Google (NSDQ: GOOG) searches for movies on Android, iPhone, and webOS are about to get a little more helpful today.  With a few taps, you can find showtimes, theatres, ratings, and category sorting. Throw in a dash of GPS integration to keep the results local, reviews, and streaming trailers, and you’ve got yourself quite the upgrade. Man, Google has been on a roll with the mobile news lately. Maps navigation in Android 1.6, web services facelift, Apps upgrades, and mobile coupons are all new this week. Here’s a video demonstrating the new movie search.

Fifty DKP minus for picking New Moon. Which are promptly earned back with the double-cross fist-bump at the end. If you’re in the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, or New Zealand, go ahead and boot up google.com on your mobile browser to try out the updated movie search.

[via Official Google Mobile Blog]

Samsung Canada’s site is showing off a handset we haven’t really seen before: the A886 Forever. It’s running the all-too-familiar TouchWiz user interface, and proudly sports the Rogers (NYSE: RCI) (NYSE: RCI) branding. Here’s a quick run-down of the specs:

• Quad band GSM (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900) and dual band HSDPA (850 / 1900)
• 3.0″, 240 x 400 WQVGA TFT touchscreen
• 1000 mAh battery, 3 hour talk time, 250 hour standby
• 2 megapixel camera with autofocus (no flash)
• AGPS, Stereo Bluetooth

They’re pitching the A886 as a web-capable phone that you don’t necessarily need a data plan to enjoy; bizarre contradiction, especially without Wi-Fi in there. It’s pretty mid-range, so it’s entirely possible that this will fit into Rogers’ sub-$99 “webphones” family.

[via MobileSyrup]

UPDATE: Oh, hey, there it is on Rogers for $79.99 with a three-year contract.

In the tradition of dropping prices for the upcoming holiday season, EA has announced they are slashing the prices to a number of EA titles that are currently listed in the App Store.  If you’ve been eyeing some of EA’s titles, now would be a great time to take advantage of these price drops.  Sales end on 11/29/09, so you have the entire Thanksgiving weekend to ponder.

• Wolfenstein RPG – $1.99 (originally $2.99)
• Monopoly – $2.99 (originally $4.99)
• Surviving High School – $1.99 (originally $2.99)
• Auditorium – $1.99 (originally $2.99)
• Command & Conquer – $6.99 (originally $9.99)
• NBA Live – $6.99 (originally $9.99)
• Mystery Mania – $0.99 (originally $1.99)
• FIFA 10 – $6.99 (originally $9.99)
• Madden 10 – $6.99 (originally $9.99)
• Boggle – $0.99 (originally $2.99)
• The Sims 3 - $4.99 (originally $6.99)
• Tiger Woods PGA Golf – $2.99 (originally $4.99)
• SimCity – $2.99 (originally $4.99)
• Tetris – $2.99 (originally $4.99)
• Need for Speed: Undercover - $2.99 (originally $4.99)

For those of you who are making the pilgrimage to Best Buy Friday morning, I hope you did some working out beforehand as trying to pick up a TV or a refrigerator without any kind of preparation will not end well.

If you’re anything like me, years of being a hermit has turned your body into a soft, delicate pile of pudding.  So why kill yourself when Best Buy has a great number of handsets for sale on Black Friday.  If you can lift a bag of potato chips from your lap, then lifting these handsets should be cake!

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After a sneak peek, the LG GW880 OPhone has been announced by China Mobile (NYSE: CHL). The GW880 packs a 3.5-inch, 800 x 480 touchscreen, Bluetooth, 5-megapixel camera, 256MB of RAM/512MB of ROM, CMMB mobile TV and running on Android over China’s TD-SCDMA network. Of course, the apps will all be approved by big daddy China Mobile before making it to the market, but it should still give the iPhone a bit of a fight over there. The Android scene is just getting started in China, too; Lenovo and Motorola are likely launching their own handsets also running on China Mobile’s Open Mobile Phone framework. No word on release date or price point for the GW880, but we’ll be keeping an ear open.

[LG via Akihabara]

Some of you may have already been enjoying streaming video from your Android device to the big wide web thanks to the UStream Broadcaster app released in September, but for those who are more interested in watching something, UStream Viewer is now available. As you can see, you can keep tabs on what’s playing live (as well as chat with other viewers), see what’s been recorded, what’s coming up as well as review your own videos, all over 3G or Wi-Fi. Combined with the Broadcaster and a beefy data plan, you won’t be hurting for entertainment while on the go. The viewer hasn’t showed up on UStream’s mobile app page yet, but you can go ahead and download it from the Android Market right now – get it before 7 PM PST, and you can tune in to the Kiss concert live from your phone.

