RIM averts BlackBerry ban in India… for now
It was facing an August 31st deadline before India banned BlackBerry service in the country, but it looks like RIM has now managed to avoid that scenario -- at least for a little while. According to India's Ministry of Home Affairs, "RIM have made certain proposals for lawful access by law enforcement agencies and these would be operationalized immediately," and that "the feasibility of the solutions offered would be assessed thereafter." Details are still a bit light beyond that, but India's assessment will apparently come after 60 days, and there's still no guarantee that we won't end up back at square one at that point. Interestingly, India is also still raising complaints about Gmail and Skype, with it now saying that it wants Google and Skype to set up servers in the country that would give it greater monitoring capabilities
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: affairs, Capabilities, engadget, entry, feasibility, india, servers, skype
BlackBerry Curve 3G hitting T-Mobile September 8 for $80
Last we'd heard it'd be hitting shelves "in the coming weeks," and... well, "the coming weeks" have gradually become "now." You follow
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Intel gobbles up Infineon’s mobile unit in $1.4 billion deal, looks to ‘accelerate 4G LTE’
Infineon , the company behind the baseband chips inside your super-duper new phone , is about to cash out from the wireless industry courtesy of Intel's insatiable appetite . The Wireless Solutions Business (WLS), which accounted for nearly a third of Infineon's €3 billion ($3.83b) revenue last year, is being sold to the American chipmaker for a cool $1.4 billion. For its part, Intel is quick to reassure the world (and its antitrust authorities) that WLS will continue to operate as a standalone business and continue to support ARM-based devices.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: acquisition, baseband chip, basebandchip, connectivity, insatiable, intel, laptop-products, mobile connectivity, mobileconnectivity, news, not-neglecting, result, the-processing, wireless, wirelesssolutions
Motorola Ming A1680, MT810, and XT806 begin their Android mercy mission in China
Motorola's venerable MING handset revisions were just made official in three Android-toting varieties for China Unicom (model A1680 pictured above left), China Mobile ( MT810 , pictured center), and China Telecom ( XT806 , on the right). The TD-SCDMA riding MT810 ships with the Android derived OPhone 2.0 operating system and two touchscreen displays: a 3.2-inch stylus-friendly resistive touchscreen and a second transparent capacitive cover that provides a finger-friendly experience when closed. Other specs include 720 x 480 video capture, 720p video playback, and support for China's CMMB mobile television spec
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: china-unicom, engadget, handset, mercy-mission, ming, motorola-ming, ophoneos2.0, pictured-center, td-scdma, unicom, wanderings, wifi, xt806
Nokia C6-01 is a Symbian^3 touchscreen candybar with 8 megapixel camera?
The nerds over at Mobile Geek Inc did a nifty investigative piece revealing more details about Nokia's mid-level C6-01 candybar. After making an awkward early appearance on Nokia's Dutch online storefront, more pics along with the user agent profile have been located thus confirming its lack of QWERTY, 8 megapixel camera, and Symbian^3 OS. A nice alternative to the 5 megapixel C6-00 slider shackled to S60 5th.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 8megapixel, agent, Appearance, c6-01, entry, level, megapixel, nokia, pic, piece-revealing, user, user agent profile, xml
Cyanogen Mod 6 — the one with Froyo — hits target list of devices, first stable release
If 6.0.0 RC1 just wasn't cutting it for ya, CyanogenMod-6.0 has released what's being touted as the "first stable release based on Android 2.2" and has hit the target number of supported devices, which by our quick count includes EVO 4G, Slide, Nexus One, Dream / Magic, Aria, and Droid -- and we might be missing a few.. You know the drill; if you need a bit of Froyo in your mobile life.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: 2.2, cyanogen, cyanogenmod, froyo, googleandroid, magic, release-based, slide, target
Korea Telecoms suffers an Identity Tab crisis
What's this? A 7-inch, aluminum-trimmed, multitouch tablet from Korea running Android?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: aluminum, certainly-sets, engadget, expectation, Gravity, gravity-sensors, identity, internal-memory, memory, tablet, the-expectation, wibro, wimax
Samsung Fascinate ready for Best Buy in-store pre-order ahead of rumored September 9 launch
Verizon can't be feeling too hot about being the straggler to the Galaxy S party , but the wait seems to be almost at an end. Best Buy's just started taking in-store pre-orders for the Fascinate , while the latest internal document leak from VZW indicates a specific September 9 launch for the 4-inch Android handset.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: availability, document-leak, galaxy s, handset, in-storepre-order, samsung, smartphone, super amoled, verizon fascinate, verizon-wireless, verizonfascinate, victorious-end
T-Mobile G2 build flashes to other devices to great results, new widgets
Remember that T-Mobile G2 build that leaked out earlier this week? Even if you didn't, the ROM still managed to find its way onto other Android devices by way of some clever (if not elementary, dear Watson) hacking, and from that very binary comes some vivid imagery.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: binary-comes, blowing, build, engadget, g2rom, google-voice, great-results, imagery, mind, out-earlier, remember, t mobile
Samsung Galaxy Tab, in the wild and now teasing CDMA
Okay, this is getting ridiculous .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: engadget, galaxy, gallery, goer, in the wild, samsung galaxy tab, samsung-galaxy, samsunggalaxy, speakers, sticker-on-one, sun, tab