HTC HD7 gets its .bins all in a tizzy, custom ROMs up next?
What do you get when you cross an HTC HD7 with a Mondrian ROM? Or a Schubert ROM?
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: branded, concept, groundwork, htc, htc hd7, more-technical, phone, Proof, rom, schubert, settings, windows-phone, windowsphone7
Novatel’s MiFi 4082 is the WiMAX-capable hotspot the Overdrive has been dreading
Sprint's Overdrive from Sierra Wireless has been handling the WiMAX mobile hotspot duties on Sprint for most of this year, but it's been walking that road alone. Novatel, which took the mobile hotspot concept mainstream with its venerable MiFi line -- has been absent from the 4G race so far...
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: concept, entry, hotspot, mainstream, mifi4082, sierra-wireless, walking, wimax, wireless
BlackBerry Empathy design concept feels bad that you’re stuck using a BlackBerry
Rest easy, folks: we know it's pointy at the bottom, but we've been assured this isn't the BlackBerry 7100's true successor. Instead, the so-called Empathy is the bizarre outcome of of a RIM-sponsored design project at the Art Center College of Design that touts its ability to detect the emotions of its user and his or her contacts
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: artcentercollegeofdesign, bizarre, BlackBerry, concept, engadget, Heart, imap, keyboards
Lenovo teases S800 phone with translucent color display, won’t let anyone touch it
Step aside, Sony Ericsson, your Xperia Pureness has been beaten at its own game by an enigmatic new handset that Lenovo has been showing off over in China.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: above-images, beaten-at-its, color, concept, entry, event, featurephone, glass, luxury, phones, piece, seethrough, sony
Verizon testing unlimited mobile-to-mobile plans — regardless of carrier
Sprint's been doing this for some time , but it looks like Verizon is now toying around with the concept of carrier-agnostic mobile-to-mobile plans (it's a mouthful, we know) for at least some of its customers. Specifically, Big Red's trialing such plans in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and "select markets" in Texas, Tennessee, and Florida ranging from $60 to $130 for individual and family plans ranging from 450 to 2000 minutes; notably, both voice and text buckets are bottomless for mobile-to-mobile
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: concept, engadget, florida, mississippi, mouthful, plan, popular-enough, select-markets, verizon, vzw
Mozilla’s Seabird phone concept teaches us how to dream
Look up, peasant, from your soot-stained hands. Drop that shovel into the furrowed ground and gaze upon the magic* that Mozilla has wrought. Concept designer Billy May, working through Mozilla's "Open Web Concept Phone" project, has gathered community feedback and followed up on some rather mundane visions for the mobile future with this little beauty, the Mozilla Seabird.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: billy may, bluetooth, concept, concept-phone, functionality, keyboard, mozilla, mozilla seabird, peasant, phone, projected
Microsoft previews Windows Phone 7 app design process with a golfing scorekeeper (video)
You don't need us to tell you that apps have grown to become a core part of modern smartphone ecosystems. Android and iOS, the two major app-centric OS environments are growing in leaps and bounds , while a substantial part of Windows Phone 7 's eventual success is expected to hinge on exactly how it matches (or betters) those guys on the app front. So, what better excuse than that to check out this concept golf scoring app from Redmond?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: concept, microsoft, multiple-touch, phone, smartphone, windows
Nokia’s Design by Community makes smartphone concepting a multiplayer game, with limits
Nokia's community blog has opened up the crowdsourcing floodgates, at least in theory. For "Design by Community," users will be able to vote on smartphone features via a series of sliders, although within an arbitrary point allotment system. A new poll opens next week for size and shape, followed by materials, operating system (Symbian or MeeGo being the only choices, unsurprisingly), and so on in the weeks that follow, with the last poll starting April 26th.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: concept, crowd source, engadget, entry, multiplayer, selections, smartphone, the-selections
Sharp PB20ZU gets FCC approval — is this ‘Pure’ from Microsoft’s Project Pink?
The puzzle pieces are all fitting together now, aren't they? Just a few days after regulatory passage of the PB10ZU from Sharp -- a device that could very well be the pebble-shaped Turtle -- we're now seeing a separate filing for the PB20ZU. The label document isn't terribly detailed here, but if you squint your eyes, you can definitely see how this lines up perfectly with the concept of a landscape QWERTY slider which is exactly what Project Pink's rumored second phone, the Pure , is expected to be
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: concept, definitely-see, entry, especially-now, fcc, microsoft, pb20zu, project, project pink, qwerty, rumored-second, separate-filing, sharp, slider, verizon
T-Mobile Pulse Mini does cheap, tiny, prepaid Android for Europe
In the US, the concept of a prepaid Android phone is about as foreign as the concept of an effective high-speed mass transit system, but abroad, T-Mobile is following up its Pulse with a cuter, smaller sibling in the Pulse Mini.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: britons, concept, engadget, entry, europe, huawei, qualcomm, shelling-out, similarities, speed, the-concept, the-original