Gmail’s free voice calls will be available through all of 2011, still only in the US
While the rest of the world has yet to taste the sweet elixir of free voice calls from its email supplier, US-based Gmailers are having their fun extended for a whole new year.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: calls, elixir, engadget, entry, free-calls, free-voice, freecalling, holiday, service-free, voicecalls
Nexus S now available, get to your nearest Best Buy post-haste
It's so fresh, so new, and so comfortably shaped we don't know how anyone could resist getting their own Nexus S to have and to hold this holiday season. Well, there is one reason: getting up on a cold Thursday morning at 8am is no fun. If you're dedicated enough, Best Buy is selling them right this very moment, and again the up-front cost is $199 on contract, $250 for adding a line, or $529 if you roll restriction-free
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: buy, fence, haste, holiday, nearest, nexus s, nexus's, resist-getting, restriction, Season, thursday, your-nearest
Nokia delays E7 slider into ‘early 2011′
Oh dear. Like the N8 before it, Nokia just confirmed to us that the Symbian-powered E7 slider will be delayed
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: best-possible, early-2011, holiday, nokia, production-due, shame, shopping-season, the-holiday, user-experience, will-require
Best Buy tells the Nexus S retail story: 8AM online sales, two per customer maximum
Want a Nexus S this Thursday? Yeah, well, welcome to the club, pal -- you're not alone, so you're going to want to be armed with the right information to figure out your plan of attack. Best Buy has announced the details of how it'll go about selling Samsung's Google-branded monster, and unlike many recent launches, this one is strictly first-come, first-serve -- none of that craziness where you put down $50 in advance to secure your place and get it off the price of the phone on launch day
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: bestbuymobile, coast, demo, holiday, nexus s, opening-at-8am, phone-on-launch, result, Season, thursday
Mobilicity ponies up attractive $30, $40 plans for the holidays
Canadian upstart carrier Mobilicity is doing what the little guys often do best -- undercutting its bigger rivals -- and it's doing that in an especially dramatic way this holiday season with a pair of pretty enticing new plans. The "exclusive holiday offers" include CAD $30 and $40 price levels ($30 to $40 US, coincidentally) that include unlimited calling and messaging, while the $40 option throws in unlimited US long distance, global text messaging, and unlimited data
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: guys, holiday, holidayoffer, holidays, long-distance, mobilicity, offers, option-throws, parity, plan, plans, rungs, upstart-carrier
Jawbone Jambox review
You may have already gathered that we're fans of the Jawbone Jambox -- seeing as how it appears in our Holiday Gift Guide -- but does a miniature portable speaker, even one that pumps out 85 decibels, deserve a $200 price? How about that battery life? We've spent weeks now with the little Bluetooth speaker that could, throwing it at every scenario in sight, and after the break you'll find a full review with all the upsides and downsides
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: break, engadget, entry, full-review, guide, holiday, jawbone, portable speaker, portablespeaker, stereo, upsides, video
Best Buy Mobile will offer free smartphones, mostly Android, every day in December
Holiday spirit over in Best Buy land must mean "getting rid of old stock by discounting it." The Droid Incredible and Xperia X10 are among the handsets to be featured in the big retailer's December mobile sale, which will involve offering up four free phones each day (one for each carrier) at a price of $0 upfront and subject to the usual two-year agreement.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: discount, handsets, holiday, holiday sale, holiday-offer, lg optimus s, optimus t, phones, smartphones, spotlight, the-spotlight, xperiax10
T-Mobile prepaid account management on the fritz for the past week, Web DayPasses hard to buy
A quick gander at T-Mobile's official support forums suggests that the carrier's prepaid customers have been in a world of hurt for the past few days -- or the ones that use data, at least.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: account, customer, daypass, entry, forums, forums-suggests, holiday, mobile, problem-seems, result, web daypass
Verizon sucks at Photoshop: confuses the Droid X for an iPhone
Man, Motorola's not going to be pleased about this! The Droid X is justifiably one of Verizon's marquee devices for this holiday season and takes pride of place on the carrier's Cyber Monday offers page, but wait... why does its screen display the iPhone version of Google Maps?
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: cybermonday, droid, holiday, inaccuracies, its-screen, manipulation, maps, marquee, monday, motorola, photoshop, result, Season, the-carrier
Engadget’s Holiday Gift Guide: Gaming
Welcome to the Engadget Holiday Gift Guide ! The team here is well aware of the heartbreaking difficulties of the seasonal shopping experience, and we want to help you sort through the trash and come up with the treasures this year. Below is today's bevy of hand curated picks, and you can head back to the Gift Guide hub to see the rest of the product guides as they're added throughout the holiday season. Sit back, relax, grab a controller, and enjoy some obsessive-compulsive button mashing while you work in that body-sized groove into the couch..