FCC offers ‘simple’ ‘tips’ for avoiding pesky early termination fees
The government is just about the last place we'd look for helpful pointers on much of anything, much less when shopping for a new phone -- but that didn't stop the FCC's Consumer Task Force from whipping up a PDF of things you can to do prevent yourself from getting burned with a multi-hundred dollar early termination fee when buying the handset of your wildest dreams. There's nothing in here that isn't obvious to a seasoned phone buyer -- buy the phone at full price instead, ask about a trial period, look into proration, and so on -- but it goes without saying that these are the kinds of tidbits average consumers should know before setting foot in the store.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: consumers, dreams, etf, fcc, feds, fee, pdf, phone-at-full, pointers, stink-it-made, takes-advantage, tidbits-average, trial, wildest
Droid Incredible confirmed to be suffering from AMOLED shortage
Being completely unable to keep a popular device in stock is a great problem to have, we suppose -- but considering that Verizon Wireless' Lowell McAdam believes he could sell "twice" the number of Droid Incredibles that he has available, that's got to be a bit of a bummer if you're one of the company's bean counters (or a would-be buyer, for that matter).
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: barclays, bummer, conflict, engadget, handset, incredibles, lowell, made-it-clear, present, samsung, verizonwireless, vzw
T-Mobile Garminfone confirmed for June 9 launch, still a whopping $200 after rebate
Alright, you can go ahead and book up your June 2nd with other plans , because we've just heard straight from T-Mobile that the Garminfone has been confirmed for a June 9 launch "at select T-Mobile retail stores, select authorized dealers, and online" for the same $199.99 after $50 mail-in rebate on contract that we'd already known. We'll admit, we'd secretly been hoping that T-Mobile would've wowed everyone and dropped the launch price by $50 or $100 considering its midrange specs and the fact that you'll have to drop an astounding $250 in-store to take the thing home, but it's not to be; in a few months, perhaps
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: engadget, garmin-asus, garminfone, launch, mobile, plans, retail, secretly-been
Engadget Mobile is podcasting live at 6:15PM ET!
A merry band of Engadget editors hatched a glorious plan today -- a plan that would forever change the way we look at cellphones and mobile technology. A plan that would shake the very foundation of Engadget, its readers, and the good people of Planet Earth
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: editors-hatched, engadget-mobile, engadgetmobile, glorious-plan, mobile, opine, phone, very-special
PTPT shows off wild Android UI skin, we go hands-on
Last time we heard about ExB's PTPT (pronounced "petite petite"), the software startup was just beginning to show off the basics of its touchscreen interface; since then, the small German company has been polishing up the UI and prepping it for Android phones and tablets. According to the CEO Ramin Assadollah, the company is in talks with a "major hardware manufacturer" that's planning on skinning its Android products with the incredibly unique software. We got to see PTPT running on an Android 1.6-powered Acer Liquid while at the Netbook Summit, and though it took us a few minutes to understand how the interface worked, it's definitely interesting and responsive.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: german, htc-sense-ui, htcsense, interface, netbook, netbooksummit, result, tablets, timeline
MeeGo 1.0 for netbooks and N900 now available to download
You've seen it teased , and now it's time to shelve whatever you had planned for this evening (or morning, depending on your current coordinates) and slap the first bona fide 1.x MeeGo release onto whatever device you've got handy.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: evening, glance, intel, maemo, meego, mobileos, n900, netbooks, nokia, nokian900, result, sdk, shelve-whatever, whatever-device
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch: the full interview
If you've seen the most recent Engadget Show , then you know that Kevin Lynch is one interesting dude. In fact, we had such a lengthy conversation with him that we couldn't fit the whole thing into our allotted time! Still, we thought what he had to say was pretty darn interesting, so we wanted to share the entire clip here. If you've got about 37 minutes and a hankering for Flash talk..
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: chieftechnicalofficer, conversation, engadget-show, hankering, kevin, kevin lynch, kevinlynch, reading
T-Mobile USA CEO Robert Dotson announces his departure
It's been a really uproarious week for CEOs in the tech community -- and it looks like the fun is not quite over yet. Early this morning T-Mobile USA announced the departure of CEO Robert Dotson after 15 years with the company. His resignation will take effect in February of 2011, and he'll stay on the company's board until May, with former T-Mobile Deutschland CEO Philip Humm stepping in to fill his shoes.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: cellphones, ear, engadget, his-departure, morning, release, Resignation, result, shoes, tech, tmobile, tmobileusa, uproarious-week, usa
T-Mobile slide deck chats up myTouch 3G Slide’s June 2 launch
After taking a look at this launch deck for T-Mobile's myTouch 3G Slide , it's becoming more obvious than ever that T-Mobile is taking the myTouch brand very seriously -- it's not just about a product, it's about an ongoing line of devices that all prescribe to the same socially-connected principles. In fact, with the effective loss of Sidekick to Verizon now that the ex-Danger team has thrown its weight behind Kin , you might even argue that the myTouch line is being positioned to take over where Sidekick left off, and that's evidenced when you see that they're referring to myTouch as a "franchise" throughout these slides. Follow the break for some of the highlights! Gallery: T-Mobile slide deck chats up myTouch 3G Slide's June 2 launch Continue reading T-Mobile slide deck chats up myTouch 3G Slide's June 2 launch T-Mobile slide deck chats up myTouch 3G Slide's June 2 launch originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 26 May 2010 12:51:00 EST
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: becoming-more, chats, effective-loss, engadget-mobile, htc, mobile, mytouch, mytouch 3g slide, mytouch3gslide, result, sidekick, slide, slide-deck
HTC ‘Aria’ tapped for June announce on AT&T?
Here's what we know: there are at least two Android products from HTC that have recently secured FCC approval with support for AT&T's 3G bands. Of course, that alone doesn't mean that they're coming to AT&T -- far from it -- but PhoneDog has it on authority from a "connect that works for AT&T" that there'll be a phone known as the HTC "Aria" launching on June 7 with Android 2.1 and Sense .
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: approval, aria, att, entry, get-enough, htc, open-question, pc70110, phone-known, result, rumor, something-else