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A man by the name of Silly22 on the XDA Developers forum recently posted images of a badly damaged Samsung Galaxy S II along with a mildly terrifying story of why it looks the way it does. The story goes something like this: a friend of Silly22 had the smartphone pictured below in his pocket…
Phone nerds were let down when Tim Cook showed off the iPhone 4S because it didn’t deliver on the wild expectations that they built up in their spec sheet obsessed minds. The screen stayed the same tiny 3.5 inches, the cellular radio got bumped up to only 14.4 Mbps max theoretical download speeds, and worst…
When PocketNow posted photos of a white version of the AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket, but failed to say when it would actually start shipping, we found it incredibly difficult to contain ourselves. The Rocket in black is nice device, there’s no denying that. It has a gorgeous 4.5 inch Super AMOLED Plus display,…
What happens when you take what’s arguably the best smartphone that’s currently shipping, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and then put it on the largest 4G LTE network in the world? Some lucky little devil managed to score the elusive Verizon Nexus, which starts shipping later this month, and he did what any sensible mobile geek…
Sharp has announced that they’ve successfully made the world’s thinnest camera module with optical image stabilization. Just how thin are we talking about here? A mind bending 5.47 mm! The RJ63YC100, as it’s called, is capable of taking 12 megapixel photos, capturing 1080p videos, and is backside-illuminated so it’ll be able to take photos at…
There’s no such thing as a perfect smartphone operating system. They all have their pros and cons, and it’s really hard to recommend a device to someone without knowing what they actually want to do with said device. Android lets users tweak the living bejesus out of their operating system, doing things like installing new…
Last week we reported the devastating news that Nokia Siemens Networks was going to dump 17,000 employees or roughly 23% of the company in order to focus on wireless networks and trying to stay alive. Several days later we found a leaked memo detailing which business units were going to stay, and which were going…
Futuremark Corporation, which I just now realized is based out of Helsinki, Finland, has announced that they’ll be bringing their highly praised 3DMark benchmarking tool to Google’s mobile operating system at some point in 2012. Why is this significant? Before I started writing for IntoMobile, before I worked for Nokia, and before I had to…
Another day another Apple rumor, this one courtesy of Japanese news publication Nikkei Business. They say that Apple’s next generation iPad will not ship in the spring, like previous generations of the iPad, but instead will come out in the summer. Same story with the iPhone 5, which will ship in the fall just like…
While we’re anxiously awaiting to see what Nokia can do with Windows Phone given enough time, the Lumia 800 is a rushed out product when you really think about it, there’s one area of the mobile industry where the Finnish handset maker remains untouchable. Feature phones. It may seem difficult for most of readers to…