TeliaSonera already upgrading LTE network, ‘practical speeds’ of up to 80Mbps promised
There's no rest for the wicked -- and perhaps nothing in the world of wireless describes "wicked" better than Nordic carrier TeliaSonera , which holds the distinction of having deployed the world's first commercial LTE network last year. Thing is, the network's been taking a little heat for being effectively no faster than some of the recent HSPA+ deployments around the globe, but no worries -- they're already working on it
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 100mbps, backhaul, Carrier, distinction, engadget, engadget-mobile, extra-bandwidth, globe, mobile, sweden, upgrade, world
Are the windows mobile phones coming out from HTC also android phones?
I have heard that HTC phones coming out as imago are Windows Mobile phones, but I still hear references to those phones Android. Are one or the other or both and if both can download Windows Mobile applications and the Android application market?
Unreal Engine 3 up and running on webOS, and we’ve got video!
Palm just showed us the Unreal Engine 3 running on webOS, which apparently took a couple weeks to port over to the platform using that fancy new PDK . It runs at a pretty smooth clip, with just a tiny bit of artifacting in our enemy's death animation. As an added bit of wow factor, Palm has it currently setup to demonstrate the game at 1 fps when in card view
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: engine, iphone, mobile, problem, tiny, unreal, unreal engine, unreal engine 3
DARPA looking to develop iPhone and Android apps, App Store
Sure, in the past we've got a hearty chuckle out of initiatives that involved Redfly terminals and Clippy variants , but the question remains: how can we get cutting-edge tech into the hands of soldiers faster? We've recently come across some RFIs for DARPA projects aimed at developing apps and an App Store for Android and the iPhone OS, with two in particular -- Mobile Apps for the Military (DARPA-SN-10-27), and Transformative Apps (DARPA-BAA-10-41) -- catching our eye. The agency is calling for apps for battlefield, humanitarian, and disaster recovery missions, including command and control, mission planning, surveillance, reconnaissance, and language translation
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: app store, appstore, check-the-links, contractor, engadget, language, manhattan, mobile, network, transformative
Casio G’zOne Brigade now officially available on Verizon
It's no mere coincidence that folks have been able to pick up Brigades this week , because Verizon's chosen today to officially light up retail availability of its latest in the long-running G'zOne series from Casio.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: available-today, brigade, engadget-mobile, gzone, gzone brigade, mobile, possibly-come, rocky-activity, start-planning, verizon
T-Mobile webConnect Rocket available March 14, already blowing minds in Philly
It looks like T-Mobile's webConnect Rocket USB modem will be released right on schedule, even if you currently have to be in Philadelphia to enjoy those HSPA+ speeds (then again, if you're in Philadelphia you probably deserve a break). Accordingly, folks jumping on that March 14 release date can expect to pay $99 with a two-year contract that entitles you to monthly charges of $50 for 5GB or $20 for 200MB -- with a $0.20 / megabyte overage charge. Fun! Additionally, the kids at Mobile Burn got their hands on a unit for a review and were generally quite impressed with consistent download speeds ranging from 1780Kbps to 2797Kbps "on a couple of [DSLreports.com] East Coast servers." Hell, after moving to a location with "prime, perfect signal (-51dbm)" things picked up considerably, with, on average, 6480Kbps downloads and 2160Kbps uploads.
Categories: Mobile Phone, htc Tags: after-the-break, charge, downloads, hspa, kids, mobile, monthly-charges, philadelphia, webconnect rocket, webconnectrocket
HTC Legend review
After four three flavors of the HTC Hero , the Taiwanese mobile giant has finally brought back the chin with an additional lick of aluminum and a similarly quirky name -- the Legend.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, htc Tags: amoled, engadget, entry, hero, htc-sense-ui, life, mobile, mobile-giant, performance, phone, quality
LG shows off Cookie Music, Viewty Smile, other goodies to Dutch press
Unwilling or unable to wait for the next major trade show ( CTIA in two weeks), LG showed off a king's ransom worth of new devices to a bunch of journos in the Netherlands this week; most of it appears to be pretty low-end fare, but there were a few notables in the lot. First up, the Cookie Music extends the Cookie brand with Dolby Mobile tech on board (something LG's been doing pretty frequently lately), a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a tweaked design that looks a little more futuristic than Cookies of old. Viewty was starting to feel like a forgotten marque, but not so -- we've now got a GT400 Viewty Smile here featuring a 5 megapixel cam and scratch-resistant display.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: cookie, cookie music, cookiemusic, engadget-mobile, gm205, ks365, mobile, netherlands, qwerty, true-successor, viewty, viewty smile, viewtysmile
Ubuntu hits HTC’s Touch Pro2, is any Windows Mobile handset safe? (video)
If there's one thing we're pretty sure Windows Phone 7 Series will be worse at than its Windows Mobile precursor it's in the running of various and sundry other operating systems. We've seen Android running on seemingly every WinMo handset ever created and more recently Ubuntu has been receiving the mobile treatment.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: ebay, htc, mobile, modder, moments, precursor, touch, touch-pro2, ubuntu 8.04, windows-phone, winmo
Verizon selling Casio Brigade on the downlow?
It feels like the Brigade's been in the public conscience for forever and a day (and let's be honest, November is forever and a day ago by phone standards), but amazingly, Casio's latest rugged G'zOne for Verizon still isn't being offered -- at least, not in any official capacity. It seems some HowardForums posters have managed to order and receive their Brigades by calling the carrier's telesales directly, and a few uploaded shots of the boxed QWERTY clamshell is enough to have us believing it's the real deal. For what it's worth, this tends to happen pretty frequently with Verizon -- they'll start selling and shipping new devices over the phone a couple weeks before announcing availability or offering them via the web -- so it doesn't come as much of a surprise that we're going down the same road again here, and a few brick and mortar locations have apparently started to take delivery, too.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: casio-brigade, down-the-same, engadget-mobile, mobile, over-the-phone, phone, verizon-wireless, vzw