Vodafone teases with exclusive green Nokia N8, still mum on prices and availability
With September just a few days away, things are really about to get real for Nokia's flagship N8 , especially in Europe .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: black, Carrier, europe, exclusive, mobile, nokia, result, smartphone, symbian3, vodafone
T-Mobile UK quietly retracts Pulse’s buggy 2.1 update, Huawei says it was non-final anyway
Remember T-Mobile's money-saving, finger-friendly Pulse ? You know, the Huawei Android handset that received a 2.1 update in Hungary back in May? Earlier this month (on the 6th, to be precise), said phone's British counterpart also received its share of cream-filled pastry , but perhaps one with cream gone sour.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: british, engadget, entry, fri, huawei, mobile, pastry, phone, pull, pulled-the-plug, pulse, retraction, sms, yikes
How would you change Apple’s iPhone 4?
We know, half of you aren't even going to read past the headline before you start angrily banging away about Apple's admitted antenna gaff and the still-not-totally-fixed proximity sensor , but we're urging you to look deeper .
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: antenna, apple-iphone, att, colors, fri, hwyc, proximity, receptionissue, seriousness, smartphone
Dual SIM iPhone 4 case gives your multiple personality disorder a new lease on life
Sure, there are any number of phones with dual SIM card slots , most of them built for Asian markets, but the iPhone 4 is about the furthest thing from dual SIM: in fact, it doesn't even have one Big Person SIM to call its own. Luckily, USBFever has a hacktastic solution to this problem (a followup to their iPhone 3G version ), with a new $30 case that can host dual full size SIM cards on the back of an iPhone 4 (entombed in some classy clear plastic, naturally), while running an adapter to the iPhone 4's micro SIM slot. You can then switch between the two SIMs from the iPhone's own settings menu, though unfortunately you can't rock both SIMs simultaneously.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: approach, between-the-two, cards, clear-plastic, dualsimcards, from-the-iphone, iphone, iphone4, life, markets, problem, settings, switch-between
Fennec (a.k.a. Firefox Mobile) goes alpha for Android and Nokia N900
Well, it looks like you can finally get rid of that less-than-stable pre-alpha release of Fennec (a.k.a. Firefox Mobile) for Android -- Mozillla has just released the full alpha release for not only Android (2.0 and later), but the Nokia N900 as well. The big news with this release is an increase in "performance and responsiveness to user actions" (always a good thing), as well as two new features dubbed "Electrolysis" and "Layers," the former of which lets the browser interface run in a separate process from the one rendering web content, while the latter promises to "greatly improve performance in graphic intensive actions like scrolling, zooming, animations and video." You'll also get full support for add-ons, and Firefox Sync built into the browser to let you have a continuous experience as you move between devices
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: browser, content, download, fennec, firefox, firefox-mobile, greatly-improve, latter-promises, nokia, nokia-n900, result, webbrowser
Mysterious Verizon-bound HTC handset appears mysteriously on the internet
Hey -- what's this? Well, from the looks of it, it's a new, as-yet-unnamed HTC device
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, htc Tags: Appearance, camera, engadget, handset-appears, Headphone, headphone jack, htc, internet, megapixel, merge, sense, source, verizon-bound
New ARM architecture (likely Eagle) better suited for OS virtualization
Looks like that fake Pre with the iOS / BlackBerry OS split personality is a little ahead of its time, but ARM -- supplier of the architecture that underpins most of the world's smartphones -- likes the idea. In a recent talk at Stanford, ARM program manager David Brash talked up some of the highlights of new "extensions" to the existing ARMv7-A platform, and though he apparently never mentioned Eagle by name, it seems safe to assume that he was referring to the capabilities that Eagle would bring to the table when it launches in the next couple years. Notably, the extensions will break through ARM's current 4GB RAM limit by mapping 4GB windows of memory to each virtualized operating system, which dovetails nicely -- suspiciously nicely, in fact -- with VMware's recent talk of wanting virtualized phones capable of seamlessly switching between multiple platforms without any hacky bootloader solutions
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: arm, black, Capabilities, Eagle, ios, operating, operating-system, personality, smartphones, the-extensions
Samsung Bada SDK hits version 1.0; in other news, a tree falls and no one’s around to hear it
Is anyone developing for Bada ? Hello, anyone
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: brim, code, engadget, entry, hand-at-busting, mobile, platforms, result, sdk
Verizon confirms Android 2.2 update for Droid Incredible hits today
Just as we thought , HTC's Droid Incredible for Verizon is getting boosted from Android 2.1 to 2.2 today, which should make plenty of owners (and plenty of non-owners who've been unable to find any stock for the past couple months) happy as a clam. Major features include pre-installed Flash 10.1, 720p video recording, mobile hotspot support as first introduced for Verizon on the Droid X , and naturally, all the other standard greatness you've come to expect with Froyo . We imagine this update will take a couple weeks to roll out to everyone, so show some patience, Droid Incredible owners -- or, you know, do like we do and search frantically for an update.zip to get posted somewhere.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: breakingnews, couple, droid, features, flash, incredible, mobile hotspot, result, update
Dell dropping Windows Phone 7 devices from its roadmap? (update: Dell responds, is definitely still in the game)
Now we don't have much more to go on here than some analyst chatter and a lengthy article from TechCrunch , but if you believe what you read, a major player has just dropped Windows Phone 7 devices from its roadmap. And that player is Dell . According to Jonathan Goldberg, an telecom analyst at Deutsche Bank, the only remaining partners currently working on Windows Phone 7 handsets are HTC, Samsung, and LG.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: collaboration, congress, deutsche, entry, makers, result, samsung, telecom, windows mobile 7, wp7