Mobilizy, which I’m not going to even attempt to pronounce, is the Australian based startup responsible for Wikitude, arguably the first augmented reality application to ever grace smartphones. Today they’re launching something that finally makes augmented reality, which most mobile fanbois seem to think is going to be the next holy grail, and actually make…
ST Ericsson porting Android to their U8500 platform; multicore support coming to Android
In a recent message sent to the Android Platform mailing list, Andrea Gallo from ST Ericsson says that the company is in the process of porting Android to their U8500 chipset. Andrea goes on to say that they’ve successfully made Android run on a dual core chip version of the U8500 and that they’ve seen…
Photo: Nokia’s Maemo User Interface team
Behind every slick marketing video, press shot, fluffy corporate blog post, and the many other things companies feed to bloggers and journalists to drool over, there are people who actually make the stuff that we at IntoMobile use and write about. People who wake up in the morning, just like you and I do, who…
Brief: Attention Germany and Italy: You can now preorder the Nokia N900 for €600
The Nokia N900 is now available for preorder at Nokia’s official German [link] and Italian [link] stores, both have it for €600 with free shipping. For Americans, you’ll probably get it cheaper since €600 = $861.90. I’m wondering what other “selected territories” are going to get the N900 come October, only one month away. [Hat…
NEC, Hitachi and Casio are looking to become one big happy family in Japan
The number one handset manufacture in Japan, Sharp, may be facing some steep competition if the rumor about NEC getting into a three way with Hitachi and Casio are to be believed. Nikkei is reporting that Japanese publication Yomiuri Shimbun has been tipped offed that the three companies plan on merging their handset divisions as…
It finally happened, China Unicom and Apple have struck a deal; more details in Q409
Oddly enough, yesterday I posted a tweet saying that “I refuse to write about Apple and China Unicom anymore until I see an official press release on either of their websites”. And what do you know, today I wake up with a press release in my inbox from China Unicom that says “on 28 August,…
More Nokia N97 Mini photos leak; see junior next to his father too
The Nokia N97 Mini has already been leaked and previewed by Eldar from Mobile-Review, but we’re not going to complain about more pictures being posted of a device that a lot of people who are put off by either the high price tag or ginormous size of the N97 are going to consider purchasing. Photos…
Spotify: We submitted our App to the App Store a month ago, still haven’t heard back from Apple
Spotify, the glorious application created by a bunch of Swedes (CEO Daniel Ek pictured above) that only runs in a few select countries in Europe currently, but plans to launch in America by the end of this year, created an iPhone application and even demoed it one month ago today. Has it made it to…
Verizon investigating how to stop making you accidentally give them money
Most mobile phones these days have either a dedicated icon, or hardware button, that when pressed will pull up the web browser. Verizon Wireless customers who push that button and don’t have a data plan of any sort rack up a fee of $1.99. This happens each and every time a user opens the browser.…
Nokia makes the N900 and Maemo 5 official; 500 EUR and due in October
You’re going to want to watch these in full screen: Go to http://maemo.nokia.com/ and geek out. “1 million views in less than 50 minutes on maemo.nokia.com.” – @PeterMaemo “Adding more bandwidth to maemo.nokia.com servers completed. Just in case.” – @PeterMaemo Nokia’s official press release about the N900 just went up. Read it in full after…