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In an effort to make location-based services more relevant, Sony will include Russia’s GLONASS system (alongside American GPS) in its future Xperia phones. Heck, two new devices announced at the CES — Xperia ion and Xperia S — already come with this capability. The idea is simple – more satellites mean better positioning. So instead…
Near Field Communication technology, NFC for short, is something we’ve been drooling over for years here at IntoMobile Headquarters. Besides the obvious mobile payments scenario, the one where we pretend that we live in a future where we don’t have to carry a wallet, what we really want is to be able to move information…
Researcher at the London Centre for Nanotechnology Arman Ahnood thinks today’s OLED screens waste energy and there’s room for improvements. The extra light phone displays emit could be reused by putting a thin-film PV cells around the display’s edges. Here’s the idea: The photovoltaic (PV) cell takes advantage of the smartphone display’s large footprint. In…
The LG Spectrum is now available from Verizon Wireless for about $200 with a new two-year contract and the latest 4G LTE smartphone packs quite the punch with a beautiful HD screen. The device isn’t dramatically different from the LG Nitro we saw earlier but the Spectrum is for Verizon Wireless and it will be…
Verizon just announced that its 4G LTE network is getting lit up in five new markets and expanding to three others on Jan. 19. The largest carrier in the United States has big plans for its 4G network, which includes all of its future smartphones to feature LTE starting this year. But in order for…
There’s no secret that Research In Motion’s future has been cloudy for awhile now, but underneath the fog is a company who’s quietly been equipping many of its devices with NFC capability. Although a chip resides in some of it devices, a mobile wallet application has yet to appear on the BlackBerry OS until now.…
Only a few handsets were announced for Verizon at CES this year but that didn’t keep Big Red from having quite the booth. The entire theme was surrounded on it’s 4G/LTE network and how it can affect your every day life. We went around and snapped a few shots of the booth for you all…
While the Galaxy Nexus will likely steal most of the thunder when it comes to Sprint’s new LTE handsets, we definitely haven’t forgotten about LG’s offering for the network, the Viper LTE. We got a little time with the handset during a Sprint event at the Venetian, so read on to get the rundown. While the Viper…
Just when you thought this LightSquared situation with the feds couldn’t get any weirder, think again. For months, LightSquared has been trying to close a 15-year agreement it struck with Sprint in an effort to roll out a new LTE network. Well, it turns out such a delay by the FCC may be due to…
Are you unsatisfied with the battery life of your 4G LTE smartphone? Now is your chance to give it a boost. Verizon is chopping 50 percent off batteries for its full range of 4G LTE phones. Once $49.99, each battery is now on sale for just $24.99 — a good price if you consider how ridiculously…