents. Enjoy your new tower and improved network performance.

Note to TELUS: If you want to throw up a tower in my back yard, yeah… that’s cool with me.

[Via: Media Newswire]

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Few advertisements have the power to stop me in my tracks, make me think, and then smile. Dentyne, a manufacture of chewing gum, are running two advertisements in the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit that remind people that communicating with people digitally can never, and will never, reach the fidelity of “face time”. Since leaving Facebook over 3 months ago, and discussing the reasons why with several people in meat space, I’ve discovered that I’m not alone. Many have admitted that they share the same feelings of nostalgia, longing of the days before social networks, and frustration with the digital, you are my friend, you are not my friend, systems of today. The efficiency of which we can communicative with people today removes the effort that was once required to truly know someone.

Now there are people who will argue that online social networking, in moderation, is healthy. The same can be said about masturbation, and that’s all social networking has become. Make a profile, find people you know, say how you feel, read what they said about how they feel, comment on their feelings, give their feelings a thumbs up; it’s remarkably easy to fool oneself into believing that you’re interacting with someone on a meaningful level. “Face time”, exposing your thoughts and feelings in real time, changing the tone, pace, and subject of a conversation based on the area you’re sitting, who is around, and most importantly how the other person moves their body in their seat and the features of their face; the challenges of recognizing, interpreting, and then reacting to someone during “face time” are what you use to discover friendship, truth, and compassion.

A thumbs up doesn’t quite do it. Dentyne realizes this, and they know that many of you have these feelings, but you’re too comfortable in your online social network to take a risk. They’re pushing you to get back out into the world, to experience things without the safety of your laptop. They want you to be prepared for the people you’re going to meet, and to them that means having fresh breathe.

They sell gum, but in the process they try to remind you what life is all about.

[Images from Flickr user "acordova"]

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Many of you are surfing IntoMobile, downloading illegal torrents, and watching a YouTube video of a cat playing the keyboard, all at the same time thanks to broadband. I personally don’t know anyone who uses dialup, and I doubt you do as well. Have you ever stopped and thought to yourself why the business model for broadband delivery to your home isn’t the same as wireless data on your mobile device? All home broadband connections are offered with unlimited consumption, you simply pay for speed.

Take a look at AT&T’s plans for DSL:

And Comcasts’s plans for cable:

See how pricing plans are structured? You want more bits per second, you give us more dollars per month. Now why is it that mobile data is so analog in the USA and many other countries around the world? Usually there is only 1 package. You either have mobile internet on your device, or you don’t.

Check out how my Finnish operator, Saunalahti, charges for their mobile internet:

Notice how you pay more for speed, just like you do in America for broadband at home. What plan do you think I use? You’d be surprised to know I have the cheapest (slowest) package that only offers 384 KB/s. I use the living hell out of it thanks to Opera Mini, but at the same time I’m not hogging up all the bandwidth available at a cell tower. Why do you think AT&T’s network has been a steaming pile of shit after they launched the iPhone? There is no throttling, everyone gets the same big fat pipe.

If mobile data was priced in tiers based on speed, how many more people do you think would sign up? Some of us just do a lot of Twitter and email on the go, we don’t need 3G, and we don’t want to pay $30 a month just to tell our Facebook friends how we feel about a movie we just saw. Some of us like to surf full websites all day on our iPhone, and we want the snappiest experience possible, and we’re totally willing to pay for that.

More user choice (more packages) is all I’m asking for from operators. It helps move more people on to the internet, and it gives speed to the people who really want it, the people who want to pay, because all the cheapskates like me don’t use up all the bandwidth.

Discuss.

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A few weeks back, I wrote a post, asking which the laggiest handset you have used is – this was following a try-out of the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre, and my own suggestion that the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N96 I used a good while back didn’t seem to be too fast at the time either!

