Gmail’s free voice calls will be available through all of 2011, still only in the US
While the rest of the world has yet to taste the sweet elixir of free voice calls from its email supplier, US-based Gmailers are having their fun extended for a whole new year.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: calls, elixir, engadget, entry, free-calls, free-voice, freecalling, holiday, service-free, voicecalls
TomTom’s Map Share update brings crowdsourced navigation to iPhone GPS app
Buckled early and sprung for TomTom's iPhone GPS app , did you? If so, that very app just got a lot better today, as version 1.6 has brought TomTom's Map Share -- a crowdsourcing aspect that'll keep your maps more up-to-date than you ever thought possible. Map Share enables iPhone users to make changes instantly to their own maps and to benefit from free map updates made by the TomTom community and verified by the company itself.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: app, engadget, excuse, iphone, iphone gps, iphoneapp, map, mapping, maps, speed, tomtom
Droid Incredible takes a stable bite out of Gingerbread (video)
Android 2.3, get your Android 2.3! A Gingerbread ROM for the Droid Incredible that's been cooking on xda-developers for a couple of weeks is finally looking ready for mass consumption. It hit version 4 overnight, fixing a few niggling issues and enabling the 8 megapixel camera, which leaves only its video recording and GPS functions on the to-do list
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: camera, developers, droid, droid incredible, entry, gingerbread, niggling, responsiveness, verizon, video, wedodroid
Windows Phone 7′s Marketplace grows faster than Android did at launch, doesn’t mean much
An analyst note released by research firm IDC yesterday points out that in the nearly two months since Windows Phone 7's retail release, the Windows Marketplace has swelled to 4,000 applications -- a number that the Android Market took five months to reach. That's impressive, no doubt, and the analyst behind the numbers notes that he "would not be surprised if Microsoft had the third largest app portfolio in the industry by the middle of next year." Now granted, hitting number three would take very little effort on Microsoft's part -- they'd just have to beat webOS, BlackBerry OS, and Symbian, none of which have sparked iOS- or Android-like levels of developer interest. So beyond that, what does the growth mean?
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: apps, doubt, engadget, launch, microsoft, numbers, windows, windowsmarketplace, windowsphone7, wp7
T-Mobile finally getting in on the mobile 3G (or 4G) router craze next March?
Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T have all deployed MiFis (and MiFi equivalents ) at this point, leaving T-Mobile as the sole US national carrier to do without a dedicated mobile router -- some sort of device you can throw in your pocket and turn on for those occasions when you need to turn a cellular data signal into a nice little pocket of WiFi.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: entry, finally-getting, lil wayne, mobile router, offering-full, overdrive, select-phone, verizon
Novatel’s USB551L LTE modem for Verizon in the wild, does Mac support out of the box
How many dedicated LTE -capable USB modems does Verizon need? At least three, apparently, because we've just been sent shots of Novatel's upcoming USB551L that looks perhaps a tad glossier and sleeker than the Pantech and LG models that have preceded it . Hard to say from the spec sheet here, but it looks like there's at least a chance this is LTE-only without CDMA / EV-DO fallback since there's no explicit mention of it; unlikely considering how small Verizon's LTE footprint is for the time being, but you never know.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: date-or-pricing, entry, from-the-spec, gallery, lte, mac, modems, novatel, Sheet, support, time, usb, usb modem, verizon
NavFree launches free US iPhone navigation app with offline map data
There's no shortage of iPhone navigation apps out there, but we can't say we've seen too many that come with 1.6GB of offline map data -- especially for free. That's the hook for NavFree USA, which just went live in the App Store -- sure, it also has some interesting social features like crowdsourced map updates and navigating to friends, and you can buy add-ons like traffic and speed camera info, but we think most people will use the free turn-by-turn and call it a day. That is, until Apple builds navigation directly into the OS .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: app store, apple, camera, gps, gpsapp, hilariously, info, ios app, iosapp, map, navfree, navigation-app, navigation-apps
Official Froyo update for Samsung Intercept going awry, Sprint investigating; unofficial fix available for now
Samsung's really struggling to release solid Android firmware updates, as evidenced by the Bell Vibrant situation -- and now, this little mess. Sounds like some Intercepts on Sprint are dying after applying the official update to Android 2.2 released a few days ago, prompting Sprint to put out an official statement today: " It has been brought to our attention that some customers may be experiencing issues with the Android 2.2 (Froyo) software upgrade for the Samsung Intercept. Some users have reported their device to be unresponsive after the upgrade is completed.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: attention, days, entry, froyo, incremental, intercept, mobile, official-froyo, official-update, samsung, sprint, sprint-customer, waves
HTC Knight hits Best Buy’s system with PG0610 model name
We've already seen what's purported to be the HTC Knight show up in Sprint's database under the guise of the HTC A7373 , and we now have yet another model name thrown into the mix courtesy of this supposedly legitimate shot of Best Buy's data transfer system. As you can see, what's clearly labeled as the HTC Knight is now sporting the PG0610 designation (previously seen at the FCC ), and it's chilling alongside the HTC EVO 4G , which certainly makes sense -- although it's less clear what the ancient HTC Apache is doing there
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: been-keeping, Best Buy, buy, ces, device, guise, htc, htcknight, speedy, supposedly, Transfer
Josh is on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight! It’s a holiday miracle!
Killer flying robots ? No, not this time. Our fearless leader is back once again in Jimmy Fallon 's guest chair, this time with a bunch of new holiday gear at his disposal
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: affiliate, engadget, engadget-show, fallon, fearless, guests-include, jimmyfallon, madness, nbc, segel