Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: been-fortunate, bugs, mobile, Mobile Phone, Ota, review, slate, smartphone, software upgrade, software-update, stage widget, streak, tabletphone, will-it-make
Gartner’s global phone sales rankings match IDC’s, but say the big guys have less of the pie
At a 30,000-foot level, the global mobile phone sales numbers for the third quarter of 2010 just released by Gartner match up with what IDC posted a few days ago, but you might say the devil's in the details. These guys have all of the top five players -- Nokia, Samsung, LG, Apple, and RIM -- at noticeably lower total market shares than IDC did, suggesting that second-tier players like Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and HTC (if you can really call them "second-tier") are grabbing more hearts and minds.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, gartner, global phone sales, globalmobilephonesales, htc, level, minds, Mobile Phone, mobilephone, motorola, phone, players, rankings, result
Facebook phone rumors resurface, Mark Zuckerberg fails to deny them
Let's try to untangle this Facebook mobile phone mess, shall we? Mark Zuckerberg has recently sat down with Michael Arrington of TechCrunch -- the source of the original rumor -- to try and dispel some of the confusion that has arisen as a result. The first thing the Zuckmeister says is that Facebook isn't looking to build its own OS or hardware and is absolutely opposed to competing with the likes of the iPhone and Android
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: arrington, confusion, elements, facebookphone, from-the-start, Mobile Phone, social integration, social-networking, sources, speculation, techcrunch, zuckmeister
Visa rolling out payWave mobile phone payments in NY subway and taxis
DeviceFidelity's mobile twist on Visa's payWave system is a nice little solution to the fact that nobody's bothered to build contactless payment chips into US mobile phones just yet -- DeviceFidelity just stuffs the Visa smart chip circuitry into a microSD card and lets you on your way. Of course, this supplants the much needed additional storage on an Android handset, and requires a chunky add-on case for the iPhone, but at least it's a start. Visa will now start allowing those payWave-enabled devices to make contactless payments at subway turnstiles and taxi backseats in New York City as part of a new trial for the tech
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: backseats, chipped-credit, circuitry, city, handset, mobile, Mobile Phone, paywave, storage, supplants, video, Visa
Orange launches OLED-donning San Francisco, doesn’t break the Android piggy bank
Oh snap ! This is exactly what Nokia needs right now -- another cheap Android handset to gobble up its wallet-friendly stronghold. What we're looking at here is Orange's oddly named San Francisco, a
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, engadget-mobile, entry, entrylevel, handset, Mobile Phone, msm7227, pay and go, payandgo, qualcomm msm7227, result, san, tempting-deal
Fring reveals FringOut for cheap VoIP calls, challenges Skype head-on
When we first caught wind of Fring a while back, Skype compatibility was the draw, but as the years progressed and Fring grew some, the VoIP services didn't exactly get along . Today, the company's taking matters into its own hands with the not-so-subtly named FringOut, which appears to provide even cheaper calls to landlines and mobile phones than its powerful namesake. Starting on Nokia's S60 platform and "coming soon" to Android and iPhone, FringOut's promising as-low-as one-cent-a-minute calls.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: compatibility, engadget, fringout, iphone, Mobile Phone, namesake, nokia, phones, result, skype, sun, symbian, symbian-s60, taking-matters, voip
LG Electronics CEO resigns in wake of waning mobile phone sales
Times are tough for top-level executives these days, from HP to Nokia and even this side of Dell .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bon-joon, dell, electronics, koobon-joon, level, lg-electronics, Mobile Phone, nam, namyong, phone, yong, yong nam
Microsoft employee profile hints at possible Acer Windows Phone 7 device
Well, this is certainly curious.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: engadget, linkedin, M900, Mobile Phone, phone, profile, program-manager, result, snippet, windows
Apple Peel 520 coming to US shores shortly for an undisclosed amount
Build it, and they will come. We suspect the same is true with shipping papers. Go Solar USA most certainly hopes so, as it has just inked a deal with Chinese developer Yosion to bring the much-hyped Apple Peel 520 to the US of A
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: applepeel520, bring-the-much, entry, gosolarusa, ipod, Mobile Phone, mobilephone, once-it-arrives, peel, yosiontechnology
Orange HD Voice service and handsets go live in the UK, we go ears-on (video)
Good news for UK mobile addicts: Orange's long-anticipated HD Voice service has officially made it to the Land of Hope and Glory. Starting today, British customers can pick up a HD Voice-enabled handset -- including the Nokia 5230 , X6 , E5 and Samsung Omnia Pro at launch -- from Orange, and start buttering their ears with "crystal clear" phone calls while within the carrier's 3G coverage. Prior to the launch, we were fortunate enough to try out the new service on a couple of Nokia E5 prototypes, and boy, that was some pretty impressive stuff there -- the wider speech bandwidth really added a lot of clarity to the caller's voice, and additionally, the noisy traffic from the caller's end was well suppressed at where it'd otherwise crackle over a normal call.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: british, Carrier, customers, disappointing, engadget, glory-starting, hd-voice, Mobile Phone, nokia, nokia e5, orange, voice