Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: color, controllable, engadget-mobile, igloledset, led, mobile, party-waiting, result, ride-the-light, ticket, Wave, wifi
webOS 2.0 for the Sprint Palm Pre leaks out, added features in tow
Palm promised that webOS 2.0 would hit all of its devices in the "coming months," and it looks like work is trucking right along -- we were just sent these shots of the updated OS running in beta form on the original Sprint Palm Pre. Obviously there's not much here that we didn't pore over in our exhaustive webOS 2.0 review , but we're noting the addition of voice dialing and some preferences for the screensaver-like Exhibition View -- we're told just the time works right now, but photos, agenda view, and Facebook are all listed
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: addition, barley, code, Dialing, entry, interestingly, palm, photos, pore, result, screensaver, something-else, sprint, webos
Moine-Garde offers finely rendered watch apps for indiscriminate Android owners
Moine-Garde recently came to our attention, and we were quite frankly amused by its offer of "fine virtual timepieces" -- if only because, in this context, "fine" and "virtual" would seem to cancel each other out. But like the best websites and catalogs catering to the wealthy, social climbers, or the just plain gullible, this company is not just selling Android apps, it's selling a lifestyle. Some of our favorite item descriptions: EX-01 Homme ($15) Entering the boardroom at 8:30 AM - everyone awaits a decision.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: background, climbers, der, incoming, message, moine-garde, rohe, silly, social
FCC passes limited net neutrality rules, almost no one happy about them
Well, no surprises here -- the FCC just passed a set of limited net neutrality rules by a 3-2 vote. The three Democratic Commissioners, including FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, voted yes, while the two Republican Commissioners both strongly dissented -- to quote Commissioner Meredith Baker, "I really, really, really dissent." The rules haven't been made public yet, but the general understanding is that wired broadband will be more heavily regulated than wireless -- a crucial point as carriers begin investigating pay-per-service charges . That means even net neutrality advocates are unhappy with today's decision -- Democratic Commissioner Michael Copps straight-up said, "Today's action could -- and should -- have gone further." What's more, we're hearing that Verizon is already considering a challenge -- which is odd since the rules appear to track closely with that joint Verizon / Google proposal from the summer.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: advocates, animation, charges, columbia, commissioner, Crucial, democratic, fcc, law, net neutrality, netneutrality, professor, result, verizon
Swype for Android gets lightweight build with less language support
Don't need Chinese pinyin support? Well, Swype has a little treat for you: a new version available from the company's beta installer on your handset reduces the size of the final installed package by a whopping 75 percent, down from 10MB to 2.5MB, simply by dropping support for languages other than English and Spanish -- and for a platform where the app storage issue still isn't fully resolved, every megabyte counts
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: already-running, beta, engadget, english, entry, Installed, keyboard, language, swype
Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone to be called ‘Xperia Play’?
We've been hoodwinked by trademark filing and domain registrations before (cough, BlackPad and SurfBook ) so we wouldn't say this is anywhere near definite, but we just caught wind of a Sony Ericsson EU trademark registration for "Xperia Play," and SE PR firm Jung Relations has registered a variety of Xperia Play domain names, including XperiaPlay.com, .net, and .org. Yes, that certainly sounds like a promising name for the PlayStation Phone (although not quite as promising as, you know, "PlayStation Phone,") but honestly we wouldn't bet on anything at this point. We've got a feeling we'll either find out either at CES or at MWC in February -- hold on tight
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: arc, domain-names, mwc, promising-name, result, sonyericsson, station-phone, trademark, xperia-play
HTC confirms new research and development office in RTP, North Carolina
It's been swirling for months now, but at long last HTC has finally come forward with the official word: it'll be cracking open a new operation in the heart of North Carolina's technology hub to usher in 2011.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: development, engadget, entry, francisco, mobile, ncsoft, north, north-carolina, openings, research, research and development, rtp, technology
Nexus One will get Gingerbread OTA update ‘in the coming weeks’
The original Google phone got us all excited a couple of weeks back when an OTA update was presumed to be the oven-hot Gingerbread upgrade, only to disappoint us. Now we've got the most lucid statement from the Android chefs yet on when the real Gingerbread Nexus One will stand up, which is placed in the relatively ill-defined window of "the coming weeks." Hey, better weeks than months, right? Nexus One will get Gingerbread OTA update 'in the coming weeks' originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:52:00 EST
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: all-excited, better-weeks, entry, firmware-update, firmwareupdate, gingerbread, mobile-os, nexus, official, Ota, over-the-air, result, the-coming, the-oven-hot
Apple iAds Producer helps you produce iAds for iOS devices
We know how it is, you want to be a hotshot developer, but all that coding sounds like daunting work. Never mind, Apple's got your back with its new iAds producer, which automates all the HTML5 and CSS3 stuff into the background and leaves you to focus on the crucial task of picking out templates and components for your perfect iAd
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: app, apple, css, entry, html5, mobileadvertising, source, template, templates, Tool, your-perfect
Microsoft: over 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 devices sold to carriers and retailers
Microsoft has decided to finally dish out some sales figures for its new Windows Phone 7 platform, but alas, these are not the sales figures we are looking for. Instead of giving us the juicy number of actual devices sold to end users, the Redmond crew has given us a neatly rounded 1.5 million figure of sales to mobile operators and retailers. That tells us that the mobile industry is buying into Microsoft's new OS, and it'd be foolish not to, but it doesn't really educate us much on the relative success of the platform's launch.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: achim, achim berg, breaking-news, breakingnews, entry, microsoft, mobile-industry, relative, sales, windows-phone, windowsphone, windowsphone7