Dell Streak gets ripped to shreds by iFixit, Blondie reportedly satisfied at last
Our friends at iFixit have made short work of the Dell Streak , doing what they do best. They've torn apart everyone's favorite giant mobile phone (or is it a tiny tablet?), and found some interesting innards in the process.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: cameras, cellphones, dell streak, dellstreak, extremely-easy, gets-ripped, ifixit, Mobile Phone, phone, reportedly-satisfied, shreds, streak
Dell Streak gets leaked Android 2.1 update in the UK, but still the same ol’ 1.6 in the US
What is there to do on a cloudy Friday in Britain? Why, scouring the web for your phone's firmware update, of course.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: dellstreak, expect-the-link, firmware-update, keyboard, Mobile Phone, mobilephone, news, sluggish, smartphone, streak
iPod touch becomes iPhone using Yosion’s Apple Peel 520?
Oh sure, VoIP on the iPod touch is hardly breaking news these days, but what if you could actually slap on a regular SIM card and make calls on said device? That's what Yosion's appropriately named Apple Peel 520 claims to do. Powered by an Infineon baseband chip, this adapter not only offers voice calling and text messaging (presumably requiring a jailbroken iPod touch for the apps; GPRS not possible yet), but it also doubles up as an 800mAh battery and provides 4.5 hours of call time or 120 hours of standby juice
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apps, cellphone, demo, engadget, ipod, ipod-touch, maybe-the-demo, messaging, Mobile Phone, potentially, time-or-120, voip, yosion, yosion technology
Samsung dispatching free Galaxy S handsets to iPhone 4 whiners on Twitter?
Well this is one lucky Tiffany here, but she's not alone. Wired UK was first to report that Samsung's been quietly dishing out free Galaxy S handsets (the European flavor) to a few lucky British Twitter users. How so?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: antenna, captivate, cellphone, digital, exception, galaxy, handsets, like-the-korean, Mobile Phone, mobilephone, samsung, typography
Pantech’s Vega IM-A650S launched in Korea, packs Android 2.1 and a bit of kimchi
Pan-who? You know, the guys behind the long-forgotten Helio devices? Doesn't matter, because the Korean firm's back with a follow-up model to its Sirius Android handset.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: entry, firm, follow-up-model, im-a650s, internal, mobile, Mobile Phone, pantech, phone, samsung, sky
Huawei’s Android 2.2 entry-level phone spied in China, coming in August
Froyo may already be out to the masses in one form or another , but it ain't doing much good with just the one phone semi-officially supporting this Android release, while some other devices are only given a vague release window for the update.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, chinese, connectivity, led, Mobile Phone, mobilephone, month-or-two, release, smartphone, spy-shot, spyshot, touchscreen, update, vague, vague-release
3G video call on Fring for Android: bringing HTC EVO 4G and Dell Streak together (hands-on)
Consider this: you may have an Android phone with a front-facing camera, and so do your distant loved ones (yes, friends count too). Now slap that free IM app Fring onto your phone, and the once-dormant chat camera shall finally come to life -- right now only the Streak and EVO 4G are confirmed to be supported, whereas the others (like the X10 ) will have to rely on their main cameras
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: call-on-fring, camera, chat, fring, htc, Mobile Phone, phone, unlimited-data, video, x10
Apple brushes off NPD’s smartphone report, says it sees ‘no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon’
Fresh off NPD's latest Mobile Phone Track report claiming that Android has leapfrogged the iPhone in US sales, Apple is commenting on the numbers -- and as you might expect, they're not exactly taking a congratulatory tone with Google. Speaking to AllThingsD 's John Paczkowski, Cupertino had this to say: "This is a very limited report on 150,000 US consumers responding to an online survey and does not account for the more than 85 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide. IDC figures show that iPhone has 16.1 percent of the smartphone market and growing, far outselling Android on a worldwide basis.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: accuracy, department, engadget, factual, google-speaking, iphone, mobile, Mobile Phone, mobile phone track, smartphone, summer, worldwide
Vodafone UK to bring HTC Legend on April 2nd, still mum on date for Desire
Compared to some gadgets , a two-week waiting period is only as painful as a mere mosquito bite, but we're pretty sure that British fans of the HTC Legend would strongly disagree. Thankfully, our friends over at TechRadar ended this torture today with the news that Vodafone UK finally has a date for its exclusive Legend -- "arriving on 2 April." This presumably refers to stock availability in retail stores, since Vodafone is still honoring its website's April 6th date for its pre-order deliveries. As for the Desire , Vodafone's still pointing at the April window, which provides plenty of time to choose between the various UK carriers
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, htc Tags: engadget-mobile, entry, friends, htc-desire, htclegend, Mobile Phone, news, phone, release-date, releasedate, shop, vodafone, vodafone-uk
Samsung acquires ‘Android’ trademark for mobile hardware sales in Korea
As it turns out, Korea operates two separate trademark systems for hardware and software.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: authorities, chocolate, clearly-decided, intellectualproperty, korea, korean, legal, manufacturers, Mobile Phone, result