Samsung SCH-R700 is a cute full-touch dumbphone, looks destined for US
It's extraordinarily rare for a Samsung phone to show up in the FCC with full photography available to the public ahead of its official introduction, so color us surprised to see this lil' SCH-R700 hanging out today. It's an 850 / 1900MHz CDMA device with EV-DO, suggesting it'd probably go to Verizon, Sprint, or US Cellular -- Cricket and MetroPCS would almost certainly be off the table since both of those guys use AWS in their coverage
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: barren-draft, button, coverage, cricket, engadget, metropcs, phone, photography, public, samsung, sch
T-Mobile prepaid account management on the fritz for the past week, Web DayPasses hard to buy
A quick gander at T-Mobile's official support forums suggests that the carrier's prepaid customers have been in a world of hurt for the past few days -- or the ones that use data, at least.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: account, customer, daypass, entry, forums, forums-suggests, holiday, mobile, problem-seems, result, web daypass
BlackBerry Curve 8980 shows up in FCC, offers some glam shots
Despite the more recent releases of the Curve 8500 series and the Curve 3G , RIM has never really offered up a true successor to the venerable Curve 8900 -- a device some would argue remains the prettiest that Waterloo has ever manufactured. Indeed, with the QVGA display and meager cam on the 3G, there's a pretty magnificent gap between it and the business-class Bold 9700 / 9780...
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: approval, business, curve, curve 8980, engadget, Filing, model, recent-releases, res, result, rim, venerable, waterloo
Verizon hosting 4G LTE news conference tomorrow to discuss launch plans
Guess what people, Verizon's LTE network launch is really for real and the carrier has now scheduled a news conference for tomorrow where it'll discuss its December plans in more detail. Tony Melone, VZW's chief tech officer, will be on hand to answer any questions beyond the already known plans for 38 metropolitan areas to get the 4G LTE treatment -- accounting for a cool 110 million Americans who'll be able to ride the lightning of faster internet speeds on the move. The event kicks off at 12PM and we'll make sure to tune in, if only to find out what Tony's answer is to the inevitable "what is 4G" question
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: breakingnews, internet, launch, lightning, news-conference, verizon, verizonlte, vzw
O2 Germany hooks up lucky LTE testers for free during six-month trial
Network trials occasionally benefit from real-world testing -- and nothing is better at real-world testing than...
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: engadget-mobile, entry, its-customers, mobile, munich, normalcy, real, shoot-as-high, year
Verizon sucks at Photoshop: confuses the Droid X for an iPhone
Man, Motorola's not going to be pleased about this! The Droid X is justifiably one of Verizon's marquee devices for this holiday season and takes pride of place on the carrier's Cyber Monday offers page, but wait... why does its screen display the iPhone version of Google Maps?
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: cybermonday, droid, holiday, inaccuracies, its-screen, manipulation, maps, marquee, monday, motorola, photoshop, result, Season, the-carrier
Mobiado’s 712 Mokume Gane: because your Galaxy S lacks ancient Japanese metallurgical craftsmanship
Is there any way to sensibly justify Mobiado's colossally overpriced, underspec'd handsets? Not as far as we can tell -- but Mobiado seems to be eminently aware of (and okay with) that, diving yet deeper into the bottomless pit of conspicuous consumption this week with the announcement of the 712 Mokume Gane candybar. What's "Mokume Gane" mean, you ask
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 712, answer, bankruptcy, bottomless, engadget, engadget-mobile, entry, galaxy, Grain, japanese, luxury, models, mokume, weapons
HTC job listing hints at an E Ink / 3D-filled future, new North Carolina facility
Months back, word on the street had it that HTC was looking to grab up emptied space in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park post-recession; huge outfits like Nortel bit the bullet in 2009, while Sony Ericsson shuttered its operations there and relocated to Atlanta. Naturally, the consolidation paved the way for other technology firms to slide in without overpaying for real estate
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: eink, epaper, ericsson, imaginations, imaging, Job, mobile, north, north-carolina, park, recession, result, smartphone, street, triangle
LG Star shows up again, flexes its Tegra 2 muscle for the camera
That high-end Android smartphone from LG seemingly destined for release early next year has made another appearance -- and this time, the UI's in full view and showing us a few tricks.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: better-or-worse, engadget, gingerbread, hackers, in the wild, quadrant, tegra 2, verizon
BlackBerry Empathy design concept feels bad that you’re stuck using a BlackBerry
Rest easy, folks: we know it's pointy at the bottom, but we've been assured this isn't the BlackBerry 7100's true successor. Instead, the so-called Empathy is the bizarre outcome of of a RIM-sponsored design project at the Art Center College of Design that touts its ability to detect the emotions of its user and his or her contacts
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: artcentercollegeofdesign, bizarre, BlackBerry, concept, engadget, Heart, imap, keyboards