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Earlier this year LG’s roadmap leaked and one of the devices on said roadmap was the Univa. It resembles the first generation Optimus One, meaning it’s quite possibly the successor to one of the best selling devices on the prepaid market in the United States. The Univa, which is also known as the E510, features…
Applications written for Google’s mobile operating system Android depend on something called Dalvik, a virtual machine, to run. Google has gone to great lengths to not call Dalvik a Java runtime, despite programmers essentially calling it yet another flavor of Java. Why’s that important? Sun Microsystems, the guys who created Java, was purchased by Oracle…
Update: It’s official. Sprint issued the following statement to PhoneScoop yesterday: “Beginning September 9, Sprint is introducing a new pro-rated policy for ETFs for customers purchasing advanced devices such as smartphones, tablets, notebooks and netbooks. Customers with these advanced devices will be subject to a $350 ETF, which will be pro-rated based on the number…
Devices running Microsoft’s Windows Phone Mango operating system are due to arrive in time for the 2011 holiday shopping season. We’ve known for quite a while about the improved web browser, third party multitasking, and Twitter integration, but what about the camera application? Well, today Microsoft published quite a lengthy blog post detailing what we…
Yesterday Samsung announced the AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile versions of their hugely popular Galaxy S II. Curiously, Samsung didn’t let folks play around with the T-Mobile variant, and while they said the device sports a 1.2 GHz processor, they didn’t exactly want to talk about who makes it. Now why do you suppose that is?…
When it comes to Android smartphones, two companies from China stand out as potentially disrupting the established players of the mobile industry. Both ZTE and Huawei have come out of nowhere, starting out as infrastructure vendors, and now they both offer a compelling portfolio of smartphones that may not have bleeding edge specifications, but they…
AT&T, who was recently identified as the worst wireless operator in the United States by J.D. Power, hasn’t officially yet turned on their 4G LTE network, but that hasn’t stopped two technology journalists from discovering that Chicago residents, using the 4G LTE enabled AT&T Elevate WiFi hotspot, can hop on this as yet to be…
J.D. Power, a company that collects data and then uses it to name and shame companies who don’t quite live up to their overpriced marketing slogans, has published the results of a survey they conducted between January and June of this year with the help of 22,110 wireless customers. They say that AT&T is hands…
There’s an ongoing debate in the Android community as to how much control Google should have when it comes to how their operating system should be presented to consumers. Some people, including everyone at IntoMobile HQ, think that hardware vendors should stick to what they do best, making hardware, and stop throwing their disgusting attempts…
By this time next month we’ll know either: 1) The exact specifications of Apple’s next generation iPhone, including pricing information and availability or 2) The date when Apple plans to unveil said iPhone. Until either of those two events happen however, it’s going to be rumor madness until the final moment. The latest iPhone rumor,…