PhotoFast’s AP1000 takes AirPlay support to your car
3.5mm auxiliary inputs and stereo Bluetooth used to be good enough -- but that was before Apple announced AirPlay a few months ago. Now, everything else sounds like someone is stabbing you in the ears; the world looks black and white, and food no longer has any taste. AirPlay, save us! Taiwanese firm PhotoFast is playing the superhero role here today with the AP1000, a little black module with WiFi that accepts incoming AirPlay streams and routes them through to your car's stereo.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: audio streaming, demo, firm, probably-going, professional, superhero, taiwanese, wifi
Microsoft: we figured people would hack Windows Phone 7, would suggest that they don’t
Hot on the heels of the release of a utility for bypassing the Windows Marketplace and sideloading your own apps, Microsoft has released a brief statement on the state of the Windows Phone 7 hacking community... and we wouldn't exactly say they're too worked up about it: "We anticipated that people would attempt to unlock the phones and explore the underlying operating system
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: breaking-hacks, brief-statement, cat, chevronwp7, developers, heels, jailbreak, Warranty, windows phone 7, windows-phone, wp7
Luke, I am your smartphone (video)
NTT DoCoMo recently launched the Samsung Galaxy S in the Japanese market and now we've come to discover that it's chosen a very forceful personality to represent the product to its discerning audience. Darth " roundabound " Vader has been starring in the carrier's latest round of "always with you" ads, wherein he serves as a (sort of) human representation of the phone, thus lending some anthropomorphic qualities to the cold slab of technology awaiting you in the shops. This whole outlandish idea really shouldn't work, but somehow it does -- we want a little Vader in our lives too now.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: advert, audience, darth vader, endorsement, fri, lives, personality, smartphone
Nokia X7-00 spotted feeding its Need for Speed in the wild (video)
Firstly, let's be absolutely clear that we don't know this is Nokia's X7 , but given the polished, entertainment-centric design (it has four speakers, apparently), we're inclined to believe that it's the real deal. Its screen looks to be the same 4-inch affair as on Nokia's E7 , it's running the latest Symbian OS (formerly known as Symbian^3), and pictures of its rear reveal an 8 megapixel camera. The last detail of import, naturally, is the reassurance that comes from knowing that this supposed X7 can crunch through Need for Speed quite nicely.
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Motorola Milestone 2 starts shipping in UK
Want a GSM Droid 2 ? Or how about a Droid 2 Global without CDMA and a slower processor? However you want to look at it, Motorola's Milestone 2 QWERTY slider is now shipping SIM-free in the UK -- and that's pretty much the only way you're going to get it, because at this point, none of the UK's major carriers are offering it directly
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: entry, london, milestone, milestone2, mobile, motorola, qwerty, result, Sim, starts-shipping, stellar-deal
Security experts unearth unpleasant flaws in webOS
Researchers from security firm SecTheory have described a handful of flaws in webOS , saying that the platform -- by its very nature -- is more prone to these sorts of things than its major competitors because Palm puts web technologies like JavaScript closer to webOS' core where system functions are readily accessible.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: code, denial, flaw, overflow-issue, run-arbitrary, security flaw, technologies, these-sorts
Nokia premieres Ovi Suite 3.0 beta
After a private alpha, Nokia has loosed a beta of its refreshed Ovi Suite client -- now at version 3.0 -- on visitors of its Beta Labs site. Seems like most of the improvements revolve around simplifying common activities, but the biggest change would have to be the addition of tight Ovi Music integration, including playback controls, store access, and Ovi Music Unlimited support -- in other words, this product is now officially the Zune / iTunes of the Nokia world, and in this case we'd say that's a very good thing. Installation is said to be faster and simpler than before, too, so come on, hesitant N8 owner -- what the heck are you waiting for
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: engadget, engadget-mobile, entry, itunes, mobile, music, nokia, ovisuite3.0, world, zune
Nexus S in the wild gives us a blurry Gingerbread walkthrough
The old adage "when it rains, it pours" certainly applies with leaks -- and to that end, the Nexus S we saw a a few hours back is now turned on and ready to give us a frustratingly blurry preview of Android 2.3 (which you may know better as Gingerbread ). Of course, Eric Schmidt himself did the same on stage at the Web 2.0 summit recently, but there's a difference: Schmidt wouldn't admit he was holding a Nexus S, wouldn't show us all of Gingerbread's UI tweaks, and wouldn't take a bunch of dark, low-quality shots and submit them to xda-developers . There's not a lot to see here, but you can make out some of the icons on the redesigned, blacked-out status bar, the redone phone keypad, and the About screen where we get confirmation that it really is a Nexus S running 2.3 (granted, this screen is incredibly easy to fake, but we'll allow it in light of all the other visual evidence we've got going on here)
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: adage, developers, keypad, leaks, make-out-some, phone, quality, schmidt, shots, tweaks
Cellular South hooks up with Samsung for LTE network, two LTE-enabled phones next year
Regional carriers -- which historically haven't had the highest-tech networks around -- have been surprisingly quick to support LTE (heck, MetroPCS remains the only US carrier with a live network ), and now it's little Cellular South jumping on the bandwagon. Samsung sent out a press release a few days ago touting a new partnership to help Cellular South in its grand endeavor, supplying both infrastructure equipment and two LTE-compatible phones for a launch in 2011 with expanded availability in 2012 in the carrier's 700MHz spectrum.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: cellular, cellular-south, compatible, deployment, engadget, infrastructure, jumping, lte, metropcs, mobile, new-partnership, press-release, release
Windows Phone 7 gets user-friendly hack for bypassing the Marketplace, loading your own apps
Now that you've got your Windows Phone 7 device splayed open for USB mass storage use , why not make it friendly to non-Marketplace apps, too? Microsoft's been insistent so far about keeping sideloaded apps out of the equation unless you're a developer, but a new tool called ChevronWP7 -- compatible with Windows XP SP2 and up -- will "unlock" your little beast so that you can install whatever you like without going through the store.