Update: This post has some factually incorrect data, for more information click here. Marvell, who owns Intel’s former XScale Division, the group within Intel who worked on ARM chips until 2006, has recently unveiled a new system on chip processor family called ARMADA. Their caps lock key must’ve been broken when naming that sucker, so…
HTC Dragon: Take the Touch HD2, take off Windows Mobile, and slap on Android 2.0
HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone maker who used to be in an exclusive relationship with Microsoft, but is now engaging in a ménage à trois with Google being the +1, is going to be releasing a new handset soon code named Dragon. Specification wise, it’s an exact clone of the recently announced Touch HD2: capacitive 4.3…
Nokia Musical Chairs Update: Jo Harlow to head Smartphones, John Martin to head Mobile Computers
Earlier today I posted the press release that Nokia issued this morning about Rick Simonson leaving his post as CFO to head the mobile phones unit. Reuters managed to digg up some more details. The Devices Unit is now split into three subunits, not two as I said this morning. Mobile Phones, which does S30 and…
Video: Breaking the law with the Nokia N900 and Bit Torrent
Staska from Unwired View lives in Lithuania and the poor guy can’t get the latest TV shows and movies from America, so he has to resort to piracy. I do the same thing from here in Finland, but to be honest even when I was living in America I pirated the living hell out of…
Android 2.0 Preview: Facebook and Microsoft Exchange built in, new Google Maps, new everything
The Motorola Sholes that The Boy Genius some how managed to score earlier this week is running Android 2.0. Whether or not that version is going to be called “Éclair” is up for debate, but with Google employees moving a model replica of said pastry on their front lawn, something has to be up. What’s…
Vinaphone first to launch 3G in Vietnam; unlimited 7.2 Mbps goodness for only $16.80/month
Vietnam, a country I’m looking forward to visiting and possibly relocating to within the next 3 months, just got 3G courtesy of the third largest telecommunications provider in the region: Vinaphone. Limited availability is expected, with only 13 provinces and cities getting 3G coverage, but the whole population should be blanketed by the end of…
Nokia Comes with Music only has 107,227 users after being operational for one year
Nokia’s Comes with Music, an idea I’ve been shitting on since the day it was announced, is a scheme thought up by executives in Finland to offer devices for around 110 EUR more than they should cost and in return you get one year of unlimited DRM infected downloads. The whole concept seemed as if…
Nokia’s Executive game of musical chairs: CFO Rick Simonson to head Devices Unit on November 1st
During Nokia’s Q3 conference call (see my live blog here) the company alluded to some changes in management. They didn’t exactly specify what was going to change, that is until this morning when they issued this press release: Nokia today announced some changes in the roles of its Group Executive Board members. Rick Simonson, currently…
ATTN DE, FR, IT, SE, NL, PL, ES and UK: 15% off Nokia’s online store for the next 7 days
Attention German, French, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Polish, Spanish and British IntoMobile readers: Nokia is offering 15% off their online store until October 21st. Go buy something nice for yourself, or a present for someone this holiday season. Shame this doesn’t work for Finland of all places, grrr, this country never gets anything cheap. Nothing. Nada.…
Screenshot: Nokia N900 running on T-Mobile’s 3G network = 2.26 Mb/s down, 0.34 Mb/s up
Mark Guim from The Nokia Blog just came back from Amsterdam after attending the 2009 Maemo Summit. Everyone who attended got a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N900, which has 1700 MHz 3G support by the way; the weird band that only T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) USA is using at the moment. How fast does that sucker go?…