Nokia’s treatment of MeeGo smartphone UI revealed?
We've already gotten a glimpse at MeeGo's prerelease stock UI for handsets, but just like Symbian , there's no guarantee that the experience is going to be consistent across manufacturers -- and a new video apparently captured from an online survey makes it seem like Nokia might be looking to go in a slightly different direction. The one minute, twenty-nine seconds of footage walks us through five parts -- starting up, the "powerful multitasking UI," getting connected, the Ovi Store experience, and the music player -- and as you might imagine, it's the Ovi Store portion that has us feeling like this is a thoroughly Nokia-customized experience (not to mention the copyright in the lower left). It generally looks richer and more functional than what we've seen before, and parts -- like the webOS -esque multitasking -- remind us of Maemo 5's thumbnails, which makes perfect sense considering MeeGo's roots.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: copyright, entry, experience, intel, meego, music, stock, store
Official: HTC rolling out Android 2.2, 720p video, iTunes sync to unlocked Euro Desires this weekend
We've just heard directly from HTC regarding that hotly anticipated upgrade to Android 2.2: it's happening this weekend for lucky Euroland owners of the Desire. Provided your Sense-laden 3.7-incher is not carrier-locked, you should be receiving your serving of Froyo by the end of the week, together with a new 720p video mode and iTunes sync for your music.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, htc Tags: 720p, 720p video, breakingnews, HDVIDEO, itunes, music, update
Thanko’s Bluetooth earpiece / wristwatch for the on-the-go, shameless tech professional
Thanko has given us much joy over the years, from e-cigarettes to necktie / spy cameras .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bluetooth, cameras, earpiece, engadget, entry, hours, music, the-on-the-go, wristwatch, years
MOG arrives on iPhone, Android with 7.8 million songs but no multitasking mode
The name may sound like something out of a Final Fantasy game, but we hear it stands for Music On the Go, and today MO is doing the name proud by bringing a wide swath of streaming music to Android and iPhone.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, digitaldownloads, Discovery, ios4, music, pony, radio, release, sliders, streaming music
iOS 4 adds direct access to iTunes library, iPhone DJ apps about to get crazy
Although there's been no shortage of iPhone DJ apps in the past few years, they've remained fairly niche, since Apple didn't allow devs official access to the iPod music library -- mobile DJs needed to upload a second separate music library per app, and that's no fun at all. Looks like that's about to change, though: one of the 1500 new APIs in iOS 4 provides direct access to the iPod library, meaning music apps of all kinds can play your tracks in any wacky way they want -- including, yes, scratching them. The first app to support the new API in the store is Flare Scratch, which is a relatively simple scratch app -- we just gave it a shot and yes, it does indeed load tracks from the iPod library and let you scratch 'em.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: access, apis, djapp, entry, from-the-ipod, ios, iphone, ipod, library, music, scratch, second-separate, transitions
Pew’s 2010 Mobile Access survey shows more people are doing more things on their phones
As smartphones continue to extend their pocket-swelling domination of the mobile market, it should come as no surprise that people are less worried about talking and more concerned with doing other stuff on their handsets than ever before. But, still, if you want some hard numbers to make you feel better about making such conclusions, the Pew Research Center 's 2010 Mobile Access survey has 'em. Compared to April of last year, 76% of people take pictures of their phones, up from 66%, and over a third play games, up from about a quarter
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: games, mobile, mobile-access, music, recording-video, research, result, smartphone, smartphone usage, statistic
Engadget Mobile Podcast 045 – 07.03.2010
The Engadget Mobile Podcast has a new slogan: You've got questions, we've got answers . You like that
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: engadget-mobile, microsoft, music, myriam, nokia, podcast, podcasts, questions, slogan, wolbe, ziegler
Google setting up music store later this year, looking for search and Android synergy
Remember that chart that pointed out the differences between Google, Apple and Microsoft? Well, it's looking increasingly like Google is intent on filling any and all gaps in its portfolio. Those good old unnamed sources have been talking, originally to CNET last week and to the Wall Street Journal today, and disclosing Google's supposed intent to introduce its very own music store.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: digital content, digitalstore, download-tracks, downloadable music, entry, music, search, search-engine
Nokia completes its N8 video tour with media player and HDMI demo
You've seen parts uno and due already no doubt, so let's dive straight into the third and final installment of Nokia's N8 overview. Today we are treated to the Symbian^3 media player, which continues to closely resemble Apple's Cover Flow , but we're sure the companies will work it out between themselves. That cover-centric interface gets tugged around a few times to show the phone can handle it without lag, and we also get to see a repeat visit from our friend Mr.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: hdmi, music, nokia, phone, press, symbian, symbian3, video, video-tour
DoubleTwist adds some polish to Android with new media player app
Peruse the Android Market this morrow and you might come across a hot new addition from the folks at DoubleTwist. That's right, the iTunes-aping desktop sync manager has gone native on the Android platform and early feedback on its media player implementation has been positive. The free music and video player app does that whole seamless thing quite well, apparently, interfacing directly with your Windows or Mac computerino and porting over relevant playlists, ratings and media
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app, doubletwist app, doubletwist player, doubletwistplayer, download, engadget, itunes, limited, manager, media, media player app, mediaplayer, music, Sync, windows