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It’s Sunday, and while a usual weekend for me begins by shutting off my laptop after finishing work up on Friday, then proceeding to party my brains out over the ensuing 48 hours with copious amounts of binge drinking and reckless unprotected sex, and then finally waking up on Monday morning to boot up my…
Let me let you in on a little secret. While your favorite mobile operating system may be the one with the most applications, or the one with the best integration with the online services you use, or the one that’s the most open source, operators have dollar signs in their eyes and their favorite operating…
Bernie McMonagle, a Verizon Senior Federal Sales Executive, was giving a talk in Bethesda, Maryland and of course the topic of LTE was brought up. Much of what he said isn’t new, but it’s nice to hear reassurances that all is going well. We’ve known for a long time that Verizon’s goal was to launch…
Ofcom, the name of the regulatory body that’s similar in nature to the FCC in the United States, is tired of getting customer complaints about actual download speeds being no where near advertised download speeds when using mobile broadband. They’ve hired Epitiro, a broadband testing company, to do some field work and see how 3,…
Nam Yong, the CEO of LG Electronics, is stepping down and handing over control to 59 year old Koo Bon-joon, one of the founding fathers of LG. Why is he leaving? Poor performance in the mobile phones division. LG, who once was known for producing cheap and substandard devices, got their act together between 2005…
Clamshells, or what some people refer to as flip phones, were a big thing in the pre iPhone era, but for some reason or another they lost their sex appeal with people instead opting to have a large sheet of glass in their pocket to poke and prod at. In 2009 the movie Star Trek…
Normally when there’s talk of an operator joining forces with the government the context is usually negative such as tracking suspected terrorists without a warrant or highlighting the past location of someone who is on trial for some heinous crime, but what if the government and mobile operators actually did something useful together? NTT DoCoMo,…
Foursquare, a service mainly used by hipsters or people who don’t having anything spectacularly meaningful in their life and thus need to acquire emotional reinforcement from icons with funny captions created by previously said mentioned hipsters, has a native iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, and even Palm webOS application, but nothing for Symbian. That says a lot…
HTC just finished wrapping up their press conference [see our live blog here] that was conveniently located right next to where Nokia World was held, and one of the devices announced today was the Desire Z. If it looks familiar to you then you’ve been reading IntoMobile during the past few days because it’s the…
About a month ago Nokia launched the X3 Touch and Type, the first touch screen based Series 40 device [read: dumb phone aka feature phone] with a touch screen. Today they’re launching the second of such style of device, the C3 Touch and Type. Unlike the X3, the C3 has a standard T9 keypad. It’s…