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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

Leak: LG Optimus L3 E400: Who says budget smartphones have to look and feel like crap?

CDON, a popular online retailer in Northern Europe, is taking preorders for an LG device that hasn’t been announced yet: the Optimus L3 E400. Now if you’re the type of person who loves high end bleeding edge superphones, then you might as well just stop reading. For the rest of you, here’s what the E400 brings to the table: 3.2 inch 320 x 240 pixel display, 3 megapixel camera, WiFi/Bluetooth/GPS, quadband GSM/EDGE, dualband (900/2100 MHz) 3G, and Android 2.3 Gingerbread. All that for just 1290 Swedish kroner, which comes out … Read more

lgbooth 2 weeks ago

Stefan Constantinescu

Leak: Samsung Galaxy S Advance: It’s just the Galaxy R, but with an AMOLED screen

We’re close to running out of fingers and toes to count the numerous variants that Samsung has created around their wildly successful Galaxy S and Galaxy S II chassis. Over in the Philippines some folks spotted a device called the Galaxy S Advance, otherwise known as the GT-I9070. It has a 4 inch AMOLED screen, dual core 1 GHz processor supposedly called the “Samsung Janice,” 5 megapixel rear facing camera, runs Android 2.3.6, and it’s got a 1500 mAh battery. If those specs sound familiar to you, then chances are … Read more

samsung 2 weeks ago

Stefan Constantinescu

Review: Nokia Lumia 800: Microsoft doesn’t have to buy Nokia, they already did

Every time I visit Facebook my browser asks me if it should go ahead and translate the website. That’s what happens when you’ve been living in a foreign country for over four and a half years and nearly everyone you know speaks English as a second, and in most cases third, language. During my time in Finland I’ve made a lot of connections, especially at Nokia, where I worked between March 2008 and May 2009. The only reason I bring this up is because something incredible happened last year. Something … Read more

IMG_0126 2 weeks ago

Stefan Constantinescu

Did Nokia really only sell 640,000 Windows Phones in Q4?

Nokia pulled a little trick when reporting their Q4 2011 financial results this afternoon. They said Lumia sales topped 1 million units “to date”. Now what does “to date” mean to you? To me it includes everything until today, which in this case happens to be the 26th of January. Chris Davies, from SlashGear, saw my tweets asking a question about the language Nokia was using, so he did the smart thing and contacted Nokia’s press people to get some clarification. They confirmed that the 1 million “to date” figure … Read more

elop_diffpose 2 weeks ago

Stefan Constantinescu

Nokia Q4 2011 financial results: Over 1 million Lumia Windows Phones sold to date

Nokia has just posted their Q4 2011 financial results and the numbers aren’t exactly what one would call pretty. Regarding sales of the Nokia Lumia lineup, they topped 1 million units, but that number is deceptive since it includes devices sold after the end of the quarter. In other words, 1 million Lumias were moved between the launch in mid November to today. As for smartphone sales in general, they hit 19.6 million units, down 31% compared to the same quarter a year ago, but up 17% from Q3 2011. … Read more

elop_lol 2 weeks ago

Stefan Constantinescu

Rumor: Apple to open a Research Center in Israel by the end of next month?

Looks like Apple’s recent purchase of Anobit was just the first step in the company’s expansion into Israel. Reports coming out of the Israeli daily business newspaper Calcalist say that Apple is going to open a Research Center in Haifa by the end of next month. Apple is said to be looking over “several hundred resumes” for various engineering positions, mainly focused around “electrical circuits, analogue, and testing hardware (and verification).” In other words, expect Apple to continue designing their own chips and taking things to a whole new level. … Read more

applecampus 2 weeks ago

Stefan Constantinescu

Sony Ericsson ST25i Kumquat to be announced next month as the Xperia U

Earlier this week we saw an image of a devilishly handsome Sony Ericsson device called the ST25i “Kumquat” hit the internet. It looks exactly like the Sony Ericsson Xperia S that was launched at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month, except that it has a 3.5 inch screen instead of a 4.3 inch screen. Under the hood you’re looking at a 1 GHz dual core processor, 5 megapixel rear facing camera, and while that 3.5 screen isn’t going to be pushing 720p like today’s Android superphones, it’s going to … Read more

sonyericsson 2 weeks ago

Stefan Constantinescu

Rumor: Samsung will not announce the Galaxy S III next month, will wait until the summer instead

Last February, at Mobile World Congress 2011, Samsung announced the much loved and highly successful Galaxy S II. It landed on store shelves in Europe several months later in May, hit Asia in June and July, and America got the short end of the stick with a release in September by Sprint, in October by T-Mobile, and finally in November by AT&T. Looking to reduce that gap between announcement and availability, sources who have spoken to The Verge say that the successor to the Galaxy S II, aptly called the … Read more

samsung-galaxy-s-iii-photoshop 2 weeks ago

Stefan Constantinescu

O2 apparently sends your phone number to every website you visit on your phone

UK operator O2 woke up to a public relations disaster this morning. Apparently using their network to browse the web results in your phone number being transmitted to any website you happen to visit. Yes, you read that right. Take you iPhone out of your pocket, visit Joe Blow’s Awesome Mobile Blog, and Joe now knows your phone number. The story was first reported on The Next Web with the assistance of Lewis Peckover, who actually discovered the problem in the first place and created a website so people could … Read more

o2store 2 weeks ago

Stefan Constantinescu

LG Optimus LTE sales break 1 million units, took roughly 3 months to do it

LG has just announced that the Optimus LTE has sold more than 1 million units. At fist glance that sounds like an awesome achievement, but looking at the numbers closely reveals some incredibly lackluster sales. First, the device went on sale in October 2011, meaning it’s been out on the market for 3 months. That would mean less than 350,000 units sold per month. Second, LG specially says that the device sold 600,000 units in South Korea. That would mean just 400,000 units left to be split among the three … Read more

lglte 2 weeks ago

Stefan Constantinescu

Nokia Siemens Networks scores a 1.2 billion Euro loan, because Mom and Dad said no

Nokia Siemens Networks, one of the world’s largest providers of the infrastructure equipment that enables our mobile phones to actually connect to the internet and do useful things, has just secured a 1.2 billion Euro loan according to Retuers. The goal was to raise 1.5 billion Euro, but “due to market turmoil”, which is a fancy way of saying the global economy is being flushed down the toilet, they had to settle with 300 million Euro less. What’s the money going to be used for? Mainly to pay off the … Read more

nsnceo 2 weeks ago

Stefan Constantinescu