Stores open early June 4th for EVO 4G with mobile hotspot loophole
When you've got the world's most desired ** handset, you don't keep people waiting. As such, Sprint is recommending that its "preferred retailers" open extra early on June 4th
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: box, engadget, grab-the-new, hotspot, htc, initially-work, loophole, mobile, mobile hotspot, office, preferred, retailers, sprint
White BlackBerry Bold 9700 now shipping at T-Mobile for $100
As promised , T-Mobile has now taken the white version of its BlackBerry Bold 9700 to retail. Along with the already-available black version, the 9700 goes out the door for $99.99 on contract after rebate, merely half of what the carrier was asking for the phone when it launched late last year -- and a price that makes the much lower-end Curve 8520 a less compelling buy, if we do say so ourselves
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: berry-bold, BlackBerry, bold 9700, Carrier, engadget, engadget-mobile, mobile, taken-the-white, white, white-version
Sound ID’s 510 Bluetooth headset has iPhone app to match
Occasionally, we long for simpler times -- times when "handsfree" meant little more than connecting a corded earbud to your phone and calling it good. Nowadays, of course, things are a little different: Bluetooth is quite literally everywhere, headsets have their own frickin' apps , and bone conduction tech is the real deal .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, battery, bluetooth, Earbud, headset, Headsets, occasionally, simpler-times, sound, sound id, soundid510
Android 2.2 wastes no time getting hacked onto HTC Dream and Magic
Though we're not even a wee bit shocked to see a "usable" version of Froyo already available to owners of the G1 / Dream and Magic , we're definitely heartened to see that phones running 2008 specs can handily run a mid-2010 version of the platform. There's plenty of stuff that doesn't work yet -- WiFi and GPS, just to name a couple of biggies -- but we suspect that this is one dev community that won't give up until everything is working to their satisfaction. Motivation to hang on to otherwise outdated hardware for a few more months, perhaps?
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 2008-specs, bit, dream, fri, friend-via, froyo, htc, motivation, platform, satisfaction, time-getting
Samsung i897: the answer to your AT&T Android dreams?
Tired of your woeful selection of Android devices on AT&T ? We hear you. Now buck up Mr.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: att, britches, friend-via, i897, leak, rescue, samsung, woeful
Samsung planning Android 1.6 update for Behold II — but that’s it
Remember the good ol' days when companies were honest to their customers? Aw, who are we kidding -- those days never actually existed, so it's good to see Samsung carrying on the time-honored tradition of playing the CYA game by belting out a bald-faced lie or two.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: days, eclair, faced, going-on-rather, htc, like-the-dream, mobile, silence, time, update
Motorola to launch two smartphones on Verizon in July, says WSJ
Motorola 's been making good with Verizon as of late, and according to the Wall Street Journal , the two just signed a deal to "ensure some of its upcoming smartphones will be heavily promoted" by the carrier." The article goes on to say that Motorola is planning to launch a pair of such devices on VZW this year, with the obvious platform choice being Android for both.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: Choices, engadget, engadget-show, from-television, googleandroid, guess, mobile, motorola, obvious, result, smartphone, verizon-wireless
Qik charging $5 monthly for EVO 4G video chat?
Last we thought, that mandatory $10 "premium data add-on" for Sprint's EVO 4G would additionally include YouTube and Qik video chat , and well, we may have been only half right. The gang at Android Guys have what's alleged to be a scan from Sprint's training materials, and according to one image, Qik's gonna cost you another $4.99 monthly via PayPal (not through the carrier) to use. We've reached out to see if we can confirm, but if true, it's a bit of a bummer to see the premiums continuing to add up.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Carrier, engadget, entry, frontfacingcamera, premium, premium-data, qik, result, skype, skypevideo, sprint, training
Senators push for tracking of pre-paid cellphones
New York Senator Chuck Schumer has already taken aim at texting while driving , and it looks like he's now set his sights on pre-paid cellphones, which he says can also be dangerous -- when in the wrong hands, at least.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-phone, cornyn, john cornyn, pre-paidcellphones, prepaid, senator, senator-chuck, tracking
Google officially acquires AdMob
It was only a (brief) matter of time once it cleared the FTC's final approval last week (with a special thanks to Apple's iAd ): Google is now the proud owner of one AdMob. According to Product Management VP Susan Wojcicki, the company is now integrating all the teams and products together. Full details are at the Official Google Blog, and after the break, check out an email purportedly from AdMob CEO Omar Hamoui
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: acquisition, apple, breaking-news, ceo, engadget, entry, final, final-approval, ftc, matter, officially-acquires, product, special