Last month at Mobile World Congress we saw ZTE announce a bevy of smartphones, one of them being the Mimosa X. It’s an important handset because it’s the first to use NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 combined with an Icrea cellular modem. What does that mean? Qualcomm powers 4 out of every 10 mobile devices that aren’t…
Windows Phone Tango has better memory management, allows 8 apps to simultaneously multitask
Windows Phone Tango, which some folks are now calling Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh, is not only going to enable device makers like Nokia to come out with sub 200 EUR smartphones, it’s also going to bring new features to today’s Windows Phone when it eventually arrives as a software update. Some features we already know,…
New iPad runs 10 degrees hotter than the iPad 2, Apple A5X to blame
Yesterday we were shocked to discover that the system on chip inside the new Apple iPad, the Apple designed and Samsung built A5X, is using 45 nanometer transistors. All the important smartphones that are due to come out this year, meaning the phones that IntoMobile staff would actually buy, are going to use either Qualcomm’s…
The GSMA wants to make sure you’re using a WiFi hotspot whenever you’re near one
Most people sit in one of three places at any given moment during a typical day: work, home, and their local café or bar. There’s little to no reason that said people should have to dip into their data plan while sitting in any of those places, but they end up using the cellular network…
New Head of Windows Phone Marketing is the same guy who created “Can you hear me now?”
Back in 2002 (see video below) Verizon launched one of the most brilliant advertising campaigns ever thought up by a marketing department. They had a guy walking around the most remote parts of America with a phone glued to his head asking the other person on the line if they could hear him talking. It…
Windows Phone has finally started outselling Symbian in the UK, but just barely
Nokia’s Windows Phones have been out on the market since November 15th, at least in the UK. Now are they selling or are they just sitting on store shelves? That’s a tough question to answer. When the Finnish handset maker published their Q4 2011 financial results on the the 26th of January they said that…
Leak: Nokia Lumia 719, it looks like the Lumia 610 and the Lumia 710 had a baby
Nokia is officially going to announce their first Windows Phones for the Chinese market by the end of this month. We know that China is probably going to modified version of all of Nokia’s existing Windows Phones, but what about some fresh looking devices? Enter the Lumia 719, which was discovered on Weibo, the Chinese…
Leak: Motorola Droid Fighter: It’s the RAZR Maxx, but with a 4.6 inch 720p display
Mid-October 2011 was an interesting time to be an Android fan. In New York the Motorola Droid RAZR was announced, packing a 4.3 inch qHD (960 x 540 pixel) screen and 4G LTE connectivity in a body that was, and still is, ridiculously thin. Several hours later, in Hong Kong, Samsung and Google announced the…
Confirmed: The A5X inside the new Apple iPad is built on Samsung’s 45 nm process
Apple and Samsung are fierce competitors when it comes to the smartphone and tablet space, but their relationship, like any other modern relationship, can best be described as “complicated”. Last summer The Economist published a piece that broke down how much the individual components that make up an iPhone actually cost; they also listed who…
Leak: Is this the Samsung Galaxy S III? No, though it’s pretty close to the final design
There’s an image floating around the internets that many websites are claiming to be the final representation of what the hugely anticipated Samsung Galaxy S III will look like. The funny thing is that the image was originally posted by Eldar Murtazin, Editor in Chief of Mobile-Review. Love him or hate him, he’s right most…