Ask Engadget: best messaging phone that doesn’t need a data plan?
We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Josh, who simply ain't interested in spending the loot necessary to get a full-on smartphone. If you're looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: ask, dilemma, engadget, handhelds, messaging, messaging phone, result, smartphone, windows
Latest BlackBerry 6 preview proves that the more things change…
To say RIM has a lot riding on BlackBerry 6 is an understatement. With new kids on the block like Android and iOS stepping in with lustworthy apps and attractive UIs, the BlackBerrys have been sitting in a corner BBMing everyone else at the party trying to convince them of its sustained utility. Regardless, the latest tease on the BlackBerry Blogs shows off some of the "fresh, but familiar" elements that are getting polished in the jump from OS 5 to OS 6.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: bb6, BlackBerry, blackberry os 6, blackberry6, cellphones, engadget, handhelds, kids, latest-black, search, smartphones, universal
Psion veteran Charles Davies leaves Nokia for TomTom
Charles Davies might not be as immediately recognizable as some other industry veterans, but anyone that's been following this business since the early days of PDAs will no doubt be familiar with his work. Davies was Psion 's very first employee way back in 1981, and stuck with the company all the way up until 2003 when he left to join Symbian, before moving on to Nokia with the rest of the Symbian staff a few years later. During that time, Davies helped Psion pioneer the use of flash memory and custom silicon in handhelds, served as Symbian's CTO, and helped Nokia head up the strategy and architecture team for its R&D division.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: architecture, charles davies, custom, details-at-some, doubt, handhelds, nokia, pioneer-the-use, psion, silicon, strategy, team, tomtom
Sony prepping new line of handhelds, including PSP phone?
You know who knows everything? People familiar with the matter. In particular, they know everything when "the matter" happens to be Sony's handheld strategy for 2010, which is said to finally include an honest-to-goodness PSP with phone capabilities -- something the world's been demanding for as long as they've wanted a Zunephone
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: ecosystem, entry, handhelds, kunimasa-suzuki, matter, Monster, netbook, online, playstation, playstation portable, psp phone, reader, remote-play, result
FLO TV for iPhone proof-of-concept caught in the wild
We don't know if watching TV on a 3.5-inch display is your bag, as it were, but it looks like Qualcomm is moving onward and upward with its plans for FLO TV on the iPhone . Not too many details at the moment, just some pics that Electricpig snapped of a handset running a proof-of-concept app that relies on an external device for reception, streaming re-runs of Mayberry R.F.D.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 20th-2009, engadget, handhelds, handheldtelevision, neutral, qualcomm, report, unverified
Dell's 5-inch Android Streak MID on AT&T in 2010?
The latest tattle has QISDA manufacturing Dell's Android 2.0-based MID (spotted with a 5 megapixel camera, 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreen, 3G data, and WiFi) with the intent of ramping up for an AT&T launch sometime in 2010.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone, nintendo, Other, PS2 Tags: aol, cellphones, engadget, handhelds, internet, iphone, japanese, mobile, Mobile Phone, networking, nintendo, podcasts, television
RAmos W7 spotted blazing through Android
As much fun as it is seeing the RAmos W7 in the wild, all legit and everything, what's more exciting is seeing that Android -specific 600MHz Rockchip CPU in action again.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, nintendo, Other Tags: aol, handhelds, htc, investing, japanese, networking, real-estate, science, wireless
BoEye MID700 unveiled with Android OS, vaguely familiar form factor
BoEye -- a company we've seen from time to time in the eBook reader space -- has been recently spotted at Dubai's GITEX with its own take on the Android MID. Aside from some obvious (and, quite frankly, tedious) comparisons to the ...
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone, nintendo, Other Tags: 11th-2009, aol, apple, BlackBerry, dubai, engadget, facebook, handhelds, htc, idavey, networking, neutral, television, wireless
iPhone 3GS bested by Android Archos 5 tablet in browsing benchmarks
Pocketables certainly does, and they've pitted the 3GS against a pretty eclectic group of devices, including the Sharp NetWalker Android "smartbook," the Archos 5 IMT, and the Archos 5 Android PMP. That's two Android devices, ...
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, nintendo, Other, PS2 Tags: 10minutehobo2, 27th-2009, aol, archos, article, BlackBerry, cellphones, handhelds, htc, internet, iphone, nintendo, PS2
Android 1.6 retrofitted onto Samsung Q1 UMPC (video)
Too busy to bother with buying an Android -powered Archos 5?