Pantech Crux is Verizon’s ‘simple, sleek, and affordable’ full touchscreen phone
The Octane isn't Verizon's only introduction today -- and let's be honest, no hardware intro would be complete without a full touchscreen model these days, now, would it? Pantech is rolling in with the Crux, featuring a 3-inch touchscreen accompanied by a microSD slot (32GB max and 1GB included in the box), a 3 megapixel camera, and not a whole heck of a lot else -- you're certainly not going to find Android here.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: camera, crux, drop-online, entry, hardware-intro, heck, mobile, new-two-year, octane, pantech-crux, verizon, vzw
BlackBerry Bold 9780 finally official, hitting T-Mobile on November 17th for $130
After what feels like an eternity of leaks , RIM has finally (finally!) come forward with the first BlackBerry Bold to ship with BlackBerry 6 . The Bold 9780 looks exactly as we expected it to (meaning not too far from the 9700 design tree ), boasting an optical trackpad, QWERTY keyboard, a WebKit-based browser and a five megapixel camera. You'll also get inbuilt 3G / WiFi, and at least on the T-Mob version, UMA / WiFi calling.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: 9780, blackberry bold 9780, engadget, Eternity, images, keyboard, leaks, mob, trackpad, wifi calling
The PlayStation Phone is still real
By now you've seen our photos of the PlayStation Phone , and likely you've also heard the scattered reports of debunkings and cries of "fake!" -- it wouldn't be a scoop without it. Only here's the thing: the PlayStation Phone in the photos we ran last night, and the device reported on back in August is most definitely real. We're not saying that because we want to believe or because we're gingerly trying to nab pageviews: we're saying it because we know it to be true
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: backtrack, collaboration, gingerbread, photo, photos, playstation, psp phone, scoop, secrecy, shipping, sonypspphone, tipsters, zeus
Navigon’s MobileNavigator comes to US Android devices
Germany navigation firm Navigon's turn-by-turn app for Android has been available in some European countries for much of the year, but it's hitting the US for the first time this week. Major features include the so-called "Reality Scanner," Navigon's take on augmented reality, lane-level navigation, a database of speed and red light cameras (seriously, don't go through red lights, okay?), and "MyRoutes," offering you a selection of up to three routes to your destination based on your driving habits.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: cameras, driving, engadget-mobile, european, level, light, major, starting-today, the-so-called
HTC Desire HD review
Did you know that the word "jumbo" originated from the name of an African elephant famed for being the largest of his kind? HTC will be well familiar with that tag having already rattled off the HD2 , EVO 4G , and HD7 in a smartphone-dwarfing 4.3-inch form factor. And while that may not be the largest screen you can have your Android confectionery on today, it's arguably the upper limit of what we might consider a pocketable device.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: 4.3-inch, 720p, after-the-break, aluminum, desirehd, htc desire hd, phone, wvga
Garmin navigation to be an Android exclusive for ASUS, headed to Apple and RIM app stores
Details of the Garmin-ASUS breakup are slowly being revealed. We now know that ASUS has obtained exclusive rights to license Garmin navigation and location based services on its Android smartphones with a Garmin navigation trademark slapped on the back -- other Android handset makers need not apply
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app-world, eachother, engadget, entry, garmin, handset-makers, readers, rim, smartphone
YouTube app gets refreshed for Android, Eclair users need not apply
In case you didn't already figure this out from the Gmail or Maps apps, Google's definitely getting into this whole separate-the-apps-from-the-platform thing -- and the latest to join the party is Android's in-built YouTube player. The updated version has been live for a few days in the Market now, though only Android 2.2 devices are getting in on the fun; the Android 2.1 riffraff is getting left out in the cold this time around, which notably means the lion's share of Galaxy S users aren't able to benefit just yet. That said, the new version seems like a nice boost with the addition of a portrait viewing mode, perfect for those times when you're too lazy to rotate your phone 90 degrees counter-clockwise (trust us, we've been there).
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: days, engadget-mobile, froyo, lion, means-the-lion, phone, riffraff, time, youtube
The PlayStation Phone
It's hard to believe that what we're looking at is real -- but we assure you, the picture above is in fact the PlayStation Phone you've long been waiting for.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, holidays, memory, phone, photos, playstation, playstation portable, pspphone, sonyericsson, station-phone
Google ‘archiving’ Nexus One support forum next month, turning it read-only
If you have a Nexus One , you plan on having it for a while, and you want to talk about it, you're going to have to find another place to do it come November 1 -- because that's the day Google has chosen to shut down its own Nexus One support forum, archive it, and make its contents read-only. Seems like an extraordinarily illogical and user-hostile move to us -- especially considering that the phone is still thoroughly modern, runs the latest available version of Android, and was released this year ... but if there's a silver lining to this mess, it'd have to be the fact that there's no shortage of third-party sites and forums that will be happy to pick up the slack.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one, Other Tags: engadget, engadget-mobile, entry, Love, mobile, nexus, nexus one, phone, runs-the-latest, silver-lining, slack, support
Tata DoCoMo, Airtel bringing 3G to India this year
It's been a long, brutal road, 2010 finally saw the long-overdue conclusion to India's nationwide 3G spectrum auction -- and in its wake, we're starting to see the winners make some firm commitments for getting services live. Two of the country's big operators, Tata DoCoMo and Bharti Airtel, are actually saying that they'll have their deployments up and running before the year's out; Airtel hasn't given a date, but Tata DoCoMo has pegged November 5th for its phase-one rollout in nine markets
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: airtel, before-the-year, big-operators, conclusion, country, docomo, engadget, entry, result, rollout