Well, well, well… the Philips Xenium 9@9 may not be the Asia-only thing after all. Especially, now when we saw it sliding through the FCC’s approval process. Somehow, it all makes sense. While on one hand we have phones with the growing number of features, on the other – people are more frustrated with the…
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Blackberry Pearl 8130, Motorola Q9c, i335 on sale at Sprint
Yap, we knew this is coming and we’ve been hoping it will be even earlier, but what the hack. In case you’re on Sprint and wanted to grab a new phone, the carrier is now selling the GPS-equipped Blackberry Pearl 8130, Motorola i335 and Q9c for $199.99, $49.99 and $149.99 respectively. That’s with a two-year…
Fring releases fringME! widget; Adds support for the Nokia E51
Folks behind Fring have announced a new fringME! widget, allowing users of the popular VoIP client with web sites, blogs or social networking profiles to interact (chat) with their visitors. But, it’s not all about chatting and sharing your presence with your community and/or your friends — in case you have a GPS equipped Symbian-based…
Court saves Qualcomm from paying doubled compensatory damages to Broadcom – $19.6 million in damages
In a moment of bittersweet victory for Qualcomm, a federal judge upheld U.S. District Court Judge James V. Selna’s previous ruling that Qualcomm is indeed guilty of infringing on Broadcom’s 3G WCDMA technology. However, and here’s the sweet part, the ruling overturned Judge Selna’s decision to double the damages awarded to Broadcom by a federal…
T-Mobile swapping out defective Sidekick Slide handsets with Sidekick LX replacements
T-Mobile is really taking the right steps in this whole defective-Motorola-Sidekick-Slide fiasco. After suspending sales of the Motorola-sourced Sidekick, named for the Slide mechanism that’s causing all those hard-resets and data dumps, T-Mobile has announced that they’ll be replacing Sidekick Slides with its larger, more expensive brother – the Sidekick LX. T-Mobile has confirmed that…
Brief: Where is the N82 review?
A few (good) things popped up and I’m going to be spending my Saturday in a new country just 90 minutes away from Finland, Estonia. I’m going to take a lot, and I mean a lot, of pictures. I definitely want to throw those into the review. Last chance to get your requests in. I’m…
McAfee, Symantec release anti-virus apps for Windows Mobile
Just in case you don’t feel secure enough about your Windows Mobile device, two of the leading anti-malware developers has announced their anti-virus and anti-trojan solutions for Windows Mobile platform. As you’ve probably guessed from the title of this post, it’s McAfee and Symantec which have announced VirusScan Mobile and Norton Smartphone Security respectively, with…
Opera Mini 4 surpasses one million downloads!
We at IntoMobile love Opera Mini. And no, we’re not surprised to see other people loving it as well. As of November 7, when Opera Software officially launched the final version of Opera Mini 4, more than one million people downloaded the free Java-based mobile browser. Congratulations to Opera Software. We wish you all the…
VITO Technology releases ZoomBoard; Adds iPhone-like virtual keyboard to Windows Mobile
We’ve already covered two virtual keyboard applications for Windows Mobile devices – PocketCM Keyboard and TouchPal. Now, Vito Technology is also releasing its own version of such application, giving users of the Windows Mobile powered devices yet another option to choose from. According to Vito, their newly launched ZoomBoard allows users with touchscreen enabled smartphones…
Truphone adds 260 hotspots with Surf and Sip
Are you using Truphone to save on phone calls? You’ll be glad to know that one of the most popular mobile VoIP application developers has just announced the addition of 260 hotspots to the “expanding estate of locations from where Truphone can be used to make free and low-cost mobile phone calls over Wi-Fi and…