Sony Ericsson Yendo delayed right into a fiery pit of irrelevance
Look, we'll be honest: the idea of an X10 mini running dumbphone software never really appealed to us from the start, so the news that it's apparently been delayed into 2011 doesn't elicit much of a reaction from anyone here at Engadget HQ.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: ces, congress, delay, ericsson-yendo, keyboard, pit, sony, sonyericsson, walkman, walkman-branded
Microsoft said to be planning second Windows Phone 7 update for MWC in February
Coming this February, at a Mobile World Congress near you, from the company that popularized the Service Pack : a second major update to Windows Phone 7 . The observant among you will already be leaping out of their seats to point out that the first WP7 update hasn't even been delivered yet, but it seems like Microsoft's calendar stretches beyond the next month and the company's already churning away on enhancing and improving its rebooted mobile OS. Such is the scuttlebutt coming out of WinRumors , and it's kind of hard to argue with the postulation that Steve Ballmer wouldn't be keynoting MWC in 2011 without something significant to announce
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: congress, fri, microsoft, mwc, mwc2011, patch, phone, scuttlebutt, Steve, update, windows
Sony Ericsson CEO suggests February reveal, perhaps the PlayStation Phone?
Plausible deniability seems to be Sony's strategy when it comes to the PlayStation Phone , and that apparently goes for Sony Ericsson as well -- once again, without actually confirming the existence of the Android-based gaming handset, its manufacturer is hinting strongly at an impending reveal. "There's a lot of smoke, and I tell you there must be a fire somewhere," CEO Bert Nordberg told the Wall Street Journal , adding that some sort of new Sony Ericsson product will be unveiled at Mobile World Congress this Februrary. While that particular item could easily be the 4.3-inch Anzu slate rather than a PlayStation slider phone, the chief executive didn't seem to shy away from video games in a series of additional quotes.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: bert nordberg, chief, congress, entry, existence, februrary, offerings, phone, playstation, slate, smartphone, sony
U.S. officials push for broader internet wiretapping regulations
The NSA may have its ominously named Perfect Citizen program to guard against potential cyber attacks, but it looks like the U.S.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, congress, government, intercepts, law-enforcement, networking, quite-satisfied, result, social-networking
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, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: collaboration, congress, deutsche, entry, makers, result, samsung, telecom, windows mobile 7, wp7
Samsung Galaxy Beam: world’s first Android projector phone on sale in July
Ah, here we go, Samsung's other cellphone with an integrated projector just got an official launch date. The Galaxy Beam (codename: Halo ) with its 3.7-inch Super AMOLED display is now slated to hit Singapore in July. That means that the European and broader launch across Asia should be just around the corner if Samsung's claims from Feburary hold true
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 2gb, congress, dlp, official-launch, oled, other-cellphone, projector-phone, samsung
BlackBerry Bold 9800 slides open, shows off promising WebKit-based browser
We've known RIM has had a WebKit-based browser in its rear pocket since Mobile World Congress, and with confirmation that BlackBerry OS 6.0 would have traces of WebKit throughout, this discovery was simply inevitable. The BlackBerry Bold 9800 (polarizing design and all) has just made its most interesting appearance yet, this time showing off a purported WebKit-based web browser with a trio of tabs collected up top. Never mind the fact that whoever was using this clearly wishes he / she was browsing on an iPhone -- it's the 100/100 Acid3 test result that really titillates.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: acid3, BlackBerry, browser, congress, mobile-world, pocket-since, Rear, result, rim, traces, web, web-browser, webkit
Samsung’s Super AMOLED-packin’ Wave S8500 priced in Germany: €429
Samsung's world-beater -- you know, that Wave S8500 that debuted back at Mobile World Congress -- was revealed without one of the most vital statistics, but that's being remedied today courtesy of a product listing over at Amazon's German portal.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: amazon, before-pinging, congress, german, product-listing, samsung, smartphone, statistics, super amoled
Confirmed: Windows Mobile 6.5 to become Windows Phone Starter Edition
Windows Phone 7 Series might have been the big news out of Mobile World Congress this year, but it looks like Windows Mobile 6.5 will live on as the basis of Windows Phone Starter Edition. We'd already heard some whispers to that effect, but now it's been confirmed by ZDNet 's Mary Jo Foley, who got some answers about the stripped-down mobile OS directly from Redmond.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: congress, microsoft, windows mobile 6, windows phone starter, windowsphone, winmo6, year, zdnet
Fonera SIMPL aims to ease 3G overload, give smartphones a better way to upload
If you've never heard of Fon , its mission is pretty simple: to equip the world with Fonera routers, and thus blanket the planet in WiFi that no one is scared to share. Over at Mobile World Congress this week, the company unveiled a new device that exploits the impending bandwidth crisis that operators all over the globe are attempting to deal with.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: congress, engadget, fonera simpl, impending, minute, over-at-mobile, result, showcase, wifi, wlan, world