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Call me crazy, but when I noticed a new app for iPhone and iPod Touch titled ‘Super Badminton 2010’, I did a double-take. ‘Badminton on the iPhone!? You gotta be kidding me!’. Naturally, I had to take a closer look to see what it is all about. Turns out the developers at Rolocule games put…
On the heels of our HTC rumors post, we bring you more spicy information. Nothing is confirmed (nor denied for that matter) at the moment, but the source seems credible – UK phone retailer Omio. Anyway, in its blog post, Omio suggests that one new Nokia and one Samsung device will be unveiled in November.…
France Telecom is super optimistic about the prospects of its mobile arm, Orange, and plans to have 300 million customers by 2015, up from 200 million today. The company’s new CEO, Stephane Richard, recently presented a five-year plan that among other things discusses operator’s plans for its domestic market. Orange must improve its reputation in…
Gameloft is offering some of its popular iPad games for less. Don’t expect that each game in their catalog is available for 99 cents, since titles for Apple’s tablet are usually more expensive and I guess require more resources to make. Anyway, here’s what they got: Games that cost 99 cents: Hero of Sparta HD…
As you may know, I’m a big fan of giving some space to the small guy. Hence I try my best to cover smaller carriers on IntoMobile. On that note, we bring you this news item involving SouthernLINC Wireless, which has announced the launch of the Beautiful South Photo Contest. The contest invites 18+ year…
Japan’s largest mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo, announced plans to start selling unlocked phones beginning April 2011. What that means is that you will be able to use DoCoMo handsets with other networks by simply switching SIM cards. DoCoMo is the first major carrier in the Land of the rising Sun to take this route, although…
Juniper Research is out with a new report on mobile TV, arguing that with more people using free WiFi services, mobile TV industry is set to generate nearly $7 billion in revenues by 2015. According to the report, mobile TV traffic over WiFi is expected to increase by 25 times over the 2010-2015 period as…
Good ol’ HTC keeps updating and tweaking its devices like all the time, and we love them for doing so. Their latest move is to fix some SMS-related bug found in the Sense UI. In their own words the hotfix “amends the internal management of SMS functionality, and enhances SMS transmission stability.” HTC Touch Pro2…
We’ve already talked about the Samsung A130 roughly 10 days ago. Now it’s officially announced in South Korea and honestly we doubt this baby will ever be exported to other markets. As you may know from our previous post, we’re talking about a clamshell-shaped handset with features that include WiFi and 3G connectivity, 2-megapixel camera,…
While the majority of world is still moving to HSPA, Japanese operator eMobile has soft-launched the latest HSPA+ based mobile network that provides theoretical peak download speeds of 42 Mb/s. In other words, it’s the fastest mobile network in the Land of the rising Sun, and eMobile spares no words to emphasize this, very important…