The worst name for a knockoff cellphone, ever
And in case you're wondering, they're ripping the Oppo logo.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, entry, est, flip, kirf, oppo, originally-appeared, poop love, poop phone, poopphone, result, worst-name
Samsung Epic 4G getting post-Christmas Froyo treat?
We're horrible at getting gifts and cards to their recipients on time, usually showing up in mailboxes at least a day late.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: charging, christmas-froyo, engadget, epic 4g, froyo, handset, happening, milk, morning-cookies, rumor, samsung, samsung-epic, time, update, worst
Pantech Vega Xpress comes with DDR2 memory, extravagant performance claims
Pantech 's bringing a new wrinkle to the mobile hardware space with its newly announced Vega Xpress handset. This 4-inch Android 2.2 beastie will come equipped with an unspecified amount of DDR2 RAM -- yes, the stuff that usually goes into x86 laptop and desktop computers -- which Pantech will have you believe is going to blow the competition out of the proverbial water. The company claims the new phone doubles 3D graphics performance relative to its previous best, while power efficiency is also said to be two to three times better
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 480-resolution, engadget, korea, mobile, msm8255, pantechvegaxpress, power, qualcomm, specs-include
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
Swype for Android gets lightweight build with less language support
Don't need Chinese pinyin support? Well, Swype has a little treat for you: a new version available from the company's beta installer on your handset reduces the size of the final installed package by a whopping 75 percent, down from 10MB to 2.5MB, simply by dropping support for languages other than English and Spanish -- and for a platform where the app storage issue still isn't fully resolved, every megabyte counts
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: already-running, beta, engadget, english, entry, Installed, keyboard, language, swype
HTC confirms new research and development office in RTP, North Carolina
It's been swirling for months now, but at long last HTC has finally come forward with the official word: it'll be cracking open a new operation in the heart of North Carolina's technology hub to usher in 2011.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: development, engadget, entry, francisco, mobile, ncsoft, north, north-carolina, openings, research, research and development, rtp, technology
Gmail’s free voice calls will be available through all of 2011, still only in the US
While the rest of the world has yet to taste the sweet elixir of free voice calls from its email supplier, US-based Gmailers are having their fun extended for a whole new year.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: calls, elixir, engadget, entry, free-calls, free-voice, freecalling, holiday, service-free, voicecalls
TomTom’s Map Share update brings crowdsourced navigation to iPhone GPS app
Buckled early and sprung for TomTom's iPhone GPS app , did you? If so, that very app just got a lot better today, as version 1.6 has brought TomTom's Map Share -- a crowdsourcing aspect that'll keep your maps more up-to-date than you ever thought possible. Map Share enables iPhone users to make changes instantly to their own maps and to benefit from free map updates made by the TomTom community and verified by the company itself.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: app, engadget, excuse, iphone, iphone gps, iphoneapp, map, mapping, maps, speed, tomtom
Windows Phone 7′s Marketplace grows faster than Android did at launch, doesn’t mean much
An analyst note released by research firm IDC yesterday points out that in the nearly two months since Windows Phone 7's retail release, the Windows Marketplace has swelled to 4,000 applications -- a number that the Android Market took five months to reach. That's impressive, no doubt, and the analyst behind the numbers notes that he "would not be surprised if Microsoft had the third largest app portfolio in the industry by the middle of next year." Now granted, hitting number three would take very little effort on Microsoft's part -- they'd just have to beat webOS, BlackBerry OS, and Symbian, none of which have sparked iOS- or Android-like levels of developer interest. So beyond that, what does the growth mean?
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: apps, doubt, engadget, launch, microsoft, numbers, windows, windowsmarketplace, windowsphone7, wp7
Josh is on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight! It’s a holiday miracle!
Killer flying robots ? No, not this time. Our fearless leader is back once again in Jimmy Fallon 's guest chair, this time with a bunch of new holiday gear at his disposal
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: affiliate, engadget, engadget-show, fallon, fearless, guests-include, jimmyfallon, madness, nbc, segel