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Near Field Communication technology, NFC for short, is something we’ve been drooling over for years here at IntoMobile Headquarters. Besides the obvious mobile payments scenario, the one where we pretend that we live in a future where we don’t have to carry a wallet, what we really want is to be able to move information…
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has just agreed on the technologies that are deemed worthy enough to earn the “IMT-Advanced” designation: LTE-Advanced and WirelessMAN-Advanced, the latter being more widely known as WiMAX 2. They don’t want to call it 5G, but you can expect AT&T’s marketing department to already be in the process of drafting…
Companies rarely insult each other in public these days, for reasons we don’t quite understand; being politically correct is boring. Samsung though, they’re on a roll. It started out with an ad that showed a bunch of people waiting in line for the iPhone 4S when all of a sudden they see a Samsung Galaxy…
Two summers ago when we first heard about LightSquared our faces lit up like a child on Christmas day. Their proposal to launch a brand spanking new nationwide LTE network that would be a dumb pipe that other companies would then resell to end users was just the kind of thing that the wireless industry…
The latest Windows Phones on the market run a version of the OS codenamed Mango. For months we’ve been hearing that during the first half of 2012 we’re going to see a new version of the OS hit the market called Tango, but we haven’t exactly been sure what said new version would bring to…
The number of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace has just surpassed 60,000 according to the folks at All About Symbian. To put that number into some context, the 50,000 app barrier was passed just 25 days ago. An average of 400 apps are being added on a daily basis, though we don’t exactly know…
The Samsung Galaxy S II, arguably the most important Android device of 2011, has just become one of Samsung’s best selling devices in their home country of South Korea. Samsung has just announced that nine months after launching the Galaxy S II over there they’ve sold over 5 million units. For a country of just…
When Verizon launched their 4G LTE network back in late 2010 we wondered how long it would be until we saw the first 4G LTE smartphones hit their network? Three months later, in March 2011, we got our answer with the HTC Thunderbolt (pictured above, sans battery cover). Not long after that we were flooded…
Focus groups are the bane of people who genuinely want to create something new. There’s a reason Apple doesn’t use them and why everyone quotes Henry Ford as saying that if he asked his customers what they wanted, they’d say a faster horse. Still, that hasn’t stopped Casio and Verizon from holding a focus group…
Two software updates are being pushed out to owners of the Nokia Lumia 800. First, there’s a battery related software update that fixes issues that several Lumia 800 units have been experiencing. It’s the second part of a two part software update that Nokia promised they’d roll out back in late November. We’re impressed that…