SlingPlayer Mobile for Android teased on an EVO 4G
It looks like those private beta rumors earlier this month were legit, seeing how Sling Media is now officially showing off its latest SlingPlayer Mobile incarnation on HTC's lovely EVO 4G for Sprint. The company is boasting that the app has the fastest load time of any version of SlingPlayer Mobile to date -- and we can't imagine that WiMAX hurts, either -- so this should be the perfect accessory to your EVO 4G purchase when the phone launches early next month. It's not clear yet what other Android devices will be compatible with the software, but we imagine Sling will be saying more soon, so stay tuned.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: entry, fastest, htc, load, mobile, phone, showing-off-its, sling, sling media, slingplayer, sprint
Iota Flex wants to be a MiFi for voice and text
Would you believe us if we told you that that rubber bracelet-looking thing is actually going to have a built-in SIM card and bring voice / text capabilities to Android tablets, e-readers and netbooks via Bluetooth? Yeah, it sounds super crazy, but that's exactly what it'll eventually do. Convinced that 2G capabilities like talking and texting should be easier to add to MIDs, tablets and netbooks, Seattle-based startup Iota has come up with the Flex.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: bendable, bluetooth, bracelet, iota flex, mifi, netbook, netbook summit, netbooksummit, reader-or-mid, tablets
Cincinnati Bell’s Blaze is probably the rarest carrier-branded Android phone you’ll find in the States
Of all the regionals to score a completely custom, self-branded Android device, we admit that we wouldn't have guessed that Cincinnati Bell would be in that list -- and yet the carrier managed to roll out this here "Blaze" running Android 1.6 "at speeds 86 percent faster than AT&T and Verizon." That's a pretty bold claim, but our tipster reports that he saw 2Mbps down and 1Mbps up on a phone he checked out -- not bad, all things considered.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: bell, blaze, brand-involved, cincinnati, cincinnatibell, custom, doom-the-blaze, engadget-mobile, mobile, percent-faster, rarest, regionals, result, states
30 million Windows Phone 7 devices sold by the end of 2011? Microsoft says yes
We've got to hand it to Microsoft -- when it sets a goal, it really sets a goal . As you can see in the slide above shown during a ReMix event in Paris yesterday, Microsoft is apparently expecting to sell 30 million Windows Phone 7 devices by the end of 2011, based on IDC projections.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: cake, devices-sold, market, microsoft, paris, phone, windows, windowsphone
AT&T: 40 percent of iPhones are enterprise, Android ‘built with a very specific focus to consumers’
It isn't just Verizon's Lowell McAdam with fascinating commentary at this Barclays Capital tech conference going down in New York this week. Ron Spears, who leads up AT&T's Business Solutions division, had some notable things to say about enterprise mobility -- specifically, the iPhone's role in taking businesses to the road, a magic trick typically associated almost exclusively with BlackBerry over the past ten years
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: apple, barclays, black, business, introduction, lowell, mcadam, spears
Verizon looking at non-unlimited plans for 4G data, will use LTE for voice by 2012
We'd not-so-secretly hoped that carriers would be looking to dispense with those troublesome 5GB caps on so-called "unlimited" 3G data plans, but there's a big problem with that: spectrum is still limited, and even though 4G technologies help use it more efficiently, it's still a constraint that the FCC is going to need many years to solve. We're not sure how much the spectrum crunch really factors in here, but in addition to his comments on Droid Incredible inventory problems , Verizon Wireless boss Lowell McAdam mentioned at a Barclays Capital conference this week that he hopes to move away from unlimited plans altogether for the company's LTE network, instead charging for "buckets" of megabytes, just like in the olden days -- despite the fact that it'll cost it a half to a third of what it costs today to transmit the same amount of data. On a happier note, McAdam said that the company expects to be using its LTE network for voice by 2012, which comes just after its first volley of LTE-capable handsets in early 2011
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: barclays, crunch, handsets, inventory, lte, problems, result, spectrum, unlimiteddata, verizon, verizonwireless
Engadget Mobile Podcast 040 – 05.27.2010
Hey y'all, we are back! Was it worth the wait? Things have been a little loco since we last rapped at ya, so you know there's going to some strange stuff going down in this podcast -- EVO 4G analysis from the pedestrian (kickstand worship) to the positively Ziegleresque ( Froyo - delicious enough to be worth the wait?), and speculation on a few devices found in the bottom of executives' dumpsters
Categories: BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: chris-ziegler, engadgetmobile, light, loco, music, pedestrian, podcast, real, result, speculation, voice, Wait, worth-the-wait
Altek teases ‘Leo,’ monster 14 megapixel smartphone for unveiling next month
We don't have a lot of detail to work on here, but Altek -- a company that's no stranger to ridiculous optics slapped on the back of a phone -- is chatting up its new Leo model that will officially bow at next month's CommunicAsia show in Singapore.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: altek, entry, from-the-key, leo, optics, result, wifi
Debunk: Steve Ballmer not speaking at WWDC
An analyst named Trip Chowdhry at Global Equities Research set off a firestorm of rumors last night after he claimed that Steve Ballmer would appear onstage with Steve Jobs at WWDC for exactly seven minutes to announce Visual Studio development for the iPhone -- and the maelstrom of crazytalk quickly expanded to include everything from a Bing partnership to Silverlight for the iPhone.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, breakingnews, engadget, firestorm, maelstrom, phone-turns, rumor, studio, visual
Samsung i8330 ‘H2′ for Vodafone leaked?
At the time of its release late last year, Samsung's H1 for Vodafone's then-new 360 service represented some of the sweetest featurephone hardware that money could buy, thanks to a 3.5-inch AMOLED touchscreen, WiFi, 5 megapixel autofocus cam, and 16GB of onboard storage. Those are still killer specs, but it's always onward and upward with these guys -- so we're not surprised to see rumors of an H2 model surface. Like the H1, this new handset (apparently with internal model number i8330) is said to run LiMo (release 3 this time) and packs an 8 megapixel camera with LED flash and HD video capture, 1GHz Cortex-A8 processor, and a WVGA Super AMOLED display
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: always-onward, amoled, camera, deal, internal, limo, not-surprised, rumor, soccer, soccer-starts, sweetest