Swap Rebel watch phone laughs at your wrist-mounted iPod nano
Apple's iPod nano and the Sony Ericsson LiveView may have disappointed as wrist computers, but our Dick Tracy dream soldiers on, to the point where we found ourselves taking another look at that most dubious of converged devices: the watch phone . There, we discovered the Rebel, the latest creation from UK manufacturer Swap , a quad-band GSM wrist unit with a 1.46-inch color touchscreen and a built-in camera for both video and stills. It may look like a sterile medical wristband, but that silicone strap actually hides a USB port on one end, the better to let you transfer your MP3s and MP4 video to its paltry 2GB of expandable microSD storage.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, built-in-camera, headset, heels, radio, result, tracy, watch, watchphone, wrist, wrist-computers
Microsoft: we figured people would hack Windows Phone 7, would suggest that they don’t
Hot on the heels of the release of a utility for bypassing the Windows Marketplace and sideloading your own apps, Microsoft has released a brief statement on the state of the Windows Phone 7 hacking community... and we wouldn't exactly say they're too worked up about it: "We anticipated that people would attempt to unlock the phones and explore the underlying operating system
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: breaking-hacks, brief-statement, cat, chevronwp7, developers, heels, jailbreak, Warranty, windows phone 7, windows-phone, wp7
Mophie Juice Pack family portrait: Powerstation, Reserve, Boost, and Air for iPhone 4
Mophie's had quite a few product announcements recently, from an iPhone 4 case / battery pack to a credit card solution with intuit . Hot on the heels of this week's Juice Pack Powerstation unveil, the company stopped by to give us a glimpse of their revised lineup. In addition to all the aforementioned, we also got to check out the Reserve and Boost that formally debuted back in June
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: battery, battery pack, credit, credit card solution, creditcardsolution, entry, few-product, heels, iphone, juice-pack, juicepackair, mophie, Pack, revised
The Engadget Mobile Podcast, live at 6:15 ET!
After an ever-so-brief hiatus, we're back in business today -- and as always, we've got a lot to discuss, possibly in a heated tone. Fortunately, the hosts are thousands of miles apart, so we can't injure one another. Follow the break for all the action! (Note: we're recording hot on the heels of the Engadget Classic podcast, so you might catch the tail end of it if you join the livestream early.) The Engadget Mobile Podcast, live at 6:15 ET! originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:55:00 EST
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: break, engadget, engadget-mobile, fri, heels, hiatus, hot, livestream, mobile, podcast, recording-hot, tail, today
Purported myTouch HD leaks out alongside promise of T-Mobile’s first HSPA+ smartphone
Someone should really tell T-Mobile USA it's got a rather large hole that needs plugged. Hot on the heels of the (presumably) T-Mob-bound G1 Blaze leak comes this duo, which includes a purported leak of the myTouch HD (or 3G HD) as well as a web portal that quite clearly prepares us for the launch of the carrier's first HSPA+ smartphone
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: america, blaze, entry, heels, hole, hspa, hspa plus, leaks, mytouch, operator, portal, Vanguard, vision
Swiftkey beta brings new keyboard, world class predictive text to Android
The software and language engineers at Swiftkey have been toiling on this app for the past two years, and at long last, it's being made available for precisely nothing to anxious Android users.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: app, download, engadget, engineers, heels, keyboard, list, new-keyboard, predictive, predictive text, predictivetext, price, Typing
iPhone 4 hits T-Mobile Germany in June, three Canadian carriers in July
Hot on the heels of a three-way UK celebration , Deutche Telekom's reportedly managed to continue its coup -- if the company's Twitter account is to be believed, German exclusivity of the iPhone 4 will go to T-Mobile this June. Meanwhile, the English (and French) speaking world is still rolling out iPhone launch dates, as Canada's Rogers, Telus and Bell Mobility have all quietly announced the new superphone will be available "in the coming weeks" or "coming soon." Americans at Engadget HQ are supremely jealous of your choices, Canada... and rest assured that we feel Germany's pain, too
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple iphone 4, appleiphone, appleiphone4, assured, bell-mobility, coming, deutche, english, heels, iphone, iphone 4, mobility, rest, speaking-world, still-rolling
Engadget now available for Pre and Pixi: the first webOS app of 2010 (and 1000th in the Catalog)!
That's right folks. Hot on the heels of our iPhone app release (which has since skyrocketed up the App Store charts to #1 in News), the webOS version has officially landed
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, engadget app, entry, experience, heels, keep-it-tuned, open-the-app, palm pixi, pre, result, simply-popping, touch-version, web os, webos