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
Microsoft bringing Windows Phone 7 to some languages without Xbox Live or Zune?
Microsoft has already gone on record saying that Windows Phone 7 will be initially launching in just five languages, all with essentially the same easy character set -- English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish -- but they're undoubtedly champing at the bit to ramp that list up to a few more. In fact, the latest word on the street is that they're going to be cutting a bunch of corners on those additional tongues, presumably in an effort to get them on shelves sooner rather than later.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: browser, english, functionality, german, italian, language, possible-right, rumor, windows, windows phone 7
Windows Phone Live to offer remote wipe, location, and sync for your Windows Phone 7 device
See, Android owners don't ever lose their phones, so that's why they don't need this capability... right? Right
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, capability, domination, engadget, english, french, microsoft, partner, phone, photos, volley, windows, windows phone 7, worldwide
iTunes fraud takes trip to travel section?
Here we go again , unfortunately . Both 9 to 5 Mac and Ars Technica are reporting a new spat of potentially-fraudulent apps climbed the iTunes charts today, now in the Travel section. This time, the culprit's purported to be Chinese-based WiiSHii and a series of "GYOYO" Chinese- and English-language maps
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: app store, apps, english, entry, fraud, payment, Technica, time, travel
iPhone 4 hits T-Mobile Germany in June, three Canadian carriers in July
Hot on the heels of a three-way UK celebration , Deutche Telekom's reportedly managed to continue its coup -- if the company's Twitter account is to be believed, German exclusivity of the iPhone 4 will go to T-Mobile this June. Meanwhile, the English (and French) speaking world is still rolling out iPhone launch dates, as Canada's Rogers, Telus and Bell Mobility have all quietly announced the new superphone will be available "in the coming weeks" or "coming soon." Americans at Engadget HQ are supremely jealous of your choices, Canada... and rest assured that we feel Germany's pain, too
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple iphone 4, appleiphone, appleiphone4, assured, bell-mobility, coming, deutche, english, heels, iphone, iphone 4, mobility, rest, speaking-world, still-rolling
Meizu partners with Karry Auto to sing KIRFer’s Delight
Karry Auto (a phonetic mistranslation of the English word "carry") is a division of the Chinese car maker Chery, infamous for getting sued by Chevy for knocking off its designs .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: car, china, chinese, engadget, english, entry, karry, karry-auto, kirf, legitimacy, maker, truck-or-little, word
iPhone font created out of 540 apps and a love for the arcane (video)
No, we can't give you a clear reason why this particular chap did this particular thing, but good gravy, look at the pretty pictures! We've come across an iPhone-inspired font that looks to have been created by collating and color coding a vast collection of apps in order to properly represent the English alphabet. There's not much info given beyond the app count and the fact it required an architect with "too much free time" on his hands, but we're not going to begrudge a visual attraction when we can get one. You might be able to get the typography for yourself by contacting the author at the source link, or you can skip past the break to see it on video -- if you're careful enough you should be able to spot the world's greatest mobile app making a guest appearance
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: Appearance, appfont, attraction, collating, colorcoding, engadget, english, font-created, greatest-mobile, iphone, iphone font, iphoneappsfont, source, typography, vast-collection
Survey says: Android users mostly male, webOS not just for women, iPod touch for kids
Jump down off that scud missile and holster your brew Droid owners, the stats are in for smartphone gender preferences. The numbers reported above are based on a AdMob survey of 963 total respondents consisting of 318 Android, 244 iPhone, 356 iPod touch and 45 webOS users in english speaking countries
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, below-the-age, campaign, countries, data, english, entry, gender, Holster, missile, platform, preferences, reprisal, speaking, targeting
logetich headest.. how to hear from it?
hello.. i just bought a new USB headset (logitech) and i put the usb to the usb port and i only can chat with it.. so is there anyway to make the audio output to the headset
Categories: PS2 Tags: Advance, english, game, headset, logitech, make-the-audio, port, result, the-chat, the-game, the-headset
Bangladeshis Rush to Learn English Through Mobile Phones – PSFK
BBC World Service Trust is attempting to harness the power and pervasiveness of mobile phones to provide English language lessons for the 50+ million mobile users in Bangladesh.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: bbc, distance-learning, education, english, learning, mobile, Mobile Phone, mobile-amp-telecom