Well, it generated some responses, and I thought I’d just take a quick look over what the responses were – here they are, in all their glory:

• Nokia N95-3
• HTC Fuze (HTC Touch Pro)
• HTC Imagio
• Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) P990i
• HTC Mini S

Wowzer! Did anyone see three HTC devices in there? Ponderously, there’s a mixture of new AND old handsets, from Mini S, right through to the Imagio of today. But what’s more interesting is that they are all packing Windows Mobile – hmm, could that be the cause of the lagging?

Well, from my own personal experience of running an HTC TyTn, I can definitely say that it wasn’t the fastest thing ever, that’s for sure – and reviewing the Toshiba (OTCPK: TOSBF) TG01 recently (with a  1GHz CPU in it!), I was still seeing bad lagging issues in the WinMo camp. But all the fault can’t rest at the hands of the O/S (probably) – often if there’s a poor implementation on the hardware, that can create real issues too.

Fascinatingly though, HTC have been getting great reviews recently for their devices – and those have been packing both Android and WinMo – so apart from the Imagio, which is perhaps an anomaly (can anyone else confirm?), then maybe they have sorted the issues out…

Certainly I don’t think HTC are the only vendor out there with handset lag issues, there are some worse offenders for sure – so if you’ve got an opinion, hit us up for a comment and let us which device’s UI felt like swimming the wrong way in a river of treacle when you were using it!

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What would it take to put together 2 ‘working’ iPhone costumes? Apparently $2,000, a couple of 42″ plasma TV’s, a couple of iPhones, and a lot of work. Nothing else needed to be said here. Check out the video below.

I hope everyone had a very happy (and safe) Halloween this year!

[Via: MobileSyrup]

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Just the other day, I was in the local O2 (NYSE: TEF) shop, playing with the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre – having heard so much about it, but no opportunity to get hands-on, I was keen to see what the device could do.

Initially, I was really pleased to see an excellent implementation of both the capacitance screen sensitivity, but also of the UI – it really does look that nice, and in my mind at least, is a competitor for the iPhone UI for sure. A couple of swipes across the screen later, and I’d found the right way to control the UI for flipping between,  and closing Apps.

Of course the next logical test was to see what the keyboard was like, and so I decided to add a new contact, called “bob”. Leaving aside what I thought of the keyboard for a minute (hint: not great), my main surprise came when I went to store the handset – there was an appreciable lag, as compared with the rest of my usage of the handset to that point.

To test what I immediately surmised could be the problem, I then opened a video, and also made a calendar entry – this confirmed my initial thinking that substantial read/writes to the memory, via the O/S, were being hit with a  bit of a lag. Usage of the UI in general was super-smooth, but as soon as you called down to the OS (particularly if writing to memory), then there was definitely some slowdown.

Now I should put this in perspective: I’m used to being spoilt by the iPhone, which is incredibly fluid in it’s use, and rarely lags – only occasionally have I tripped it up. The Palm Pre was 90% good in this respect, and maybe just that 10% bad (slow) across certain invoked operations.

But that got me thinking – I have used some devices previously that were really not great in terms of the lag when you selected certain apps, or wanted to do certain things. And I bet the IntoMobile readership have had the same experience – therefore, can you remember the worst handset you ever had for lagging? And can you remember why the lag occurred (opening app, re-skinning etc)?

I’ll put forward the N96 as pretty laggy during general use…. I’m not sure  it is the worst handset that I’ve ever used for lag (that title surely belongs to one of the WinMo devices I had in early y2k!), but I’m open to suggestion from our readers! So it’s:

• What was the handset – make, model, if you can remember
• What were you doing with the handset that made it lag – keep it clean!

Answers on a postcard … (or at least in the comments on this post!)

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The government of British Columbia has made it all official. New legislation is going into effect January 1st, 2010 that bans drivers from sending or reading text or email messages… Plus, making or taking phone calls will be prohibited, unless a hands-free device with one-touch dialing is used. Thumbs B.C. I think you’ve got this right!

