Samsung LTE phone with front-facing camera headed to Verizon?
Let's be real: it should come as little surprise that Sammy -- a company with multiple Android phones on Verizon already -- would be joining LG , Motorola , and HTC in prepping a new model for its LTE network . Sure enough, Gizmodo has scored an alleged shot of said phone, showing Froyo (Android 2.2.1, to be specific) along with a front-facing camera and a model number of SCH-i520; it's said to feature TouchWiz (as most non- Nexus S Android phones from Samsung tend to do) and, fortunately, lacks the Bing integration that Verizon's been pushing on its low- and midrange smartphones lately.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: come-as-little, galaxy, i520, lte, result, samsung, smartphones, verizon
Samsung Epic 4G getting post-Christmas Froyo treat?
We're horrible at getting gifts and cards to their recipients on time, usually showing up in mailboxes at least a day late.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: charging, christmas-froyo, engadget, epic 4g, froyo, handset, happening, milk, morning-cookies, rumor, samsung, samsung-epic, time, update, worst
Pantech Vega Xpress comes with DDR2 memory, extravagant performance claims
Pantech 's bringing a new wrinkle to the mobile hardware space with its newly announced Vega Xpress handset. This 4-inch Android 2.2 beastie will come equipped with an unspecified amount of DDR2 RAM -- yes, the stuff that usually goes into x86 laptop and desktop computers -- which Pantech will have you believe is going to blow the competition out of the proverbial water. The company claims the new phone doubles 3D graphics performance relative to its previous best, while power efficiency is also said to be two to three times better
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 480-resolution, engadget, korea, mobile, msm8255, pantechvegaxpress, power, qualcomm, specs-include
Dell lowers Streak price to $400, but will make you wait until January to get it
Good news: Dell's unlocked Streak has just plunged down the pricing charts with a neat $180 discount taking it to a palatable $400 level. Bad news: you won't get yours shipped until the 10th of January, according to Round Rock's web outlet.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: 180-discount, official, outlet, palette, price, price-cut, pricing, streak, until-the-10th
Sony Ericsson LiveView getting much needed January update
Good news for those early adopters burdened by an underperforming Sony Ericsson's LiveView : help is on the way.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: control, entry, ericsson-live, finally-achieve, liveview, official, result, softwareupdate, sony, sony-ericsson, the-wrist-worn, update-service
Android trademark lawsuit tossed out, Google in the clear
This is just sad, in a happy way.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: decision, engadget, entry, erichspecht, lawsuit, oha, sanity, specht, trademark, using-the-mark
Tonino Lamborghini’s Evoluzione runs Android, shares little with an actual Lamborghini
If you're looking for something a little smarter than Tonino Lamborghini's Spyder series of luxury phones (and we mean "smarter" in the operating system sense, not the wisdom of purchasing such a device), look no further than the Evoluzione. This puppy runs Android 2.1 (Froyo might be available in the future), but falls well short of its automotive namesake by sticking with a middling HVGA display of 3.2 inches and a 600MHz processor.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: engadget-mobile, entry, evoluzione, lamborghini, luxury, luxury-phones, mobile, namesake, primo mobile, primomobile, puppy, spyder, tonino lamborghini, toninolamborghini
HTC EVO Shift 4G spotted in the wild, said to have 800MHz CPU
We had our doubts the last time we encountered an HTC EVO Shift 4G , but it looks like they were mostly unfounded -- here's Sprint's new QWERTY slider in the flesh -- armor finally shed -- revealing a chrome bezel beneath. PhoneArena obtained these pics from an anonymous tipster, who says the device has an 800MHz processor much like the T-Mobile G2, and while we can't infer much more about the internals than we have before , there are a few new things to note: HTC Sense is alive and well, there's a particularly large camera module buried in the smooth plastic back and a headphone jack up top, and it appears there's a pair of status LEDs for Caps Lock and Function Lock right above the keyboard.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: flesh, internals, keyboard, leak, leaked-photos, module-buried, qwerty slider, sprint
LG Optimus 2X coming to T-Mobile USA by March?
When the Optimus 2X was announced a few days ago, North America was conspicuously left out of the nebulous launch plans mentioned in the press release -- but that doesn't necessarily mean it's not coming. RCR Wireless says it has it on "rather good authority" that LG's beastly Tegra 2 -powered Android phone will in fact see a US launch, and that said launch will be on T-Mobile in late February (which would be right after MWC ) or early March.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: core, gingerbread, hspa, htc, motorola, processor, rumor, tegra 2, the-dual-core, wireless
FCC: We didn’t impose stricter net neutrality regulations on wireless because Android is open
Rest assured that we're working on a full analysis of the FCC's major net neutrality decision today, but the Commission hasn't actually released the full text of the order yet, and we just came across something in the press release we wanted to break out: one of the specific reasons the FCC gives for regulating wireless broadband more lightly than wireline is the release of Android. Seriously -- the release says that only "measured steps" to regulating wireless are necessary because "open operating systems like Android" have been released, and that it wants to see how Verizon and other 700MHz spectrum winners handle the hotly-contested openness requirement when building out 4G
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: access, after-the-droid, block, fcc, net neutrality, openness, verizon, wireless