Motorola Bravo, Flipout and Flipside hands-on: hastily handled and summarily shot (video)
Looking for a new Android form factor on AT&T and don't mind a bit of BLUR?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nintendo, Other Tags: engadget-mobile, entry, flipout, flipside, form, hastily-handled, internet, mobile, motoblur, motorola bravo, motorola flipside, motorolaflipside, nintendo, result
NES controller pressed into service to Android overlord (video)
Perhaps the worst, and least repairable, shortcoming of touchscreens is their failure to act as viable game controllers. Keyboard-equipped smartphones alleviate that pain a little (particularly if you pair them with a Game Gripper ), but ultimately we'd all prefer real controllers for our real games. Such was clearly the thinking behind the homebrewed setup here, which combines an HTC EVO 4G -- with Android and an NES emulator inside -- with an Arduino board, a BlueSMiRF Bluetooth module, and a classic NES control pad
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nintendo Tags: bluesmirf, classic, failure, game, mario, mod, nescontroller, nintendo, Pad***, worst
Sharp shows off mobile prototype with 3D screen, 3D camera, and 3D output
We've seen enough home theater 3D already to be well and sick of it, but mobile 3D is still an upcoming sector, one which Sharp seems to be making a bid for.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nintendo Tags: camera, friendly, glasses, ifa 2010, nintendo, parallax-screen, prototype, sharp, shooting-grainy, tech, upcoming-sector
Sony takes aim at iPhone gaming in new PSP ad
Well, it looks like Nintendo isn't the only gaming company that thinks Apple is the " enemy of the future " -- Sony has now also taken aim at iPhone gaming in a new PSP ad featuring Kevin Butler 's pint-sized counterpart, Marcus Rivers. In it, Marcus reminds viewers that the iPhone is built for things like "texting your grandma and calling your girl," while the PSP is "built for big boy games," some of which can be had for as little as $9.99. See the whole thing for yourself after the break.
Carmack blows minds with id Software’s Rage, running on iPhone at 60fps with ‘megatextured’ graphics (video)
We're sorry, but the Palm Pixi's rendition of Need for Speed no longer impresses us -- we've just seen John Carmack show off Rage for iPhone.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nintendo, PS2 Tags: app, awards, brick, course-it-looks, games-critics, john carmack, megatextures, nintendo, shoves-the-cell, speed
NTT DoCoMo looks to sell handheld game manufacturers on 3G
Japanese telecom operator NTT DoCoMo is apparently in talks with heretofore unnamed manufacturers to get its 3G modules embedded in handheld game consoles. "We are discussing this with various players," said company president Ryuji Yamada. The Wall Street Journal makes an educated guess that Nintendo might be one of the "players" (or "ballers," if you will), which sounds pretty good to us: we know that the upcoming Nintendo 3DS handheld is still being tweaked, and including 3G would be a pretty big deal
Categories: Mobile Phone, nintendo Tags: ballers, educated, educated-guess, entry, gameconsole, mexico, nintendo, operator, president, ryuji, various-players
PlayStation emulator coming to Android, courtesy of yongzh and ZodTTD
If you don't know the names yongzh and ZodTTD , you can certainly be forgiven, but they're basically the cell phone emulation dream team -- where the former has been cranking out high-quality Nintendo and Sega emulators for Android, the latter is the one who brought PSX to iPhone , iPhone 3GS and the Palm Pre . Today, we hear they're collaborating on a PSX emulator for Android that's running faster than the 3GS version -- before Froyo's even factored into the equation -- and that when his domination over the PSX is complete, ZodTTD intends to begin work on an Nintendo 64 emulator for Android, and then VLC
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nintendo Tags: domination-over, emulation, emulation-dream, emulator, emulators, entry, n64, nintendo, phone, playstation, psx, psx emulator, running-faster, sega, team
Wii Controller Demo brings your Wiimote and Android phone 2gether, 4ever
Ryan Frawley still has a fair bit of work ahead of him, but his Wii Controller Demo app for Android sure holds an awful lot of promise.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nintendo, Other Tags: controller, entry, google-android, googleandroid, nintendo, paid-version, result, updates-coming, wiicontrollerdemo
Who should buy Palm?
Last night's bombshell news that Palm is allegedly looking for a buyer immediately got us thinking -- who should it be? There are more than a few companies out there who've been caught up in the rumor mill over the years, so let's take a look at a few of the big players, where they stand right now, and how they might benefit (if at all) from scooping up Sunnyvale's finest. Read on! Update: You wanted a poll, you got one
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, nintendo Tags: bombshell-news, engadget, few-companies, from-scooping, htc, moto, nintendo, palm, result, rumor, stand-right, sunnyvale, the-rumor
Editorial: HTC and Palm should get hitched and make beautiful babies
It's no secret that Palm's Hail Mary of 2009 -- webOS and the launch of the Pre -- hasn't been the rousing success that the company so desperately needed.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, nintendo, Other Tags: babies, dell, financier, hail, much-strategic, nintendo, profitability, result, speculation