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There’s a dive bar in Cambridge, Massachusetts called “Charlie’s Kitchen” that represents everything that’s wrong with where we’re going as a society. It’s not their food, nor their service that offends, but instead it’s a recent computer system called “TextMyFood” that they’ve installed. Say you walk into this place and you know exactly what you…
The huge screen huge QWERTY keyboard form factor is one that Nokia has traditionally excelled at. Us old guys still remember the 9300 Communicator and the E90, but things started getting a little bit rough around the edges after that. Remember the N97? Many of us do and many of us lost our loyalty to…
Feature phones are devices we don’t take too kindly to here at IntoMobile. While we understand that some people face monetary issues, the benefits of owning an always connected device that fits inside your front pocket far outweigh the cons of a higher phone bill. That being said, feature phones are getting more and more…
Owning a wrist watch used to be a necessity, then mobile phones came out and people kind of just forgot about them. Lately they’ve had somewhat of a comeback as a fashion accessory, but what’s it going to take for everyone to have a watch on their wrist again? Enter Casio, who at CES showed…
Sprint has just announced that customers activating mobile devices after January 30th will pay $10 more for data then Sprint customers do today. If you’re already locked in a contract then don’t worry, these price increases don’t impact you. If you’ve been itching to get that EVO 4G or Shift, then you’ve got a little…
Chalk this up as one of the first semi good things to come out of Nokia during the past few months. Back in October the Finnish firm said that they would cut nearly 1800 jobs in an attempt to cut costs and just plain get rid of some dead weight. Of those around 850 were…
In a little under a month the entire IntoMobile team will converge from the four corners of the Earth in the city of Barcelona where it will be our mission to bring you, our lovely readers, exhaustive coverage of Mobile World Congress, as well as to drink the city dry of their fantastic red wine,…
Handset manufacturer Sony Ericsson, who used to be a top dog thanks to their fantastic hardware designers, but after a string of expensive devices that ran out dated versions of Google’s Android operating system left a bad taste in many people’s mouths, is going after WiMAX operator Clearwire due to their logo being far too…
Samsung was one of the first manufacturers to ship a feature phone with a touch screen. We know what you’re thinking: why on Earth would somebody do that? The answer is rather obvious from an economic/psychological perspective: People who want to feel like they own something expensive, but can’t afford something expensive, compose a very…
MasterCard recently hired Mung-Ki Woo, who was once the Vice President of Mobile Payments at one of Europe’s largest operators, Orange, to lead their newly formed mobile unit. Having worked at Orange since 2005, hosted some of the first trials of near field communication (NFC) technology, and coordinated a huge NFC push that’s due to…