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
LG commits to upgrading Optimus Ones to Gingerbread, angry hordes abate
Well, we've got to hand it to LG for quickly doing the right thing here by keeping people informed and ultimately making the best decision for its customers. Just two days after a Facebook spat that suggested the Optimus series of midrange Android handsets wouldn't be getting Android 2.3 Gingerbread thanks to a seemingly made-up 1GHz processor requirement, they've reversed the decision, saying that "all" of the models that fall under the Optimus One guise (presumably including the Vortex , Optimus T , Optimus S , Optimus M , and Optimus U ) would be getting upgraded. Here's the full statement: "LG will upgrade all Optimus One smartphones currently using the Froyo OS to the next version of the Android OS, Gingerbread.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: confusion, decision, gingerbread, guise, hordes, misunderstanding, optimus-ones, thing, upgrade, vortex
iPhone 4 free case program to end September 30th, get one while you still can
Back when Apple initially said it'd offer free iPhone 4 cases to assuage reception concerns, there was a September 30th deadline given for the program. After which, according to Steve and company during the post-press conference Q&A , Apple would "evaluate" the prolonged need for such an offer. Well, looks like the decision has been made.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 30th-deadline, antennagate, decision, entry, freecase, initially-said, iphone, iphone 4, know-the-iphone, program, prolonged, return-policy, statement
Symbian-Guru shuts down, says Nokia is ‘losing hard’
Well, we can't sugar-coat this one -- when a major Nokia / Symbian site like Symbian-Guru decides to close up shop "thanks to Nokia's consistently piss-poor hardware choices and Symbian's lack of ability to even remotely compete in terms of features," there's not much else to say. It sounds like shutting things down was at once both incredibly easy and incredibly hard for site heads Ricky Cadden and Rita El Khoury, who've both penned long letters about their decision -- you can tell both of them remain incredibly passionate about Nokia and Symbian, but that they've been disappointed by mediocre handsets like the N97 one time too many
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: cadden, Choices, decision, incredibly-easy, letters, nokia, read-the-entire, ricky, ricky-cadden, rita, source, sugar, symbian, symbian-guru
Please help me make a phone decision…?
I currently use the htc HD. . . not too satisfied with it. . . I wanna choose between htc hero/ nexus one/iphone. . .
Please tell me which one to buy??
Broadcom announces Android support, three-pack of chips to make your phones more awesome
Chip maker Broadcom has unveiled no fewer than three new mobile-themed hunks of silicon this week in preparation for MWC in just a few days' time. You ready for this? Alright, first up we've got the catchily-named BCM20751, which performs the rather ordinary tasks of GPS, Bluetooth, and FM radio management but also throws in an audio processor to offload some work from the phone's primary CPU, which the company says can reduce battery consumption enough to improve playback time by up to 100 percent in some situations
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: audio, broadcom, business, Chip, consumption, decision, from-the-phone, gps, guru-at-picking, hunks, management, Receiver, standardization
AT&T sued by Washington DC for unused balances on calling cards
Here's a superficially curious, but fundamentally quite important, bit of legal wrangling for you. Reuters is reporting that the District of Columbia has filed suit against AT&T Corp for the recovery of unused balances on calling cards purchased from the telecom giant
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: att, att corp, attorney, columbia, court case, decision, districtofcolumbia, law, leftover-credit, legal-wrangling, result
PalmAddicts: Why is the Google OS Android good for business
[From Hans] Why is the Android operating system good for business PC World takes a look. "Businesses considering Android as a corporate handset standard should consider the decision carefully, because it may prove hard to justify later ...
Categories: Android Tags: because-it-may, bit-troubling, decision, editor, justify-later, many-reasons, nyc, palmaddicts, quick-launch, sammual-james, standard-should, uk-nyc
The long and difficult road to creating an brand – HTC's story
HTC used to be a major force behind many other brands, such as iMate or O2 with the XDA line and even Palm. Around 2006 however the company made the decision to strike out on its own and create its own brand, a very unusual step for a ...