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A little less than 2 weeks ago Google and Samsung got on a stage in Hong Kong and showed off both the next version of Android, dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich, and the first device that’ll be running it, the Galaxy Nexus. One of the “features” in Ice Cream Sandwich is that it’s optimized to run…
Chinese handset vendor Huawei has just launched a brand new Android smartphone in Australia dubbed the U8520. The spec sheet will make the hardcore mobile geek roll their eyes (600 MHz CPU, 3.2 inch 480 x 320 pixel display, 3.2 megapixel camera) but what makes this thing special is that is can take two SIM…
Ford, a car company one typically doesn’t associate with innovation, has come with with something ingenious called the MyKey. It’s a car key that’s Bluetooth enabled, so when it’s paired up to your phone and you’re hauling ass on the way to the grocery store, any incoming call or text you get is “blocked” so…
Marketing people have a difficult job when it comes to naming their company’s products and services. They need to make sure that the branding they’ve thought up doesn’t mean something offensive in a different language. Take for example Apple’s recent launch of the iPhone 4S. The highlight feature, Siri, translates to “ass” in Japanese. Likewise…
Last week Nokia held their annual Nokia World event in London where they announced 6 new handsets. The last 2 to be unveiled, the Nokia Lumia 710 and the Nokia Lumia 800, were the ones that the entire mobile industry have been eager to see ever since the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer decreed back in…
As much as Apple doesn’t want to admit it, they have to play nice with their competitors, at least until they can find some way to permanently sever their poisonous relationships. The most obvious example that comes to mind of just such a situation is the dance Apple plays with Samsung. The South Korean handset…
Some say that the iPhone changed how people interact with their mobile phones, and for the most part it’s been a change for the better since touch has paved the way for simpler user interfaces, but one thing we all hate, regardless of which platform we use, is the crap that our screen accumulates over…
Richard Kerris was Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations for the webOS division at HP for less than 9 months before he decided to leave on October 24th. Here we are, just 4 days later, and Marco Aregenti, Senior Vice President of Developer and Marketplace at Nokia, just tweeted: “Great people are what makes the…
Microsoft and Nokia have a problem. The iPhone is perceived to be the best smartphone on the market, and for folks who don’t agree with that notion there’s Android. Where exactly does Windows Phone into that equation? It doesn’t. That’s why the two companies have decided that they’re going to flood the market with a…
The bean counters at IDC have just released their Q3 2011 mobile industry figures, and they tell a tale that many of you who’ve been following IntoMobile with a close eye are already well familiar with. Beginning with the market as a whole, 393.7 million devices were sold between July and September, which is up…