Adobe announces Air 2.5 for TVs, tablets and phones, launches Adobe InMarket to package apps
Adobe's making a serious play for the app space today, and it's not limiting itself to phones -- its new Air cross-platform runtime environment is designed to toss apps on your smart televisions and tablets as well. Air 2.5 supports accelerometers, multi-touch gestures, cameras and microphones, GPS data and hardware acceleration in a variety of silicon
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: adobeair2.5, air, app store, apps, cross, gestures, hosting, microphones, result, samsung, samsung-as-well, samsungsmarttv, smart, smarttv, televisions
Nokia N8 goes official: 12 megapixels, Symbian^3, shipping in Q3
And just like that, it's official. We heard back at CTIA that Nokia's N8 would see an official reveal during April, and just a few short days after surfacing in Russia, that very smartphone has indeed been announced over in Espoo. There's not much here we didn't know about -- it'll be rocking a 12 megapixel camera (with Carl Zeiss optics and a Xenon flash), 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen, HDMI output, 16GB of internal storage, a microSD expansion slot, HD video recording, access to Ovi Store apps, free Ovi Maps walk and drive navigation, and of course, the company's new Symbian^3 operating system
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: breaking-news, breakingnews, environment, expansion, flash, gestures, nokia, nokia n8, select-markets, symbian3, touts-multiple, video
Confirmed: Droid Incredible’s multitouch support is better than the Nexus One’s
You might recall that fascinating video a while back showing the Nexus One's touch sensor getting all discombobulated when the tester's multitouch fingerwork started to get a little too fancy, and now, Android Central has confirmed that Verizon's Droid Incredible doesn't suffer the same fate -- but why is that, exactly? Android and Me is reporting that the Droid Incredible and EVO 4G both employ an Atmel maXTouch sensor with unlimited touch support -- a relatively new product launched in late '09 -- whereas the Nexus One is using Synaptics' older ClearPad 2000, which was designed to top out with simple two-finger gestures like pinch zoom. The upshot?
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: circles, droid incredible, droidincredible, gestures, htc, multi touch, multitouch, nexus, sensor, silver, verizon-wireless, verizonwireless, video, zoom
Google Gesture Search puts your contacts just a stroke away
If you look under the hood, Google's been beefing up Android with support for gestures that developers can take advantage of, and the power and flexibility of that capability is now being demoed by none other than... well, Google, of course. Gesture Search -- which is currently being billed a Google Labs project -- lets you draw letters on the screen to reach contacts and other content on your phone, an especially nice shortcut for those who like to avoid the on-screen keyboard as much as possible
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: engadget-mobile, entry, especially-nice, gesture, gesture-search, gestures, gesturesearch, google-gesture, google-labs, mobile, phone, power, search, under-the-hood
Texas Instruments introduces ARM-based OMAP 4 SOC, Blaze development platform
Texas Instruments has just made its OMAP 4 system-on-chip official, and garnished the announcement with the first development platform for it, aggressively titled Blaze. We already caught a glimpse of it in prototype form earlier this month, and the thing is quite a whopper -- you can see it on video after the break and we doubt you'll accuse TI of placing form before function with this one.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 3d hd, armcoretxa9, blaze, cortex, future, gesturerecognition, gestures, glasses-or-not, glimpse, mobile, omap 4 platform, overkill, smartphones
Sony Ericsson Aspen: first with Windows Mobile 6.5.3
It's finally here: Windows Mobile 6.5.3 , the iterative finger-friendly Windows Mobile release that should have been wrapped into 6.5.0. The latest mobile wares from Microsoft come wrapped inside the Sony Ericsson Aspen (aka, Faith ); a business-focused QWERTY candybar with 2.4-inch QVGA TFT LCD, 3.2 megapixel camera, A-GPS with Google Maps, 3.5-mm audio jack, WiFi, and microSD expansion. This latest addition to Sony Ericsson's GreenHeart portfolio comes in black or white silver and packs quad-band GSM/EDGE with either HSPA 900/2100 or 850/900/2100 radios (depending on region)
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: addition, agps, breakingnews, dot, entry, gestures, google-maps, iterative, memory, microsoft, sony, sonyericsson, starters, world
Editorial: Google’s multitouch dilemma
As anyone who's seen the last Engadget Show knows, we were incredibly lucky to have Google's Erick Tseng as our guest.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: capable, engadget, erick, erick tseng, gestures, implementations, multitouchgestures, pinch-to-zoom, pinchtozoom, poise, semantics, solid, the-recognition
Surprise, surprise: HTC’s Euro-spec Nexus One does multitouch
Alright, Google, we get it: you hate America. That's the only conclusion we can reach for why the company's last two Android version hero devices -- the Droid for 2.0 and the Nexus One for 2.1 -- have mysteriously opted to exclude multitouch support in the phone's in-built apps (despite retaining support in third-party downloads). As we all know, the European Milestone adds that functionality back in, and it seems that the European version of the Nexus One (which'll be offered by Vodafone) is getting the same boost.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: apps, droid, engadget, euro, gestures, heise, likely-the-same, milestone, multi touch, nexus, spec, starts-selling
Android users can make Pre-like gestures with Open Gesture Pro …
Android home screen replacement app Open Gesture Pro has been added to the Android Market, debuting what is arguably the most shortcut-friendly home screen app.
Categories: Android Tags: applications, china, gestures, google-android-news, home-screen, home-screen-alternatives, htc, motorola, news, open-gesture-pro, tips, videos