The USPTO must be busy these days. With every tech company jockeying to secure legal rights to anything resembling an idea, it's a wonder how the truly deserving and innovative ideas ever get issued a patent. Nevertheless, Sony Ericsson has filed for yet another display patent. This time, the patent application, entitled "Orientation based multiple mode [...]

How does live-streaming, on-demand TV sound? We we think it's swell, too. Well, with the BBC's launch of their iPhone-optimized iPlayer, you can have your H.264 feed and eat it at 512Kbps too! That is, as long as you're in the UK - lucky Brits. No Flash, no apps, no nothing. Just hit up the iPlayer site [...]

No doubt you've read about Apple's SDK Announcement, summary: iPhone 2.0 firmware will add a new icon called "App Store" which will be the only way a developer will get to sell their application and keep 70% of the profits. Now we're finding out that only one application will be allowed to run at once, [...]

I'm not sure I've seen something like this before. Yeah, there are Java ME clients for some mobile social networks, but the idea behind V-Circles is that all the action is on the client. You create or join existing communities from your phone without logging to the actual website. To put things in perspective, here's an [...]

Here are promo videos for two of the newly announced Nokia smartphones - N78 and N96. As you're probably aware, both devices are quite capable and the Finish giant tries to share both features and the real-world experience in a minute or so. Without further ado, here they are. Enjoy! The Nokia N96 video follows after [...]

Provider of restaurant order automation technology and services GetQuik released its iPhone offering to enable Apple's handset users to skip long restaurant lines by ordering their favorite food from their shiny phones. In order to use the new service and save some time while on a dinner, you'll need to register for a free account at [...]

A LOT has been written in the small amout of intervening time since the announcements around the iPhone SDK - some good, and a lot negative (for some strange reason) - so time for my tuppenceworth, as IntoMobile's resident UK … er …. resident! It fascinates me the hype that is generated around [...]

03/05/08 - Make custom ringtones, voicetones, and mobile wallpaper.

03/06/08 - Convert MP3 and CD audio files into ringtone format and send them to your cell phone.

03/06/08 - Calculate mortgage on your Java-enabled phone.

(Pic courtesy of my favourite SIM-free Mobile/PC online retailer, Expansys) I was perusing my local retailer of electrical goods the other day, and happened across the Asus Eee PC - now I know it's not anything particularly new, but it IS an intruiging little chap, especially as it was sat with a bunch of other (seemingly [...]

Fascinating 23 minute video that certainly brought to my eyes I ever knew existed, battery life being number one. If Nokia's vision of having a Mobile Web Server is to come to fruition then this transition needs to occur much faster than people originally though. ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Brief: Sprint switching to IPv6Interpret: Apple iPhone will [...]

The guys at Mobile Choice compile a "weekly bestsellers" list, as I've mentioned before - here's the Top 10 contract and prepay handset, by their count, as of week commencing 29/2/08: Nokia and Sony Ericsson coming out on top in the contract handsets….. whilst on the prepay front….: Nokia takes up half the top ten! Impressive work! [Via: [...]

Mobile Choice is reporting that Carphone Warehouse is listing the Nokia N96 as "coming soon" for August 08! We all know the specs, so I won't re-list them, however, what's interesting is what else is also coming at around about that time…. First of all we have the Sony Ericsson C902, due June 08. Next we [...]

You may remember a little while back I posted about Celebrity Autograph Wallpapers - well, a company has emailed me to say that they were the first company to launch the wallpapers - wanting to give everyone a fair voice, I thought I'd put a link a link to their site, so you can check [...]

There's a fair amount of speculation about what the iPhone is going to do from this point forward. And, with iFund putting up that $100 million to nurture the iPhone development environment, iPhone-ideas are bound to start creeping up. Box Fab has come out of the woodwork and announced a few of their own off-the-wall [...]

So today I grabbed a bunch of Sunday Newspapers, whilst out walking our little one. On returning home, the one that had the most interesting selection of Mobile News was the News of the World. Below, a summary of some of the interesting ones in the Gadgets section: Vodafone's new HSPA USB Modem, able to run [...]