Nokia made waves with their recent announcement that they wanted to acquire navigational-map maker Navteq for the right-old sum of $8.1 billion. Of course, the deal was subject to shareholder approval, and it looks like Navteq investors have just greenlighted the deal. With federal regulators already on-board with the buy-out deal, the shareholders’ thumbs-up was…
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Verizon wants you to buy “Don’t tase me bro” ringback tone
Does the sound of a panicked protester about to get a 10,000 volt shock from a ‘taser make you laugh? Well, Verizon Wireless is betting that it will. They’ve just started offering a new ringback tone – musical tones that your caller will hear in place of a more traditional ringing sound. The “Don’t ‘tase…
IntoMobile’s 3G vs EDGE webpage load-time shootout – just how slow is the iPhone?
Right, we all know just how much faster 3G data speeds are in comparison to EDGE speeds. Theoretical speeds are one thing, straight-up throughput numbers are impressive, but what about the most important aspect of any device’s wireless data connection – actual web-browsing performance? Unless you’re one of the harder-core mobile warriors that uses their…
Sony Ericsson W960i reviewed by IntoMobile
Well folks, here it is – the long awaited Sony Ericsson W960i review is before you, divided into several sections. Hope you’ll find it useful, and in case you still have questions after reading it, please use our comments form — I’ll do my best to answer in one of the future posts. Ready? Let’s…
Samsung’s world’s first 1.3-inch hard drive coming to CES
Samsung will showcase the “world’s first” 1.3-inch hard drive during the CES in Las Vegas in January 2008. The interesting thing about the news, is that this could lead into wider adoption of small hard drivers in portable devices. I doubt that we’ll see them used in mobile phones right from the start, but Mobile…
TryPhone allows you to test-drive handsets before buying them
If you’re shopping for a new mobile phone, you’ll certainly like the new service called TryPhone. As you can guess from the name, it allows you to test-drive a mobile phone before actually buying one. In addition, you can read the official specs as well as other people’s reviews about each of the devices presented.…
Time magazine does it again; Awards Apple iPhone as the top gadget
Roughly a month ago we saw the Time magazine awarding Apple iPhone with its “Invention of the Year” title. Now they did it again — in their “Top 10 Gadgets” list, iPhone is listed as the number one gadget. Interesting enough, Palm Centro is the only other mobile phone on the list and holds the…
Chinese mobile phone users sent 429 billion text messages last year
Don’t you just love the stories involving numbers from China and India? For one thing I love them — they show us just how much mobile industry is growing. Last year, Chinese mobile phone users send 429 billion text messages! Or to put it in a perspective, an average of 967 SMS were sent per…
H2O Audio iFR Sport Combo protects your iPhone better than any other case
While iPhone is one of the most beautiful devices on the market today, its shiny body make it easy to slip from a hand. Hence we see a growing number of products that are designed to protect Apple’s handset against hostile conditions, impact shocks, drops, sweat, marring and/or scratching. One of the latest such cases…
No surprise here – Opera Mini is GetJar’s “Mobile Application of the Year”
We at IntoMobile love Opera Software’s Java ME based browser – Opera Mini. It’s quick, data efficient, memory friendly and provides users with the full web experience on virtually any phone. So we were not surprised to see the popular site for mobile applications GetJar awarding the Java browser with the “Mobile Application of the…