IntoMobile is now officially part of the Silicon Valley! To celebrate our arrival in the San Francisco Bay Area, we’ve teamed up with VentureBeat to give our readers discounted passes to the MobileBeat 2009 conference in San Francisco’s Parc 55 Hotel. MobileBeat 2009 is a one-day event where big-wigs from the mobile world converge to…
T-Mobile sides with VoLGA standard for LTE voice calls
It might not sound all that interesting or important to casual wireless consumer, but T-Mobile’s newfound alliance with the Voice Over LTE via Generic Access (VoLGA) Forum is an important development in the move to 4G LTE adoption. While 4G LTE networks promise to deliver true wireless broadband data speeds, there’s still the issue of…
Motorola’s ROKR ZN50 touchscreen music-phone coming to Korea
It’s about time Motorola delivered a stand-out touchscreen handset. We haven’t been hearing too much in the way of new products from Motorola in a minute, so it’s good to see the RAZR-maker still alive and kicking. Moto’s latest music-phone is the Motorola ROKR ZN50 handset with a full widget-ized touchscreen interface. Too bad this…
iPhone Dev Team goes live with redsn0w jailbreak for iPhone 3GS!
It’s the battle for the iPhone 3GS jailbreak! With iPhone hacker Geohot’s purplera1n iPhone 3GS jailbreak utility already live and in the wild, the iPhone Dev Team has decided to go ahead and release their redsn0w iPhone 3GS jailbreak solution early. The Team had initially intended to wait until Apple pushed out the iPhone 3.1…
Jailbreak and unlock your iPhone 3GS with purplera1n and ultrasn0w!
The original iPhone hacker has returned to work his magic on the iPhone 3GS and its iPhone 3.0 OS. Thanks to George Hotz, the iPhone 3GS is now officially jailbroken and ready to take full advantage of its faster processor and boosted RAM stores! That also means the iPhone 3GS can now be unlocked to…
Survey: Most Americans choose mobile phone over alcohol, dumbfounded by smartphones
We live in a very mobile-oriented society. With laptops and mobile phones in hand, Americans are increasingly more willing to coordinate their lives using mobile technology. Cellphones, in particular, are becoming more and more important to the everyday American. Case in point, a new survey, commissioned by Best Buy, indicates that 6 in 10 Americans…
Snapdragon-powered Toshiba TG01 UK unveiling on July 9
When it comes to super-slim and sexy smartphones with enough computing power to take over the world, the Toshiba TG01 takes the cake. Thanks to a power-packed Snapdragon chipset, the TG01 speeds along at 1Ghz clock speeds while playing with a hefty 256MB of RAM and a 4.1-inch WVGA (800 x 480) touchscreen display. The kicker…
National Geographic’s Top 20 iPhone Travel Apps
Like to take trips to foreign locales, do you? Don’t forget your iPhone! Armed with the right iPhone apps, your iPhone can be an invaluable tool to help you organize your trip and find your way around not-so-familiar terrain. Who better to help you find those iPhone travel apps than the globe-trotters at National Geographic?…
GSM Palm Pre spotted in the wild
The Palm Pre’s biggest downfall is the network technology that it uses – the US-only CDMA standard. That fact alone limits the Palm Pre to the US. American GSM users and just about everyone else on Planet Earth will have to wait for Palm to launch the GSM variant that we spied in Barcelona. The…
Apple looses iPhone OS 3.1 beta on devs
The iPhone OS 3.0 is a bit buggy. With stories of bugs and general instability floating around, the inevitable iPhone OS 3.1 update is looking pretty nice. Thankfully, we may not have to wait too long for Apple to go public with the iPhone OS 3.0 update. Apple has today seeded an iPhone OS 3.1…