Samsung Omnia 7 first hands-on!
Samsung's Omnia 7, ladies and gents. The only Super AMOLED in Microsoft's launch Windows Phone 7 stable, the Omnia 7 looks appropriately vibrant and richly saturated. To be perfectly fair, we didn't note a major advantage in using its display relative to the other WP7 devices, but that's more a mark of distinction on the other phones on show here
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: button, distinction, lines, omnia, phone, result, samsung, windows, windows-phone, wp7 launch
TeliaSonera already upgrading LTE network, ‘practical speeds’ of up to 80Mbps promised
There's no rest for the wicked -- and perhaps nothing in the world of wireless describes "wicked" better than Nordic carrier TeliaSonera , which holds the distinction of having deployed the world's first commercial LTE network last year. Thing is, the network's been taking a little heat for being effectively no faster than some of the recent HSPA+ deployments around the globe, but no worries -- they're already working on it
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 100mbps, backhaul, Carrier, distinction, engadget, engadget-mobile, extra-bandwidth, globe, mobile, sweden, upgrade, world
Apple specifically going after Android in HTC lawsuit
There's no delicate way to put this: at least part of Apple's patent lawsuit against HTC appears to be a proxy fight for a larger issue with Android as a whole.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: breakingnews, commission, distinction, engadget, entry, htc, larger-issue, lawsuit, legal, patent, patents, result, the-specific, winmo
FCC expands ETF inquiry, fires off letters to AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Google
Verizon might be getting picked on for introducing its whopper $350 "advanced device" ETF , but the FCC has decided that it wants answers from everyone on concerns that "there is no standard framework for structuring and applying ETFs throughout the wireless industry." The commission has sent letters (via fancy certified mail, in case you're wondering) to all of the other biggies -- AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile -- along with Google, asking a series of questions probing how each carrier's ETFs are determined and applied. Google gets roped in for its nasty equipment recovery fee , but all of the recipients share a common dubious distinction: the frickin' FCC -- a bureaucracy filled to the brim with lawyers and... well, bureaucrats -- can't figure out terms that everyday customers are expected to understand
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: advanced-device, att, breakingnews, Certified, common-dubious, distinction, entry, fcc, most-customers, recipients, result, sprint, the-recipients, wireless
Synaptics Fuse concept hands-on
Good news and bad news: the good news is that we got to look at Synaptics' Fuse concept phone , which pairs capacitive touch overload with tilt sensing, squeeze sensing and a fair bit of haptics. The bad news is that Synaptics is holding off on showing the actual UI until MWC in February.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: concept, conceptphone, demo, distinction, engadget, news, pairs, prototype, result, sensitivity, spheres, synaptics, synaptics-fuse, touch