BlackBerry Curve 8980 shows up in FCC, offers some glam shots
Despite the more recent releases of the Curve 8500 series and the Curve 3G , RIM has never really offered up a true successor to the venerable Curve 8900 -- a device some would argue remains the prettiest that Waterloo has ever manufactured. Indeed, with the QVGA display and meager cam on the 3G, there's a pretty magnificent gap between it and the business-class Bold 9700 / 9780...
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: approval, business, curve, curve 8980, engadget, Filing, model, recent-releases, res, result, rim, venerable, waterloo
Samsung Stealth V outed with DLNA certification: 4.3-inch screen, Android 2.2?
DLNA certification, you're quite the talker. Following in the famed traditions of FCC and Bluetooth SIG leaks, it now looks like we've got a bit of information on the Samsung Stealth V
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: 4.3Inch, amoled, dlna, galaxy, leaks, model, model-number, mysterious, over-802-11b, stealth, talker, the-4-3-inch, these-pieces, traditions
Dell Venue hits the FCC: is this the Thunder’s new name?
Yes, that's right, just "Venue," not Venue Pro -- and from a glance, it looks to us like this might be the new name for the Thunder Android phone we played with a little while ago judging by this FCC filing that just crossed the wires. As far as we can tell, this thing is basically a carbon copy of the Venue Pro, except it's running Android instead of Windows Phone 7 and drops the sliding portrait keyboard in favor of a full-touch setup
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: carbon, engadget, entry, fcc, glance, model, smartphone, Thunder, windowsphone7
Nokia C5-03: end of the year, €170, runs Symbian^1 for some reason
Doesn't it seem a little odd for Nokia to be launching any new touchscreen devices on Symbian^1 now that Symbian^3's been loosed courtesy of the N8 and C7 ? Alas, it looks like there'll be at least one new model running the old code -- in this case, the low-end C5-03
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: engadget-mobile, entry, model, nokia, pretty-amazing, result, symbian, wifi
Samsung Freeform II freestyles its way onto MetroPCS
Don't expect any improvements in the 1.3 megapixel camera, but the reworked Freeform II from Samsung has at least one thing going for it over the model it replaces : a QVGA display. It seems hard to believe, but ye olde Freeform clocked in at just 220 x 176, so 320 x 240 is certainly a welcome improvement
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bluetooth, capability, freeformii, media-player, metropcs, mobile, model, qwerty, samsung
WebOS 2.0 gets fresh round of screenshots; new Palm phones and Touchstone certified?
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Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: memory, model, models, perspective, result, screen-shots, touchstone, webos, webos 2.0
Samsung Galaxy S update to Froyo leaks
Far be it from us to use a screen shot as proof that Android 2.2 has been ported to a particular device -- they're impossibly easy to 'shop and hack, after all -- but there's a groundswell of information today that a legit build of Froyo is in the wild for the Samsung i9000, better known as the Galaxy S .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: bet, desire, fire, leak, leaks, model, Rapid, samsung, samsung-galaxy, upgrade
Droid Pro is the global Droid 2: the evidence grows
We'd reported before our belief that the rumored Droid Pro is nothing more than the dual-mode version of the Droid 2 , but the question remained: knowing that the Droid 2 has a model code of A955, what the heck is the difference between the model codes A956 and A957 that have been showing up in Verizon's systems? Looks like we might have some clarification on that question this afternoon thanks to a new shot clearly calling out the A957 as the R2-D2 version of the Droid 2 that's launching late next month. What does that mean
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: awful-business, belief, clarification, droid 2 world edition, droid pro, droid2, droidpro, dual, evidence, heck, launching-late, model, screen, tipster, verizonwireless
Sprint’s 3G-capable Airave from Airvana starts shipping
Corporate-owned Sprint stores that we've called don't seem to know what we're talking about, but at least one reader has managed to get Sprint telesales to ship him one of its long-rumored upgraded Airaves from Airvana that supports EV-DO (the original model sported 1xRTT only for data). Our tipster tells us this bad boy will run up to six simultaneous calls -- up from the old Samsung's three -- and although the femtocell supports a VoIP landline connection, Sprint is telling folks that it's not available for use just yet. The jury's still out on whether this looks better than the outgoing model -- but hey, you can always shove it in a corner where no one will notice it; in the short term, the bigger concern will probably be finding a store willing and able to sell it to you
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: boy, corporate-owned, engadget-mobile, femtocell, in the wild, landline, mobile, model, outgoing, result, sprint, telling-folks
Exclusive: Droid Pro is the global version of the Droid 2, LG enV Touch 2 will be Android-powered
We've learned from a source close to the situation that the rumored global version of the Droid 2 with GSM and CDMA radios is actually the same phone as the also-rumored Droid Pro -- although Verizon apparently has a tendency to fiddle with branding right up until the last minute, so the retail name could still change. It's identical to the current Droid 2 in every way except for the fact that it houses a GSM / HSPA radio for global roaming, though we're not able to confirm previous rumors that it'll be available in a white version; presumably, you'll pay a bit more than the Droid 2's $200 on contract for the privilege of being able to take your buddy overseas. Barring any last-minute delays, we should see it launch within weeks