Kindle for Windows Phone 7 revealed, due ‘in the coming months’
As sure as the sun, Amazon's just announced it'll be bringing Kindle to the Windows Phone 7 platform sometime "in the coming months." The app was shown briefly today at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC 2010) and, based both on that and the official screenshot from Amazon's teaser page (above), it's definitely wearing that stylish WP7 aesthetic quite well. Press release after the break, and check out More Coverage for a couple screenshots from its PDC presentation (care of istartedsomething's Long Zheng and his Flickr account)
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, amazon, amazonkindle, confidence, developers, kindle, pdc2010, phone, result, windowsphone7
Dell Venue hits the FCC: is this the Thunder’s new name?
Yes, that's right, just "Venue," not Venue Pro -- and from a glance, it looks to us like this might be the new name for the Thunder Android phone we played with a little while ago judging by this FCC filing that just crossed the wires. As far as we can tell, this thing is basically a carbon copy of the Venue Pro, except it's running Android instead of Windows Phone 7 and drops the sliding portrait keyboard in favor of a full-touch setup
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: carbon, engadget, entry, fcc, glance, model, smartphone, Thunder, windowsphone7
BlackBerry Torch coming to AT&T in two fresh colors next month
Allow us to clarify, the colors are "fresh" as in "new," not as in " The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ." Don't get us wrong, though: white almost always looks fresh (in the Fresh Prince sense) on a phone, and the Torch seems to be no exception -- partly thanks to the matching white keyboard.
Categories: BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: accessories, bel, berry-torch, BlackBerry, colors, htc, keyboard, matching, press, torch, white
Opera Mini 5.1 hits Symbian, moves away from Java
Version 5.1 has been Opera Mini's big push for much of this year, and the release is finally filtering down to Symbian today. The big news, though, is that S60 owners will be able to use a native version of the popular proxy-based browser rather than the Java build they'd been left with previously, so we can assume that the move to native code is probably going to have a positive effect on performance
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: browser-rather, engadget-mobile, improvements, opera, opera-mini, positive-effect, reading, release
HP Palm quietly debuts new HP Palm logo
We don't know how this one slipped past us, but somewhere in the past few weeks (on October 19th as far as we can tell), HP and Palm 's logos got together to form what you see to the left: the HP Palm logo. The new, hybrid logo is on both Palm's website and Facebook page, so this should quell any fears that the world might lose Palm's branding all together . We don't know what you think of the new logo -- personally, we were a little partial to our own mock up .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 19th-as-far, facebook, fears, hewlittpackard, hppalm, palm, quietly-debuts, result, slipped-past
Motorola’s mobile unit posts first operating profit in a long, long time
As a whole, Motorola is no stranger to profit... thing is, Moto won't be "whole" for much longer , and when the split happens, we're sure it'd like all of its divisions to be profitable. The mobile unit, of course, has been the struggling one, trying to pull out of a multi-year post- RAZR nosedive under the leadership of CEO Sanjay Jha -- and it looks like his all-in bet on Android is starting to pay off at the bank on today's news that they've posted a non-GAAP operating profit of $3 million.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: celebration, entirety, financial, leadership, moto, motorola, nosedive-under, profit, q4 2010, rolling-toward, the-struggling, time, unit
HTC Mecha leaked on HTC Sense
We've been hearing the hushed whispers of an HTC Mecha handset for a few months. Now we've got solid evidence of its existence thanks to the HTC's own HTC Sense web site that lists the Mecha along side the Desire HD and Desire Z when signing up for an account. Unfortunately, the image used for the Mecha (found after the break) appears to be the old Hero handset unless HTC is planning to resurrect that particular industrial design (which we doubt).
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: desire, engadget, entry, hero, htc, htc mecha, htcmecha, htcsense, image, its-existence, leak, mecha, sense, side-the-desire
MeeGo v1.1 for handsets is out, let the N900 dual-booting begin (video)
Following hot on the heels of the PR 1.3 update for the N900 comes the official MeeGo v1.1 build for handsets with U-Boot support. For developers, or anyone who simply likes to hack around, that means that the Nokia N900 is now ready to dual-boot into your choice of Maemo or MeeGo environments
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, Boot, image, n900, nokia, nokia-n900, the-dual-boot, video
Droid 2 update begins with promise of better battery life and more
We've receive a number of reports that a 2.3.20 software update for Verizon's Droid 2 is slowly making the rounds this morning.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 2.3.20, droid2, during-recorded, engadget, enhancements, messages, portrait, result, social, software-update, verizon, videos
Google exec calls Android acquisition its ‘best deal ever’
It's easy to forget at this point, but Android wasn't a Google creation. Google bought the company in 2005 for an undisclosed sum (estimated to be around $50 million) and, well, let's just say things worked out pretty well for them
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: acquisition, attendees, david-lawee, engadget, entry, exec, initial, result, rubin, skepticism, undisclosed, vice, vice president