Virgin Mobile USA, the joint venture between Sprint and Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, has managed to raise $412, about $50 million less than they’ve hoped for. Despite the fact that Virgin Mobile USA is doing well, the market is still cautious on the virtual carriers. The shares were priced at $15 (the low-end of its…
Archives for 2007
Cars.com adds new feuture to allow users to send vehicle listings to their mobile phones
Earlier in June, we reported that Cars.com is launching the mobile site. Now, they’ve figured out how to additionally make their site more useful for the people on-the-go. The newly launched feature, “Send to Phone”, allows users to send vehicle listings to their mobile phones. The idea is kinda neat. You’ve spotted the car you’re…
Vodafone’s top selling phones for October 2007
Vodafone’s list of the best selling mobile phones is always a solid indicator what kind of devices users in UK prefer. As you’re about to see, British people don’t mind paying more to get a decent phone. Anyway, here’s the list: Samsung G600 – Samsung’s new 5 MP camera equipped phone Samsung U700 – Samsung’s…
Telus launches HTC Touch, S640 in Canada
Telus has just launched two Windows Mobile powered smartphones in Canada – HTC Touch and HTC S640. The first mentioned is the iPhone-like device that has only 5-way navigation and dial/hang-up key on the front. For everything else, Touch users rely on the touchscreen and HTC’s TouchFLO technology which allows controlling the Windows Mobile 6-based…
Samsung U600 Madonna phone covered by Swarovski crystals
Honestly, we’re not sure whether this is an official device (we haven’t spotted any such press release), but somehow it makes sense to think so. After all, who would want to custom-build its own Madonna cellphone and cover it with real Swarovski crystals? Now me for sure! 🙂 Anyway, the device in question is Samsung’s…
BenQ T33 music phone can even work without a SIM card
Here’s a decent phone for all you guys and gals looking for a not-that-expensive handset that can also work as a music player. Aside from the mentioned music player that supports MP3, AAC, and AAC+ files – the BenQ T33 also boasts an FM radio, dedicated external music control keys and an ability to display…
Robo game – even robots can fall in love
It was a tough weekend and I’m trying to rest a bit (yeah the weekend was tough). Playing a game on a mobile phone is always a viable option, hence I’ve tried one game I spotted recently called Robo. It’s a Dyna Blast (aka Bomberman) kind of game, if you can recall the legendary game…
AT&T Wireless CEO Stan Sigman steps down
What’s with all the wireless company executive resignations going on these days? AT&T’s chief, Ed Whitacre handed the reigns off to Randall Stephenson last June. There’s HTC USA’s head honcho Todd Achilles. Then we heard that Sony Ericsson’s CEO, Miles Flynt, is taking off on November 1. Then Sprint’s top-executive Gary Forsee is ousted. And…
iNdependence v1.2.2 released – iPhone v1.1.1 activation/jailbreak GUI for Mac OS X
If you’ve been holding off on trying to tackle the not-so-easy jailbreaking process for your iPhone v1.1.1 – or if you’ve held off on the v1.1.1 update because the jailbreak process was a bit daunting – today is your day! The good folks from the iNdependence team have released their iPhone v1.1.1-compatible activation/jailbreak GUI solution…
Announcing the winners of our IntoMobile Bluetooth Giveaway!
As promised, we’ve picked the 5 winners of our FREE Bluetooth headset giveaway. The demographic survey was a great success and we got plenty of useful feedback from our dear readers (that’s you). So, without further ado, here they are: alex82 seth2.0 wendong_l khouey.rt spiderblack_8 Winners will be contacted via email. If you see your…