Live from Apple’s iPhone 4 press conference
The event is set to start at the times below -- so get ready! 07:00AM - Hawaii 10:00AM - Pacific 11:00AM - Mountain 12:00PM - Central 01:00PM - Eastern 06:00PM - London 07:00PM - Paris 09:00PM - Moscow 02:00AM - Tokyo (July 17th) Continue reading Live from Apple's iPhone 4 press conference Live from Apple's iPhone 4 press conference originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple iphone 4, engadget, entry, friend-via, iphone 4, iphone antenna, london, moscow, originally-appeared, pacific, reception, the-times, times
Google halting Nexus One sales through official store after current inventory depleted
We knew this was eventually coming , and here it is: Google is giving everyone the heads-up that it just got a fresh batch of Nexus Ones in stock, and once they've been sold through, they'll no longer be offered directly through the company's online store. For what it's worth, the customer service lines will stay open even after that happens -- and you'll still be able to buy a phone through KT in South Korea, Vodafone in Europe, and "possibly other [retailers] based on local market conditions" -- but by and large, your average American is going to have a hard time getting one pretty shortly. If you're a registered Android developer, though, Google's looking at continuing to offer the device through some sort of sales partner -- a wise move considering it'll be just about the only thing you can buy unlocked running a clean-slate latest build
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, nexus one Tags: breaking-news, clean, customer, engadget, entry, europe, giving-everyone, lines, official-store, online, slate, south, south-korea, stock, store
PSA: the Engadget Mobile Podcast returns on Monday, July 19
Thanks to some scheduling conflicts we've been beaten into a podcast -free submission today -- but not all hope is lost, because Chris and Myriam will be back at you right after the weekend's over on Monday, July 19. Be sure to get in your questions to us, if you haven't already! PSA: the Engadget Mobile Podcast returns on Monday, July 19 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: been-beaten, engadget, engadget-mobile, engadgetmobile, engadgetmobilepodcast, fri, friend-via, mobile, podcast, psa, questions, result, some-scheduling, weekend
Graffiti for Android scribbles Palm OS memories all over Google’s platform
Gather around the campfire, children, as we tell you a story from or youth. You see, back in our day, we carried around PDAs driven by Palm 's operating system (no, not that one ). Primitive and bulky by modern standards, sure, but if there's one aspect we remember most fondly -- or at least most vividly -- it'd be Graffiti, the shorthand writing system for your stylus-based text entry
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: campfire, engadget, from-or-youth, google-android, graffiti, palm, present, xerox
Nokia C6 already updated with 8 megapixel cam, dual flash?
For whatever reason, Nokia's Dutch outpost is showing off a C6 variant that's been up-spec'd to 8 megapixels with dual flash, a 3 megapixel bonus over the existing model -- a phone that still isn't widely available in all markets.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: been-up-spec, c6-01, camera, dual-flash, engadget, engadget-mobile, entry, existing, megapixel, mobile, nokia, symbian, whatever-reason
SLCD-equipped HTC Desire ‘coming soon’ to Telus
We'd already seen an HTC Desire with North American 3G hit the FCC , and it looks like we now know exactly where it's headed -- Telus has just announced that the phone is "coming soon" to its network. What's more, the carrier has also confirmed that the phone will be equipped with a 3.7-inch Sony Super LCD screen instead of the regular AMOLED display that's in short supply . Otherwise, the phone is the same Android 2.1-powered, Snapdragon-based, Sense-skinned device we've seen all along, which is hardly a bad thing -- unless you're waiting for a Desire HD , that is
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: Carrier, coming-soon, desire, engadget, fcc, htc, lcd, north, result, screen, screen-instead, slcd, super lcd, telus
Samsung Vibrant launching today, awaits new owners in T-Mobile’s online store
A tiny bit of uncertainty has been cleared away thanks to good old Twitter, where T-Mobile has made July 15 (aka, today!) the official launch date for its Galaxy S derivative, the Vibrant . The original Tweet seems to have disappeared into the ether apart from that screenshot above, but T-Mo has reiterated the statement in subsequent missives, telling its followers that the Vibrant will be on sale today
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: availability, engadget, launch, offerings, samsung vibrant, samsungvibrant, store, uncertainty, vibrant, wait-the-extra
iOS 4.1 seeded to developers (updated)
The first update to iOS 4.0 is jumping all the way up a full tenth of a point to 4.1, and it's now available for those of you signed up for Apple's iPhone Developers Program. It looks like there are major changes to Game Center (which has yet to launch) in this build, but otherwise, we're not sure what's up just yet -- and no, as far as we can tell, there's no iPad support here. Stay tuned! Update: So we're definitely noticing some differences
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, apple, developers, engadget, entry, game, ios 4, ios4, ios4.1, iphonedevelopersprogram, major-changes, result
Swiftkey beta brings new keyboard, world class predictive text to Android
The software and language engineers at Swiftkey have been toiling on this app for the past two years, and at long last, it's being made available for precisely nothing to anxious Android users.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: app, download, engadget, engineers, heels, keyboard, list, new-keyboard, predictive, predictive text, predictivetext, price, Typing
Yes, the iPhone 4 is broken / No, the iPhone 4 is not broken
The controversy over the iPhone 4's antenna issues continues to grow, particularly after Consumer Reports confirmed yesterday that every iPhone 4 suffers from signal attenuation when the phone is held with the lower left corner covered -- a report that we confirmed with results from our own custom signal metering app. At this point, there's no longer any question in our minds that the iPhone 4's antenna can be made to lose signal by holding it "wrong" -- and we definitely think it's more than a little silly that simply holding the phone in your left hand has been nicknamed the "death grip." That said, however, it's not at all clear what the real-world effects of the antenna issue actually are for most people -- as we've repeatedly said, several iPhone 4s owned by the Engadget staff (including our review unit) have never experienced so much as a single dropped call, while others suffer from signal issues that results in lost calls and unresponsive data in a dramatic way. What's more, at this point Apple's sold well over two million iPhone 4s , and we simply haven't heard the sort of outcry from users that we'd normally hear if a product this high-profile and this popular had a showstopping defect.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: antenna, antenna-issue, controversy, engadget, industry, iphone, iphone4, outcry, peers, report, users, using-the-phone, well-as-reached, world, york