Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is soon to demo handsets that can hand off between WiFi and cellular networks. The solution, TEAM (Total Enteprise Access and Mobility) will also support PTT capability.

TEAM devices will not be limited to just cell phoes, however it’s expected that the first batch of hardware will be mobile devices, to be ready end of Q3 this year. Motorola expects healthcare and manufacturing to be two industry sectors that will be very keen on the devices, due to the existing use of two-way radios.

With the ability to hop on a Mobile network when WiFi coverage doesn’t exist, the flexibility of range of user comes in to play. The device will be supported by a server who responsibility it will be to tie the calls through a corporate PBX, and handle the WiFi/cell transfers, along with maintaining a “keep alive” ping to each device.

All the devices will be WinMo-based, which immediately enables al of the message and Windows app sync functions we’ve come to know and love. Any thoughts as to the first devices? I am thinking Moto Q variant!!

[Via: PC World.com]

The Hindu is reporting that Indian engineers in Bangalore have contributed “core technology” behind Monsoon Multimedia’s latest place/time-shifting product, called ‘Hava’.

‘Hava Titanium HD’, to give the product it’s full name, apparently erases the difference between a PC and TV set, and allows the user(s) to view HD content on TV, laptop, and even Mobile Phone (apparently it’s WinMo devices that are supported….).

The Hava is actually a STB that streams digitised content (from a DVD source for example) to multiple PCs (or other WiFi capable devices) around the home. If this sounds familiar to any of you, it’s very much the same principle which Slingbox are using. Hava claims that this is the first HD-ready system (although I’m sure I saw a press release from Slingbox a while back claiming the same….).

Prices are apparently between $200-250,  and you can find out more by checking out their website here.

[Via: The Hindu]

We’ve posted about SpinVox a number of times before, and in fact I am a recent convert (why, oh why, didn’t I sign up before!) – but a video explaining a bit about how the system works, now that would be a neat thing…….

….. well it just so happens there is one – and some well-written accompanying text, over at BBC News. Rather than reproduce it all, click here, and you can take a look at the short vid, plus the story.

I’m going to be writing a “usage review” of the system in the next couple of weeks, for those of you that are interested – here’s hoping for some great voicemails left for me before then, to give the natural language engine in the SpinVox system a proper workout!

… will be the “Mash Up Mix 2008″, mixed by the Cut Up Boys, on Ministry of Sound:

As my Mobile tends to go most if not all places with me, it virtually always comes along when I’m training in the gym – and what better music to have on whilst training that some fresh new Dance muzik!

Mashups, for the probably small percentage of you that aren’t familiar, are typically (though not always) where the vocal from one or more tracks is taken, and laid over a new backing track. The result can be quite spectacular sometimes, leading to some great (re-)mixes, which can go on to do major damage in the music charts. Others, well, just sound awful!

Anyways, there’s a vibrant community producing these tunes, and if you are looking for something a bit different to go on your Mobile whilst out and about, training, or…er…. washing the dishes, then you could do worse than give this a try!

The Mash Up Mix 2008 can be bought on Amazon, along with the three previous albums – all, in my opinion, are pretty reasonable! Personal favourite from all the albums, did I hear you say? Oh, that would have to be the vocal from the themetune to Baywatch, over the backing to Baby D’s “Let Me Be Your Fantasy”! Who’d have thought the track that the Hoff got his red pants on to, would work so well with classic 90’s breakbeat!!

[Mash Up Mix 2008 - Amazon]

The guys at Mobile Choice compile a “weekly bestsellers” list, as I’ve mentioned before – here’s the Top 10 contract and prepay handset, by their count, as of week commencing 29/2/08:

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) coming out on top in the contract handsets….. whilst on the prepay front….:

Nokia takes up half the top ten! Impressive work!

[Via: Mobile Choice]

(Pic courtesy of my favourite SIM-free Mobile/PC online retailer, Expansys)

I was perusing my local retailer of electrical goods the other day, and happened across the Asus Eee PC – now I know it’s not anything particularly new, but it IS an intruiging little chap, especially as it was sat with a bunch of other (seemingly enormous by comparison) Laptops.

For those of you that don’t know, the Eee PC is a (sub-sub-?) notebook running a GUI’d up version of Linux. It has a bunch of useful apps pre-installed on it (count in Open Office for example), and includes such features as WiFi – not mindblowing, but handy to have nonetheless.

This wouldn’t be a particularly spectacular set of information, until you see the thing “in the flesh” – it really is very small, but as far as “internet appliances” (like the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N810 for example) go, it would appear to be a really great productivity device.

As I mentioned earlier, what spiked my attention was the fact it popped up in a mainstream electrical retailer, sat on it’s own amongst a gaggle of larger, and more expensive, Windows-powered Laptops. Then what REALLY got my attention was the price – under £250! In a bizarre twist of fate, the day after I first saw the device, it disappeared from the high street retailers shelves…. call Mulder and Scully I say!

