Jabra is using this year’s Mobile World Congress to celebrate its decade in Bluetooth business, during which they emerged as Europe’s number one Bluetooth hands free communications provider. Needless to say we had a chance to see all of their latest products in Barcelona, including: Jabra FREEWAY – which is the first in-car speakerphone with…
SIMply NFC-Revolution is an NFC-enabled SIM card
Morpho and INSIDE Secure have team-up to launch a first product that has the potential to bring NFC functionality to the mass market, reaching even those users who don’t have the latest smartphones. The new “SIMply NFC-Revolution” product incorporates INSIDE’s core NFC chip technology with SIM technology from Morpho and the end result is an…
Vimeo launches new iOS app at the MWC 2012
Video sharing service Vimeo launched a new version of its application to address the problems users had with the previous app release, and introduce a couple of new features. As far as we’re able to check it out, no longer will Vimeo crash, at least not that often (we haven’t been able to test it…
Samsung Car Mode Application coming to a Toyota vehicle near you in Q2 2012
Samsung and Toyota are teaming up to create Samsung Car Mode Application, an in-car solution that connects Samsung smartphones to Toyota’s In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) system. As a result of this collaboration, an array of Samsung’s mobile technologies will be integrated into Toyota’s IVI to add enhanced connectivity, multimedia capabilities and internet services. In addition, the…
Qualcomm: More cores don’t equal better phones
The big story coming out of Mobile World Congress 2012 is the launch of multiple phones with the quad-core Tegra chipset made by NVIDIA. Consumers may see “quad-core” and immediately think it’s much better than a dual core but Qualcomm is saying that it’s more complicated than that. While it has its own quad-core chips…
3 things to know about mobile advertising in 2011 [Infographic]
SmarterAdServer prepared a neat infographic to show us the key things apparently all of us should know about mobile advertising in 2011, to get us ready for the Mobile World Congress. The key findings include: 50% of mobile traffic is done after 5pm. Average CTR (click-through rate) on standard mobile banner across mobile web and…
Hands-on: Fujitsu Ice Cream Sandwich prototype phone at MWC 2012
Although the next couple of paragraphs are about the device which is still in the prototype phase, we decided to give it some space on IntoMobile since it may easily be the best Android smartphone ever made. As a product that is still not ready for the prime time, this Fujitsu phone still doesn’t have…
Sony: We’re looking beyond devices!
Returning from meeting with Sony I must say I somewhat dig their strategy, the main point being to differentiate their products by offering them bundled with content and services through Sony Entertainment Network. Now I know we’ve heard this kind of stories before, but bear in mind this is Sony we’re talking about, the company…
Visa: We’re ready for NFC!
I had a chance to spend some time at Visa’s booth and talk to folks from the company. They’ve been telling me about all their endeavors to make mobile payments part of everyday lives for people all around the world. For emerging markets, Visa has an USSD-based solution that allows folks with basic feature phones…
Mobile World Congress 2012 : NVIDIA Party – Tegra-bration*
NVIDIA has a small get together here at Mobile World Congress and it was all about gaming. We’ll soon get into what specific games were demoed at the party in another post but here are a couple of pictures from the event itself. All decked out in the almost-edgeless and gorgeous Samsung HDTV’s, NVIDIA demoed…