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After the long delayed Nokia N8 shipped, the first smartphone powered by the new and improved yet ancient looking Symbian^3, the Nokia C7 quickly followed and now the C6-01 is also starting to make itself seen at a store near you. For those who may have a rusty memory, the Nokia N8 was announced back…
Operators all around the world are either testing LTE, rolling it out, or have it already running. Sweden was the first country in the world to get an LTE network, all the way back in December 2009, courtesy of local operator TeliaSonera. The new wireless technology promises speeds of around 100 Mbps and ultra low…
Nokia Siemens Networks has teamed up with Ciqual and is now offering a new service for operators using their infrastructure equipment called “Mobile Quality Analyzer (MQA) for Mobile Broadband“. It’s a simple application that people have to install on their computer and then the data on the performance of their connection, both in terms of…
Another month, another leaked Nokia device, this time in the form of a new QWERTY feature phone that’s being dubbed the X2-01. Earlier this year, in April, the Finnish handset maker launched the X2 and it was absolutely amazing in terms of the specifications you could get for just 85 EUR. The original X2 came…
Earlier today I published an article, which I’ve just recently trashed, saying that the Symbian Foundation was dead and that it was being replaced by a new consortium of companies under a new brand known as “SYMBEOSE“. That article was incorrect and I’ve received plenty of emails from Symbian people telling me what the real…
We’re big fans of Opera at IntoMobile, so we’re happy to hear that they’re doing their part towards making the planet a cleaner place to live by opening up a data center in Iceland that runs on 100% renewable energy. Opera, for those who have yet to hear of them, and it’s possible since most…
If you stop and think about how many antennas are inside your mobile phone, you really begin to appreciate how much time and energy must’ve gone to make your device even work. There’s the 4 needed to support all the international GSM bands, then there’s up to 5 bands for 3G, but make sure you…
Chinese infrastructure and handset firm ZTE has become the first to demonstrate CDMA2000 1x Advanced, an upgrade to the aging CDMA technology that’s used by relatively few operators around the world; at least compared to GSM. What CDMA2000 1x Advanced enables is a better use of one of the most expensive resources on the planet:…
British startup Deltenna have started shipping their first run of “Wireless Broadband Enabler” devices, or WiBi for short. The concept is one you’ve heard of before. Take a 3G modem, connect to the wireless network, turn that signal into WiFi so that a wide range of devices can easily connect to it, and that’s it.…
Nokia gets a lot of heat from the press, analysts, and Wall Street for their smartphone lineup, but like Microsoft, who had a vision to put a computer on every desk, Nokia’s goal is to make a mobile phone that can go in everyone’s pocket. With the 5 billion mobile connection barrier having been broken…