Nokia’s Cseries and Xseries rang of devices was discovered by Aleksi Moisio, writing for Finnish news site Digitoday, way back in July of last year. We all know about the Xseries, such as the X6, the first Nokia smartphone with a capactivie touch screen, and the Nokia X3, a lesser known, but highly important music…
Brief: Nokia Ovi Maps with free navigation reaches 1.4 million downloads in 1 week
Nokia’s Ovi Maps with free navigation has been downloaded over 1.4 million times in only 7 days. As of 31 January 2010 the top five countries downloading the new version of Ovi Maps were: China, Italy, UK, Germany and Spain. The top five most popular Nokia devices installing the download were: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia…
Videos: First Sony Ericsson Vivaz video samples are crystal freaking clear and impressive
When the Sony Ericsson Vivaz was announced I largely ignored it because it looks downright hideous. Sure the spec sheet is nice, it’s the first 720p video recording mobile phone with continuous autofocus, but man, if I had to pull a Vivaz out of my pocket I’d feel embarrassed. I’m still not going to buy…
Several people, including the leading system architect, left P.A. Semi after the Apple acquisition
The most exciting part of Apple’s iPad, for me at least, is the A4 processor inside. It’s “custom”, but what does that really mean? The mobile industry, like the PC industry, takes the best components from here, there, everywhere, slaps them together and then sells it to you. Unlike the PC industry however, the mobile…
Ultrabrief: Gameloft: We made €122 million in 2009, €17.6 million was thanks to Apple’s App Store
Gameloft, a French video game development house, released their full year 2009 results today and they said they racked up €122 million worth of sales in 2009. Of that, €17.6 million was from Apple’s App Store; that’s 231% more than they made from the App Store in 2008. I shouldn’t be writing this blog post…
Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5.3 change log [Capacitive screen support]
Earlier today Sony Ericsson announced the Aspen, the first official Windows Mobile smartphone to run version 6.5.3 of Microsoft’s mobile operating system. What’s different compared to other versions of Windows Mobile? Mary-Jo Foley from All About Microsoft, arguably the best Microsoft related blogger out there, went ahead and asked Microsoft and without any hesitation they…
Mike Manos, the guy who built Microsoft’s server farms, now VP of Service Operations at Nokia
Mike Manos may not be a household name, but in the data center world this guy is Bono. He setup Microsoft’s XBOX Live servers, new Azure servers, Hotmail servers, Messenger Servers, basically everything except Bing. He left Microsoft 9 months ago to work for Digital Realty Trust, but in the end he got a job…
13 days until Mobile World Congress: What does the IntoMobile team want to see, and want to avoid?
It’s difficult to describe what attending Mobile World Congress is like. I’ve only been there once, in 2008, and I’m excited to be going again this year. For those of you who have never heard of Mobile World Congress, it’s a trade show where everyone in the mobile telecommunications industry, from device makers, to infrastructure…
Michael Hsu: Nokia Taiwan: Symbian 2 is garbage, we’re going straight to Symbian 3
Digitimes doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to rumours, so take this with a grain of salt, but they say that they’ve spoken to Michael Hsu, General Manager of Nokia Taiwan, and have learned that Nokia isn’t going to make any Symbian 2 handsets and instead is going to jump straight to…
Samsung: In March we’ll begin mass producing a 3.3 inch 800×480 resolution AMOLED multitouch screen
Yesterday Samsung announced that they’re going to being mass production of a 3.3 inch AMOLED screen, with a resolution of 800×480 pixels, and that has a multitouch layer built into the screen itself, during March. Usually when one builds a multitouch screen they start with a plain old display, and then slap a multitouch sensor…