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Apple today scored a big victory in its never-ending legal battle against Motorola Mobility. A German court ruled that Motorola could not enforce an injunction that prevented the sale of some iPads and iPhones. Motorola won the original case and, earlier this month, Apple was forced to remove select iPads and iPhone models from its German…
Apple’s going to come out with two new devices this year that will make huge waves in the mobile industry. One of them is the third generation iPad, the other is the sixth generation iPhone. Traditionally whatever chip Apple put inside the iPad would eventually end up in the iPhone. Case in point, the A5…
Step into my shoes for a second. There are 2,049 unread emails in my inbox and an additional 837 unread “News Tips” that stare at me every time I start my work day. Every company behind every component that makes up a smartphone, every piece of infrastructure gear needed to make a network run, every…
Taiwan-based Aiptek will show some neat products at this year’s Mobile World Congress. They’ve prepared two slightly different pico projectors for the Apple iPhone. The MobileCinema i20 is the smallest of its kind, and it also serves as an external battery. Simply plug it in an iPhone with the 30pin connector and watch photos and…
We’re big fans of Twilio here at IntoMobile because we believe its communication platform enables a new class of innovative apps. Well, expect that to continue as the company is releasing an iOS SDK which will make it easy for app developers to enable their apps to make calls. Twilio essentially does the hard lifting…
Some people are berating Microsoft for pursuing Tango, a version of Windows Phone that supposedly targets low-end handsets. A recent report from analyst Morgan Keegan reveals why that strategy may be brilliant. According to Keegan, China will soon surpass the US as the largest market in the world for smartphone sales. China, India and other…
A report in Reuters confirms China Telecom and Apple have reached a deal and the carrier will start selling the iPhone next month. China Telecom joins China Unicom to become the second wireless carrier to sell the iPhone in the Asian country. The carrier will start accepting pre-orders for the iPhone 4S starting March 2…
Android or iOS owners should check their respective app stores because Twitter has a fresh, new update for you to download. It’s a modest improvement which includes support for a new, time-saving gesture that lets you swipe a tweet and then reply, retweet, favorite or share it right from your timeline. You can now swipe…
Android has taken over in the United Kingdom as the #1 smartphone operating system in terms of market share. Kantar Worldpanel ComTech measured smartphone usage between January 2011 and January 2012 to find that Android had a 36.9 percent share while Apple’s iPhone had 28.5 percent. In fairness, this should be expected. It technically compares software…
Every iPhone until the iPhone 4S has come out in either June or July. For reasons we may never come to understand, today’s iPhone, the iPhone 4S, came out in October. That thew a lot of people off, and we have numbers to prove that: iPhone sales in Apple’s fiscal Q4 2011 came in at…