Apple mysteriously kills jailbreak detection API while hacker boosts iOS security, irony restored
It's no secret that Apple's been keen to monitor the lot of naughty jailbreakers, but it turns out the company has recently shelved iOS 4.0's jailbreak detection API with no explanation given. While this has little effect on the average user, Network World explains that this is bad news for enterprise IT and MDM (mobile device management) vendors, who will now have one fewer channel for checking whether a user's iOS device has been jailbroken and thus become vulnerable to attacks.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: api, charlie, ipodtouch, mdm, memory, miller, randomization, result, security, sektioneins, stefan-esser, technique, windows
Sanyo Taho for Sprint will take a beating, won’t deliver a beating to your wallet
If you were looking for Sprint's first fully submersible handset to sell for under $100 on contract... well, you've finally found it. What you're looking at here is the Sanyo Taho, a beefed-up clamshell that offers the usual suite of environmental resistance claims that come with mil-spec 810G compliance: water, dust, shock, and extreme temperature.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: engadget-mobile, memory, mobile, motorola, press, shock, sprint
Videocon’s Ducati-branded V6200 handset probably isn’t as awesome as the real thing
Can't afford to put the primal growl of a Ducati 1198R Corse superbike in your garage? Well, consider this the consolation prize: the Italian motorcycle firm has teamed up with Videocon in India to release the V6200 candybar, a rather rugged-looking little beast that features an integrated compass, thermometer, barometer, altimeter, pedometer (thanks to an accelerometer, naturally), GPS, and a UV meter -- in other words, every kind of sensor you could possibly want, and then some
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: accelerometer, camera, consolation, ducati-follow, india, memory, mumbai, real, v6200, videocon, words
LG Cosmos Touch hits Verizon November 23rd for $80
We're having a harder time by the day getting excited about a touchscreen dumbphone with a 1.3 megapixel camera for $80 -- especially now that you've got a number of respectable Android choices below that price point -- but if you're an LG diehard, you need physical QWERTY, and you couldn't care less about the Android Market, we suppose you might want to give the once-rumored , now-official Cosmos Touch a look. Besides the 2.8-inch wide QVGA display, you've got Bluetooth 2.1, memory expansion up to 16GB, some semblance of social networking support, and VZ Navigator turn-by-turn navigation on board. Interested
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: Choices, cosmos touch, cosmostouch, entry, memory, networking, qwerty, social-networking, some-semblance, support, verizon, verizon-wireless, verizonwireless, vzw
Mobiado 105 Damascus handled on video, which is the closest you’ll ever get to one
Mobiado's 105 series of Series 40 -based luxury candybars is nothing new -- in fact, it's quite old -- but as Vertu has discovered over the years, customers that are looking to spend four or five figures on a phone are apparently often uninterested in smartphone capability for some reason.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 105damascus, capability, damascus, damascussteel, hands, memory, mobile, result, series40, sweden
Dell Venue Pro has a microSD card slot, you’ll just need to void your warranty to use it
Remember the good chap that brought us pictorial evidence of the Venue Pro in Microsoft stores on Monday?
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: accessible-one, backstory, dellvenuepro, down-the-phone, evidence, expandability, htc, memory, microsoft, slots, storage, Warranty, windows, windows phone 7, wp7
The PlayStation Phone
It's hard to believe that what we're looking at is real -- but we assure you, the picture above is in fact the PlayStation Phone you've long been waiting for.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, holidays, memory, phone, photos, playstation, playstation portable, pspphone, sonyericsson, station-phone
Hack improves Nokia N8′s image and video quality, puts a hurting on your memory card (video)
Clearly a lot of folks out there are pretty passionate about the quality of their cameraphone pics. So too is cellphone modder hyperX, who is developing some custom tweaks to improve the quality of the stills and vids coming out of Nokia 's latest darling. First is a hack to enable 720p30 video, a slight improvement over the 720p25 default
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: darling, improvement, memory, over-the-720p25, quality, stock, tangible, tweaks, video-quality, your-memory
WebOS 2.0 gets fresh round of screenshots; new Palm phones and Touchstone certified?
The name of certification firm T
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: memory, model, models, perspective, result, screen-shots, touchstone, webos, webos 2.0
BleckBarry raises the bar for KIRFs, casually crawls under it
BleckBarry! This is the handset that puts the "phone" in smartphone but, sadly, leaves out the "smart." Featuring a 2-inch display, Bluetooth, a whopping 506KB internal memory, FM and TV (with antenna!), and all the dual SIM action your heart can take, this $62 wonder does one thing well: it makes the BlockBerry look great in comparison. BleckBarry raises the bar for KIRFs, casually crawls under it originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, bleckbarry, casually-crawls, china, handset, internal, internal-memory, knock off, knockoff, leaves-out, memory, result, Sim, the-handset