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It’s been just over a year since Apple shipped the iPhone 4, and since that time the amount of devices to hit the market that use the new smaller microSIM card format has remained so small that you can count them all on one hand. There’s the iPhone 4, of course, the first and second…
Google’s a company that can best be described as an engineer’s wet dream. It was founded by engineers, it’s run by engineers, and unless you’ve got hard data to support any of your statements during a meeting, you will be ignored. That being said, the stereotype of engineers being a bit … how should we…
Forget about the ballooning number of applications each mobile platform offers, and realize that for a lot of people, just having access to the internet on a device that fits in their pocket is absolutely mind blowing. Now browsers have been in phones for years, most notably the WebKit powered browser for Symbian devices that…
Depending on which country you’re in, when you purchase a SIM card you need to submit some form of identification so that should the authorities ever need to investigate something they can contact you. In Finland, you don’t have this silly rule. In India and China, you do. Most people around the world have just…
Despite there being a slew of choices out there for which mobile phone you can decide to spend your hard earned dollars on, you still end up with something that millions of other people use. Kind of a bummer if you’re the type of person who likes to stand out from the crowd. This problem…
Nokia has just published their Q2 2011 financial results and there’s a lot of data to parse through here, so let’s start with the big numbers: 9.275 billion Euros worth of sales were made in Q2, which sounds impressive, but it isn’t because the Finnish handset maker failed to make a profit and instead managed…
Sprint has just published one of the most hyperbolic press releases to ever cross the IntoMobile news desk. They’re declaring that they will soon offer businesses complete freedom from the the 2 year contracts that they shackle most consumers with. The new plans will let business pool together minutes, like a family plan, and they’ll…
Chinese infrastructure vendor and handset maker Huawei is known for undercutting their competition in terms of price, and according to a recent teardown of one of their more popular modems that price erosion will soon come to handsets. The folks at ABI Research tore apart a Huawei E173, a very popular USB modem, and found…
Smartphones are getting larger and larger, a trend that irks some of the staff at the IntoMobile offices, and it looks like it isn’t going to reverse any time soon. Back in January of this year Samsung and AT&T announced the “Infuse”, an Android smartphone that packs a 4.5 inch screen. We didn’t really know…
Back in February of this year, when Sony Ericsson took the veil off their terribly leaked “PlayStation Phone”, which we now know to be the “Xperia Play”, we questioned what the long term viability of such a niche smartphone would be. There’s no doubt in our minds that several of our readers are hardcore gamers,…