Sprint and Clearwire deliver WiMAX to Los Angeles, Ohio, Miami and Washington DC, promise SF on December 28th
Seems like Sprint wants to get every last lick of 4G coverage in before Verizon flips the switch on LTE -- today, its joint venture with Clearwire is launching WiMAX in the City of Angels a day ahead of schedule . Lest you think Los Angeles is getting special treatment, five other cellular markets can now also get a taste of 5Mbps to 7Mbps download speeds, including Miami, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus and our nation's capitol, Washington D.C. That brings the total number of regions where you'll get some mileage out of that $10 surcharge up to 68, in case you're keeping track.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, cellular, columbus ohio, download, florida, francisco, losangeles, mileage, ohio, press, san-francisco, sanfrancisco, sf bay area
iPhone 3G, 3GS get iOS 4.2.1 unlock, using risky ultrasn0w workaround
Can't wait another minute for your iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS to be carrier-unlocked once more? If and only if you're already running the latest firmware, you can actually pilfer a bit of iPad code to pick the requisite locks -- though there are some serious risks in doing so.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: bench, ios 4.2.1 unlock, ios4.2.1unlock, iphone dev team, pwnage-tool, result, ultrasn0w, unlock
Samsung Nexus S reappears at the FCC with a pair of new antennas
Thinking that the not-yet-announced Samsung GT-i9020T (a.k.a. Nexus S ) might be delayed due to a last minute addition of a dual-core processor, as recently seen in the seemingly similar i9100
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AMOLED shortage to become a surplus in 2011
Samsung's beautiful Super AMOLED panels are becoming more and more common in mobile devices, but they're not as common as they could be if there were more of the things flying out of Samsung Mobile Display factories. Predictably that's set to change in 2011, with SMD planning to fulfill its promise and bring another production facility online, while other competitors in Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore will ramp up their own AMOLED facilities in the coming year. Meanwhile, China is said to be working on its OLED supply chain as well, meaning those displays of the passive matrix variety will also be flying off of assembly lines soon
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: assembly, china, facility-online, lines, mobile-devices, oled, passive, pot, samsung, singapore, super amoled
Osram’s new LED package 50 percent brighter, promises cameraphone flashes that suck 50 percent less
See those smiling twentysomethings up there?
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: centimeter, demeanor, engadget, figures, osram opto semiconductor, projector, projectors, semiconductors, siemens
Nokia toys with context-aware smartphone settings switch, Jigsaw provides better context for apps like this
If Intel prognosticated correctly , context is the future of apps -- your device's array of sensors will determine where you are and what you're doing, and clever programs will guess from there. Problems arise, however, when one tries to run those accelerometers, microphones, radio antennas and GPS tracking devices constantly on the battery life of an average smartphone and determine what the raw data means, and that's where a group of Dartmouth researchers (and one Nokia scholar) are trying to stake their claim. They've got a bundle of algorithms called Jigsaw for iPhone and Symbian that claims to be able to continually report what you're up to (whether walking, running, cycling or driving) no matter where you place your device, and only pings the sensors as needed based on how active you are.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: accelerometers, api, battery, coordinates, jigsaw, nokiasituations, s603rdedition, symbian, walking
Android 2.1 rolling out to Sony Ericcson Xperia X8, depending on product code
Here's an extra bonus for those of you who snapped up an unlocked Xperia X8 on a frosty Friday morn -- Sony Ericsson is starting to push Android 2.1 to the handset right now. Thirty-two tasty batches of Eclair are already in the oven, and you can easily check to see if you're a likely candidate for upgrade by scanning the back of your phone. If your eight-digit "SI-number" (e.g.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: enhanced-social, entry, ericcson-xperia, ericsson, handset, morn, networking, recording, software-update, sony, tasty-batches, xperia x8, xperiax8
Engadget Mobile Podcast 064 – 11.27.2010
The Engadget Mobile Podcast: it's our way of saying we love you . Actually, scratch that -- it's just one more way to say we love phones , and you just happened to be standing in the way so you got some collateral love. Hosts: Chris Ziegler, Myriam Joire ( tnkgrl ) Producer: Trent Wolbe Music: Daestro - Light Powered ( Ghostly International ) 00:01:11 - Black Friday 2010 deals roundup: ultimate mega edition (updated regularly) 00:08:51 - Windows Phone 7 Marketplace hits 3,000 apps and games, attracts 15,000 developers 00:23:15 - Windows Phone 7 gets user-friendly hack for bypassing the Marketplace, loading your own apps 00:31:02 - Motorola Droid Pro official on Verizon: $179.99 after rebate, pre-sales begin November 9th 00:36:47 - iOS 4.2 available today, brings the iPad into the multitasking era (update: it's live) 00:42:39 - Dell Streak Android 2.2 (Froyo) update review 00:44:45 - HTC Desire Z review 00:50:37 - Nokia X7-00 spotted feeding its Need for Speed in the wild (video) 00:54:55 - BlackBerry Style officially launches October 31st for $99 on Sprint 01:00:55 - Sony Ericsson faults 'especially rigorous' firmware testing in US for X10's Eclair update delay on AT&T 01:06:15 - Sony Ericsson CEO suggests February reveal, perhaps the PlayStation Phone
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: apps, black, eclair, engadget-mobile, engadgetmobilepodcast, friday, light, motorola-droid, myriam, podcast, sprint, windows-phone, ziegler
Symbian Foundation axing websites on December 17th, source repositories available ‘upon request’
We'd heard that the Symbian Foundation would undergo some drastic changes as it transitions to a licensing body, and here's number one -- every official Symbian website will be shuttered on the 17th of next month. That goes for every page from symbian.org down to the Symbian Twitter and Facebook feeds, and the source code itself will be shelved. If you want access to any of it, even the databases of user-generated bug reports, you'll have to ask the Foundation for a hard copy and pay a nominal media and shipping fee after January 31st.
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Toshiba TG01 slowly, surely gets hacked to run Android
It's easy to forget about the TG01 nowadays, but bear in mind that Toshiba's WinMo beast from last year was the first production phone in the world to use Qualcomm Snapdragon silicon.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: capability, developers, hack, honored, htc, phone, silicon, snapdragon, surely-gets, tg01, toshiba, tradition, winmo, world