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Gamers rejoice! GameStop just became the latest company to throw its hat in when using the Android operating system. The video game retailer is planning to release its own-brand gaming tablet, which will launch with a number of titles pre-installed, according to company president Tony Bartel in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz. Bartel says his company…
Digitimes is reporting a few interesting numbers for the mobile industry, particularly Apple’s smartphone business. Their research concludes that total smartphone shipments in 2011 will quite possibly exceed 462 million units. This is a 60 percent increase from 2010, in which 288 million units were shipped. Apple alone is expected to ship over 86.4 million…
Last night, TechCrunch writer MG Siegler began teasing us on his Twitter about a big scoop he’d be writing about today. He is reporting that not only does the rumored Amazon Kindle tablet exist, but he has seen one with his own eyes and played with it. According to the report, the device will target…
It’s a damn shame we no longer get immersed in bubbles in the same way we did as children. But Sprint cares about us and the need for bubbles in our lives. Thank you, Sprint, for launching Bubble Mania 3D brought to you by the HTC EVO 3D. Sprint put together an approximately two-minute video…
Those words will echo throughout households of the future. The new LG Roboking VR680VMNC (did you get all that?) robotic vacuum is set to debut in Korea this month, showcasing the company’s effort to add advanced tech to appliances. It features three different cameras plus sensors galore to move around the house efficiently and has several…
CNET is reporting today that an Apple employee lost an iPhone prototype in a bar yet again. This time around, it’s the iPhone 5. Apparently, this unreleased Apple product went missing at Cava 22 in San Francisco back in July. The company was aware of the problem at the time and quickly sought its safe…
Believe it or not, it’s going on a year now since we were first introduced to Google’s idea of bringing the internet to your TV, with soft launches of its Logitech Revue and Sony TV products last September. Now, apparently Google is working on bringing its system to the UK within the next six months…
Qualcomm said that it has acquired a number of gesture-recognition assets from GestureTek and that it will be incorporating this technology into current and future versions of its Snapdragon processors. The deal will give Qualcomm intellectual patents, engineering resources and more regarding gesture-recognition technology and this could open the door for a new way to…
Smartphones are getting larger and larger, a trend that irks some of the staff at the IntoMobile offices, and it looks like it isn’t going to reverse any time soon. Back in January of this year Samsung and AT&T announced the “Infuse”, an Android smartphone that packs a 4.5 inch screen. We didn’t really know…
It wasn’t that long ago that photos taken with camera phones were absolutely horrible. Nokia aimed to change that with the introduction of the Nseries brand, and some would say that the N95, launched back in early 2007 with a 5 megapixel sensor and Carl Zeiss optics, was the first real smartphone you could confidently…