Fan-made Pre ad gets the point, why can’t Palm? (video)
We've already talked ( at length ) about Palm's failure to properly present its wares to the public. Using promotional campaigns that have fluctuated between gimmicky and creepy , the company has never allowed its superlative WebOS its time to shine. As if to illustrate our point to perfection, a loyal Pre user has put together his own, extremely professional, advert for the device, which manages to achieve -- in a mere 30 seconds -- what Palm has been struggling with for nearly a year.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, already-talked, entry, fan-made, handsome, palm-pre, sheer-beauty, video, webos
Ovi Music Unlimited replacing Nokia Comes with Music branding
We can't say that we'll miss the awkwardly named Comes with Music service branding from Nokia. Of course, we're making the assumption that India's recently christened Ovi Music Unlimited store will be making its way global as Nokia continues to tighten up its service offerings in the race to compete in the era of modern smartphones. It's certainly consistent with the new Ovi Music naming convention so why not
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: assumption, awkwardly-named, comes-with-music, drm, engadget, fair use, fairuse, global-as-nokia, nothing-else, offerings, ovi, ovimusic
AT&T redirecting 911 calls from Salt Lake City to Seattle, working on a fix
Ready for a surreal way to start your day? Salt Lake City's KSL News has a report out this morning detailing the baffling experience of AT&T subscribers trying to access emergency services in the city
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 911, baffling, emerald, emergency calls, emergency services, emergencyservices, landlines, police, salt-lake-city, saltlakecity, seattle
CTIA Wireless 2010 draws to a close
Ah, Las Vegas... we hardly knew ye! Okay, that's categorically untrue -- CTIA Wireless 2010 actually marks our third official visit to Sin City in as many months, which means it's nothing short of a miracle that we're not lying in a ditch somewhere in the sun-scorched outskirts of town, penniless and near death.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: archives, entertainment, entry, hesse, las, outskirts, result, sprint, surface, usa, vega, wireless
Apple job posting hints at LTE for a future iPhone?
What could possibly come after the iPhone 3GS? The iPhone 3GSS, of course! Joking aside, turns out Apple 's already dropped the 4G bomb on one of its job postings in May 2009 while seeking for a "Cellular Technology Software Manager" with "expert knowledge of..
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: already-dropped, apple, appleiphone, cellphone, eventual-change, hints-at-lte, job listing, joblisting, jobposting, jobs, lte, manager, product-cycle
Geohot teases untethered jailbreak that ‘will probably work on iPad’ (video)
Is it April 1st already or does Geohot actually have something real to show? There's no way to be certain that what the self-promoting master of iPhone (and PS3 ) hacking is demoing is what he says: "The jailbreak is all software based, and is as simple to use as blackra1n.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, already-or-does, iphone, music, something-real, tethered-models, theatrics, untethered
Bitbop hands-on: is this the Hulu of mobile?
Fox Mobile unveiled its Bitbop venture this week that promises to provide a wealth of TV and movie entertainment from a variety of top-tier studios, and if you can get past the fact that you're actually going to have to pay for this content, it's shaping up to be a pretty promising system when it launches later this year.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: ctia 2010, down-the-road, fox mobile, fox mobile group, girl, gossip, gossip-girl, mobile-video, payment, Promising, result
Qualcomm MSM7x30 development unit hands-on
While we heard this was floating about at MWC this year, we didn't get a chance to have to get our mitts on it or film it so consider that sorted. The MSM7x30 platform is fast -- running between 800MHz and 1GHz -- and smooth, but the attractive interface demo (aptly named Fluid) is ultimately frustrating to use as the icons are being washed around by the ocean currents. The Qualcomm rep we spoke to did mention that the interface won't make it to retail but is rather meant to demo the animation capabilities of the device
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: Capabilities, ctia2010, demo, engadget, engadget-mobile, follow-the-fold, look-at-every, photos, qualcomm, tour
Google cutting in Android carriers, manufacturers on ad revenue?
Free, ad-supported phones have long been a rumored endgame for Android, but the way that model ends up playing out may not happen the way everyone thought.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: ad revenue, consumers, economic, effect, endgame, generated, microsoft, mobile, playing-out-may, revenue, rumored-endgame, unique
Spracht Aura EQ (the really real version) hands-on
We got a glimpse at Spracht's new Aura EQ Bluetooth headset back at CES this year , but in reality, we sort of didn't -- what was being shown back then didn't constitute final ID, turns out. The company's back at it here at CTIA showing something closer to what you'll be seeing on store shelves later this half -- though they only had one, and it wasn't in final retail packaging -- so we took a minute to check it out
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: aura eq, auraeq, bluetooth-headset, bluetoothheadset, ctia2010, glimpse, headset, quite-the-crowd, shelves, spracht-aura, surface