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Filed under “gee wiz you can use your new smartphone to do all kind of awesome things”, we’ve got the case of Joseph Pereira, a 55 year old pilot for US Airways. While relaxing at the Philadelphia International Airport on June 24th, a 15 year old girl walked by and caught his fancy. What does…
LG’s application store just launched and Thomas Ricker’s headline for Engadget sums up the news quite well: “LG’s Application Store launches in places you don’t live for devices you don’t care about”. It’s for feature phones and smartphone, but surprisingly not Android phones, and support for Western Europe (UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain) isn’t…
NTT DOCOMO, who apparently changed their name from the difficult to type, but aesthetically pleasing DoCoMo, has licensed their LTE-PF chipset design to MediaTek, the Taiwanese firm who designs chips that go into million of Chinese mobile phones that are mostly clones of what’s sold in the West. What exactly is LTE-PF? As seen in…
How many of you use Skype? I bet many of you do. I count myself as a heavy user, but I’ve yet to pay the company a single dime. The call quality you get for free, depending on how much you’ve invested in your headset, is outstanding and makes regular phone calls sound like they’ve…
Nokia has this “Design by Community” thing going on that’s basically a hook to lure people to the Nokia Conversations blog and tell the company what they really want in future devices. Think of it as a focus group, except no one gets paid, and the sample size is huge. Problem is the people who…
Ashok Kumar, one of our favorite (warning warning, sarcasm meter about to explode) analysts here at IntoMobile, has another wacky prediction. My gut tells me to stop making fun of him though and believe what he has to say about his latest discovery. Kumar says that Motorola is planning on releasing an Android 3.0, code…
Don’t text and drive. Don’t email and drive. Don’t call and drive. Just don’t do anything while driving, except maybe listen to music. How important is that call that you’re willing to risk hitting another car, or worse yet hitting a pedestrian? I’m guilty of using my phone while driving, but only as a GPS…
HP, who in February said they’d support Microsoft and their Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system, but then went ahead and purchased Palm in April for $1.2 billion, has recently said that they’re going to stick to webOS, and only webOS, for their smartphones going forward. Not that HP ever made any good smartphones to…
Wireless charging has been the holy grail of consumer electronic devices for as long as I can remember. No more ugly wires in otherwise beautiful rooms or carrying a charger with you to make sure that your smartphone can keep on pushing you those emails from your wife asking you to bring home tartar sauce.…
An American, living in Finland, writing Canadian news. I apologize in advance to our boys living in America’s hat, but this story is too big to pass up. That and they’re asleep dreaming about whatever Canadians dream about … maple syrup? Anyway, Apple’s iPhone is going on sale this Friday in Canada, and it’s going…