[via VentureBeat]

Bell’s inagural HSPA lineup had lots of new toys, but telus (NYSE: TU) was drawing a bit more attention with the HTC Hero. Luckily for Bell, Android will be one less leg-up the competition will have, as they’re getting the Samsung Galaxy I7500, according to this promotional poster. The Galaxy has been traipsing around Europe since launching over the summer, and boasts a 5 megapixel camera, 8GB of internal storage, 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen, GPS, and Wi-Fi; no custom work on the user interface, it’s straight vanilla Android. Samsung has already provided the Impact and omnia II for Bell’s HSPA grand opening, but the Galaxy is really the icing on the cake. No word on a release date, but I think it’s safe to expect the I7500 in time for the holidays.

[via MobileSyrup]

Ah, Thanksgiving.  The time where families come together to share a delicious meal and be thankful for all of life’s blessings.  Once Thanksgiving is over, that’s where the holiday shopping season begins.  Black Friday is known across America as the Friday after Thanksgiving where retailers drop prices on a lot of popular merchandise in order to get you into their stores.  Between today and tomorrow, we here at IntoMobile will be highlighting some Black Friday mobile deals that we feel would help you in planning your holiday shopping.

First up, we have Amazon’s Black Friday sales.  If you’re the type to do your holiday shopping online, they have an impressive array of deals for Black Friday:
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Infineon (NYSE: IFX) are going to be working together to create HSPA and LTE chips. Nokia will be handling the modem side, while Infineon will be dealing with the hard part, the RF implementation. Since Nokia got rid of their ASIC designers back in August 2007, the Finnish company been partnering with everyone in the industry in an attempt to save costs and decrease time to market for new products, so this isn’t anything new. The exciting bit out of all this is that Nokia and Infineon are going to work together on the LTE Advanced standard. Commercial LTE networks have yet to be turned on, but it doesn’t mean the industry isn’t planning ahead. LTE Advanced should deliver around 1 gigabit/second speeds.

Complete Press Release below.

[Via: Phone Scoop, Reuters]

Infineon and Nokia Announce Collaboration to Develop Leading LTE Solutions

Neubiberg, Germany – November 25, 2009 – Infineon Technologies, one of the leading semiconductor companies for mobile phone solutions, and Nokia, the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones and services, today announced a cooperation to develop advanced radio frequency (RF) transceiver solutions. The agreement covers a non-exclusive collaboration to ensure the compatibility and interworking of Nokia’s advanced licensable baseband modem technologies and Infineon’s leading RF solutions.

Nokia and Infineon will work together to ensure that current and future generations of Nokia’s leading licensable modem designs work seamlessly with Infineon’s leading RF transceiver solutions, giving the industry access to complete modem solutions for HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) through LTE (Long Term Evolution) and beyond.

“We are grateful to expand our successful collaboration with Nokia beyond our current platform and RF activities,” stated Prof. Hermann Eul, Member of the Infineon Management Board. “Pairing Nokia’s advanced modem technology and Infineon’s best in class RF transceiver solutions, will give the industry access to very competitive chipset solutions.”

The collaboration involves teams from both companies working on the architectural and system challenges to ensure seamless interoperability and compatibility. The fruits of this cooperation will be a verified technology reference platform.

“Taking advantage of each company’s expertise as leaders in their respective fields, this cooperation will help to deliver standard-based, industry leading solutions for mobile internet devices,” said Pekka Sarlund, Vice President, Wireless Modem, Nokia.

Facilitated by this cooperation, both companies will jointly drive the interface standardization for LTE-Advanced enabling data rates of up to 1Gbit/s. Providing a validated system with an open interface will enable a fast roll out of new products and increase competition in the market for advanced modem chipsets.

You might have caught wind of the eBay app from the BlackBerry Developer Conference – well, it’s available now for download, allowing you to watch auctions, place bids, receive notifications of being outbid right in your Messages app, and enjoy native Calendar integration for reminders. Notifications all take advantage of the new push services, so you get notified of being outbid the second it happens, not five minutes after the auction’s wrapped up. eBay for BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) works with PayPal, as you’d expect, but I wonder if there’s BlackBerry Wallet integration, too… There was talk at BBDC about the Wallet being linked to in-app purchaces. Anyway, see more of the eBay app and get downloading in the BlackBerry App World, or head over to eBay to see their other mobile offers.