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One of the most underrated functions of owning and using a smartphone is how much simpler they make shopping. There are literally thousands of applications available across all mobile platforms that help users compare prices of an item both online and at local retailers, or purchase goods and services right from their smartphone. Google has…
Mobile World Congress 2012 is just a few days away and the IntoMobile team will be on the ground in Barcelona to give you the latest on the conference dedicated to mobile. It’s going to be an amazing show (let’s hope there’s no Metro strike), so we thought it would be nice to give you…
Just about the time we expected, Research In Motion has made the PlayBook OS 2.0 software available to the masses over the air. With the PlayBook OS 2.0, I believe the BlackBerry tablet becomes a much better and usable device because it now sports native e-mail and calendar to go along with a bunch of…
A recent Best Buy ad is jumping the gun a bit, suggesting that the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet has access to apps for Twitter and Kindle, when sadly it does not. Instead of assuming Best Buy just got their facts wrong, it’s much more likely that it knows something we don’t: Twitter and Kindle are coming…
Think you’ve had your fill of Angry Birds with Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio, and Angry Birds Facebook? Think again as Rovio has just announced the next Angry Birds game, Angry Birds Space, is a little over a month away from release on multiple mobile platforms. Information on Angry Birds Space is…
Research In Motion promised that its PlayBook would get the really-nice 2.0 software in February and I’m sure many of you have been looking at your calendar and rapidly hitting your “check for update” button. Your wait may soon be over, as a RIM representative told PC Mag that the PlayBook 2.0 OS should be…
Believe or not, we’re still a quarter or so away from the long-awaited launch of the first RIM device to run the BlackBerry 10 operating system. Well, today, we at least got a sneak peek of what to expect from the Canadian phone makers upcoming OS, thanks to some leaked documents that landed in the…
Flash back to 2009: You just bought a brand new Motorola Droid, the first phone to run Android 2.0 and one of the very first Android handsets to successfully compete with the iPhone. Your friend, however, decided to buy a recently released iPhone 3GS. Now jump ahead to the present: You and your friend still…
One of the world’s largest oilfield companies, Halliburton, publicly acknowledged its decision to stop giving workers BlackBerrys and start equipping them with iPhones. This is a gigantic blow to Research in Motion because the BlackBerry has for a very long time been widely considered the best phone for enterprise users. Halliburton obviously disagrees and so…
Today at BlackBerry’s DevCon Europe event, executives from Research in Motion got to the chance to spin the company’s current state. According to Alec Saunders, VP of Developer Relations, the Canadian phone maker is grabbing six million daily downloads from the BB App World, totalling 174m per month, for an overall tally of over two billion. This…