Google eBooks is live: just in case Amazon, B&N, and Apple aren’t enough
You hear about this whole e-books thing? We hear it's gonna be a pretty big deal .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: adobe, adobedigitaleditions, digital, e books, epub, gesture, googleeditions, lifestyles, nascent, nook, pdf, progress-synced, sonyreader, stab, trading-on-its
Nokia’s Digital Radio Headset adds DAB to your phone, puts USB On-The-Go to good use
In the event Nokia's recently announced Mobile TV Headset for DVB-H networks doesn't do anything for you, have a gander at the new Digital Radio Headset made official this week.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: audio, blighty-look, digital, digital radio headset, digital-radio, europe, gander, headset, mobile, usb
Amazon sends ‘welcome packet’ to prospective app store devs
There's now little doubt that Amazon -- for reasons that may or may not be borne of sound mind -- is hard at work setting up its own app store ecosystem for Android devices. We've got a tiny bit more evidence of that today in the form of the complete welcome kit being sent out to prospective developers; there's not anything too mind-boggling in here, but let's break down some of the key points: From the wording, there's no question that the system is exclusive to Android -- at least initially
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app store, critical, digital, ecosystem, holidays, materials, packaging-tool, promotional, prospective, result
Amazon App Store for Android confirmed by WSJ
Amazon's always worked hard to make sure it's in the digital goods business as well as its obviously successful physical one, but this might be one of its boldest steps yet: another app store for Android.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app store, couple, digital, journal, launch, mainly-talking, street, wsj
Qualcomm launches augmented reality SDK in beta form, ready to rock your Android devices
By now you would've come across at least a handful of inspiring augmented reality apps (with a few exceptions , perhaps), and if you fancy having a go at coding one yourself, Qualcomm may be able to assist. Today, the giant chip maker is pushing out a beta release of its Android AR SDK, which has produced interesting demos like the digital photo frame concept showcased in London last month, as well as the Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots game pictured above. In fact, Mattel's so confident with the latter app that it's planning on commercializing it, so who knows -- you could be the next Peter Molyneux of the AR scene, or at least a winner of up to $125,000 from Qualcomm's AR Developer Challenge.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: arsdk, augmentedreality, beta, developer, digital, Frame, handful, london, mattel, peter, programming, qualcomm, result, sdk
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: Analog, digital, gadgets, memorandum, opinion, regulation, rules, signals, station, stations, Technica, these-so-called
European Commission lays out new broadband plan, reserves spectrum for mobile broadband
It's not quite the law of the land just yet, but the European Commission has just laid out some far-reaching new broadband rules that, if implemented, could have some wide ranging implications.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: access, broadcasters, commision, commission, digital, europeancommission, mandate
HTC Sense’s new map pre-caching demoed on video
If you were paying attention during HTC's keynote earlier this morning, you'll have noted Peter Chou dropped a big old promise on us all: no more waiting for maps to load when zooming or scrolling.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: aggravating, attention, demo, demoed, digital, digital-compass, digitalcompass, entry, htcdesirez, responsiveness, roadmap, rotate-the-map, sense, services, video
UK prepping 4G spectrum auction for late next year
The wireless spectrum crunch isn't a uniquely American phenomenon ; with smartphones now infecting most of the developed world, everyone's dealing with the very same limitations of physics, and the UK looks finally lined up for a late-2010 auction of two key slices of airwaves after wrestling with some bureaucratic garbage for the past year. Specifically, the 800MHz and 2600MHz bands are at play here, the former having come from the country's transition to digital TV; both will serve distinctly different roles, with 800MHz being better for building penetration and rural coverage and 2600MHz suiting urban areas better
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: areas, country, digital, engadget, engadget-mobile, garbage, limitations, mobile, now-infecting, ofcom, physics, single-handset, spectrum, wireless
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