Confirmed: LG’s Moorestown-based GW990 won’t be made
Considering the almost complete absence of love in the commercial marketplace for Moorestown and Moblin -- and the fact that there's no sign of MeeGo building serious momentum just yet -- we're sure that Intel would've just loved for the drop-dead-sexy GW990 to serve as the platform's crown jewel for 2010. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen, because we've just been able to confirm that the 4.8-inch beast (and potential Dell Mini 5 foil) has been wiped off the product roadmap
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Apple #1 US phone manufacturer, RIM enters top 5 worldwide, Motorola feels the burn
Apple, love it or lump it, has seen some big numbers lately: one million App Store apps downloaded, ten billion iTunes, and now it looks like the company can claim to be the number one phone maker in the US. According to Forbes , Apple sold 8.8 million iPhones in the first quarter, as opposed to 8.5 million mobile devices sold by Motorola -- quite a slide when you figure that four years ago the company moved something like 46.1 million in Q1.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: devices, feels-the-burn, itunes, manufacturer, motorola, numbers, quarter, rankings, report, time
T-Mobile getting new prepaid, hourly data access options next month?
T-Mobile's got a reputation to uphold as the US' value carrier, right? It looks to be doing that come the 16th of next month when it'll apparently be rolling out a $50 monthly prepaid option for unlimited voice and text, beating AT&T's recently-deployed plan by $10. You'll also be able to get unlimited messaging plus 10 cents per minute for voice for $15 a month, an odd combination that might be surprisingly popular considering that text has all but replaced voice as the primary means of communication in some social circles (ours included)
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: access-as-much, browsing-every, come-the-16th, entry, gadgeteer, handset, hourly plan, messaging-plus, monthly-prepaid, plan, plans, prepaid-folks, result, rumor, unlimited voice
Dell Aero confirmed to offer all that Google’s got to give
When we first got our paws on the Dell Aero it was missing Maps, and the Market, and all the other Google-branded apps that make Android as good as it is.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: absence, dell, dell aero, goodness, google mobile services, google-branded, googlemobileapps, googlemobileservices, market
Nokia sticks to its stylus roots, offers telescopic SU-36 for capacitive screens
You know what, we're not gonna make that joke . You can, but we'll just move right along to the meat of this story -- Nokia has listed a telescopic stylus for capacitive screens, the SU-36, which seems to have come out right alongside the N8 to serve as its Symbian^3 assistant.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: accessory, cold-or-too, Fingers, fri, Roots, screens, su-36, telescopic stylus
Adobe CTO says Flash 10.1 for Android in June — will Froyo follow suit?
Let's take a break from Apple and Adobe's back-and-forth, shall we? Instead, we'll let the latter company talk about its work with Google, specifically the Android platform. Flash-based CTO Kevin Lynch said today in a post, "We look forward to delivering Flash Player 10.1 for Android smartphones as a public preview at Google I/O in May, and then a general release in June." Good news, indeed, but with all this talk of Froyo having native Flash support , and this month's conference serving as the largest gathering of Android developers, we can't imagine a better platform (pun intended) for Andy Rubin and company to unveil its fragmentation-curbing Froyo update
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: apple, engadget, flash, flash10.1, food, fragmentation, general-release, having-native, kevin lynch, largest, might-flash, rubin, smartphones, support
Symbian^3 web app development tools come out of beta, aim for standardized simplicity
Has the Nokia N8 made a Symbian^3 believer out of you?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: dev tools, development, downloads, easeofuse, engadget, know-the-beta, nokian8, phone, promised-access, symbian, symbian3, the-downloads, web
Firefox 1.1 beta for Maemo goes live
The N900 already features one of the best pocket browsing experiences we've ever seen, but it looks to be getting a whole lot better today with the beta release of Firefox 1.1. Major new features include portrait browsing (awesome), form auto-complete, a context menu, volume key zoom, and -- this is pretty neat -- the capability to save pages straight to PDF, so it seems like the kind of thing you'll definitely want to download, even if it's not quite solid enough to earn gold build status. Oh, and if you don't have an N810 or N900 handy and you're amped to play around, you can download the little guy for Windows, Mac OS, or Linux, too.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: beta, context, engadget, engadget-mobile, firefox, firefox1.1, firefoxbeta1.1, like-the-kind, nokia, pocket-browsing, release, the-capability, zoom
Cyanogen 5.0.7 experimentally brings Eclair to G1, myTouch 3G — caveats apply
After a brief delay , looks like CyanogenMod 5 is now out for the HTC Dream, Magic and Sapphire, also known as the T-Mobile G1 and myTouch 3G. The release is labeled as experimental, so take care not to flash it onto your work phone , and G1 owners should back up their data as they'll need to install a little something called the DangerSPL and perform a full wipe
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: caveats, cyanogen mod, dream, hosting-the-cm5, htcmagic, mods, sheer, source, willpower
Engadget app update: iPhone app passes the 1m download mark, Android and webOS get an update!
Hey cats and kittens, here's an exciting little piece of news we wanted to share with you. Thanks to the love and support of our readers, our iPhone app has just crossed the million downloads mark in the App Store! That is, of course, just iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users -- we're growing our numbers steadily across BlackBerry, webOS, and Android formats as well
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: black, downloads, engadget, engadget app, engadgetapplication, formats-as-well, iphone, Love, market, pipeline-as-far, recent-version, result, tweaks