A few years ago I would have been stunned at this article in The New York Times about people who choose not to have a mobile phone, but lately I find myself sharing some of their feelings and at times even do the same things they do; turning my mobile phone off for a day,…
Samsung’s new Hello Kitty phones for France
Hello Kitty is a cultural phenomenon that I take great care in following. What other brand has appeared on an airplane, on a weapon, or even on a vibrator? Say hello to the “Player One Hello Kitty” above which has dimensions of 105 x 53 x 12 mm, weighs only 85 grams, has a 1000…
Video: Vertu Constellation Ayxta; Russian Audio, but device UI in English
The crazy expensive Vertu Constellation Ayxta that no one reading IntoMobile is going to buy, but instead admire for a distance, has made it into the hands of Eldar from Mobile-Review. Enjoy:
Carphone Warehouse in trouble with Nokia UK due to exporting devices for sale on the grey market
Carphone Warehouse is a UK mobile phone retailer. They won exclusive rights to sell the Nokia 5530 in the UK for 6 weeks starting on August 11, 2009. When they realized that the device didn’t sell as well as they had hoped, they started shifting units to outside markets. Carphone Warehouse purchased 130,000 units, and…
Brief: You’re going to have to wait until November for the Nokia N900
With October coming to an end in a little over a week, and mobile phone geeks around the world eagerly await the Nokia N900 to start shipping, it seems that the device isn’t going to be “in select markets … October 2009” like the August press release said. Peter Schneider, Head of Maemo Marketing @…
Corrections: ARM Cortex A8, Qualcomm Snapdragon and Marvell Armada oh my!
The fastest way to find an answer on the internet is not to ask a question, but to make an incorrect statement. I don’t remember who said that, but time and time again, if I say something wrong on this blog, or any online forum, I’ll usually get a comment or an email in my…
Twitter CEO Evan Williams: Mobile is a “massive focus”
Not everyone is aboard the Twitter bandwagon. I was long opposed to it, until turning full circle and becoming an addict at the start of this year. How long will the service continue to be free though? Like every other new trendy west coast startup, Twitter has no business model, and they’re desperately trying to…
TeliaSonera aiming to be the first operator in the world to launch a commercial LTE network
TeliaSonera, a Swedish mobile operator who also serves other countries in Northern Europe, is looking to be the first mobile operator in the world to launch a commercial LTE network in 2010. The first step at achieving such an audacious goal is of course to get some LTE equipment, and TeliaSonera has just confirmed that…
Helsinki Nokia N900 Meetup: The Maemo guys have heart, but is that enough?
I just came back from the first of six international Nokia N900 meetups. The Helsinki event took place in none other than the Nokia Flagship Store, a shop that I used to visit quite often during my usual daily strolls down main street, but have lately been ignoring due to Nokia’s present uninspiring portfolio of…
ARM Cortex A5: Super cheap, super low power, coming to a phone near you really soon
ARM just announced their Cortex A5 processor, the latest processor to use the ARM v7 instruction set. The A5 is the “most power-efficient and cost-effective multicore processor” according to their press release, and judging by the spec sheet, they’re right. The Cortex A5 can be configured to be ultra economical by using a single core…