LG’s C900 Windows Phone 7 handset for AT&T gets FCC approval
If you wade through LG's alphabet soup of upcoming WinPho 7 goodies, you might recall that several of them seem to be headed directly for AT&T later this year. Evidence for one of them in particular -- the C900 landscape slider -- just got a little stronger this evening on news that a phone by the very same model code has just been hooked up with FCC approval in the past few hours
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: alphabet, alphabet-soup, att, c900k, fourth-quarter, goodies, label-documents, result, windows, windows phone 7, windows-phone, windowsphone7, winpho 7, winpho7, wp7
Cricket launches Sanyo Zio by Kyocera
A new device launch never fails to warm the cockles of our hearts, and today's treat comes in the form of the Sanyo Zio by Kyocera on Cricket.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: 1gb, bluetooth, cricket, engadget-mobile, entry, follow-the-read, goodies, kyocera, kyocerazio, mobile, ships, tardiness, wifi
Nokia N8 pre-orders go live in the US, $549 for ‘end of September’ delivery
Itching to get some hands-on time with Symbian^3 ? Or maybe it's the promise of a 12 megapixel camera that's drawing you?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, entry, goodies, megapixel, nokia usa, outpost, phone, pre-order, preorder, promise, result, shipping, symbian, time
Verizon’s LTE rollout is imminent, computers updated for 4G SIM cards
We just got some alleged (but very convincing) internal documents on Verizon's 4G plans, and it's mostly stuff we've already heard -- 5-12Mbps down , aircards before smartphones , and plans to roll out in 30 cities in 2010. That said, documents dated this week show the company's still on track to serve up 100 million connections by the end of the year, and a pair of independent tipsters have just sent us pics of Verizon computers ready and waiting for those precious LTE SIM cards.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: aircards-before, cards, computers-ready, documents, documents-dated, goodies, mostly-stuff, planned, result, smartphones, verizon, verizon-wireless, wireless
BlackBerry 6 teased again in new official video
There have been rumors that the first volley of BlackBerry 6 -powered devices could launch as early as last month -- but seeing how we're still empty-handed, we may as well enjoy more high production value video pimping the biggest new features, right? RIM has published another official YouTube spot on BlackBerry 6 today showing off goodies likes aggregated social network integration, universal search, and -- of course -- the all-new WebKit-based browser coming out of last year's purchase of Torch Mobile . Interestingly, this latest video continues RIM's trend of showing 6 running only on full touchscreen phones; we can't fathom that they'd abandon the form factor that made them famous, of course, but it's becoming more and more obvious by the day that we're going to see this launch on the rumored 9800 or something very similar to it.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: blackberryos6.0, browser-coming, entry, goodies, network, official, rim, volley
Qik details its premium service tier, free until July 15 (video)
Remember how we said Qik was going to rock your world (and your credit card) with its premium-tier offerings for the Evo 4G? Well, as promised, June 4 is here and we now know exactly what you'll be getting for your extra $5 a month. The full table of goodies is after the break, but highlights include video conferencing at resolutions greater than 640 x 480, unlimited archiving of video, the ability to send video mail, and of course "priority support" should you have a problem handling the Qikening.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: 3vo 4g, 3vo4g, conferencing, entry, goodies, htc evo 4, htc evo 4g, market, priority, qikening, resolutions, support, updated-version, vga, video
Latest Windows Phone 7 emulator ROM unlocked, has Office and other goodies
So the ROM included with the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools refresh that was launched this week (to get it up to speed with the final release of Visual Studio 2010) has already been unlocked and torn apart over on xda-developers , and as you might expect, there are quite a few changes and additions in here versus what we've seen in the previous release.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: additions, emulator, goodies, inclusion, microsoft, office, user, visual-studio, windows, windowsphone7, xda-developers
Palm CEO still thinks company can go it alone, open to webOS licensing deals
In the face of a near-constant stream of buyout rumors the past couple weeks, Palm boss Jon Rubinstein is holding the line he's held ever since he's taken the helm -- well most of the line, anyway. In a chat with Financial Times today, the CEO said that he still believes that "Palm can survive as an independent company" and that he's got a plan to get the company spitting black ink rather than red, but that "if someone comes to the board with a reasonable offer of course it's something [they'd] have to consider," which isn't anything materially different than he's said in the past -- it's just good business sense, and it's a very cautiously-worded soundbite
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: benefit, breakingnews, business-sense, couple, financial, goodies, independent, jonrubinstein, overwhelming, past, perspective, result, sentiment, webos
Sony Ericsson pushes major firmware update for Xperia X2, all three owners celebrate
Alright, X2 owners, you ready for this? Odds are you aren't, since virtually all of you are east of the Atlantic where it's getting close to bedtime and you're not likely reading this -- and for our New World friends, the North American version is still inexplicably missing in action
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: atlantic, bedtime, design, goodies, improvements, result, stability, update, windowsmobile, wm6.5, xperia, xperia-x2
AT&T’s mobile U-verse getting upgraded: download your recordings on the go
In a session held by AT&T at CTIA today, the carrier previewed an upgraded version of its mobile U-verse app, and let's just put it this way: it's significantly more important to AT&T's "three-screen" strategy than the version that launched in the middle of last year . The big deal is that shows recorded on your box at home can be streamed to your phone from any WiFi hotspot, a nice little bonus for U-verse subscribers who haven't ponied up for something like a Slingbox . We don't have a launch date yet, but what we saw demoed today certainly looked like it was just about ready to go -- and fortunately, they'll be bringing the app to a number of platforms, not just the iPhone alone.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: att, demoing, entry, goodies, iphone, more-important, overhead, phone, recordings, uverse, video