Korea Telecoms suffers an Identity Tab crisis
What's this? A 7-inch, aluminum-trimmed, multitouch tablet from Korea running Android?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: aluminum, certainly-sets, engadget, expectation, Gravity, gravity-sensors, identity, internal-memory, memory, tablet, the-expectation, wibro, wimax
Samsung Behold II fails to fulfill Android 2.0 promise, jilted users contemplating lawsuit (video)
When Samsung launched its Behold II with Android 1.5 on board, it made something of a big deal about the fact the handset will be upgradeable to version 2.0 when that software became available. Such a big deal that it even put the promise of an OTA update into a promo video -- a video that subsequently got yanked as the company realized it wasn't going to be able to stick to its word.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, controversy, cupcake, eclair, expectation, handset, mobile-os, release, samsung, samsung-mobile, samsungbeholdii, unfulfilled, yitzhak
Nokia Vasco viral video ready, N8 flagship too?
If you already believe the rumors that "Vasco" is the codename for Nokia's unannounced N8 flagship and that the N8 is the device pictured above then lean in, we've got a bit of news for you. A viral video for the "Nokia Vasco" has just wrapped according to cameraman Danny Gagatt's tweet above
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: expect-things, expectation, flagship, launch, moon, rumor, tweet, video, viral-video, viralvideo, visual-effects
LG not interested in proprietary smartphone OS, likes Android and Windows Phone 7
LG has told the press at MWC that it will not be developing its own smartphone platform "at least for the next two to three years." We think companies should focus on what they do well, and given our ambivalence toward the S-Class UI, it's probably a good thing that LG will narrow its operation down to churning out delectable slabs of electronics and leaving the software side to the geeks over at Google and Microsoft. The head of the company's handset unit, Skott Ahn, has indicated that the future of LG smartphones will be shared between Android and Windows Phone 7 (sorry, Symbian lovers). It will have taken plenty of restraint to not respond to local nemesis Samsung -- who has just introduced its first Bada handset -- but LG appears to be of the opinion (which we share) that the smartphone OS sector is already overcrowded, and its expectation is that over the next couple of years the market will distill itself down to just three predominant operating systems.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: ahn, entry, expectation, handset, microsoft, mwc 2010, not-interested, phone, slabs, smartphones, windows, windows-phone, windowsphone7, windowsphone7series