HTC Desire HD for Telus in the wild?
Certainly seems like Canadian carriers are a good deal more friendly toward launching European handsets than American carriers are, doesn't it? Motorola's Milestone and HTC's Desire Z are both prime examples -- and now it looks like another hot HTC, the Desire HD , is on its way
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: carriers, cousin, engadget-mobile, entry, gingerbread, indiscretion, milestone, telus
Angry Birds nets 50 million downloads, still not enough for a three-star rating
And yet the pigs go marching on. Rovio's Angry Birds is just over a year old now, and in that time it's racked up 50 million in downloads, with 10 million of those from Android. An impressive number in its own right, and that puts it in a very elite group of gaming franchises that counts Bejeweled (50m) and Legend of Zelda (59m) among its members.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: design, impressive, jackets, milestone, millions, new-versions, number, penney-design, rating, result, sequel, still-on-stores, stores-shelves
Motorola Milestone 2 starts shipping in UK
Want a GSM Droid 2 ? Or how about a Droid 2 Global without CDMA and a slower processor? However you want to look at it, Motorola's Milestone 2 QWERTY slider is now shipping SIM-free in the UK -- and that's pretty much the only way you're going to get it, because at this point, none of the UK's major carriers are offering it directly
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: entry, london, milestone, milestone2, mobile, motorola, qwerty, result, Sim, starts-shipping, stellar-deal
Motorola Milestone 2 makes official, albeit unintentional, debut
Sometimes it takes a crafty, steel-nerved individual to leak an unreleased phone's details ahead of time. And then sometimes all it takes is a negligently uploaded video
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: another-name, flash, means-the-rest, milestone, motorola, motorola milestone 2, promo video, youtube
HP’s in-house webOS competition yields about 500 apps, says CTO
A little backstory: HP has an annual in-house event for its employees called TechCon, and this year a challenge was issued to the engineers to make the best webOS app (free phones were offered as incentive).
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: app, apps, catalog, challenge, Clones, engadget, milestone, overall-quality, result, should-expect, webos
Motorola Milestone XT720 pops up stateside courtesy of Newegg
It may not look too appealing in the face of some of Motorola's more recent wares -- most notably the Droid X -- but if you're still looking to score that elusive Motorola Milestone XT720 in the US, it looks like retailer Newegg has you covered with an unlocked version (which they interestingly refer to as the "Milestone II") for $540. Sadly, there's no indication of the 3G bands supported, so far all we know, you're going to be brokenhearted when you discover that your AT&T (or T-Mobile) SIM tops out with EDGE data -- and for over half a grand, HSPA is the least we'd expect.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: droidx, friend-via, milestone, motorola, newegg, result, wares, xt 720, xt720
T-Mobile-flavored Motorola MB710 gets FCC approval
You might remember that we'd thought all the way back in January that T-Mobile's version of the MOTOROI / Milestone XT720 had gotten its FCC certification. Well, guess what happened this week
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: approval, awkward, entry, external, external-photos, fcc, happened, ish, milestone, motoroi, motorola, result, suspect-more, week
Milestone XT720 spec changes again, this time for the worse
Hey, we admit it, as far as Motorola's concerned hacks like us probably have no business browsing its Motodev pages, but we can't help but be a little peeved at the freestyle updates the company is making to its Milestone XT720 spec sheet. The processor hasn't changed -- it's always been a 720MHz-capable TI OMAP3440 -- but its speed rating has fluctuated between 550MHz , 720MHz exactly , and now the most enigmatic value yet: "up to" 720MHz. The RAM too has gone on a rollercoaster journey, jumping from 256MB at first, to a tasty 512MB, and now back down to a lean quarter gig
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 256mb-at-first, concerned-hacks, engadget, gig, hacks, milestone, motorola, Sheet
Droid made to work with iPod docks using unholy homemade adapter
What, our ultra-special Droid dock 's not enough for you? There's now another way to avoid buying Motorola's official accessories, though this one's a bit more blasphemous. Thijs Bosschert over in the Netherlands has put together a fully fledged adapter for his Milestone (aka Droid European Edition), which allows it to interface with docks designed for iPods and iPhones
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: docks, interoperability, ipod, ipoddock, milestone, motodroid, motorola, thijs-bosschert
Motorola Milestone gets close to custom ROMs — even without an unlocked bootloader
Motorola Milestone owners still haven't managed to get the phone's bootloader unlocked, making custom Android ROMs ( Froyo , for example) a whole heck of a lot more difficult -- but not impossible.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: bootloader, custom rom, engadget-mobile, froyo, heck, kernel, making-custom, milestone, motorola, owners-still, see-everyone