Fossil Connected watch concept displays vital info from your Android or BlackBerry handset, looks great doing it
Sure, companies haven't had too much success with connected watches -- remember SPOT ? But don't lose hope! The Fossil Connected watch concept shows that at least somebody is still trying to bring wrist-based chronometers into the 21st century
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: black, BlackBerry, Century, chronometers, closer, connected, connected watch, display-weather, engadget, fossil connected, fossilconnected, least-somebody, messages, valley, watch
Study finds that text message-addicted teens more likely to have a life
According to a recent study lead by Dr. Scott Frank, an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, kids in Cleveland who text over 120 times a day are more likely than to have had sex or to have used drugs or alcohol than kids who don't send as many massages.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: associate, between-texting, correlation, dr. scott frank, drugs, engadget, epidemiology, massages, medicine, messages, professor, reserve, result, statistics, western-reserve
Droid 2 update begins with promise of better battery life and more
We've receive a number of reports that a 2.3.20 software update for Verizon's Droid 2 is slowly making the rounds this morning.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 2.3.20, droid2, during-recorded, engadget, enhancements, messages, portrait, result, social, software-update, verizon, videos
LG’s Optimus 7 gets previewed by Korean newspaper, has voice to text feature?
You know how we abhor machine translation, but this rumor was too juicy to pass up -- the Korea Economic Daily reportedly got hands-on with LG's Optimus 7 (aka E900 ) way ahead of release, and if we're reading this right, the Windows Phone 7 device will be capable of writing your text messages, emails and status updates just by hearing you speak. The publication also reports it's got a 3.8-inch, 800 x 480 screen (rather than the 3.5 or 3.7 inches we've heard before), a 1500 mAh battery, 16GB of built-in storage and a 1GHz processor. There's also apparently "automatic panorama" feature where you simply pan the camera to take stills and stitch them together, which sounds a lot like the Sweep Panorama dealie Sony recently added to its Cyber-Shot lineup
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: dictation, gets-previewed, lg optimus 7, messages, overhaul, result, shot, speech-to-text, updates, voice to text
RIM announces WebWorks development kit, in-app payments, ad platform, and BBM API
RIM's BlackBerry Developer Conference is going down this week in San Francisco, and as you might expect from a developer-focused event, there are a handful of newsy items that'll affect the development community first and consumers down the road. Here's a roundup of what's what: WebWorks development platform. From what we've heard of this so far, it's basically a quick way for web devs to get into the BlackBerry app game by offering a tightly-integrated platform for HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript code with hooks to native BlackBerry OS functions and a packager for turning them into "real" BlackBerry apps.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: api, approach, bbm social platform, BlackBerry, conference, css, devcon, development, entry, messages, paypal, receiving
Lookout’s App Genome Project warns about sketchy apps you may have already downloaded
If you're an iPhone user, the only privacy notice you'll see from an app regards your current location -- as much a warning about the associated battery hit from the GPS pinging as anything. If you're an Android user, however, things are different, with a tap-through dialog showing you exactly what each app will access on your phone. But, do you read them
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: app, apple, apps, blackhat, iphone, messages, mobileapp, phone, platforms, privacy-notice, project, Sim, Tap, wallpaper
Best Buy’s iPhone 4 inventory plans revealed by another purported leak
Seriously, can't we keep any mystery in our lives anymore? After we saw what's purported to be Best Buy's " playbook " for the iPhone 4 debut yesterday, today we're being treated to an inventory list revealing the stock ordered up from Apple for the big retailer's launch of the new handset.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, buy, internaldocument, iphone 4, messages, mystery, some-confusing, variants, white
RIM converts BMW’s iDrive into ‘a remote control for your BlackBerry’ (video)
If there's one thing business types love more than their BlackBerry , it's their BMW -- or so we're told. It makes all sorts of sense, therefore, that the two companies would partner up to help the things they sell communicate with each other more effortlessly. Using Bluetooth MAP (Message Access Profile), BlackBerry devices can now beam emails and contacts over to BMW's iDrive dash system, where the driver can listen to his messages via a text-to-speech option or make calls using the car's speakerphone
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: BlackBerry, blackberry6, bluetoothmap, bmw, integrated-part, messages, messaging, option-or-make, pearl, using-bluetooth, vehicle, wes, wireless
iPhone SMS database hacked in 20 seconds, news at 11
It's a story tailor-made for the fear-mongering subset of news media. This week, a pair of gentlemen lured an unsuspecting virgin iPhone to a malicious website and -- with no other input from the user -- stole the phone's entire database of sent, received and even deleted text messages in under 20 seconds, boasting that they could easily lift personal contacts, emails and your naughty, naughty photos as well. Thankfully for us level-headed souls, those gentlemen were Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, security researchers performing for the 2010 Pwn2Own hacking contest, and their $15,000 first prize ensures that the winning formula will go to Apple (and only Apple) for further study
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, entry, hackers, messages, photos, pwned, ralf-philipp weinmann, security, securityholes, stole-the-phone, study, vincenzo iozzo
T9 Trace lets you Swype through your text messages
You may or may not yet be aware of the Swype virtual keyboard (comes preloaded on the Cliq XT from Motorola), but you'll definitely be hearing about the T9 Trace from Nuance .