It looks like the summer's really heating things up for Verizon. With the iPhone 3G launch hanging imminently over their corporate heads, the No. 2 US wireless carrier has announced the LG Dare alongside the LG Decoy and LG Chocolate 3 to help attract some newcomers to the CDMA network. So, with a 3G radio, VCAST, [...]

As expected, Boy Genius got his hands on the T-Mobile Sidekick LX OTA update. BGR is confirming that, in addition to spell checker, play and share capabilities, an alarm clock, stereo Bluetooth (A2DP), Bluetooth file transfer support, the Sidekick LX OTA (otherwise known as an "update") does indeed enable video recording and playback. For you Sidekick [...]

With T-Mobile's 3G network up and running, we're eager to see T-Mobile bring some serious 1700Mhz 3G-compatible handsets into their stable. Some eagle-eyed detective work by Cellphonesignal has uncovered FCC documents that clue us in to a new T-Mobile 3G handset - the Sony Ericsson Bella. We're looking for T-Mobile to pick up the Sony Ericsson [...]

Apologies for not giving you readers more lead-time on this, but I just found out that LG will be hosting an event in Los Angeles tomorrow to help drivers deal with the new hands-free cellphone law that goes in to effect July 1. If you don't already know, California drivers will be required to use hands-free [...]

Wireless card and wireless USB stick market is booming, so it doesn't come as a surprise that many handset makers enter the lucrative market. But it's not about which company will provide the fastest connection, any more — after all, all manufacturers rely on the same mobile technology. Rather, the idea seem to bundle more [...]

Back in October, we reported that Japanese novelists have found a new medium in mobile phones. Now, the trend goes further and we see a printing company launching its first mobile picture book. Apparently, these mobile picture books are designed to be read page by page, without much scrolling - just clicking from page to page. [...]

We already reported that Verizon is preparing to launch its visual voicemail service and that few devices — including LG Chocolate 3, LG "Voyager Refresh," Motorola "Utopia" and Motorola "Blaze" (touchscreen) — are already on board. Now we have a new tidbit of information, suggesting that the so called RIM's response to the "iPhone challenge," [...]

Considering the fact that we covered every single tidbit of information about the iPhone, it's fair to do the same for the Nokia's iPhone killer/answer - 5800 Tube. We've already seen the device in the wild and have so far collected quite a bit of information about it. Not that we can stand behind every single [...]

The designer which has already proved his company can do wonders with phones like the Nokia E90 Communicator and the iPhone, Peter Aloisson, recently unveiled its new creation. It's the Nokia 8800 Arte Pink, which is made to be the high-society lady's ultimate companion. The special edition phone is made out of solid 18 carat [...]

During this year's WWDC, Mariner Software announced that it will port/bring its popular Excel-compatible spreadsheet for the Mac to the iPhone. Apparently, the iPhone application is about 80% ready and is expected to ship as soon as Apple's AppStore opens its virtual doors. The application will support multiple sheets per document, charts, and objects — allowing the [...]

"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 [...]

The Unwired has got a really nice, detailed review on the Gigabyte t600 device, which was been mentioned on IntoMobile a few times now. Whilst not having UMTS or GPS (which we are coming to expect as standard on high-end smartphones now), it does have a fully functional DVB-T tuner…. DVB-T I hear you say? Yes, [...]

The Met Office (UK weather forecasting organisation) is, according to the FT, going to "reposition" itself as a content provider this week, covering multiple digital platforms. Whilst the Met Office currently makes good money supplying broadcasters such as BBC and ITV with weather info, the plan is to produce new multimedia packages for web, mobile, and [...]

People who like Nike trainers, and Mobile devices are probably going to like this story….. Thanks to a new pan-European mobile marketing campaign, fans of the popular sportswear company will now be able to create their own colour-customised trainers, based on pics they take on their Mobiles. The new service is called Nike PhotoiD. The idea behind [...]

As a part of Symbian's 10 year anniversary they've launched a dedicated site to talk about where they've been, what they're doing now and where the future leads. Check it out, plenty of audio and video to enjoy as you procrastinate your way towards the weekend! ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Happy birthday Palm PilotHTC opens new global [...]

In the UK, Sony Ericsson's C702 Cyber-shot launches on Orange, while the C902 Cyber-shot has launched with O2. T-Mobile USA's Sidekick LX gets an over-the-air update that allows video record/playback and more Bluetooth profiles, such as A2DP. Read the full story here.

Dan Hesse, the CEO of Sprint Nextel, recently announced that the company's WiMAX network would see its commercial launch in Baltimore in September, with Washington D.C. and Chicago following later in the year. Read the full story here.

The FCC is showing what looks to be the first Sony Ericsson handset for T-Mobile since 2004. The Sony Ericsson TM506 is a slim clamshell handset with T-Mobile branding and support for T-Mobile's AWS flavor of 3G. Read the full story here.

Last time we mentioned Obopay, they announced a new round of investment. This time, it's MasterCard that is announcing a partnership with the mobile payment provider, to give its customers the "ability to provide an innovative mobile payments service to their MasterCard cardholders on all credit, debit and prepaid MasterCard-branded products." The announcement of this service [...]

fring is opening up its platform by introducing the fringAPI! The idea is expand the functionality of the popular VoIP application/service and allow developers to offer their own web services to the fring community. According to fring, interested developers only need a working knowledge of basic server-side language such as PHP, JSP, ASPX, etc, and XML; [...]