Kindle for Android updated with periodicals and integrated web store, can be installed on SD card
Version 2.0 of Amazon's Kindle for Android software has snuck out tonight, bringing with it access to the company's library of newspapers and magazines, the ability to purchase content in-app, and the freedom to choose where you want to store the app itself, which is now happy to reside on your microSD card. Other additions include social networking updates of your reading progress, the appearance of chapter titles in the reader status bar, zoom for images and graphics, and the volume keys doubling up as your page turners should you wish them to do so. The updated app's available in the Market now -- you know what to do with that QR code, right?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: card, chapter-titles, e reader, magazines, market, microsd, networking, newspapers, reading, the-appearance, update, upgrade
LG Optimus 2X: first dual-core smartphone launches with Android, 4-inch display, 1080p video recording
That's right, it's official. Needless to say, that LG Star we recently got our paws on is very real, though it won't go by that name at retail -- just as LG's own release materials had suggested , this monster has picked up the Optimus 2X name as it morphs from a prototype into brutally fast, overpowered reality. At the phone's heart beats a dual-core Tegra 2 processor running at 1GHz, the first such configuration to be officially announced by any smartphone manufacturer (though we're expecting others any day now).
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: breakingnews, core, europe, froyo, gingerbread, microsd, optimus, press, prototype, retail, star, starters, storage, Units
What financial trouble? Modu T goes on sale in UK
Modu might be on life support , but that doesn't mean that its latest effort -- the touch-enabled Modu T -- isn't seeing the light of day. British retailer PurelyGadgets (which also launched the original Modu earlier this year) has just announced that it has the new model in stock, charging
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: capable, conversation, engadget-mobile, entry, financial, lightest, microsd, mobile, modu t, point, pull-it-out, qvga, Supply
Mo-DV bringing major motion pictures to microSD cards
Hard to say why this here fad is just now catching on -- after all, select studios warmed to the idea of putting their content onto portable flash storage years ago. That said, we've seen both Flix on Stix and this here contraption surface within the same month, but honestly, we're having a hard time believing that it's a niche waiting to explode. Mo-DV has just announced a new Universal Player for microSD cards, enabling Symbian, Android, Windows Mobile and your everyday Windows PC to play back DRM'd movies stored on a microscopic slab of memory.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: cards, drm, flash storage, micro sd, microsd, movies, phone, smartphone, support, universal, windows-phone
Dell: bigger Venue Pro launch coming, keep hands off microSD
Didn't get a Venue Pro when Microsoft threw a few on its store shelves ? Why, that'd be enough to make us mad, too -- Ballmer mad , in fact. Fear not, though: as Dell tells it, the company has production ramped up for a "timely" launch on T-Mobile's network
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: dell, eject-mechanism, entry, holiday, micro sd, microsd, phone, piece, Season, venue, venue pro, windows phone 7, windows-phone, wp7
AT&T tells Samsung Focus customers not to buy microSD cards yet, wait for ‘certified’ ones (update: random access speed is key)
We'd put forth the theory that Microsoft and Samsung would eventually certify microSD cards specifically for use with Windows Phone 7 devices after they finally came to terms with the fact that the microSD drama surrounding the Focus was going to lead directly to broken devices and broken hearts -- and sure enough, that's exactly what's happening. We just received this statement from AT&T, pointing out that the platform is extremely finicky when it comes to microSD selection -- so finicky, in fact, that only "Certified for Windows Phone 7" cards should be used. No such cards are currently available.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: cards, focus, microsd, microsoft, samsung-focus, theory, until-the-cards, windows, wp7
Dell intros XCD28 and XCD35 Android phones for India
If Windows Phone 7 isn't your thing and the upcoming Venue doesn't interest you -- or hey, if you just live in India -- you might be interested to know that Dell has just introduced a pair of new India-specific (for the moment, anyway) Android phones designed specifically to be sold for a song without getting a carrier subsidy involved. First up, the XCD28 sports a 2.8-inch display (hence the name), a 3.2 megapixel cam, 200MB of internal storage expandable with up to 16GB worth of microSD, and FM radio; it sells for Rs. 10,990 (about $247) devoid of a contract
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: available-right, bluetooth, carrier-subsidy, dell, freedom, hence-the-name, india, india-specific, microsd, phones-designed, Purchase, sports, xcd35, zte
BlackBerry Curve 3G (9300) is officially BlackBerry 6 ready
The horse left the gate on Thursday and here comes the cart: the official BlackBery Curve 3G (model 9300) announcement just landed in our inbox. So in addition to sporting HSDPA data, WiFi, and GPS, we now know that if you buy this BlackBerry 5 device today you can upgrade to BlackBerry 6 "in the coming months." Assuming your carrier can get its act together, of course
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, blackbery curve 3g, curve3g, device-today, gate, gps, Inbox, microsd, official, officially-blackberry, the-official, your-carrier
Enso whips up two smartphones and three new slates, but we wouldn’t order any of ‘em
Oh, Enso -- must you really give us a reason to hope? After dealing with what felt like a case of the vaporwares , and then being epically disappointed with the zenPad (which is now out of stock, curiously) that you finally shipped, we just can't muster up the courage to look fondly upon the five new products that are gracing your webstore
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: 5mm, button, cortex, Headphone, ipad, make-it-right, marvell, microsd, squint, zendroid, zenpad, zenpad 3
Motorola Droid 2 fully exposed?
And finally, the puzzle pieces are coming together. There's been a lot of confusion the past few weeks about these two new models for Verizon in Motorola's pipeline, but by all accounts, this seems to be the A955 Droid 2 in its entirety -- the true successor to the original Droid , of course, and a distinctly different product than the more slate-like Xtreme
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: keyboard, microsd, motorola, motorola-droid, puzzle, silicon, verizon, verizonwireless