NTT DoCoMo’s AR Walker is augmented reality at its finest (video)
Say you're in New York... or Tokyo.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: agps, ar walker, arwalker, ceatec 2010, entry, glasses, olympus, ounce, partnership, tokyo
Motorola’s MT716 OPhone launched in China, looks just like a Droid with Cliq’s keyboard
If only this was a hoax.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: agps, camera, cmmb, entry, hoax, led, list, omap 3430, ophone 2.0, petition, td-scdma, ti omap3430, wapi
T-Mobile tells reps the Vibrant GPS update is ‘coming soon’
No word on what AT&T is communicating to its peeps regarding the similarly-afflicted Captivate , but it looks like T-Mobile fired off a communique to its sales reps in the past few hours letting them know that the Vibrant's update to solve its GPS woes is expected in September, echoing earlier an statement from Samsung . Interestingly, the reps are being told not to refer to the September guidance, but to instead rattle off a variant of Samsung's statement that says "the next few weeks" instead, presumably to give these guys some wiggle room in case it hits in August or -- perish the thought -- later than September
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: agps, bug fix, bugfix, case-it-hits, exclusive, galaxy s, gps, instead-rattle, mobile, update, vibrant, your-fingers
Samsung commits to September updates for Galaxy S GPS woes
AGPS capability on various versions of the Galaxy S -- including the Captivate and Vibrant released here in the US -- has been deeply hosed since launch, the apparent result of a bunk positioning server being used to associate towers to geographical locations.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: agps, around-the-same, captivate, concrete, entry, galaxy, gps, Orbit, practical-terms, result, update, urban
Where’s the GPS fix for the Samsung Vibrant and Captivate?
Though we admittedly missed it in our initial review -- this is the kind of thing you just expect to work -- we circled back and amended our look at Samsung's Captivate and Vibrant when we discovered that AGPS is completely busted. Not "sort of working," not "flawed," just utterly broken and non-functional; we waited minutes upon minutes without a location lock in our follow-up testing. AGPS is the kind of thing you don't miss until you don't have it, at which point you realize how woefully inadequate straight-up GPS alone is for mobile use when you're frequently (for some of us, nearly always) trying to locate yourself indoors, under a tree, or in the heart of an urban canyon.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: agps, already-working, captivate, review, samsung vibrant, samsung-mobile, urban
Motorola Sage: AT&T’s next Android phone?
We tend to go into full-on conjecture mode when we see an interesting FCC filing, but our instincts haven't let us down in the past , so allow us to throw something out on the table. A new Motorola just hit the feds with 7.2Mbps HSDPA and 2Mbps HSUPA on the 850 and 1900MHz bands, quadband EDGE, WiFi, Bluetooth, AGPS, and a digital compass
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: agps, att, certainly-been, compass, conjecture, conjecture-mode, digital, entry, fcc, form-factor, hsdpa, hsupa, instincts, motorola-sage
Samsung Monte now official, all the TouchWiz and Google Latitude you can handle
Samsung's just gone ahead and pulled the trigger on announcing its S5620 Monte ahead of Mobile World Congress next week, offering a decent set of social features and Google integration at what should be a pretty reasonable price. The "reasonable price" part of this equation comes thanks to a 3-inch WQVGA display and 3.2 megapixel camera, though exact pricing hasn't been announced; meanwhile, you've got a whole host of features that you'd typically associate with higher-end devices like WiFi, Exchange ActiveSync support, and integration with Google's Latitude service to keep track of your friends' whereabouts from afar.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: agps, breaking-news, engadget-mobile, google-latitude, hsdpa, Latitude, mobile, monte, mwc, s5620, samsung-monte
Sony Ericsson Aspen: first with Windows Mobile 6.5.3
It's finally here: Windows Mobile 6.5.3 , the iterative finger-friendly Windows Mobile release that should have been wrapped into 6.5.0. The latest mobile wares from Microsoft come wrapped inside the Sony Ericsson Aspen (aka, Faith ); a business-focused QWERTY candybar with 2.4-inch QVGA TFT LCD, 3.2 megapixel camera, A-GPS with Google Maps, 3.5-mm audio jack, WiFi, and microSD expansion. This latest addition to Sony Ericsson's GreenHeart portfolio comes in black or white silver and packs quad-band GSM/EDGE with either HSPA 900/2100 or 850/900/2100 radios (depending on region)
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: addition, agps, breakingnews, dot, entry, gestures, google-maps, iterative, memory, microsoft, sony, sonyericsson, starters, world