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Remember Google Wallet? Announced in May 2011, the goal Google set out to achieve was to get you to pay for things using your mobile phone instead of the piece of plastic you’ve been carrying around for decades. The service launched on one phone, the Nexus S, on one operator, Sprint, and came with support…
Good news for TELUS’ customers with Galaxy S II X smartphone – the carrier and Samsung have started rolling out the Ice Cream Sandwich update, with some users around the web already getting it via Kies. The official launch date for the new firmware is set at June 12th and I guess the over-the-air update…
Dolphin Browser for Android got another update. While it’s nothing major, it does introduce few cool improvements, including: The ability to customize your launch screen with 3 options: the last open webpage, homepage and new tab page. This new option is available from the “Lab” under the Settings option. From here you can also restore…
There was once a time when mobile phones had just one port, the power port. Then someone figured out it would be easier to drive a car without holding a phone up to the side of your head, and thus the headset jack was added. Phones soon started getting smarter, so another daring individual said…
When it comes to Android versus iOS, most folks in America associate Google’s OS with Verizon, while Apple’s Jesus Phone is seen as something you get from AT&T. That hasn’t stopped AT&T from offering high end Android devices however. The first Motorola Atrix, and the subsequent Atrix 2 that launched just 10 months later, pushed…
With less than 12 hours to go until Apple gets on stage and shows off the next version of iOS, Google’s Andy Rubin (pictured above, left), the father of Android, used Twitter to announce to the world that over 900,000 devices running his mobile OS are being activated on a daily basis. That’s 81 million…
Yup, we knew Huawei is looking to the U.S. market to brings its LTE smartphones to Americans and today we know their first client – MetroPCS. The carrier launched a rather mediocre Huawei Activa 4G smartphone, which aside LTE connectivity isn’t special in any regard. Then again, I guess we shouldn’t expect much more from…
We don’t usually have major handset makers releasing their mobile apps so when that happens, we try to give them some space on IntoMobile. Today we’re talking about the recently released million moments app, which Sony Digital Network Applications (SDNA) made available for iOS and Android users. It’s an intelligent photo album that makes it…
After the iPad app, cross-device computing experts at Splashtop are going for the Android community, launching a remote desktop app that allows developers to simulate a Windows 8 environment on an Android tablet. Win 8 Metro Testbed for iPad has proven pretty popular, scoring the #1 grossing iPad app overall spot in 4 countries, the…
Yup, we’ve seen this coming and now the white version of Optimus LTE 2 is launched in LG’s own backyard. The press release doesn’t mention any other markets, leaving us wondering when the rest of the world will be able to get the “world’s first smartphone with 2GB of RAM,” too. However, LG did use…