Xperia X10 will get pinch-to-zoom in Q1 2011, with some limitation (video)
There's been a long back-and-forth from Sony Ericsson and the dev community as to whether or not the Xperia X10 was at all capable of multi-touch -- the company stance has been that the hardware just can't do it , but still whispers to the contrary have lingered. Consider those murmurs validated: Sony Ericsson Product Blog has announced that the X10 will, in fact, get multi-touch in the first quarter of next year -- with some caveats. The large asterisk that's destined to clarify the minutiae will tell you that pinch-to-zoom will be enabled for browser and maps, but as the blog post put it, "situations like when the movement of the two fingers cross each other on the X- or Y-axis that could cause strange behavior." Third-party apps should be able to join some functionality, too, with the similar limitations (including when buttons must be pressed simultaneously -- that won't work)
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: birds, engadget, ericsson, Fingers, get-multi-touch, murmurs, pinch zoom, pinchzoom, result, sonyericsson, video, whether-or-not, xperia-x10, zoom
iOS 4.2 bringing speed improvements to iPhone 3G?
The recent iOS updates have mostly been welcome improvements for iPhone 4 and 3GS users, but it's been a decidedly different story for folks sticking to their venerable iPhone 3G . Not only have they been left out of some of the fun , but they were dealt a serious performance hit with iOS 4.0 that was only somewhat corrected by IOS 4.1. Could iOS 4.2 finally bring things back up to speed
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: Fingers, gold, ios, official, official-update, performance, story, their-results, their-venerable, venerable, your-fingers
Sprint Epic 4G update coming tomorrow, should fix 3G upload issues
So, you aren't crazy after all. Feels good, right?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: caps, epic 4g, epic4g, Fingers, fix, forum, galaxy s, newsflash, note, problem, rolled-out-over, sprint, sprint-epic, throttling
Bell’s Galaxy S gets front-facing camera, rumored August 6 launch date
It's a crying shame that the American flavors of Samsung's otherwise stunning Galaxy S lack a front facing camera, but even those camped out in the Great White North should know that the European versions ( i9000 ) do have such a feature. Lucky for them, Bell's Galaxy S Vibrant will also have a camera mounted on the front, enabling video chats with a lot less hassle.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 6th, camera-mounted, enabling-video, engadget-mobile, european, Fingers, front-facing, galaxy, mobile, north, Versions
Android Market is down, showing zero apps (update: fixed)
Look, we know that checking the Android Market for updates its a nervous habit during brief periods of downtime for many of us -- but for now, you're going to have to go back to chewing your nails or tapping your fingers on the table, because the Market's down. Well, that's only partially true -- you can still get into the Market app on your phone without any errors, you just won't see any apps in there, which renders it pretty useless by our estimation.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: downtime, estimation, Fingers, grudge, habit, inconvenience, market, minutes, nails, neighborhood, nervous, nexus, nexus one, operating, section
Nokia sticks to its stylus roots, offers telescopic SU-36 for capacitive screens
You know what, we're not gonna make that joke . You can, but we'll just move right along to the meat of this story -- Nokia has listed a telescopic stylus for capacitive screens, the SU-36, which seems to have come out right alongside the N8 to serve as its Symbian^3 assistant.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: accessory, cold-or-too, Fingers, fri, Roots, screens, su-36, telescopic stylus
iPhone OS 4 hands-on (updated with video!)
Okay, so we're currently holding our breath while the developer preview of iPhone OS 4 installs on our 3GS -- a process that seems to be, uh, not going so well, but we wanted to share these quick shots we took from the simulator in the meantime. The dock is now 3D, like the one in Snow Leopard and on the iPad, multitasking works just like you'd expect -- you can swipe left and right to see more open apps -- and the Game Center app is present, although not functional. There's also Events and Faces in the Photos app, which you'd expect after the iPad version got them
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, apps, bugger, developer, emulator, entry, Fingers, fingers-crossed, impressions, iphone, leopard, swipe
Sling working on player for iPad, Windows Phone 7 Series
Looks like Zatz got the goods from the folks at Sling , who have a few interesting tidbits currently in the development pipe. Zatz not Funny is reporting that Sling's Mobile Prouct Marketing Manager, Dave Eyler, has told him that the company is "actively moving towards H.264" and Silverlight support, as well as delivering streaming with resolutions beyond the current 320x240.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: dave, Fingers, interesting, marketing, resolutions, result, silverlight, sling, Versions, windows phone 7 series
AT&T announces slew of network investments for 2010
AT&T's preaching about the mucho dinero it's dropping into renovating its network to pretty much anyone who'll listen these days, and a veritable cornucopia of press releases this week start to go into detail on some of the upgrades we'll be seeing over the course of 2010. We're counting at least a dozen here, covering everything from New York City to Florida to Oklahoma, but the message is basically the same in every one: more cell sites, more 3G coverage, more backhaul.
Categories: Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: airwaves, announces-slew, backhaul, expansion, Fingers, finish-the-year, florida, its-nine-figure, liberally-pimps, network, nexus one, nexus-ones, over-the-course, press-releases, renovating-its
Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 upgrades will be possible, up to OEMs to make them happen
Alright, keep your socks on here, this is as noncommittal a statement as Redmond can make on the matter, but when asked directly about the likelihood and possibility of Windows Mobile 6.5 phones being transitioned to the new hotness that is Windows Phone 7 Series , Microsoft's Alex Reeve had this to say: It's early days yet, and that's really for our hardware partners to think about. As the Director of the company's UK Mobile Business Group, he's well positioned to know what's going to happen after said early days, and it's encouraging to hear that at least Microsoft won't be putting up any barriers to that HD2 upgrade we're all dreaming about. After all, the Chassis 1 specs we keep hearing about tend to sound an awful lot like HTC's 1GHz Snapdragon-powered bad self, so let's keep our fingers crossed and our minds open
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: director, entry, Fingers, group, hotness, htc, mobile, mobile-business, windows, windows mobile 6.5, windows-phone, windowsmobile6.5, windowsphone7series