Nexus S still leaking on public photostreams, showing exciting new angles
We know that Samsung's upcoming Gingerbread -powered Nexus S is curved in a pretty unusual way , and a new photo on Picasa -- on one of the same photostreams where we've seen "Nexus S" and "GT-i9020" in the EXIF data before -- gives us a new glimpse of the phone at a three-quarter view where we can really see just how curved it is. It's still unclear to us whether the display is involved in the curving or if it's restricted to the bezel above and below the actual screen, but either way, it's a distinctive design element that's sure to attract a lot of attention. Interestingly, the picture was captured on a Google employee's stream just this weekend, suggesting devices are definitely still out in the field -- so let's hope it launches right alongside Android 2.3 in the next few weeks
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: data, glimpse, john, leak, nexus s, photo, photo-on-picasa, picasa, picture, pretty-unusual, still-leaking, unusual
Qualcomm demos augmented reality app for digital photo frames (video)
Want a glimpse of the future? How about one from Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: demo, demos-augmented, frames, glimpse, iq2010, onto-the-actual, pauljacobs, peer to peer, photo-frames, qualcomm, reality-app, result, wireless picture frame
Keepin’ it real fake: Nokia’s Android N8
Can you believe we've waited on the N8 long enough for (at least) three KIRF versions to beat it to market? This latest one's pretty special too, as it gives us a glimpse into one of the fevered dream of Engadget commenters: a Nokia flagship rocking Android (2.1, in this case).
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: 480-capacitive, being-built, entry, flagship, glimpse, higher-res-800, kirf, latest, megapixel, nokia, nokia n8, nokian8, result
LG VL600 LTE / CDMA modem for Verizon in the wild?
You might remember that an LTE modem for Verizon passed FCC muster not long ago -- now, it seems we're getting our first glimpse of it. As is usually the case with these early devices on next-gen networks, this USB stick doesn't look quite as svelte as we'd probably like it to be, but we have little doubt that they'll get progressively thinner and sexier over the course of a year or three. And hey, in the meantime, far be it from us to steer clear of faster download speeds just because the modem's a little chubby, you know?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, faster-download, first-glimpse, glimpse, inthewild, lte, over-the-course, result, usb modem, verizon, verizon-wireless, verizonwireless, year-or-three
Samsung’s Galaxy Apollo smartphone is coming soon, looks like an M100S to us
In the off chance that the Galaxy S isn't your cup of tea, the second-hottest Android device Samsung has released so far is undoubtedly the M100S over in its domestic Korean market, a 3.7-inch hottie with a 5 megapixel cam, 802.11n WiFi, and Android 2.1. It's not just for South Korea, though, as evidenced by this shot that's popped up over on Samsung's British site showing a device known as the "Galaxy Apollo" that looks suspiciously identical to the M100S. Frankly, we're still dying to get a glimpse of this Bluetooth 3.0-equipped M120S at some point -- but in the meantime, we suppose this puppy will have to do.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: chance, fri, glimpse, hottie, korean, puppy, release, samsung, smartphone
Celebrity Nerds: Oprah has an EVO 4G and you don’t
Celebrity Nerds confirms what you always knew, deep in your heart of hearts: that stars are nerds like us. Send in your own confirmations of this fact right here
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: break, celebrity, celebrity nerds, celebritynerds, engadget, glimpse, head-on-past, Heart, hearts, momentous, no phone zone
Spracht Aura EQ (the really real version) hands-on
We got a glimpse at Spracht's new Aura EQ Bluetooth headset back at CES this year , but in reality, we sort of didn't -- what was being shown back then didn't constitute final ID, turns out. The company's back at it here at CTIA showing something closer to what you'll be seeing on store shelves later this half -- though they only had one, and it wasn't in final retail packaging -- so we took a minute to check it out
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: aura eq, auraeq, bluetooth-headset, bluetoothheadset, ctia2010, glimpse, headset, quite-the-crowd, shelves, spracht-aura, surface
Nokia’s Explore and Share concept uses super fast, mystery wireless
The Nokia Research Center has another tech tease that gives us a glimpse into one of our many possible mobile computing futures. The so-called, Explore and Share concept starts by placing an N900 onto a "writer" that's tethered to a PC at a retail store. At that point, the PC recognizes the handset and serves up a number of options to the purchaser
Windows Phone 7 development policies and guidelines leaked?
We expect to learn a lot more about Microsoft's plan to entice developers to Windows Phone 7 at the MIX 2010 developers conference. Until then (March 15-17), aspiring WP7 devs have to rely upon rumor and innuendo to feed their curiosity.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: development, engadget, glimpse, microsoft, mix2010, operators, result, silverlight, studio, visual, visual-studio, xna
SPB Mobile Shell 5.0 debuts with Android, Symbian support
We'd already caught a glimpse of it on Toshiba's new TG02 handset , but SPB Software has now gotten fully official with SPB Mobile Shell 5.0, which will be available to consumers and OEMs alike. The big news with this one is that SPB has added support for both Android and Symbian in addition to Windows Mobile, all of which will be able to take advantage of a spiffy new 3D engine and a new "natural interaction engine" that apparently has full multitouch support. Other additions include some 3D widgets, and an array of tightly integrated social networking features, including Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: consumer, consumers, engadget, facebook, glimpse, gui, handset, mobileshell, networking, result, social-networking, take-advantage