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Several months ago my 4 year old 15 inch IBM ThinkPad T61 died and I immediately panicked since it was the machine I used to do my job. When it came time to buy a new laptop, the 17 inch MacBook Pro stood out as the best possible replacement due to the super high resolution…
British operator 3 has just completed phase 1 of their wireless network upgrade and the statistics they provide with that small bit of news are both funny and eye opening. The whole thing cost 400 million British pounds or roughly $630 million. Before the upgrade they had 7,500 cell towers, but now they have 12,400…
Nokia Siemens Networks, who supplies infrastructure equipment to operators around the world, but is sadly not the number one vendor, and Qualcomm, who makes chips that enable hardware manufacturers to make devices ranging from cheap feature phones to some of the most advanced smartphones on the planet, are teaming together to show the wireless industry…
Riverside County California resident William Atwood, age 45, has a 17 year old daughter and he’ll do everything in his power to protect her. He’s going to stand trial for several charges, namely assault, after he discovered that his little princess got a racy text message from a man identified as Justin Moore. According to…
Near field communication (NFC) is something that gets our hearts pumping here at IntoMobile. To image that one day all we’ll need to carry with us when leaving the house is a mobile phone, and that it’ll handle everything from opening our front door, to paying for groceries, to getting on the subway, is a…
Analyst firm Informa teamed up with streaming music service Spotify to issues a report stating the obvious: if operators offer their customers a streaming music service instead of trying to build their own store then they stand to make money hand over fist. Spotify, for those of you unaware of the most brilliant music service…
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has issued a press release and report [PDF file] with a staggering amount of statistics in honor of “World Statistics Day”; can you tell that place is filled with math nerds? Here are some of the more interesting facts and figures: By the end of this year there will be…
Our favorite Taiwanese rumor site Digitimes is saying that by the end of this year Google is going to finish Android 3.0 and that engineering samples of the hardware it’s meant to run on will be ready during the same period. Android 3.0, which we know very little about other than that the codename is…
Hot off the heels of the Samsung E1252 that was launched earlier today, the South Korean firm has introduced another handset that is capable of holding two sim cards: the Ch@t 322. It’s got a QWERTY keyboard, a first in the dual SIM market as far as I’m aware, and comes with a feature phone…
Kerfye Pierre, a 27 year old woman from Washington state, chose to volunteer her time and energy towards helping to rebuild Haiti after the massive earthquake that struck the country earlier this year. She brought her mobile phone with her, and unaware of the concept of roaming charges, used it like she regularly would back…