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App Annie unveiled a new infographic about mobile apps, illustrating what it calls the “Rise of the Planet of the Apps.” Here are the highlights: East Asia was a fertile land for Apple in 2011 – China saw a 298% increase in downloads and a 187% increase in revenue, whilst Japan saw a 98% increase…
Mobile location-based services provider Telmap announced a new, fresh navigation experience on its Mobile Location Companion, leveraging the latest developments and trends, as well as today’s devices strong graphical and computing power. In that sense, the new application includes advanced orientation, safety, efficiency and “fun features for a superb user experience.” More precisely, here’s what…
Mobile payments company PaymentOne launched the PayOne HTML5 API, which provides an HTML5 compliant web-based payment flow for mobile app developers looking to monetize their offerings across multiple platforms and devices with a “charge it to my mobile phone bill” payment method. As a result, developers who pick HTML5 as their platform of choice can…
Panasonic is going to enter the European smartphone market this year with the Eluga. It’s sexy, has an eating disorder with its 7.8 mm thin body, and it’s even water resistant, but we want more. According to the folks at Pocket-lint, Panasonic will announce a phone that’s even higher end than the Eluga at Mobile…
Nokia’s just uploaded a 22 second video to YouTube that’s basically a series of images paired up with text that confirms what we’ve been reporting for a few weeks now, that Nokia is going to launch a camera focused flagship device at Mobile World Congress next week. According to the rumors currently floating around the…
LG’s officially announced four new smartphones before Mobile World Congress kicks off this coming Monday. It started with the 5 inch 4:3 aspect ratio Vu, then yesterday with the L3, L5, and L7, and now today we have the Optimus 3D Cube. Looking at the name of the product itself, it’s not too hard to…
Earlier this year at CES, we got a look at the Galaxy S Blaze 4G, a new Android 2.3 phone from Samsung and T-Mobile,. The well-spec’ed handset supports T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network at speeds up to 42 M bps. T-Mobile will begin selling the phone in late March for $149.99, a price which includes a $50…
A report in Reuters confirms China Telecom and Apple have reached a deal and the carrier will start selling the iPhone next month. China Telecom joins China Unicom to become the second wireless carrier to sell the iPhone in the Asian country. The carrier will start accepting pre-orders for the iPhone 4S starting March 2…
Android or iOS owners should check their respective app stores because Twitter has a fresh, new update for you to download. It’s a modest improvement which includes support for a new, time-saving gesture that lets you swipe a tweet and then reply, retweet, favorite or share it right from your timeline. You can now swipe…
Mobile World Congress 2012 is just a few days away and the IntoMobile team will be on the ground in Barcelona to give you the latest on the conference dedicated to mobile. It’s going to be an amazing show (let’s hope there’s no Metro strike), so we thought it would be nice to give you…