The mobile phone market is rapidly innovating and proliferating throughout the world. Feature-phone (dumbphones) are continually adding new and exciting features to keep users interested and the consuming public buying. And smartphones are now shipping with once rare and high-end features, like 3G data, WiFi, touchscreens, and massive internal storage, throughout the handset spectrum. Even…
Should you get an iPhone 3G on July 11? Maybe not
What’s this? Am I actually advising iPhone 3G hopefuls against jumping on Apple’s next-generation iPhone bandwagon? Well, yes… kind of. Here’s the thing. The iPhone 3G is going to be the new hotness, there’s no denying that. But, is the launch-day madness worth the hardware? iPhone 3G reviews from Walt Mossberg, David Pogue, and Ed…
So it took that part of the world long enough to figure out voicemail is ludicrous
Mike Arrington, you know, the cock of the walk behind Tech Crunch who can make or break startups depending on how many shots of vanilla flavoring the high school girl with botox in her face and an orange tan working the pumps at Starbucks decided to bestow upon him earlier that morning, has made a…
Ghetto RF shield keeps iPhone and speakers happy
If you’re one of the unlucky few to still be rocking unshielded speakers around your work or living space, then you’re probably painfully aware of just how annoying that cell-signal “buzz” can be. The problem is, speakers that aren’t shielded from electromagnetic (RF) interference will pick up on the radio frequency perturbations associated with incoming…
Cool BMW concept car – what if handsets were designed like this
It’s a slow news day. You gotta love summer. I came across this video of the BMW GINA concept car. The idea behind this car is that the skin acts more like a malleable cover than a rigid-metallic material that requires all manner of hinges, seams, and joints. You gotta love BMW. Macenstein mentioned that…
Orange using wind to power Moby-recharging at Glasto
I thought this might be a story about feeding each of the Glastonbury revellers a can of beans and then collecting the resulting methane, but it appears not….. Orange is apparently going to use a 7 metre wind turbine to power (recharge) mobile phones during Glastonbury this year! Users will be able to connect…
Shoes that detect WiFi?
“A Step in the Right Direction” is apparently the name of a new prototype shoe that could detect WiFi hot-spots where the users are walking. The shoes have a full tower PC in the platform heel integrated electronics, including a pressure sensor in the sole to start scans, LED indicators in the top, and presumably…
Comedy break: Top 10 places to lose your cellphone…
Actually this story isn’t very new at all, but I stumbled across it whilst looking at other info on the ever-wonderful Interweb. Cell phones etc wrote up a list of the top 10 places to lose your cellphone – rather than replicate the entire list here (you can read that by clicking the link at…
NEWS: Young adults are being bombarded with useless shit, hungry for indepth news
While not related to mobile I feel this relates to a small number of IntoMobile readers, you know who you are, you have your homepage set to Google Reader. You know what RSS is and who invented it. You subscribe to anything on the net you find interesting. You complain that it’s hard to keep…
Random Video: Monday is pretty boring eh? Well show me your genitals!
Totally safe for work, but I would put headphones on if there are people around you who are easily offended by sexist remarks. Enjoy your Monday folks: