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We knew it was coming, and here it is. Rogers has just launched the bada OS powered Samsung Wave (S8500) on their network. The Wave is the first smartphone in the country to run bada, Samsung’s very own operating system. While reviews and rumblings on bada have been mediocre at best, I’m looking forward to…
As you may know, I’m a big fan of giving some space to the small guy. Hence I try my best to cover smaller carriers on IntoMobile. On that note, we bring you this news item involving SouthernLINC Wireless, which has announced the launch of the Beautiful South Photo Contest. The contest invites 18+ year…
Motorola’s blocky, Android-based Charm which we’ve seen repeatedly over the last week or so has been officially announced and is heading towards T-Mobile. Although it looks like little more than a BlackBerry cross-bred with a slab of concrete, the Charm has a few tricks up its squarish sleeve, like Flash support for web browsing, an…
CFL Fans, get ready for more hard-hitting Canadian Football action on your Bell device. A new partnership has been struck between Bell, TSN and RDS. The deal is effective for the entire 2010 CFL season, and will bring CFL on TSN (or RDS) direct to Bell Mobility clients on their smartphones. All regular season and…
Received a little note from one of our friends at Rogers not so long ago. The note detailed a new deal that Canada’s big red and Canucks Sports and Entertainment had reached. Yes, the same Canucks Sports and Entertainment that manage the Vancouver Canucks. Turns out, Rogers and CSE have struck a 10 year ‘strategic…
Clearwire is bringing its CLEAR 4G WiMAX service to more areas. More specifically, the company announced that residents of the following cities are now able to access their service: Eugene, Oregon – service extends along the I-5 corridor from the McKenzie River to Franklin Blvd; and from 73rd & Main in Springfield to Green Hill…
One of the drawbacks of Apple’s “magical” iPad is that Apple and Steve Jobs have vehemently kept Adobe’s Flash technology from running in the Mobile Safari browser. Jobs & Co. argue that the open HTML5 standard is more than capable of delivering much of the rich online media that we’ve gotten used to over the…
L&T Infotech, a wholly owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro, announced that it is joining the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). Since L&T Infotech doesn’t work directly with consumers, there’s quite a chance you haven’t heard of them. Here’s what L&T does (from the press release): L&T Infotech is a leading provider of IT and engineering…
As you may know from our previous posts, Handmark is on a mission to “mobile-ize” as many media companies as possible using its Mobile Publishing Platform. Their new client is Penton Media, a B2B media company behind a variety of publications spanning industries like food retailing, business technology and IT, engineering, electronics, government, compliance and…
Qualcomm has just announced that they’re launching a mobile augmented reality platform and will release a software development kit for app creators this fall. Mattel has already partnered up with Qualcomm to make an AR Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em game, which based on the concept alone, I’m eager to try out. The Unity game development…