Google ‘archiving’ Nexus One support forum next month, turning it read-only
If you have a Nexus One , you plan on having it for a while, and you want to talk about it, you're going to have to find another place to do it come November 1 -- because that's the day Google has chosen to shut down its own Nexus One support forum, archive it, and make its contents read-only. Seems like an extraordinarily illogical and user-hostile move to us -- especially considering that the phone is still thoroughly modern, runs the latest available version of Android, and was released this year ... but if there's a silver lining to this mess, it'd have to be the fact that there's no shortage of third-party sites and forums that will be happy to pick up the slack.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one, Other Tags: engadget, engadget-mobile, entry, Love, mobile, nexus, nexus one, phone, runs-the-latest, silver-lining, slack, support
NTT DoCoMo’s Taion Heart supports rarely-used soul-2-soul Bluetooth profile (video)
A Valediction: Technologically Assuaging Mourning As virtuous men travel mildly'away, And cling to their Taion Hearts, to goe, Whilst their Heart-equpped friends doe say, The pulse goes now, thanks, and some say, to NTT DoCoMo. So let us grip, and make no noise, No Skype calls, nor instant messages send, 'Twere illuminations of our joyes To pulsate the complementary device of our love rend. Gripping of t'heart sends light and color, Bluetooth sync reckons what it did and meant, But vibration of the other, Though greater farre, is innocent
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: bluetooth, donne, greater-farre, heart-equpped, hearts, john, john donne, Love, ntt, ntt-docomo, prototype, sync-reckons, virtuous, virtuous-men, wuv
App review: Finger Race (Android)
There isn't much to say about this Android-based game (of sorts): select from 1-, 2-, and 5-meter lengths via options (actually centimeters once you get on the track), then proceed to "run" your fingers across the screen until the counter hits zero.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, apps, engadget, entry, exercise, finger race, fingerrace, good-exercise, library, Love, scroll-through, textured-track, think-the-video, time, video
Polish operator Mobyland jumps straight from 2G to LTE
If you're still running a GPRS or EDGE network anywhere in the world, we've just about reached a breaking point now where you're probably better off moving straight to LTE rather than investing billions of dollars and years of work bringing HSPA or HSPA+ online.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 1800mhz, billions, breaking, globe, hspa, hspa-or-hspa, Job, Love, Modem, store, world
Dropbox goes to private beta for BlackBerry (and no, you’re probably not invited)
With Android and iPhone clients already under its belt, online storage service Dropbox is well on its way to being on a majority of the world's key smartphone platforms -- and now, it's adding BlackBerry to the stable. 1,000 lucky jerks were already able to get into the closed beta, but it seems the rest of the world will have to wait until the beta goes public or the software goes gold, whichever comes first. Now we just need a little Symbian love and we should have this thing locked up, eh, guys
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, dropbox, engadget, iphone, Love, lucky, online-storage, seems-the-rest, storage, until-the-beta
Dell Streak makes friends with Logitech diNovo Mini (in more ways than one)
So, you've either purchased a Streak , or you're anxiously awaiting your own here in the US.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: dellstreak, dinovo mini, googleandroid, heaven, keyboard, keyboard-looks, laptop, Love, magic, makes-friends, purchased, source, video
Mysterious Dell Mini 3v outed by Chinese mobile regulator, OS unknown
Fancy playing a game of "guess the phone?" Dell's got one for you -- the folks over at Chinese mobile regulator TENAA have once again prematurely outed another handset from said computer giant. As usual, there's no mention on the screen size, screen type or even the OS, but we're told that this plain-looking Mini 3v runs on both TD-SCDMA (i.e
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: cellphone, chinamobile, dell, engadget, handset, Love, mini3v, mobile, mobilephone, result, td-scdma, tweak
Microsoft Kin is dead
We're learning this afternoon that Microsoft's Kin line, for all practical purposes, is riding off into the sunset just a few short weeks after its release. Sources close to Microsoft tell us that Andy Lees has rolled Kin into the Windows Phone 7 team and has canceled the existing product's launch later this year in Europe on news that sales weren't as strong as expected. Speaking of sales, Verizon's already-launched Kin One and Kin Two are soldiering on for the time being, but for how long is anyone's guess
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: blockbuster, breaking-news, europe-on-news, from-the-tweens, launch, Love, microsoft, nvidia, soldiering, verizon, windows
Apple Store app arrives in Apple App Store
This is one of those things that makes you wonder why it hadn't been done already. Apple's just unleashed an Apple Store application for its iDevices designed to pretty much give you the online Apple Store experience -- but perhaps without the crazy on-again, off-again antics of this morning .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: app store, apple, apple-app-store, apple-store, applestore, apps, appstore, download, engadget, entry, familiar, latest, Love
Nokia E73 Mode review
Some two years after its release, there are still plenty of people who'll swear up and down that the E71 is the finest phone Nokia has ever produced -- and for good reason. As a platform, S60 was the product of a simpler time when the smartphone market was dominated not by touchscreens, but by numeric keypads, and the E71 was arguably the last of a string of bona fide successes that Nokia enjoyed in the platform's heyday alongside pioneering handsets like the N82 and N95
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: e71, entry, heyday, Love, models, nokia, smartphone, successes, symbian, unlike-the-e71, video