LG C900 rumored to be ‘Pacific,’ E900 gets hi-res blurry pic, missing link D900 doesn’t exist (yet)
Turns out the Secret Society of Blurrycam isn't just a group of freelancers. Courtesy of the Windows Phone NL group comes a pretty high resolution -- albeit slightly out of focus -- shot of the LG E900 / Optimus 7 .That ain't enough for you? Boy Genius Report claims it's heard from a source that the LG C900 will hit the scene as Pacific, and if that sounds familiar, we kindly point your attention to a Pocket-lint piece from late July where Microsoft product manager Greg Sullivan namedropped a LG Pacific without elaborating.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: c900, engadget, genius, greg, lg c900, Lint, namedropped, pacific, phone, secret, secret-society, time, windowsphone7, your-attention
Exclusive: Motorola MB520 Kobe / Diablo for AT&T in the wild
Remember that midrange, Android-equipped MB520 Kobe from Moto we told you about a few days back? Well, it's stepping out for the first time this evening with a little help of our dear brother from another mother, Mr. Blurrycam
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: att, brother, diablo, exclusive, kobe, moto, over-the-air, tipster-tells
Nokia C7 gets an early look: ‘hardly a market leader’
The upcoming C7's been well-leaked at this point, but one thing it hasn't undergone is the famously exhaustive Mobile-review once-over that takes weeks to read and even longer to digest.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: entry, famously, in-depth-glance, market-leader, more-aggressive, nokia, price, thing-it-hasn
Droid 2 root method finds its way online
The very first line of the forum post on xda-developers says it best -- proceed at your own risk -- but if you've been kept up at night waiting for root to be gained on Verizon's recently-released Droid 2 , it looks like your day has come. The process involves tethering up to your PC and transferring a couple binaries, but seems straightforward enough and should open the door to surcharge-free tethering and other apps that require root access.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apps, couple-binaries, droid2, engadget, entry, friend-via, night-waiting, open-the-door, root, root-method, verizon
Motorola Charm up for grabs at T-Mobile today
How perfectly punctual: the Motorola Charm has popped up on T-Mobile's website right on time and right on the money. While today marks the first day the Charm has been ready for online purchase, we've actually been hearing from a few folks that they've been available here and there since the weekend -- so if you already have it in your pocket, well played.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: charm, engadget-mobile, factor, golden-bronze, marks-the-first, mostly-unique, motorola, motorola-charm, motorolacharm, online-purchase, Purchase, result, right-on-time
TerreStar Genus gets FCC approval at long last
The Genus has been floating around since the days when Windows Mobile was still relevant, but even with an antiquated operating system, it's still got a trump card others will be hard-pressed to match: it's got satellite service in a package that doesn't make you look like you're holding a DynaTAC to your head. Sourced from Finnish company Elektrobit, the portrait QWERTY set has finally gotten around to getting FCC approval (with AT&T-friendly 850 / 1900 GSM), which should hopefully be one of the last things TerreStar was waiting on before loosing it on the public. So, who's out in the sticks enough to justify punishing themselves with WinMo?
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: att, entry, finnish, genus, operating, public, result, windows, windowsmobile
Meijer deploys indoor positioning trial, helps you find the Morton Salt faster
Indoor positioning systems have long been a holy grail for malls and big-box retailers where labyrinthine aisles and massive floorplans that rival small towns often leave customers begging for mercy, but the obstacles to deploying them are many: you've got to create detailed maps for every facility where you want it to work, and you need some sort of system for locating users with a reasonable level of precision since GPS is out of the picture. Start-up Point Inside has been hard at work on IPS for some time now, figuring that modern stores and malls teeming with WiFi access points and reliable AGPS are good enough to make it work, and now they've hooked up with Midwestern superstore chain Meijer to trial a system in four Michigan locations that will let users locate "more than" 100,000 items in store along with facilities like bathrooms and customer service. Conveniently, these stores have some 26 WiFi nodes deployed, which helps triangulate users down to a reasonable level of precision -- though it's probably not going to be able to tell if you're standing in front of the Frosted Flakes or the Raisin Bran
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: create-detailed, deploys-indoor, detailed, entry, floorplans, malls, meijer, morton, obstacles, precision-since, raisin, result, systems
iControlPad heads into production, support for other phones promised
It's been promised for years and was said to have gone into production before , but it looks like this time it's for real -- that's the very first iControlPad fresh off the production line pictured above. No orders are being taken just yet, but that's promised to be announced soon on Craig Rothwell's Twitter feed (linked below), and the first run is said to be limited to 3,000 units, which are expected to sell out fast. It looks like that's just the beginning for the peripheral, though -- Rothwell is also promising to support additional phones in the future, which can be accommodated simply by swapping out the two side pieces.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: announced-soon, craig, engadget, gaming, head-on-past, history, iphone, phones, pieces, production, rothwell, Saga, sell-out-fast, the-peripheral, the-production
Guust Hilte’s tactile texting device solves the ‘every pixel feels the same’ problem (video)
Moving away from buttons on phones has lead to a higher level of design purity, but has also made life a lot more difficult for the blind or seeing impaired -- or anyone who doesn't want to look at their phone while texting. We've seen how solutions like the Brailliant-32 can let users interact with mobile devices, but that's hardly portable. Guust Hilte's device is.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: blind-or-seeing, eindhoven, gullies, guust-hilte, hilte, industrial-design, industrialdesign, l.a.hilte, project, result
Sony Ericsson Vivaz coming September 5th to AT&T
In the mood for a good Ma Bell camera phone (emphasis on the camera more than phone )? Sony Ericsson and AT&T have just now decided to bring the Symbian S60 -packing Vivaz stateside, still touting a 720p autofocus HD video mode and a 8.1 megapixel camera
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 720p-autofocus, at and t, att, entry, ericsson, galaxy-blue, lose-the-stylus, mabell, offered-online, press, s60, sony, sonyericsson, symbian, symbians60