A bit of googling later and I’d turned up a bunch of interesting facts, some positive, some negative:

• there is a thriving homebrew community that have hacked the O/S to do more “interesting” things (always a good sign!)
• Research Machines (anyone remember them?!) have got hold of it and are punting it for schools
• It doesn’t have Bluetooth
• The battery life isn’t “great” – just “OK”
• There are a series of versions, which have varying colours (black/white, but more coming) and Memory on-board (2Gb or 4Gb, but 8Gb coming)
• A Windows version is incoming soon

As I said before, what an intriguing little device! With all of the competition in the QWERTY smartphone market (Notables include the Nokia E90 and numerous HTC devices), this is a different solution, but nonetheless a neat one – and why indeed not put your computing power in a sub-sub-notebook, so you can carry a simpler/smaller/better-looking (ooooh controversial!) phone aroud in yer pocket.

Well if any of the IntoMobile readership have invested in this little gem of a portable PC, ping us a comment and let us know how you find it – personally, I am seriously tempted!!

[By the way, if you do want one, you can grab one here, at Expansys]

Mailcurve have announced a new email service for iPhone users, that subscribes to the concept of “refined email” – I could tell you what this is, but the guys at Mailcurve do it so much better:

Sending and receiving email on your iPhone is great now… but hundreds of emails arriving on your phone isn’t necessary, or productive, unless it’s your only email account, which is rare.

Email on your mobile phone is usually extended, secondary email of some kind, so it’s a great opportunity to make it your best, refined email…. now you can precisely control it without ever having to sync to anything, install any software, or use a new address.

Instead of trying to determine what types of email to reject, you can choose the only mail, specifically, you’ll receive on your iPhone, from your iPhone, with a MailCurve™ account.

You’ll still get all your email exactly as you do now on your computer, but only mail from your approved senders gets copied through to your mobile, and you easily configure & manage it right from your iPhone… enter email addresses, assign them to lists you create, and then activate and deactive your lists. You’ll receive mobile copies of your email from the senders in the lists you’ve activated, and no one else.

With just a couple of taps, you determine the only emails arriving on your iPhone. All your e-mail will still be waiting for you on your computer when you get back from the meeting, or dinner, or the weekend.

Looks like a pretty nifty service – anyone with an iPhone want to have a crack at the two-week trial?

Ben

Toshiba (OTCPK: TOSBF) has announced it’s close to signing a deal with a UK MNO to take one or more of it’s new handsets (the ones launched at MWC). Tosh isn’t really well-known for handsets in UK, although some people may be familiar with it’s Portege range (a brand shared with it’s Laptop division). If this deal did come off, it would add to the distribution already rolled out with France Telecom for the G901.

Of all the devices (and my personal bet for the one the MNO will take), the G450 is the most interesting – I’ve mentioned it here before if you desire the detail, but simply, it’s an HSDPA USB modem, which is also an mp3 player and a phone!

Come on Tosh, let’s have the modem in the UK!

[Via: Mobile Marketing Magazine]

I think this is the last 3GSM08 post (yes, still refusing to called it MWC) I am going to make, but hey hey, it’s a light-hearted one, so why not one more….

OnePointSurveys and mBlox have released their final “Alternative Congress Stats wrap-up” – for those of you not familiar, mBlox commissioned OnePointSurveys to conduct SMS surveys of essentially non-important, light-hearted topics each day. Below you’ll find the results of the demographics survey (comments welcome), but there are also some quite amusing ones in the full results here.

• 90% of Mobile World Congress shoes are black.
• 85% people are wearing suits
• Blue is the most popular tie colour
• Attendee hair colour:  0.5% ginger, 40% black, 7% grey, 37% brunette/brown 10% Blonde, 6% N/A
• 15% are women (this rises to 20% in Hall 7)
• 75% of people have more than one mobile but alarmingly 2% left theirs at home!
• 45% of people look tired (on the Wednesday)
• 60% of people had water for lunch, 5% alcohol, 30% fruit juice, 40% coffee
• 92% of people were shorter than 6ft

[Via: Mobile Marketing Magazine]

Shazam has announced the launch of a Facebook app that enables Shazam users to put on their Facebook profile songs that they have recently captured vua Shazam’s service.
(For those of you that don’t know, by dialing 2580 in the UK, you can hold the phone to any music source, and after 20 seconds or so you will be texted the song details – sounds implausible, but it really does work)
The app can be reached by going to the Shazam website or the Facebook application directly. You need to register your name/number so that Shazam and Facebook can sync up. After this is done, any “tagged” songs will have their details shown on your profile. User will also be able to share music with friends, and look at the most popular tagged tracks.
Comment: go on, give it a go – you might even like it!

[Via: Mobile Marketing Magazine]