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Stefan Constantinescu has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices.

He has been blogging since 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007, then got a job at Nokia in March of 2008, but has now rejoined the IntoMobile team as of June 2009. He is currently based out of Finland.

Stefan is a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet and he knows that there are others like him out there. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you!

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Posts by Stefan Constantinescu

Video: If you root your Android device, your Google Wallet PIN code gets exposed

Google Wallet, the mobile payment service that uses near field communication (NFC) technology and hopes to one day replace the physical wallet that’s already in your pocket, apparently has a security flaw should you be one of the few people daring enough to have a rooted Android device. Now before you freak out and start questioning the security of Google Wallet, we’ll say this again in case you missed it the first time around: This security flaw only impacts owners of rooted Android phones. The guys from the research group … Read more

hackers About 12 hours ago

Stefan Constantinescu

Nokia admits that they don’t have a “Plan B”, if Windows Phone fails then so shall they

Victor Saeijs (pictured above, center), Senior Vice President at Nokia Europe, told Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri that Nokia doesn’t have a backup plan should their marriage with Microsoft fall to produce any meaningful results. His exact quote: “Plan B is for Plan A is to succeed.” Victor goes on to say that the recently launched Lumia 800 is the second best selling smartphone in Denmark, and the third best selling smartphone in Sweden, but even he admits that “we must succeed in the U.S. if we are to succeed in … Read more

vic About 13 hours ago

Stefan Constantinescu

America’s smaller wireless operators seek to stop a bill that would strip the FCC of their powers

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) doles out wireless spectrum every few years using an auction process that anyone who has ever used eBay is already familiar with. Several of the FCC’s responsibilities are to make sure that the right people are allowed to join said auctions, that the wrong people are not allowed to participate, and to put rules on the spectrum being sold in order to create some competition in the market. There’s a new bill in the House of Congress right now called the “JOBS Act, H.R. 3630″ … Read more

celltower About 14 hours ago

Stefan Constantinescu

Video: New Amazon Kindle ad makes fun of the Apple iPad’s $500 price tag

Late last year Amazon launched a 7 inch tablet called the “Kindle Fire” that runs a highly customized version of Android Gingerbread. We don’t know exactly how many Amazon has sold, but some analysts speculate that around 6 million Fire tablets ended up in consumer’s hands during the fourth quarter of last year. For the sake of reference, Apple shipped 15.4 million iPads during the same quarter, though it should be noted that the Kindle Fire is only on sale in the United States, whereas the iPad is pretty much … Read more

seriousmilf About 15 hours ago

Stefan Constantinescu

Rumor: Here’s a photo of the back of the iPad 3; it isn’t getting a quad core chip

Apple’s third generation tablet is set to be announced within a matter of weeks, at least we think it is because March is the month that Apple has used in the past to launch both the first and second generation iPad. For as long we can remember there have been rumors suggesting that it’s going to look exactly like the iPad 2, except that under the hood there’s going to be a quad core processor and that the screen resolution will be increased to an absolutely ridiculous resolution of 2048 … Read more

ipad About 15 hours ago

Stefan Constantinescu

Outrageous: T-Mobile USA will not upgrade the Nokia Astound (rebranded C7) to Symbian Belle

Back in September 2010 Nokia announced a Symbian^3 smartphone called the C7. It can best be thought of as a Nokia N8, but without the fancy high end camera, and in a body that’s much more fashionable. Half a year later (April 2011) it hit American shores courtesy of T-Mobile for just $80 with a two year contract; they rebranded it as the Nokia Astound (see video below). When Nokia started pushing out Symbian Anna, an update to Symbian^3, many people rightly assumed that the Astound would also get the … Read more

astound About 16 hours ago

Stefan Constantinescu

Microsoft to bring the Nokia Lumia 800 to the US for $900 this Valentine’s Day

Nokia’s Lumia 800, which was announced in late October of last year, then hit the market a few weeks later in mid November, is finally coming to the United States. It’ll be available from Microsoft’s retail stores starting next Tuesday, otherwise known as Valentine’s Day, for $900. Now that price tag might seem a bit absurd, but you get a lot more than just the phone. You also get a Nokia Play 360 speaker, Purity HD stereo headset (read: Monster Headphones), and an unnamed Bluetooth headset. To give you an … Read more

lumia800 1 day ago

Stefan Constantinescu

Nokia 803 to land in May, said to pack the largest camera sensor the mobile world has ever seen

Rumor has it that Nokia is going to announce just one more Symbian device before finally kicking the platform to the curb. That device is said to be the long awaited successor to the Nokia N8, which launched in October 2010 with a 12 megapixel camera and Xenon flash. During the 15 months that thing has been on the market, nothing has come close to touching it in terms of image quality. Samsung’s Galaxy S II, Apple’s iPhone 4S, they both have fantastic cameras, but they don’t hold a candle … Read more

nokian8back 1 day ago

Stefan Constantinescu

Mobile devices now responsible for 8.5% of all web traffic, Nokia phones dominate

One could argue that you don’t need a personal computer to function in today’s world. You can do pretty much everything anyone would ever want to do on the internet with just a mobile phone. That was Nokia’s message back in 2007 when they launched the N95 and told people to refer to it as a “multimedia computer” instead of a smartphone. Now back in 2007 that message was a little hard to swallow, even with the release of the iPhone during the summer. Technology being what it is though, … Read more

201200 1 day ago

Stefan Constantinescu

Leak: LG Miracle, it’s a run of the mill Windows Phone that supposedly has NFC

Thanks to Microsoft’s insistence on controlling the system specifications of smartphones using their Windows Phone operating system, whenever anyone announces a new Windows Phone it’s kind of … well, boring. LG’s Miracle is a perfect example of this. This unannounced device was just leaked by the folks at Pocketnow, who say it has a 4 inch ultra bright LCD that pushes 800 x 480 pixels, has a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon, 512 MB of RAM, 5 megapixel camera, and here’s where things get weird, they say it also has suport … Read more

lg 2 days ago

Stefan Constantinescu

End of an Era: Nokia to stop making phones in Finland, factories to be moved to China

Half a decade ago when I first started covering Nokia’s every single move, there were debates in many online forums about whether or not someone’s new Nokia smartphone was better just because it was “Made in Finland” instead of “Made by Nokia”. The former signaled to people that what they were using was not only designed and developed in Finland, but also made in the same country where standards were assumed to be higher. Devices in the latter category were shunned by Nokia enthusiasts for illogical reasons. Today the Finnish … Read more

salo1 2 days ago

Stefan Constantinescu