Sharp Mobiflip channels Sidekick LX’s vibes for Mobilicity
Thought the launch of the Kin ONEm and TWOm was strange? Here's another oddity with a Microsoft tie-in: Canadian startup Mobilicity has just announced the "Mobiflip," a phone that the carrier's own press release calls out as being "similar to the Sidekick LX ." It's unclear whether what's left of Danger will be supporting the device -- the Sidekick line basically pioneered mobile cloud computing, after all -- but what we see of the interface certainly rings true to the Sidekicks of days gone by
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: certainly-rings, doppelganger, heck, interface, microsoft, press, release, result, sidekicklx
HTC Hub update helps save us from our Windows Phone 7 phones
Remember the Windows Phone 7 ads, the ones that promised to " save us from our phones " by giving us more "glance and go" information? For the most part, these phones haven't delivered on that promise due to the relative dearth of apps taking advantage of Microsoft's live tile concept
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: htc, htc hub, interface, microsoft, phone, relative, the-relative, tile, windows, windows phone 7
Google Nexus S preview
We're here at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference in San Francisco, and we've just had a chance to lay our ever-loving hands all over Google's latest wunderkind, the Nexus S . As you've probably already read and seen, the device is set to be the next flagship phone sporting a pure Google experience.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, field, galaxy, gingerbread, googleandroid, googlenexuss, interface, observations, professional, samsung nexus s, scoop
GameString demos its streaming, custom World of Warcraft UI by raiding on an HTC Desire (video)
We're still not ready to apply the label "Gaming 3.0" here (or to anything, for that matter), but despite its boasts, GameString's making a compelling case for cloud-based play time. We've already seen the company bring World of Warcraft to Google TV , but now the company's showcasing its take on a challenge we've seen a few times before -- streaming a playable version of WoW to a mobile phone. (Gotta get 'em out of the house somehow.) The trick here is a streamlined UI overlay that makes for a every touch-friendly experience; there's translucent "thumbstick" spots and larger buttons for spells
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: cloud gaming, cloud-computing, gamestring, gamestringadrenaline, htcdesire, interface, kilometers, larger-buttons, world, wow
Dell’s Stage UI headed to Streak, also unofficially works on EVO 4G (video)
The first time the words "Stage UI" passed our lips, they were in relation to the Dell Thunder leak , but now we're hearing that Dell's custom Android user interface will actually appear alongside Android 2.2 when the update finally arrives on the five-inch Streak . We've just learned that's going to happen this winter in Japan when the Streak launches on SoftBank at the very least, as both are advertised for early December there, but we expect we'll see the updated OS even sooner in the US and Europe for obvious reasons . What's more, an unofficial build of Froyo that leaked out for the Streak last month has since been found to have Stage UI on board.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: dell, dellstreak, entry, evo4g, froyo, htc, interface, leak, panes, stageui, widgets, winter
Nokia ends talk of Symbian^4, adopts HTML5 in Qt framework
Things are turning upside down in Espoo today. Besides, earnings and reported job cuts of some 1,800 employees, Nokia also announced that it'll be streamlining its development strategy to unify environments for Symbian and MeeGo. Nokia's new approach calls for the adoption of Qt , and only Qt , as its application development framework from today onward
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: adoption, application, approach, environments, experience, framework, interface, nokia, platform, rich green, smart, smartphone, strategy, symbian, user
Fujitsu dual-touchscreen concept phone hands-on
Back at Mobile World Congress in February, the mobile UI gurus at TAT showed off their interpretation of a dual-screen phone interface using TI's powerhouse OMAP4 testbed. Seemed a little pie-in-the-sky at the time, but frankly, the concept device being shown off by Fujtisu at CEATEC this week -- created with TAT's involvement, it turns out -- seems virtually ready for production. Or the hardware did, anyway; the software was spartan by comparison, obviously designed to call out a few key use cases where having two giant, glorious 960 x 480 displays right next to each other might come in handy.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: back-at-mobile, dualscreen, engadget, entry, flip, hands, interface, japanese, photos, result, rotated-between, tat, testbed, theastonishingtribe
LG Optimus 7 Windows Phone 7 prototype flicks photos to TVs, launches October
We were a bit surprised to find LG's prototype Windows Phone 7 device for developers, soon to be unveiled officially as the Optimus 7 in its production form , hanging out in the wilds of IFA. Nevertheless, there it was, streaming DLNA content to a WiFi enabled TV. LG worked with Microsoft to develop a custom DLNA media sharing capability for its GW910 handset.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: gw910, interface, partners, result, wilds, windows phone 7 os, windowsphone7os, wpos7
Palm Pre fake tires of waiting for webOS 2.0, takes up iOS and BlackBerry OS lookalikes instead
We feel your pain: you love your BlackBerry at work and your iPhone for personal use, but as hardware goes, nothing gets your motor running quite like the Pre's pebble-esque shell. Trust us, we've all been there! Well, a new clone out of China seeks solve all your technological woes by combining an iOS-inspired user interface and the Pre's body -- with an iPhone home button thrown in for good measure, of course -- and when the time comes to throw on the suit and tie and head to work, you can switch the UI over to BlackBerry mode
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, blackberryos, china, interface, kirf, qwerty, skin, slider, technological, tie, user
Sprint: EVO 4G users getting Android 2.2 ‘in the near future’
It looks like EVO 4G users will soon have one more thing to smile about, as Sprint has just announced that an Android 2.2 (aka Froyo ) upgrade will indeed be coming to the "superphone." With the Android 2.2 upgrade, customers can expect improvements to include the following benefits: updates to user interface, improved EAS Support, improved browser performance, including Flash 10x Support, voice dialing over Bluetooth and application storage on external memory. No word on a timeframe yet, but you'll know as soon as we do -- promise.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: entry, evo4g, flash, htc evo 4g, htcevo4g, interface, know-as-soon, memory, result, upgrade, users-getting, voice