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The solar-powered mobile phone case/necktie is here!

Now this is just the kind of convergence we’ve been waiting for! The solar-powered necktie might not exactly be the idea in mobile convergence, but with photo-voltaic cells woven in to the necktie’s fabric and a pouch to hold your mobile phone, the solar-powered necktie is the epitome of “geek-chic.” Or maybe just “geek.” The sun-loving [...]

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 8:26 PM by IntoMobile

Filed under: solar, Mobile Phone, cellphone, Announcements, research, Devices, phone, Technologies, solar powered, tie, necktie

Air controller “talks” down airplane with SMS text messages

Talk about flying blind. The Irish Times is reporting that an air-traffic controller used SMS text messages to help an instrument-less pilot land safely. When a twin-engined Piper aircraft lost power to all its avionics systems (electrical power, communications and weather radar) in a “serious incident,” the pilot used his mobile phone to call a nearby airport’s [...]

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 7:34 PM by IntoMobile

Filed under: Texting, airplane, Mobile Phone, cellphone, Announcements, blackout, text message, guide, air traffic control, avionics, power failure, atc, fly in

Congress makes in-flight cellphone calling ban permanent

Score one for the sensible among us. Cellphone conversations in airborne cabins are now illegal! Call them slow to act, out of touch with reality, greedy politicians, liars, or practically useless civil servants if you want, but Congress comes through for the American public every now and again. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has made [...]

Published Fri, Aug 08 2008 6:22 PM by IntoMobile

Filed under: fcc, in flight, cellphone, Announcements, congress, bill, faa, in flight cellphone, in flight mobile phone, mobile phone ban

Qik takes cellphone video streaming service to public beta - iPhone Qik application still coming

For all you cellphone videographers looking to broadcast your oh-so-important daily lives' activities to the ether with that handy-dandy video camera you call a smartphone, Qik has finally announced their highly anticipated public beta. What, you didn't realize that smartphone of yours was a full-fledged wireless video camera capable of streaming live video to the web [...]

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 8:33 PM by IntoMobile

Filed under: Windows Mobile, iPhone, Symbian, streaming, Mobile Phone, mac os, cellphone, Announcements, applications, Services, video streaming, kyte, Qik, flixwagon, live streaming

Russian Lightning-Strike Deaths Blamed On Cellphones

Cellphones have been blamed for everything from killing honey bees to frazzling our neurons with their deadly electromagnetic radiation. And, with the increasing penetration of mobile phone in all parts of the world, it's not hard to draw casual correlations between cellphone use and all manner of deadly diseases and fatal events. But, there's a [...]

Published Sun, Jul 07 2008 7:22 PM by IntoMobile

Filed under: russia, Mobile Phone, cellphone, Announcements, electromagnetic field, lightning bolt, lightning strike, lightning

NTT DoCoMo developing eye-controlled mobile phones

For the average person, the prospect of controlling your mobile phone's music player and camera with a flick of the eye-balls is just a ridiculously lazy alternative to a swift finger jab or two. For the disabled, however, eye-controlled mobile tech opens the doors to a whole new world of productivity and independence. NTT DoCoMo, always [...]

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 8:00 PM by IntoMobile

Filed under: NTT DoCoMo, DoCoMo, Mobile Phone, cellphone, Announcements, research, cameraphone, eye movement, eye tracking, eye controlled, eye control

German supermarket pushes cellphone shopping

Leave it to the Germans to push the fore-front of innovation in the supermarket. Apparently not satisfied with pushing innovative technologies and design in the automotive field, Germans at the country's "Future Store" supermarket have come up with an interesting way to shop for your groceries. With a few clicks of your mobile phone's camera, [...]

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 4:02 PM by IntoMobile

Filed under: Mobile Phone, cellphone, Announcements, cameraphone, shopping, Technologies, Services, barcodes, cellphone shopping

Hop-on launches $10 disposable GSM cellphone

The mobile space has come a long way in the past couple decades. So much so that Hop-on can make a profit from selling a $10 disposable mobile phone. Such a cheap, nay disposable, cellphone would have been unheard of just several years ago. Hop-on, the disposable cellphone company that keeps popping up on our radar [...]

Published Sat, May 05 2008 3:44 PM by IntoMobile

Filed under: Mobile, HopOn, hop on, cellphone, Announcements, Devices, phone, graffiti, disposable, hop1800, hop 1800

Survey: Hyperconnected consumers see mobile phone as more important than wallet

We live in an age where the cellphone in our pockets are our vital link to our family, friends, worldly news, and business communications. So, it's no wonder that the hyperconnected among us (if you're reading this, chances are, you fall into that category) consider the mobile phone as their single most important possession. A new [...]

Published Thu, May 05 2008 2:03 PM by IntoMobile

Filed under: iPod, cellphone, Announcements, research, keys, wallet

New York State court upholds ban on cellphones in school

When it comes to the classroom, there are just some things that should be checked at the door. Some say that religion doesn't have a place in the public school environment. Others say that sex-education is best left out of the classroom. And, New York education officials feel that cellphones should be left out of [...]

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 3:58 PM by IntoMobile

Filed under: Mobile Phone, new york, cellphone, Announcements, ban, school

Hop-on disposable cellphone coming to Europe - mobile phone is cheap enough to throw away

The Hop-on HOP1900 Graffiti phone that brought the convenience of disposable mobile phones to the US is apparently set to make a trip across the pond. Thanks to an initial test-order of 10,000 units, and unnamed distributor has made the commitment to bring the super-cheap, display-less Hop-on disposable cellphone to Europe. Of course, the Euro-version of [...]

Published Fri, Apr 04 2008 3:42 PM by IntoMobile

Filed under: Mobile, HopOn, hop on, cellphone, Announcements, Devices, phone, graffiti, disposable, hop1900

Congress considers bill to ban cellphones from in-flight use

As if the FCC and FAA's indefinite ban on the use of mobile phones while airborne wasn't enough, a couple well-meaning but likely clueless Congressman have proposed a bill that would effectively ban cellphones from being used on an airborne plane. Apparently, the fear of having to sit next to loud and obnoxious passenger yapping [...]

Published Thu, Apr 04 2008 8:51 PM by IntoMobile

Filed under: fcc, in flight, cellphone, Announcements, congress, Services, bill, faa, in flight cellphone, in flight mobile phone

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