Gingerbread ROMs start cooking for HTC EVO 4G et al; keyboard ported for rooted Androids
You can have your doubts about when your phone maker will finally get around to delivering an Android 2.3 update (March if you're with HTC, June if Samsung, 2017 if you're unfortunate enough to own a Sony Ericsson), but the smartphone dev community doesn't work that slowly.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: devs, download, evo4g, gingerbread, htc, keyboard, nascent-stages, rom, rooted, smartphone-dev, wildfire
Windows Phone 7 Marketplace hits 3,000 apps and games, attracts 15,000 developers
It's staggering to think how much things have changed in the cellphone industry over the last few years.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: cellphone, devs, microsoft, Purchasing, smartphone, windows, windows-phone, windowsmobile, windowsphonemarketplace, winpho7
BlackBerry devs can now offer $1 and $2 apps
In conjunction with BlackBerry App World 2.0's emergence from beta today, RIM has announced that developers will now be able to charge 99 cents or $1.99 for their wares. Doesn't sound like news, right?
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app world 2.0, apps, appworld, between-devices, blackbery, card, crap, credit, developers, devs, emergence, marketplace, mobile
Apple iOS 4.1 beta 2 now available for developers
Developers, developers, developers: Apple is now seeding the second iteration of the iOS 4.1 beta your way. It's been just shy of two weeks since beta 1 hit the scene , which is about on par with the pace of revisions for previous beta releases
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: appleiphone, chance-yet, dev, developers, devs, engadget, ios, ios 4.1, ios 4.1 beta 2, ios4.1beta, iphone, pace, the-second
Palm confirms new devices, webOS upgrade
Ever since HP CEO Mark Hurd said he wasn't interested in smartphones , it's like the company's been making up for lost time -- first by denying the exec's predilections, and more recently by actually asking us to speculate wildly . Now Palm's Developer Relations team has reportedly stepped in to confirm that speculation, telling devs that future devices and a new version of webOS are on the way. While there's no knowing if those devices are smartphones or when we might see them, we're told to expect a "very exciting" next year
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: been-making, developer, devs, exec, new-version, predilections, relations, result, speculation, telling-devs
Windows Phone 7 devs said to be getting test hardware ‘very soon’
If you're a developer following our coverage of Windows Phone 7 and want to get on that gravy train as early as possible, you'll be happy to know that development hardware will be arriving "very soon." This apparently according to an unnamed Microsoft representative at a Norwegian developer event, where it was also made known that, upon the retail release of hardware, developers will be allowed to unlock five devices for their testing, although Microsoft will continue to make available pre-unlocked dev handsets after launch. Exactly what the unlocking procedure will look like remains to be seen, as does nature of these early developer-only handsets. MobileTechWorld speculates that LG's GW910 will be that handset, and since that company did provide us with the world's first official device running Windows Phone 7, we'd say that money is probably a safe bet
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: developer-event, developers, devs, event, money, phone, retail, windows
The Engadget app for BlackBerry gets updated to 1.0.1
Hey BlackBerry friends -- we've got some news for you.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, convenience, curve, devs, download, engadget app, engadgetapplication, little-update
Why games brick systems my opinion
First this is not a rant just specs as why people say, This or that game bricked my system.