If you’re caught by the coppers, you’ll receive a $167 fine (starting next February) and receive penalties against your license.

Trace Acres of the BCAA commented on the matter:

“You should get in the habit of turning off your cellphone or other handheld electronic devices before getting in the car, or leaving them in a briefcase or in the trunk where it is out of reach and won’t tempt you. Then, when you reach your destination take a minute to check for messages. Also, change your voice message to say you’re currently unavailable or driving, and will return the call when it is safe to do so.”

Amen.

This is just another sign of the times. Where I’m from in Manitoba, our government is in the middle of an ‘awareness’ campaign warning commuters of the dangers of cellphones and driving. It’s of course the first step towards an all-out ban of the devices while behind the wheel.

[MobileSyrup via NewsWire]

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Remember giffgaff? This is the new MVNO, that seeking differentiation by involving the subs (they call them members) in decisions – well they’ve already started that process now, and in addition we know some more facts – giffgaff is launching in beta this year, and they think there is some stuff we should know:

So there you go – we know that data is going to be free for a while, and that if you want to shape the pricing policy you should get involved in the blog comments. More info as we get it….

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Sorry folks, I can’t help myself this morning. I get something stuck in my head and I have to run with it. If you still want to believe the ‘balloon boy‘ was trapped in that crazy balloon, download and use the wallpaper above to show your support.

Interestingly enough, the water tower pictured here is the same one used in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off‘. You know, the one that read ‘Save Ferris’?

Ugh, enough silliness for me today. Hopefully a few folks get a kick out of this one and use it as their iPhone or iPod Touch wallpaper. Enjoy.

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Commemorate one of the strangest/stupidest hoaxes of recent memory with the ‘Balloon Boy’ wallpaper for iPhone. Hand crafted with loving care, this wallpaper will awaken the gut-wrenching rage you felt in your gut upon learning the whole deal was a hoax. Download and share with your friends… Enjoy!

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The Newsy app, which offers multi-source video news, is currently ranked #6 in the News category of free apps in the iTunes App Store.

A news analyzer, not a news aggregator, Newsy.com is the only multi-source video news service producing daily videos that analyze the key differences in how a story is being reported by various news organizations. In 2 to 3 minutes, users understand the nuances in coverage – offering context with convenience.

Well maybe getting to 6th position isn’t the pinnacle of stats, but, Newsy is a good app – the neat UI and to-the-point video sumamries are worth a look:

A slightly different take on presenting news, and one which I frequent. Obviously, you can get the App by typing ‘Newsy’ in to the search in the App Store/iTunes. Or you can visit the website here.

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A quickie here for the Android users/fans in the house. Looks like the team at the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) just had a new ‘Eclair’ delivered to their campus. As you can see in the videos after the jump (3 quick videos), the Eclair has joined ‘Cupcake’, ‘Robot’ and ‘Donut’ on the scene. At any rate, now that the official ‘Eclair’ has arrived, I think we can look forward to Android 2.0 coming down the pipes soon. 1.6 is good and all, but won’t 2.0 be sweeter? Sweet like an Eclair?

Check out the videos after the jump (it’ll only take you a minute). That eclair looks delicious.

[Via: TechCrunch]

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In Falmouth, Massachusetts, some little punk bitch teenager kicked his mom in the throat, head butted his brother and took a bite out of his father, all because his mommy took away his mobile phone. Police said his mom took away his mobile phone after he hit his 15 year old brother. The 18 year old punk bitch also has a case of the dumb ass since his father is a corrections officer. He had a pair of hand cuffs on hand which he used to restrain the young man to prevent him from further committing acts of douche baggery. When police came to remove him from his home, they had to use leg cuffs as well because the little prick must’ve pounded too many Red Bulls that morning. He is being held on $1,000 bail.

His best friend is the famous angry German Counter Strike kid:

[Via: The Associated Press]

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