Launching this September in Japan, coupons based on your location, calculated via GPS, can be sent to your mobile phone reports Wireless Watch Japan. This has been the dream for people pushing location based services since the late 90s. Of course back then mobile phones didn’t have GPS, but you could still accurately pin point…
Chinese HTC Hero pushes the flat face stereotype by dropping the European chin
The HTC Hero, in Europe and America, has a slight protrusion at the bottom of the device that many have described as a “chin”. Read Ben’s review of the HTC Hero to get a better idea of what I’m talking about. The Chinese variant of the Hero which has just been discovered by Engadget drops…
Brief: Nokia Music Store not launching in the USA this year, pushed back to 2010
Nokia just told Forbes that the Nokia Music Store is not going to launch in America in 2009 like the company had originally said, but instead will come out some time in 2010. To the few of you that care … sorry. To the rest of you using bit torrent: always seed to a minimum…
Zee Germans say NEIN! to Qualcomm for using zee Smartbook name
Smartbook AG (warning, link has sounds that automatically play REALLY LOUD) has filed a restraining order against Qualcomm for using the Smartbook name. A Smartbook, by the Qualcomm definition, is a small laptop powered by their Snapdragon processor and other associated Qualcomm chips. A smartbook, by the addicted-to-the-internet-mobile-geek definition, is a small laptop powered by…
Unannounced Nokia hits the FCC: Code name Alvin, 32 GB memory, triband WCDMA
Nokia probably hates the FCC right about now. In order to sell their mobile phones in the U S of A, they have to be certified as safe and compliant by a body of individuals who are only now trying to figure out why the North American wireless ecosystem is a load of horse shit.…
FlyScreen: Taking the definition of “Lock Screen” and deforming it into something it should not be
Having a mobile phone in your pocket has some potentially negative consequences. If you don’t lock your device, you may accidentally call/text someone. Locking your device is essential if you have a phone with keys, and for those of you with a touch screen device it prevents that precious back light from turning on and…
Video: iBand from Tech21 may be the only iPhone case you’ll ever need; survives nuclear holocaust
The audio may be a bit quite on this video, and it may be a bit long for your ADD self at over 6 minutes, but don’t let that stop you from hitting play and being absolutely bloody amazed at what these guys have created. Ben first told IntoMobile readers about the iBand about 2…
Nokia N900 image samples leak out to the internet
The Nokia N900 is now official, but you bet while the folks at Nokia have been laboring over a hot laptop, one of their test use cases was image uploading to Flickr and Ovi. Thank Mark again from The Nokia Blog for periodically checking Flickr to find out if there are any photos taken with…
Brief: Attention France: You can preorder the Nokia N900 for 649€; Italy and Germany: 600€
Last Friday I told our IntoMobile readers in Italy and Germany that they could preorder the Nokia N900. Today, the French now have a shot at securing the first Cortex A8 powered device from Nokia. Sadly, thanks to higher taxes due to socialized medicine and a 35 hour work week, along with 6 weeks a…
Push versus Pull relationships and why I left Facebook
Tomorrow I’m going to celebrate my first month without Facebook. I’ve been using the service since it originally came out and was only offered to University students. I stuck with it when they added the news feed feature that at first was heavily controversial, yet today is looked upon as one of the key reasons…