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Samsung has just announced that their Android powered Galaxy S is the first smartphone to sell over 2 million units in South Korea. Considering it launched less than 6 months ago, that’s quite an achievement. They’ve also said that as of last Friday (December 17) they’ve sold 9.3 million units globally and that they should…
Japanese auto maker Nissan will soon begin production of an all electric vehicle called the Leaf and they’ve just announced that one of the whiz-bang-futuristic features it’ll have is an always on internet connection. Said connection is being provided by Telenor Connexion and it’ll enable things like checking how much juice is left in the…
Opera Software has just released their latest “State of the Mobile Web” report and with it comes the announcement that they’ve finally broken 80 million users. Opera, for those not in the loop, is a software company based out of Norway. They’ve been making browsers for close to 15 years now and while the IntoMobile…
With Verizon Wireless having officially turned on their brand spanking new LTE network, analyst firms are starting to predict just how much money the bleeding edge high speed mobile broadband technology is going to make operators. ABI Research estimates that by 2015 revenues from LTE will exceed $15 billion. That’s a terribly small number compared…
iPhone wielding hipsters rejoice, Instragram just released an update for their popular image sharing application that adds support for 7 languages (Japanese, German, Russian, French, Chinese, Italian, and Spanish), 2 new filters called “Sutro” and “Toaster”, and a “suggested users” feature that pairs you up with people who hang out in the same parts of…
Australian firm ASiQ has announced what they’re claiming to be the most expensive application available in Apple’s App Store. The app, called SafeCell, will run you $12,500 and connects your mobile phone to an airplane’s onboard satellite computer via Bluetooth thereby allowing you to make phone calls and transmit data from your device, rather than…
Out of all the things Apple’s iPad can do, it was the promise from Steve Jobs that it would breathe new life into the titans of the magazine and newspaper industry that caused a flurry of applications from institutions ranging from The Financial Times to Vogue to be born. Looking to capitalize on the popularity…
Apple and their vast catalogue of music available via iTunes is the number one way to purchase digital music in America, and the latest numbers from the NPD Group show that the Cupertino based firm has 66.2% of the market. To shed some light on how massive that truly is, the second largest player is…
Google’s Nexus S, their flagship smartphone meant to show off what Android 2.3 Gingerbread is capable of delivering when it isn’t mucked up by operators and handset makers looking to differentiate themselves, recently started shipping America, but it’s only now coming to the UK. Carphone Warehouse has an exclusive distribution deal and when they first…
The first Symbian^3 device to ship from Nokia, the N8, has been a mixed success. The Finnish handset maker claims that it set a record in terms of preorders, but failed to provide any hard sales numbers. Early reviews say the hardware is beautiful, the camera is the best on the market, but the operating…