Shocker: HTC plans Windows Phone 7 Series device by year’s end
In news apt to surprise absolutely no one, HTC CEO Peter Chou told Forbes this week that his company would make a Windows Phone 7 Series handset by the end of the year. For the sake of argument, we suppose there are a couple reasons he wouldn't want to. Historically, HTC has pledged loyalty to Microsoft time and again, even making the premium HD2 a Windows Mobile exclusive , but conspiracy theorists might suggest Microsoft returned the favor by denying the HD2 entry to Windows Phone 7 Series.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: couple-reasons, forbes, handset, loyalty, sake, samsung, shocker, windows phone 7, windows phone 7 series, windows-phone
Nokia N900 Maemo / MeeGo dual boot ‘will come at some point,’ but not next firmware
Quim Gil of Nokia's Maemo team has dropped some knowledge on the folks chatting up the upcoming MeeGo release in the official Maemo forums, and it sounds like there are at least a couple critical points to be aware of for N900 owners and would-be ROM flashers when the first developer preview drops next week.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: couple-critical, critical, Dualboot, flashers, importance, initial, maemo, nokia, official, points, result, Rotation, the-importance, update
Wind Mobile lights up towers in Ottawa, Canada
Wind Mobile launched today in Ottawa, Canada and we were there to help celebrate and learn a little more about its plans for the near future. On hand were CEO Ken Campbell (right), Chairman Anthony Lacavera, and Chief Marketing Officer Scott Campbell (not pictured) extolling the virtues of a contract-free cellular experience. So what does Wind have in store for Ottawans
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, BlackBerry, calgary, campbell, engadget-mobile, marketing, mobile, ottawa, result, samsung
Entelligence: Mobile multitasking is mostly a myth
Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he'll explore where our industry is and where it's going -- on both micro and macro levels -- with the unique wit and insight only he can provide.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: coffee, engadget, handsets, mobile, platform, result, smartphones, windows phone 7 series, windows-mobile
Pre gets a nasty 800MHz overclock patch for all to enjoy (at one’s own risk)
Looking to harness the real power inside of your Pre (or Pre Plus)?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bump, expected-issues, hack, palm-pre, palmpreplus, preplus, variation, verizon
Samsung’s Galaxy S has four times the polygon power of Snapdragon
When we got some hands-on time with the recently announced Samsung Galaxy S , it was painfully apparent that the thing has some serious power under the hood. Now we have a better idea of just how much power, with reports indicating that it has the graphics oomph (thanks to its PowerVR SGX540 GPU) to push 90 million triangles per second
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: Clone, graphical-power, graphics, handset, polygon, polygon-power, polygons, powervr, samsung galaxy s, snapdragon, system-on-chip
HTC Hero update to Android 2.1 on April 26th in home country of Taiwan
We're past mid-March and rapidly approaching the early Q2 launch estimates for the Android 2.1 update for HTC's Hero. Now Engadget Chinese has tipped us to an official HTC release date issued on Plurk (a very popular, local Twitter-like social service) in HTC's home country of Taiwan: April 26th
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: 2.1, entry, firmware-update, htc-hero, issued-on-plurk, latest-version, sense, software-update, very-popular
RIM opens doors wide to the BlackBerry Beta Zone
There's really nothing quite like getting an app or indeed an entire OS before your buddies do, even if that app is so buggy to make it unusable. RIM 's giving you the chance to be that shinning star among your friends -- a geek lord if you will -- with the launch of its new BlackBerry Beta Zone. Getting on board is dead easy: if you live in Canada, the US, or the United Kingdom, simply sign up, download stuff, test said stuff, and provide some feedback
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: blackberry beta zone, blackberrybetazone, buddies, buggy, doors, mobile, united, yourself-signed
Vertu reminds us it’s still alive with million-Yen phones, still tasteless as ever
What's a distinguished person of taste and refinement to do when smartphones nowadays are all so bulky and, well, ubiquitous ? He or she should go take a look at Vertu 's store , of course, which has today been populated for the first time with a new, even more exclusive Signature collection, composed of four models -- one for each season.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: expensive, extravagance, extravagant, functional, kikusui, phone, southern, special-edition, still-tasteless
Google Voice is now your real-time pusher (on Android)
Once upon a time, Google undercut its own infant OS by offering rival platforms some of the best features of Android. Those days are long gone, and once again -- as much as we love Google Maps Navigation -- the poster child for only-on-Android functionality (in the US) is Google Voice .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: child, entry, functionality, interface, iphone, onthefly, platforms, platforms-some, pushnotification, pushnotifications, real, realtimenotification, undercut-its, voice