If backing up your important data and contact information to your personal computer is more of a technical chore than you care for (especially if you don’t have a smartphone), AT&T is offering the perfect solution for you! The new backup service works through a small application installed on your handset, and will automatically backup…
Apple iPhone get FCC Approval!
That oh-so-important stamp of approval from the FCC has finally been bestowed upon Apple’s hotness – the iPhone! The approval is something of a milestone for any handset hoping to break into the US market, but marks a huge step for eager iPhone hopefuls. As usual, the FCC has gone over the iPhone’s technical and…
Real Networks buys Sony’s NetServices – Serves up Streaming Music for Vodafone
As part of an acquisition deal between Real Networks and Sony, Vodafone’s Live Entertainment Portal users will see their music-streaming (think Internet radio) and downloads being served up by Real Networks. The downloading and streaming-music service, previously provided by Sony’s NetServices, offers a customized option called StreamMan that gives users the option to get on-demand…
Symbian Mocks Windows Mobile Smartphones with Wacky Video Clip
Those wacky Symbian fellows have launched an attack on the Windows Mobile camp with a seriously strange video clip that mocks the abilities of smartphones. The “Boo-Hoo” campaign of mockery belittles us smartphone users with wierd, somewhat disturbing characters saying that Symbian phones are better because they have “aroma phones,” privacy screens, and e-wallets. First…
Microsoft: Forget Multi-Touch, We got “Shift”
Microsoft is planning to butt heads with Apple’s multi-touch interface with their new “Shift” interface. At CHI 2007 (Computer Human Interface Conference), Microsoft’s paper, “Shift: A Technique for Operating Pen-Based Interfaces Using Touch,” won the Best Paper award. The paper describes the new Shift input method as making it “possible to use a pointer on…
Engadget Goof Sends Apple Stock Plummeting – Investors Outraged
Engadget, quick to post “insider” information, finds itself in some hot water today. The site posted an apparent Apple employee email stating that the iPhone and Leopard release would be delayed yet again (to October and January, respectively). It turns out that the email was a fake and the launch window still stands for both…
Echo Instant Mobile Voice Translator – Pick Up Babes in ANY Language!
What better way to impress that “hottie from another countrie” than to spit game in their native tongue? Echo Instant Mobile Voice Translator helps you do just that! Whether your pickin’ up babes in a foreign country, or just playin’ the field on your home turf, pickup lines are a lot less cheesy in, say,…
Nokia and Sony Ericsson Welcom Apple into the Industry with Open Arms
Instead of mocking and belittling newcomer Apple for trying to break into the ultra-competitive mobile phone game, Nokia and Sony Ericsson are apparently welcoming the green-eared manufacturer with open arms. The Apple iPhone’s release date is one of the most anticipated product launches in history. Still, Nokia and Sony Ericsson seem pretty sure of themselves…
Bang & Olufsen: New Clamshell on the horizon
We got a leaked preview (courtesy of the FCC) of the new B&O Serene II “fashion-forward” flip-phone from the high-end electronics designer. The Serene II is basically a follow-up on the collaborative project between Bang & Olufsen and Samsung that produced the questionably-designed SGH-E910 “fashion phone.” Samsung seems to believe that the phone helped push…
Introducing the IntoMobile Wiki – Your resource for everything mobile!!
The IntoMobile Team proudly presents the IntoMobile Wiki – your one-stop resource for everything mobile! We’ve been working long and hard to bring you everything the world of mobile technology has to offer, and to help make IntoMobile the best resource for mobile phones, we’re launching the IntoMobile Wiki. Want some more info on that…