Breaking news, information, and analysis on the latest mobile phones and mobile technology
While the rest of the IntoMobile team anxiously awaits news of the second generation iPad, meanwhile I personally think the whole product category is a joke, nothing more than a toy for geeks with excess income who get withdrawal symptoms when away from a computer for longer than a few minutes, the Land of the…
According to recent In-Stat’s report, widespread adoption of wireless charging technology will be difficult without standardization. If that happens, we could be talking about potential revenue of over $4 billion by 2014. For instance, Palm has incorporated wireless charging technology into their Pre Smartphone product line while Dell has launched a wireless charging laptop that…
Although we’ve seen few cooking iPad apps in the past, Cookineo seems to have a real compelling offering to get its slice of the market. There are few reasons for this: Recipes are illustrated with step by step instructions with a very few words. Navigation through the steps of the recipe is done by clapping…
MTN Rwanda has recently shared some cool figures on the use of its mobile money service. Dubbed MTN Mobile Money, it allows MTN users to send money from one mobile phone to another with main users sending money for business or relatives. At the moment, the service is responsible for 5,000 mobile money service transactions…
The Japanese have always had a warm spot in our hearts. Their advanced mobile devices, awesome culture, sublime cuisine, and overall quirkiness, make us want to live there if it wasn’t for the language barrier. Now we’re hearing even more wacky news from the Land of the Rising Sun: Kumiko Kudo, 44 year old owner…
Text messages are powerful because they’re ubiquitous, easy to create and consume, relatively cheap, and can be used to do things such as deliver mobile banking to countries where no previous banking infrastructure had existed before, alert the police when someone has trespassed on your property, and even pay for a public toilet. Now there’s…
I’ve got a couple of late night BlackBerry OS leaks this evening. Storm 9530 and Tour 9630 users, take note. First off we have a leak for the Storm 9530. OS 5.0.0.1041 has leaked for the device, and is available right here. Second comes OS 5.0.0.1041 for the BlackBerry Tour 9630. If that’s your device…
Research firm GfK was recently given access to the logs of over 200,000 mobile internet users in 3 European countries and they’ve discovered that network usage skyrockets in the morning starting at 07:15, peaks again around 16:30 (04:30 in the afternoon), and then drops like a rock a few hours after that. They’re also seeing…
Local Indian handset vendor Intex has announced plans to launch an Android 2.2 powered handset during the first week of February that will retail for 5,500 Indian rupees or roughly $120 US dollars. It’s going to pack a 3.2 megapixel camera, 2.8 inch resistive touch screen, and not much else is known in terms of…
Emerging markets are where the battle for the next generation of mobile consumers is currently taking place, and India, with their population of over 1.1 billion, is ripe for the taking for those who can fight on factors such as price, distribution, and better understanding of customer needs. Nokia used to dominate India, and at…