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The bean counters over at Strategy Analytics have some new wisdom to share with the world now that most everyone has posted their Q4 2010 financial results. In terms of smartphones, 94 million of them shipped in the three months between October and December of last year. That’s an astonishing 75% increase compared with the…
Forget about upgrading today’s cellular networks to increase the speed at which they transmit data, what about making them better for the function they were originally created for in the first place? Phone calls, love them or hate them, is what people do with their mobile devices. Sure, Facebook, Twitter, push email, and even good…
Your mother probably told you, multiple times, that you should look both ways before crossing the street. Apparently that skill, more like common sense if you ask me, isn’t being used by the people of New York City, who have been dying in increasing numbers due to being distracted by their mobile phone and/or portable…
Samsung is one of the few handset manufactures who actually make most of the components that go into mobile phones. Unlike Apple and Nokia, Samsung makes screens, memory, and we all know about the Hummingbird inside the Galaxy S, Galaxy Tab, and their upcoming dual core Orion chip that’s destined to go into the successors…
Nokia’s Q4 2010 and full year 2010 financial results have just been published, and you’re likely to hear different conclusions drawn from the numbers depending on which analyst you read. That being said, I recommend you check out the results yourself and form your own thoughts. Let’s dive right in to what we found interesting:…
Sony has finally announced the long awaited successor to the original Playstation Portable and it’s called, wait for it now, PSP2. Compared to the first PSP, launched in late 2004 in Japan and early 2005 in North America, the PSP2 has a massive 5 inch touch screen versus the original non touch 4.3 inch and…
Sony is holding a press event in Tokyo right now, and while we don’t have anyone from IntoMobile on the scene to break some awesome news, there are enough journalists reporting live from the event that we’ve got a pretty good grasp on what’s being announced. One of the major things Sony talked about was…
Finnish news site Kauppalehti just published something that if true, has huge ramifications for the future of the world’s largest handset maker. They say that Nokia Chairman Jorma Ollila, who put Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo (OPK) in charge as CEO in 2006, began a search for his replacement in the spring of 2010. The search was more…
Ubiquisys is a company that specializes in femtocells, the little boxes that people plug into their home broadband connection that then acts as a mini cell tower, giving you bars in places where before you’ve stood with nothing but tears in your eyes and hate in your heart because your local operator isn’t doing their…
Google just bought a company that many of you, myself included, have never heard of called SayNow. Founded in 2005, SayNow has racked up $7.5 million in venture capital funding from various organizations, but what exactly do they do? According to All Things Digital, SayNow was used by celebrities to leave messages for their fans.…