Engadget Mobile Podcast 054 – 09.19.2010
It's Nokia versus HTC in this week's smackdown edition of the Engadget Mobile Podcast, with a dollop of Windows Phone 7 and Motorola flavor to keep you up on what's going down in the wireless universe.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: chris-ziegler, engadget mobile podcast, engadget-mobile, entry, marketplace, mobile, motorola-charm, myriam, podcast, universe, windows, windows-phone, wireless, ziegler
Engadget Mobile Podcast 052 – 08.27.2010
This edition of the Engadget Mobile Podcast is all about you. Well, not all about you, but about 80 percent you. You've got questions, we've got answers -- especially in this special Q&A edition.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: chris-ziegler, engadget-mobile, engadgetmobilepodcast, entry, international, motorola-charm, podcast, result, zune
Motorola Charm up for grabs at T-Mobile today
How perfectly punctual: the Motorola Charm has popped up on T-Mobile's website right on time and right on the money. While today marks the first day the Charm has been ready for online purchase, we've actually been hearing from a few folks that they've been available here and there since the weekend -- so if you already have it in your pocket, well played.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: charm, engadget-mobile, factor, golden-bronze, marks-the-first, mostly-unique, motorola, motorola-charm, motorolacharm, online-purchase, Purchase, result, right-on-time
Motorola Charm hitting T-Mobile on August 25 at an ‘affordable’ price
T-Mobile USA just dropped the knowledge on Twitter that it'll be carrying the Motorola Charm starting next Wednesday, August 25 -- but what it failed to mention is pricing. For what it's worth, the company does specifically say that it'll be "affordable" -- and although a marketing department's definition of "affordable" can be very different from ours, we're encouraged by a handful of previous rumors that there would be ways to get it for free on contract . If you need us to jog your memory, the Charm is a cute little portrait QWERTY Android device with a Kodak-branded 3 megapixel cam and landscape display, giving it a rare form factor that could very well appeal to a whole new audience (read: BlackBerry folks).
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, breaking-news, breakingnews, definition, handful, Kodak, landscape, megapixel, memory, motorola, motorola-charm, twitter
T-Mobile’s Motorola Charm to go for a big, fat zilch on family plan activations?
The poster here that we've received today kind of speaks for itself, we'd say. By all appearances, it seems that T-Mobile intends to continue its tradition of making family plans attractive with blowout handset pricing -- and the next model to get the free treatment will be Motorola's upcoming Charm featuring Android packed into a form factor that you rarely (well, never see) for the platform. Realistically, $100 is probably the high end of the reasonable range for something with the Charm's specs, but at $0, it's a downright bargain compared to the typical free-on-contract dumbphone fare.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: all-appearances, bargain, blowout, engadget-mobile, entry, Family Plan, familyplan, handset-pricing, mobile, moto, motorola, motorola-charm, reasonable, treatment, zilch
Engadget Mobile Podcast 046 – 07.10.2010
A lot happened this week -- a lot of Android stuff, to be specific. It's almost like the androids are trying to get back at the apples from last week. Hosts: Chris Ziegler, Myriam Joire ( tnkgrl ) Producer: Trent Wolbe Music: Daestro - Light Powered ( Ghostly International ) 01:32 - Fring update approved for iPhone, does video calling with front cam over 3G 07:10 - Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini / Mini Pro review 11:05 - HTC Aria 17:20 - Samsung Intercept for Sprint now totally official: July 11 for $100 22:20 - T-Mobile and HTC to launch first 21Mbps HSPA+ smartphone in September 34:41 - T-Mobile-flavored Motorola MB710 gets FCC approval 38:53 - Motorola Charm official for T-Mobile: portrait QWERTY Android at long last 45:10 - Listener questions Hear the podcast Subscribe to the podcast [ iTunes ] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes [ RSS MP3 ] Add the Engadget Mobile Podcast feed (in MP3) to your RSS aggregator and have the show delivered automatically [ RSS AAC ] Add the Engadget Mobile Podcast feed (in enhanced AAC) to your RSS aggregator [ Zune ] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in the Zune Marketplace Download the podcast LISTEN (MP3) LISTEN (AAC) Contact the podcast podcast (at) engadgetmobile (dot) com.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: apples, htc, motorola-charm, podcast, update-approved, ziegler, zpower, zune
Motorola Charm official for T-Mobile: portrait QWERTY Android at long last
The rumored Charm has just gotten a proper unveiling from Motorola -- and while it's not getting nearly the media fanfare its Droid X corporate cousin did, it's arguably even more unique. The phone features a full portrait QWERTY keyboard placed directly below a 2.8-inch landscape touchscreen, but for most operations, you don't have to touch it if you don't want to because you've also got a touchpad mounted on the back of the phone (the so-called "Backtrack") much like AT&T's Backflip . Not only is this the first widely-launched Android phone to employ such a form factor, it's also the first to run Android 2.1 with Blur -- and interestingly, they've carried over the old version's general look and feel rather than going with the Droid X's updated skin
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: backtrack, blur, charm, corporate, droid, media, motorola-charm, summer
Motorola Charm spotted in T-Mobile ad, free on contract for back-to-schoolers?
Advertising a product before it's even official, what could be more patriotic? TmoNews has a convincing (but still unconfirmed) picture of a T-Mobile "Back to School" poster featuring Samsung :), Gravity T, Gravity 3 , and...
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: advertising, apparently-free, charm, motorola-charm, phone, product-before, promotion, result, t mo, tmo
Motorola Charm coming to T-Mobile with ‘enhanced’ Android 2.1 Motoblur? Update promised for CLIQ and CLIQ XT?
Usual rules apply -- we can't independently confirm this at the moment -- but a tipster has sent us what appears to be T-Mobile training materials for an upcoming Motoblur-infused candybar smartphone, the Motorola Charm. Only this Motoblur is allegedly powered by Android 2.1 and boasts the same scalable widgets as we saw on Droid X , in addition to improved Facebook / Twitter integration (hello, Like and Retweet) and the usual Eclair refinements.As far as the hardware is concerned, there isn't much to glean from it at this point, aside from a textured QWERTY keyboard reminiscent of the CLIQ and a "camera" button denoting some form of memory-capturing capabilities. Speaking of which, the materials mention that the enhanced Motoblur is heading to CLIQ and CLIQ XT .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: button-denoting, cliqxt, facebook, leak, moto blur, motorola-charm, reminder, t mobile, tmobile