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While Americans wait for Isis to launch sometime in 2012, and the Japanese have been enjoying near field enabled mobile payments since before the first iPhone came out, over in the UK Orange has announced that “Quick Tap” is launching today. Here’s how it works: First, you need to be an Orange customer. Simple enough.…
It’s smartphone bonanza at Amazon, which is offering few of the hottest devices for less. Without further ado, here’s what they got: AT&T’s HTC Inspire 4G is available for $29.99. The Android-powered smartphone rocks 1GHz processor, 4.3-inch WVGA touchscreen, 8-megapixel camera, 4GB of internal storage and so on. Sprint’s HTC Arrive could be yours for…
When Samsung announced their successor to the highly popular Galaxy S smartphone, simply dubbed the Galaxy S II, read our review here, one of the standout features was the inclusion of near field communication technology or NFC. Since the device start shipping however, there’s been a little misunderstanding that many in the media have glanced…
Do you want to win a Galaxy Tab 10.1 before it’s released? How about a Galaxy S phone? Well, if you attend the IntoMobile party June 3 in the San Francisco Bay Area you’ll have a 1 in 40 chance to walk away with some cool Samsung hardware while also hobnobbing with the IntoMobile team.…
Gartner has posted their report for the first quarter of 2011, which shows predictably solid growth in smartphones, and re-establishes many trends we’ve been seeing all along. Nokia’s hardware market share has dipped to 25%, Samsung is down to 16%, and LG to 5.6%. That leaves Apple with 3.9% market share (up from 2.3% last…
The Samsung Infuse 4G for AT&T embodies the three directions that mobile phones seem to be headed – larger screen sizes, thinner bodies and more powerful processors. That’s right – the Infuse 4G manages to wrangle all three, and in a very usable package. Its 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus display is rich and vivid, though…
Samsung is reportedly teaming-up with Chinese internet giant Sina over Samsung Apps. Under the plan, Sina’s affiliate 1000CHI Software Technology will take responsibility for Samsung’s app store in the world’s fastest growing economy. From what I’ve understood, Sina will be working with developers to help them make and/or port apps to platforms Samsung supports —…
Move over, Sensation 4G and Hercules, T-Mobile’s 2011 roadmap has just leaked, and it’s bringing a horde of new devices and a hotspot to the table. From new Android devices to BlackBerrys, Magenta’s upcoming portfolio is sure to impress. All dates are subject to change, of course, but there’s no doubt that the carrier will…
The Nexus S 4G from Sprint is a highly-capable Android smartphone and Sprint knows exactly what you want to do with it: fill the Internet up with more cats. In the latest ad, the Sprint touts how the Nexus S 4G can be used to share more pictures of cats and it even says that…
A new handset for T-Mobile has leaked out, which looks to be quite similar to the Infuse 4G for AT&T. Sounds all fine and dandy, right? Well, Magenta’s variant packs a punch that you won’t find on the Infuse. With a codename like Hercules, the handset is already living up to its name. On paper,…