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Every once in a while they’ll be an application, some may even call it a “killer app”, that makes people adopt a new technology or flock to one particular software platform over the other. For many, Instagram for the iPhone and iPod touch became that application since it enabled people to snap photos, apply filters…
There’s a battle brewing on the internet and you may not even be aware that it even exists. Companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, they know more about you than your significant other. They know what you’re searching for and when, what sites you visit, who you email, who you constantly check up on, who you…
Making mobile phones used to be a monumentally difficult task. You had to know a lot about radios, component sourcing, have intimate embedded software skills, and it’s why the companies who dominated the mobile world before Google and Apple crashed the party were also the same companies who built mobile networks. Motorola, Nokia, the 800…
British car manufacturer Aston Martin, makers of the fine automobiles that get James Bond all the ladies and save him from the stickest of situations, has released an iOS application that gives people obsessed with the Aston Martin brand, but may not be able to afford their products, a chance to experience the legendary cars.…
Since switching to the iPhone 4 about 3 months ago, I’ve yet to figure out if I like it enough to keep it or hate it enough to sell it. There are numerous things it does better than Android, and likewise there are also numerous things Android does better than iOS. Our Editor in Chief,…
When the clock strikes midnight, and the 25th of December rolls around, billions of people around the world start tearing open packages from their friends, family, and of course Santa Claus, but they also try to get in touch with the people who couldn’t be there to celebrate the holidays with them. It used to…
While the rest of the IntoMobile team anxiously awaits news of the second generation iPad, meanwhile I personally think the whole product category is a joke, nothing more than a toy for geeks with excess income who get withdrawal symptoms when away from a computer for longer than a few minutes, the Land of the…
The Japanese have always had a warm spot in our hearts. Their advanced mobile devices, awesome culture, sublime cuisine, and overall quirkiness, make us want to live there if it wasn’t for the language barrier. Now we’re hearing even more wacky news from the Land of the Rising Sun: Kumiko Kudo, 44 year old owner…
Text messages are powerful because they’re ubiquitous, easy to create and consume, relatively cheap, and can be used to do things such as deliver mobile banking to countries where no previous banking infrastructure had existed before, alert the police when someone has trespassed on your property, and even pay for a public toilet. Now there’s…
Research firm GfK was recently given access to the logs of over 200,000 mobile internet users in 3 European countries and they’ve discovered that network usage skyrockets in the morning starting at 07:15, peaks again around 16:30 (04:30 in the afternoon), and then drops like a rock a few hours after that. They’re also seeing…