I’ve received enough emails and tweets pointing me to an article VentureBeat published titled “Nokia to invade U.S. market — will launch new phone with AT&T” that I feel compelled to tell you why I didn’t write about it on IntoMobile. It isn’t news. Period. Here is the original press release detailing the plans Nokia…
Video: Google Mobile App 2.03 now brings voice search to Symbian devices
Google has just released Google Mobile App 2.03 for Symbian devices and it now includes voice search! The iPhone, Android and BlackBerry have had this for a while if I’m not mistaken, so this feature is welcome for us Nokia users. Just launch the application, hold the green call key, and say your query. I…
Andy Rubin: “We’re not making hardware, we’re enabling other people to build hardware”
Remember my rant titled “Google releasing their own Android smartphone … what are you, retarded?” in which I slammed Scott Moritz and Ashok Kumar for saying Google was going to make a phone? I said: Google would never, ever, make an Android device. That would hurt their relationships with current vendors, it requires a completely…
Video: Guy with too much time on his hands slaps a telephoto lens and stereo microphone on an iPhone
Hackers, tinkerers, people who like to play with electronics, I totally love and respect them because without their hard work we would not be where we are today. That being said, slapping a telephoto lens on the back of an iPhone and hacking the 30 pin dock connector to allow you to plug in broadcast…
Facebook Director of Mobile Jed Stremel resigns, tired of being poked
Facebook’s mobile site and mobile applications have been very well received by social network addicts around the world, which makes you wonder why the guy in charge of it all, Jed Stremel, resigned? After 4 years with the company he probably realized that Facebook is nothing more than a useless time suck creating a false…
Brief: TomTom sold 80,000 copies of their iPhone application Q3
During their Q3 2009 financial results conference call, TomTom announced that they sold close to 80,000 copies of their iPhone application. Pretty rad considering the total cost of ownership, for the application itself and the dock to stick the thing in your car, is over $200. [Via: GPS Business Review]
New York City Police issues 7,529 tickets in 1 day for improper mobile phone use
Police officers from New York City issued 7,529 tickets last Thursday for people using their mobile phones behind the wheel. This 24 hour crackdown wasn’t as successful as the one earlier May which resulted in around 9,000 violations issued, but a far higher number than the usual 540 tickets that are issued on a daily…
Video: Motorola Milestone (GSM Droid) found again, this time in Russia
Motorola Droid fever has hit the team at IntoMobile, and our readers, ridiculously hard. We’re all enamored with the Motorola Droid for different reasons; some like the new Navigation application, some like the fact that it is running a more mature looking Android 2.0, the hard core among us know that it is the first…
BREAKING: Nokia to kill N-Gage in September 2010
Nokia just posted an entry to their N-Gage blog saying that the N-Gage publishing platform is going to die in less than a year. Games will now be sold through the Ovi Store, which on face value makes sense, giving consumers a single location to purchase applications, whether that be a new alarm clock, or…
There is only one way someone can beat Google at the mapping game now
Yesterday Google launched Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0 and with it crushed the stock prices of Tom Tom and Garmin, makers of dedicated navigation devices. The question of whether or not we’ll see Google Maps Navigation come to other platforms has yet to be answered, but knowing Google’s previous moves in the mapping space,…