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Of all the inventions that man has worked tirelessly to create, it’s GSM, or the Global System for Mobile Communications, that makes us shriek in absolute delight. The first GSM phone call, placed exactly 20 years today, occurred in Finland. The conversation was between former Prime Minister Harri Holkeri and Vice Mayor of the Finnish…
Motorola has just released a handset for China Mobile, the MT870, that’s special because it’s the first dual core smartphone to be able to use TD-SCDMA, otherwise known as the Chinese version of 3G that was invented because they (the Chinese) don’t want to pay to use wireless patents. Networking technology aside, here’s what we…
Samsung accidentally posted a device on their website, but the folks at Phone Scoop were fast enough to copy all the nitty gritty details before the South Korean handset vendor noticed their mistake and took down the device in question. What we’ve got below is known as the D600 Conquer 4G. It’ll pack a 3.5…
Chinese handset maker and infrastructure equipment vendor ZTE isn’t known very well, but last year they were the world’s 4th largest mobile phone manufacturer in terms of volume thanks to the 51.8 million devices they sold. This year ZTE says they’ll sell over 80 million devices, an increase of over 40%, and that smartphones will…
Nokia’s C5-00 may not have a lot of fans here at IntoMobile since it has a diminutive 2.2 inch screen, but make no mistake about it, it’s a full blown smartphone running Symbian S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2. Announced in March 2010, the C5-00 originally came with a 3.2 megapixel camera, but today Nokia…
Our Norwegian friends at Opera Software have just released new versions of Opera Mini and Opera Mobile, bringing them to version 6.1 and 11.1 respectively. The key new feature is integration with Google Suggest, so you no longer have to type a long search query, instead you’ll get suggestions as you type, similar to how…
When the Wright brothers invented the first airplane they probably couldn’t imagine the horrific conditions that people more than a century into the future would have to endure in order to see their family, friends, or business partners. Between screaming babies, overpriced drinks, fat people who make you wonder how in the world someone could…
Later this year Microsoft is going to issue the long awaited update to Windows Phone that they’ve been calling Mango for the past few months. With it will come the addition of over “500 new features”, but the ones that stand out for us are the built in multitasking for third party applications, a new…
Square, a company that was co-founded by the creator of Twitter, is a service that lets anyone with an iOS or Android powered device accept credit card payments via the use of a relatively low cost accessory that plugs into a headphone jack. It’s received a lot attention by the media, we think it’s mostly…
If there’s one thing consumers hate more than overpaying for goods and services, it’s buying something that quickly becomes obsolete. These days you need to do a lot of research before signing a 2 year contract and taking home a new smartphone. Is it running the latest version of Android/Symbian, will it get updates, how…