The Nokia E72 has not started shipping, that’s supposed to happen at the end of Q3. Specifications of this beautiful piece of machine, in case you forgot: 5 megapixel camera, 3.5 mm headphone jack, S60 3.2, WiFi, GPS, 1500 mAh battery, and slight tweaks to the E71 design. Ricky Cadden, Symbian-Guru, got a hold of…
Archives for June 22, 2009
The connected future is starting to happen: LG licenses ARM processors for future television models
This is IntoMobile, so why on Earth am I writing about LG televisions? Today’s wireless infrastructure was created to support people texting, calling, and more recently: data traffic. Partially due to the iPhone, partially due to people wanting to browse the internet regardless of where they are by plugging a USB dongle into the side…
Chinese mobile operators announce measures to cut SMS spam
Three China’s mobile operators — China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom — have announced measures to deal with the inter-network spam messages. According to the agreement reached, a single mobile phone number will be able to send up to 200 messages per hour or 1,000 per day. During the holidays, these numbers will go…
Chillingo’s Defender Chronicles hits the AppStore
Chillingo is out with a new title in the Apple’s AppStore. It’s Gimka Entertainment’s Defender Chronicles: Legend of the Desert King, an RPG action game. You could think of it as a classic arcade beat-’em-up with RPG elements that includes fantastical heroes and monsters, all packed in a tower defence “kind of game.” Other game…
Immersion joins Symbian Foundation to bring its touch feedback technology to the platform
Immersion Corporation is joining the Symbian Foundation, to bring its touch feedback technology to all Symbian platform developers. As a result, the company made its TouchSense API available for the Foundation member companies. Immersion argues that their haptics technology improves efficiency and intuitiveness by providing “unmistakable confirmation of touchscreen presses, adds improved accuracy and depth.”…
Berg Insight: 130 million mobile LBS users in Europe by 2014
In its new report, Berg Insight is predicting that the number of European users of mobile location-based services (LBS) will grow from 20 million users last year at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 37% to reach 130 million users in 2014. Local search, navigation services and social networking are believed to become…
HD Video: The great Nokia N97 debate, should you buy one?
While the world is waiting for Engadget to post their Nokia N97 review, which they’ve been hinting in their podcasts to be a feature unlike any they’ve done before, and while the IntoMobile gang waits for Simon to get around to writing his review, my friends over at The Really Mobile Project got in front…