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The meeting room where the NFC (Near Field Communication) Forum holds their biweekly game of beer pong needs to be upgraded since they’ve just added 29 new members. Some of the companies you may have heard about: HTC, the folks who make high end Android smartphones with this thing called Sense UI on top that…
Despite Apple’s iPhone 4S disappointing the hardcore technology crowd, the fifth generation Jesus Phone has already shattered pre-order sales records. Just 24 hours after being made available, 1 million units of the iPhone 4S were reserved by rabid Apple fanbois, iPhone 3GS owners who are nearing the end of their 2 year contract, and folks…
Earlier this week Opera Software hosted an event dubbed “Up North Web” that roughly 80 journalists attended. I’m happy to report that I was one of them. During my 70 minute flight back home today, from Oslo to Helsinki, I went through my notes in an attempt to figure out what the overarching theme of…
Dell, the company that makes the most boring computers to ever leave a Chinese labor camp, has been trying to get in the smartphone game for what feels like an entire lifetime. Funny thing is, Dell used to be known for their personal digital assistants, the Axim lineup, since they has some ridiculously impressive spec…
Everyone and their mother complained when Apple started shipping the iPhone and it was discovered that the damn thing used microSIM cards. As soon as the fourth generation Jesus Phone landed in people’s hands, more videos demonstrating how to cut your SIM card to microSIM size were uploaded to YouTube than we care to count.…
Late last month we brought you news (technically a rumor) of a brand spanking new operating system that Nokia is in the process of working on called Meltemi that’s said to be based on Linux and will be put on low end devices. Today we’ve discovered a job listing on Nokia’s website that pretty much…
Earlier this year Qualcomm introduced a new product naming scheme to make it easier for customers and members of the press to more easily differentiate the various processors in their portfolio. The highest end product family, known as the S4, has been something we’ve known relatively little about, but that’s just changed thanks to a…
Whenever a press release hits the IntoMobile inbox announcing a new Pantech device, an incredibly competitive game of hot potato kicks off. Known for making solid midrange devices, Pantech isn’t a company we’d usually associate with innovation, but that’s due to change real fast. The Pantech Vega LTE, not the most impressive name, but whatever,…
Nuance, a company that many people know thanks to their Dragon NaturallySpeaking software, has just confirmed to This is my next that they’ve acquired Swype for “approximately $100 million”. Swype, for those who may not be familiar with their work, was invented by the same dude who created T9. With Swype you simply draw a…
Steve Jobs is a man many of us knew for his incredible showmanship and obsessive attention to detail. His personal life is something we’ll get a better understanding of when his authorized biography hits store shelves later this month. One of the private details of his life that we do know about is that Jobs…