Even though the HTC Wildfire hasn’t been officially released (it’s only announced), that hasn’t stopped an unnamed person from selling the prototype unit on a Netherlands-based auction site. I haven’t caught the auction myself, but from what I’m hearing the price started at 300 and closed at 350 EUR. Not bad for the phone that…
Archives for 2010
metaio’s Zombie ShootAR is augmented reality shooter game for select Nokia smartphones
Just when we thought metaio (and Layar for that matter) has forgotten about Symbian S60 users, the maker of junaio blessed Nokia’s Ovi Store with augmented reality game – Zombie ShootAR. As you can guess for yourself, it [game] utilizes the camera live-stream for optical tracking and 3D rendering to create an interactive experience. Don’t…
Telmap launches Telmap5 Mobile Location Companion
Telmap announced the first commercial launch of Telmap5 Mobile Location Companion, which they say accompanies users throughout their on-the-go experience, “going beyond in-car and pedestrian navigation.” Israel’s Pelephone is Telmap‘s “partner in crime” and they will offer the solution as Navigator GPS+. Here’s what’s special about it (from Telmap’s press release): Navigator GPS+ features several…
Infonetics Research: Half of operators planning to deploy LTE will first upgrade to HSPA+
Between today’s 3G networks and the next generation LTE and WiMAX networks that are going to start turning on over the next few years, there is a middle ground technology that provides users with the increased bandwidth users want, and at the same time is attractive to operators since in most cases it requires a…
Footy Pubs 2010 helps folks find a pub to watch the World Cup
Our European readers certainly know that not many things in life beat watching a great football (soccer for our U.S. readers) match in a good company and with lots of booze involved. Moreover, it is a common practice to gather with friends in some bar and yell with the rest of the public when your…
Parkopedia.com updates its iPhone app with new parking places, pay & display street parking
After I wrote an article on iparkmycar, I got a few emails about other parking-mobile related products and services. Since I find this topic pretty useful for every single driver in the world, myself included, I decided to give the folks behind such solutions some space on IntoMobile. Don’t worry, though, we won’t create a…
Ericsson trials TD-LTE in Ireland
TD-LTE technology, which is also known as LTE’s unpaired version, is getting an increased traction these days. China Mobile wants to try it out, there are some deployments in Taiwan, Qualcomm is interested to use it in India, and there is also interest gathering in the U.S. On top of that, now we have the…
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invests $10 million to help Haiti start using mobile money
Bill Gates, a name we’re all familiar with, took the truck loads of money he made off personal computers and is now investing it into things that actually matter. His goal was to get a PC on every desk, and for the most part he’s done that in countries that are fairly well off. Now…
Guy who invented Palm’s webOS notifications becomes Senior User Interface Designer at Apple
Rich Dellinger, who according to his LinkedIn profile was the “User Interface Design Architect” at Palm between July 2006 and May 2010 (3 years 11 months) and whose roles included: Acted as visual designer, interaction designer, and engineer on Palm webOS. Co-developed the Application Framework used by webOS. Created the CSS structure and defined HTML…
Ubiquitous makes instant-on Android OS a reality
Ubiquitous’s QuickBoot solution has been implemented for the Android OS, giving it a boot time of just one second. No, really, a second. Hard to believe at first but once you see the video below, it’s pretty amazing. What we have here is essentially an instant-on Android OS. While very nice to see in action,…