After seeing Windows Phone 7 Series in Barcelona earlier this year, and then rejoicing at the decision to simply rename the operating system Windows Phone 7, we’ve all but lost much of the enthusiasm we once had when Steve Ballmer was in front of us, on stage, kicking ass and taking names. Since we first…
Brief: Video: MeeGo 1.1 pre alpha for tablets [Shocked it actually looks decent]
Earlier today I blogged about the Digitimes rumour that Nokia would be releasing a tablet in Q4, with a 7 or 9 inch screen, using an ARM powered processor, and running on MeeGo. MeeGo of course being the love child of Intel’s Mobiln project and Nokia’s Maemo project. What would MeeGo look like if it…
Clarification: Nokia devices running Symbian^4 will get NFC, not the entire smartphone portfolio
Last week I eagerly published an article that referenced a piece I read on NFC World that said Anssi Vanjoki told a room full of people that all Nokia smartphones would get NFC in 2011. I had my doubts as to whether or not that statement was correct, and I went ahead and pinged Nokia’s…
Digitimes: Nokia working on 7 or 9 inch MeeGo powered ARM based tablet for Q4 2010
Our favorite dodgy Taiwanese site is at it again, this time with news that Nokia will release a 7 or 9 inch tablet PC, running on ARM based silicon and using the MeeGo operating system, some time during the 4th quarter of this year. As much as I think the iPad is a bourgeois piece…
Supreme Court: Any text messages or emails you send using government equipment can be used against you
Filed under “really, did we need the Supreme Court to tell us this?” we have the case of Quon v. Arch Wireless. This guy, Jeff Quon, was (still is?) on the SWAT team in Ontario, California. All members of the SWAT team get a mobile device, and a certain allowance of text messages and minutes.…
Video: Verizon Wireless Motorola Droid 1 vs. Droid 2 [Faster, sleeker]
The Motorola Droid was Android’s first “must own” device when you really think about. Remember how Android began, on T-Mobile with that horrible HTC G1? Yea, try looking at that, and then looking at the Droid, and not drool all over the floor. The first Droid, while great for what it could do, was fairly…
Irony: Verizon CTO is now part of the GSMA Board
Verizon Wireless, which arguably has the best network in the United States, doesn’t use GSM technology. Unlike 80% of the 1+ billion people using mobile phones, Verizon went with CDMA. Why? Part of it has to do with legacy. CDMA was invented in America after all, and why bother with making America’s networks compatible with…
Hey readers from India, Pakistan, and Indonesia: I need your help [Nokia 1280 = lust worthy]
Here at IntoMobile we get email all the time from people in India, Pakistan, Indonesia, as well as many other countries, but in particular those three, asking us when a device is going to be available in their country. We try to answer all of them, but realistically we don’t know since it depends on…
Nokia: Anssi Vanjoki: All smartphones we release in 2011 will have NFC
Anssi Vanjoki, one of my favorite Nokia employees, and one of the few people who I think can turn the company around from it’s current trajectory of heading towards irrelevance, announced that each and every smartphone the company plans on shipping in 2011 will have NFC. This is a bold statement, and one I plan…
QoTD: AT&T: We’ll be the #1 mobile broadband company in the US in 5 years, possibly the world
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson told CNBC that he expects that within 5 years AT&T will be the “number one mobile broadband business in the United States, probably one of the top in the world.” Considering that the iPhone is 3 years old, and 5 years ago the most advanced mobile phone on the planet was…