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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

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IntoMobile Chat: Mike Tyson talks about Mike Tyson’s Main Event iPhone game at SXSW 2011

What’s the first thing you think of when you hear “Mike Tyson” and “game” in the same sentence? If you’re at least in college right now, chances are good that you’ll be thinking of the original Mike Tyson’s Punch Out game on the Nintendo NES gaming console. Well, the controversial boxing champ is back at it with a new game for iPhone. It’s called Mike Tyson’s Main Event and we had a chance to talk to the one and only Mike Tyson at SXSW 2011 about his involvement in the … Read more

tyson1 1 years ago

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IntoMobile chat: GroupMe co-founder Jared Hecht [video]

The SXSW 2011 festival in Austin, TX has been overrun with group messaging apps from every corner of the world. The mobile technology trends we’re seeing out here are being fueled by personal recommendation apps and grilled cheese sandwiches (seriously), but the biggest trend, by far, is the group messaging trend. So, when we ran into GroupMe co-founder Jared Hecht, we just had to pull him away from the GroupMe-sponsored beer and grilled cheese sandwiches to talk about what he thinks about group messaging, what’s in store for GroupMe, and … Read more

Hands-on demo: GroupMe group chatting app at SXSW 2011 1 years ago

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Got Tegra 2? Get high performance games through Tegra Zone

If you’re lucky enough to be one of the first kids on your block with a Tegra 2-powered Android device in your pocket or on your lap, you’re probably itching to put that dual-core processor to good use. Well, it turns out NVIDIA has been working with game developers to create high performance versions of popular titles, all of them tweaked for more realistic graphics and enhanced artificial intelligence. Today, NVIDIA is launching their new Tegra Zone app in the Android Market to help you browse and download those optimized … Read more

Tegra_Zone 1 years ago

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Enterproid launches Divide for Android beta to merge personal and business profiles

If your work requires you to use a BlackBerry to ensure secure information transfer, chances are good that you carry two phones – your Android or iPhone as your personal phone, and another BlackBerry as your “because my company said so” phone. Well, a new startup, called Enterproid (Enterprise + Android, get it?) is launching their new Divide platform for Android as a private beta to those of you that want to use your personal phone to carry out enterprise-related tasks. Divide basically installs a secure enterprise (business) profile on … Read more

enterproid4 1 years ago

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REVIEW: Verizon Motorola XOOM Android Tablet – Can Honeycomb Take On The iPad?

By now it’s clear that tablet devices are no fad and that the legion of Android-powered tablets aren’t going to let Apple and its iPad hog the burgeoning tablet market any longer. The Samsung Galaxy Tab proved that an Android tablet can give Apple reason to worry, but the Verizon-bound Motorola XOOM is the first Android tablet to really be considered a proper iPad killer. The XOOM is similar in size and shape to the iPad, is made from similar high-quality materials, bears an Apple-esque minimal design aesthetic, and has … Read more

A review of the Android Honeycomb-powered tablet known as the Motorola XOOM for Verizon. It features the NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor for incredible performance. 1 years ago

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Ittiam demos multi-party video chat in 720p HD

Sure, two-way video chat on mobile devices is cool, but what if you could hold a video conference call with 4, 8, even 16 people in full 720p HD resolution? You’d probably want to give it a spin, right? Well, Ittiam is at Texas Instrument’s Mobile World Congress 2011 booth to demo their multi-party P2P video chat technology that can connect handfuls of people in 720p HD resolution. We’re not sure if we’ll ever see this tech going mainstream, but we’d definitely love to be able to one day chat … Read more

Ittiam 720p HD video conference demo using a Texas Instruments OMAP 4 device at Mobile World Congress 2011 1 years ago

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Hands-on: HTC Wildfire S – Small and stylish and packs a punch

One of HTC’s newly-announced Android smartphones is the Wildfire S, the successor to the compact and feature-packed Wildfire from last year. The iterative update to the Wildfire made its debut at Mobile World Congress 2011 at HTC’s press conference, and we had a chance to take the compact handset for a spin. If you’re in the market for a smartphone that you can hide in the palm of your hand, but still want the latest and greatest features, the Wildfire S might be something to consider. The device isn’t exactly … Read more

Hands-on HTC Wildfire S compact Android phone with 5-megapixel camera and GPS 1 years ago

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Sneak Peak: Waze Android widget predicts traffic for your commute

Waze, the smartphone app that uses crowd-sourced data from their network of smartphone-savvy users to determine traffic levels on highways and side-streets in your area, will soon make it even easier to check up on traffic density with a new Android widget that serves up at-a-glance traffic info. Waze was at Google’s Android booth at Mobile World Congress 2011, and we stopped by to see what the innovative crowd-sourced navigation app had up its sleeve. The new widget lives on the Android homescreen. It monitors traffic levels in your immediate … Read more

Waze crowd sourced traffic and navigation Android widget 1 years ago

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Dual-core schmual-core, NVIDIA quad-core ‘Kal-El’ processor is where it’s at

What, you didn’t think all the NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core tablets and smartphones that we’ve been seeing recently were the end-all-be-all for mobile tech, did you? Tegra 2 might be the hotness right now, but you should know that, as the rest of the world races to catch up the Tegra 2 dual-core processor, NVIDIA is already working to bring quad-core mobile processors to market by the end of this year. Codenamed “Kal-El” (a fitting Superman reference, for the uninitiated), NVIDIA says we’ll see a quad-core Android tablet launching around … Read more

NVIDIA Tegra 3 Kal-El quad-core processor 1 years ago

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HTC ChaCha in the flesh at Mobile World Congress – A Facebook phone for the typing types

The HTC ChaCha made its live appearance at Mobile World Congress here in lovely Barcelona, Spain, and it looks like a pretty neat Facebook phones for those who love typing away on physical QWERTY keyboards. Given its candybar design with the keyboard out in front, it’s a small departure from what we’ve seen in terms of HTC design and style as of late, but there are still little touches that are very HTC-esque. HTC’s ChaCha has a bit of a strange contour that makes the device face toward you in … Read more

Hands-on HTC ChaCha Facebook Android phone with QWERTY keyboard and Facebook button 1 years ago

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Up close and personal with the HTC Salsa – The closest thing you’ll get to a Facebook phone

The HTC Salsa was unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain this morning, and it looks like one of two handsets that will be the closest thing we’ll be getting to a Facebook phone. At least for now. This probably quells those rumors late last year about Facebook developing its own phone, and it confirms what the social network has been saying regarding getting deeper integration in some handsets. The Salsa has a 3.4-inch touchscreen display, so it’s roughly about the same size as the iPhone 4 screen. However, … Read more

Hands-on HTC Salsa Facebook Android phone with dediated Facebook buton that glows 1 years ago

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