PlayOn for iPhone brings a wealth of streaming video to iOS, we go hands-on
It's ugly. It's buggy. It requires a Windows PC.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, button, couch, hulu, iphone, media, netflixstreaming, playon, playon for iphone
Motorola Charm official for T-Mobile: portrait QWERTY Android at long last
The rumored Charm has just gotten a proper unveiling from Motorola -- and while it's not getting nearly the media fanfare its Droid X corporate cousin did, it's arguably even more unique. The phone features a full portrait QWERTY keyboard placed directly below a 2.8-inch landscape touchscreen, but for most operations, you don't have to touch it if you don't want to because you've also got a touchpad mounted on the back of the phone (the so-called "Backtrack") much like AT&T's Backflip . Not only is this the first widely-launched Android phone to employ such a form factor, it's also the first to run Android 2.1 with Blur -- and interestingly, they've carried over the old version's general look and feel rather than going with the Droid X's updated skin
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: backtrack, blur, charm, corporate, droid, media, motorola-charm, summer
MIT’s Android optometry app could help you stop squinting all the time (video)
Remember Bokodes , MIT's tiny replacement for barcodes and the like?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: dots, entry, image, make-it-easier, media, mit, mitmedialabcameraculture, optometrists, perscription, property, thing, trip
DoubleTwist adds some polish to Android with new media player app
Peruse the Android Market this morrow and you might come across a hot new addition from the folks at DoubleTwist. That's right, the iTunes-aping desktop sync manager has gone native on the Android platform and early feedback on its media player implementation has been positive. The free music and video player app does that whole seamless thing quite well, apparently, interfacing directly with your Windows or Mac computerino and porting over relevant playlists, ratings and media
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app, doubletwist app, doubletwist player, doubletwistplayer, download, engadget, itunes, limited, manager, media, media player app, mediaplayer, music, Sync, windows
LG and iriver unveil the LB4400: the Korean Zunephone without the Zune (video)
Little iriver has long been one of our favorite companies when it comes to innovative product design. Unfortunately, the Korean outfit responsible for about half of all digital audio players sold in its home country has all but disappeared from the international stage.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, audio, cellphone, digital, entry, flac, innovative, lb4400, lg-lb4400, media, players, stage, word-on-price, zune
SlingPlayer Mobile for Android goes to private beta?
Android's quickly becoming the elephant in the room for Sling Media, so we're delighted to hear today that the promised Android client of SlingPlayer Mobile is apparently entering a private beta period as we speak -- according to a tipster over at Phandroid , anyhow.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: beta, beta-program, discuss-the-app, download, elephant, media, mobile, private-beta, sling, sling media, slingmedia, slingplayer, tipster
Engadget wins the People’s Voice Webby in Consumer Electronics, and you can win a Droid Incredible!
Hey, would you look at that -- we done won ourselves an award! And not just any award, but the People's Choice Webby Award in Consumer Electronics, which is doubly special to us since it was voted on by the general public. Obviously we're pretty happy about the win, but we're even happier to have such great readers like all of you -- Engadget editors work pretty hard, but you're the ones who make our site what it is. So by way of celebration, we're giving away a Droid Incredible , courtesy of Verizon Wireless, and 10 lucky runner-ups will get spiffy new Engadget T-shirts! All you have to do is leave a comment to tell us how happy you are, and you'll be entered to win
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, consumer-electronics, contest, doubly-special, droid incredible, engadget, entry, even-happier, giveaways, incredible, media, people, php, result, voice
BlackBerry Pearl 3G hitting Telus next month for $30
We've been surmising that RIM's brand-spanking-new BlackBerry Pearl 3G has a decent shot at becoming a runaway hit if carriers can offer it for peanuts, and Canada's Telus is off to a good start with the announcement that it'll hit for CAD $29.99 (about $30) on a three-year contract starting next month. It looks like these guys will only be offering the 20-key version, but there'll be a choice of two colors: black and pink, a Telus exclusive (only within Canadian borders, we'd assume). Without a CDMA version of the phone in sight, what do you want to bet they're thanking their lucky stars they've got their HSPA network up and running now?
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: 20-key-version, been-surmising, black, engadget-mobile, entry, media, news, phone, result, telus
Palm Developer Day reveals interesting bits on the webOS 2010 roadmap
It's hard to mention the word "Palm" without also mentioning either "takeover" or "shakeup" in the same sentence these days, but the company was able to change the subject -- rather refreshingly, may we add -- to the more pleasant topic of new webOS features coming down the pike at its Developer Day conference in Sunnyvale this weekend. It doesn't look like we'll see anything Earth-shattering this year, but devs will be getting their grubby paws on some oft-requested features including direct API access to the microphone and camera, new security and cryptography features, some sort of "media indexer" that'll make life easier on folks trying to make media apps, and support for Bonjour, zero-config networking, and the Bluetooth Serial Port Profile, a rather generic profile that should open up the door to new categories of accessories that we haven't seen paired to a Pre before
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: background, bluetooth, camera, developer, media, microphone, mojo core, palm, palmdeveloperday, serial, takeover, water, zeroconf
Mobile DTV gains national mobile content service, broadcast group support
If there's one thing a fledgling technology needs, it's good marketing. That aside, the next most vital thing is industry support. Today, an even dozen broadcast groups have banded together in order to back the soon-to-launch Mobile DTV format (ATSC-M/H), with Belo, Cox, E.W.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: broadcast-group, cox, digitaltv, dtv, hearst, joint venture, jointventure, media, meredit, mobile dtv, raycom, scripps, spectrum, telemundo