Motorola Mobility’s mystery gadget streams video to tablets and phones
Wonder why Motorola's set-top-box business got bundled in with the phones ? If we had to guess, it's probably because Motorola Mobility is making a device that will wirelessly join both
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: ADDITIONAL, boxes, daniel, device, media, president, streamingvideo, video, video streaming, videostreaming
AirSync for doubleTwist brings wireless syncing to Android phones
Been looking for the perfect thing to boast to your iPhone-owning friends about?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: air sync, application, collection, database, doubletwist airsync, doubletwistairsync, entry, media, passcode, phone, windows-phone, wirelesssync
$50 Samsung Media Hub vouchers making Epic 4G and Galaxy Tab purchases a little sweeter
Presumably looking to build some brand awareness, Sprint and Samsung are apparently teaming up to offer new Epic 4G owners $50 vouchers redeemable toward "select" movie rentals in its Media Hub video-on-demand store -- which will actually buy quite a bit of content, when you think about it. The way it works is that you'll buy the phone and get texted a ten-digit promo code within a few days; once you redeem it for the first time, you'll have 60 days to use it up, otherwise the whole thing will expire on March 31st of next year
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 31st, before-calling, consumption, expire-on-march, galaxytab, media, mediahub, mobile, nationals, phone, promotion, voucher
Samsung plotting a single platform to connect TVs and phones
Samsung's mad, monied quest to "free the TV apps" may not stop at your couch -- the electronics manufacturer says it's looking to loop in cell phones as well. "We plan to have a single platform for Samsung TV and phones," a VP told Reuters , without providing further details.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: couch, electronics, engadget, entry, media, might-cross, phones, result, samsung, swords, television
Wizup emerges from Windows Phone 7 developer challenge: think Shazam, but for ads
It's not a brand new concept or anything , but rather than forcing mobile users to scan QR codes in order to access more information about a given product or advertisement, Wizup is able to recognize far more esoteric items. Created as a part of the Windows Phone 7 developer challenge, this piece of software is able to listen to radio stations (at least in France), understand images from magazines and even recognize TV channels. Simply snap a picture or let it listen in (much like Shazam for song titles), and it then delivers all sorts of germane content to the mobile's screen
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: advertising, challenge, france, media, mobile, windows phone 7, windowsphone7, wp7
Samsung Media Hub: movies and next-day TV shows from NBC, Paramount, Universal, and more
We've been itching to see how Samsung would leverage Media Hub, and now we're getting the goods at its Galaxy Tab event. Compatible with Tab and Galaxy S devices, both movies and next-day TV shows will be available for purchase and rental.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: breaking-news, breakingnews, entry, galaxy s, internet, media, mtv, samsung, samsung-media, samsungmediahub
HTC’s Media Link provides the wireless DLNA support your phone and TV crave, coming Q4 2010
In our excitement over HTC's announcements this morning (that'd be Desire Z , Desire HD , and Sense enhancements , in case you missed it), we missed one other nugget of good news.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: desire, engadget, enhancements, htc, media, media-link, morning, nugget, other-nugget, our-excitement, ports, stream-media, wireless
Japan chooses ISDB-Tmm over MediaFLO for new mobile TV network, KDDI pouts
Well, that wasn't much of a delay at all! Japanese regulators have apparently gone ahead and selected NTT DoCoMo's proposal for Japan's next-gen mobile TV network scheduled to go live in 2012 -- ISDB-Tmm, an evolution of the country's existing one-seg technology -- over the MediaFLO-based solution floated by competitor KDDI. Considering that KDDI is tied up in CDMA / EV-DO, it's little wonder they were pushing MediaFLO, a product of CDMA patron saint Qualcomm -- but it's a moot point now that the license is going to DoCoMo's broadcasting consortium
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: engadget-mobile, isdb-tmm, japan, kddi, license, media, mediaflo, mobile, mobile tv, ntt-docomo, nttdocomo, one seg, oneseg, patron, proposal
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