You can use the Skype application on your iPad to make calls but don’t get your hopes up for a great experience. The 1.3.1 version works with Apple’s tablet but it doesn’t have an iPad-specific user interface. As you can see from the pictures, this means you’ll get the gross-looking blown up interface. The latest…
Mobile Gmail gets Buzz
Google is making a hard push to make Buzz a bigger part of your life and it has integrated the service with the mobile version of Gmail for Android and iPhone. “Now, you’ll see buzz in your inbox on your phone just like you do in the desktop version of Gmail, complete with the little…
Netflix app coming to iPhone, iPod Touch
Don’t feel left out if you don’t have an iPad because the official Netflix app will soon come to your iPhone and iPod Touch with all the movie-streaming goodness you expect. “Terrific response to our news today about Netflix on the iPad,” said Steve Swasey, VP of corporate communications, in a blog post. “For those…
Verizon CEO says he wants the iPhone, but it’s Apple’s call
In news that should shock no one, Verizon Communications’ CEO Ivan Seidenberg said the nation’s largest cellular carrier is open to carrying the mega-successful iPhone. “It’s their call,” Seidenberg said at a conference. “Eventually, it’s our view we’ll get to carrying Apple.” Verizon’s CEO also said he has told Apple he wants to offer the…
Google giving I/O attendees free Droid or Nexus One
If you’ve already registered for the Google’s I/O conference in May, be on the lookout for a shiny new Motorola Droid or Nexus One in your mailbox. The Goog is going to send these devices to paid attendees before the conference to get them prepped for the glut of Android news that should spring forth.…
Galaxy S may be coming to AT&T
The Galaxy S was a really nice phone at CTIA but old Samsung wouldn’t even come close to saying what carrier(s) it would be coming to. Well, thanks to some digging from the folks at PhoneScoop and MobileCrunch, we have some good evidence that it, or a device like it, will soon be coming to…
comScore: Android gaining traction but RIM, Apple still ahead
Google’s green little robot is gaining some ground in the smartphone market but it’s still way behind Apple’s iPhone and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry, according to data released by comScore. Thanks to the success of handsets like the Motorola Droid, Android has 9% of the U.S. smartphone market at the end of February 2010. This…
AT&T, Verizon not happy with satellite LTE network
In news that shouldn’t shock you, AT&T and Verizon Wireless are complaining to the Federal Communications Commission about Harbinger Capital Parners’ plan to purchase satellite operator SkyTerra and use that to create a 4G network using Long-Term Evolution. What’s the beef? Well, the big carriers are arguing that a provision in the SkyTerra purchase is…
New Samsung bada phones pop up
During its bada developer day, Samsung briefly showed off four future devices that will use its widget-tastic operating system. Samsung didn’t give many details about the new devices other than they will be cheaper than the Wave and at least two of these will rock a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The non-keyboard devices should be thinner…
Droid getting Android 2.1, for reals this time
If you read IntoMobile, you’ve probably already manually updated your Droid to Android 2.1. But you’re in luck if you prefer the simplicity of an over-the-air update because Big Red is shooting the firmware out as we speak. “Wanted to make sure you saw that the Android 2.1 upgrade for the Droid by Motorola started…