Acer Liquid Metal S120 spotted running Android 2.2 on AT&T bands in FCC
Rumors of a 3.6-inch 800 x 480 Liquid Metal handset from Acer have been heating up in recent months. Now the aluminum handset said to be housing an 800MHz Qualcomm MSM7230-1 processor just cleared the FCC sporting GSM/EDGE 850/1900 and WCDMA Band II and V making it the perfect candidate for an AT&T launch. The listing also confirms Android 2.2 Froyo, GPS, Bluetooth, and 802.11b/g/n WiFi on the tested model S120 DVT2 (that's Design Verification Test 2) prototype
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: acer, after-the-break, aluminum, design, edge, fcc, gps, Metal, north, perfect, qualcomm, spotted-running, wcdma
T-Mobile G2 said to have ‘hardware rootkit’ that restricts modifications
Say it with us now: "Here we go again." Just months after a particular eFuse predicament left legions of Droid X owners fuming, it seems that an all-too-familiar scenario is presenting itself to the earliest of T-Mobile G2 buyers. As the story goes, there's a problematic microchip embedded into the handset which "prevents device owners from making permanent changes that allow custom modifications to the the Android operating system." That's according to a lengthy New America report on the issue, which outright proclaims that a hardware rootkit "restricts modifications to a device owned by the user." In other words, if you install some fishy (or not fishy, for that matter) third party ROM, the phone is capable of overriding your software changes and reinstalling the original firmware -- makes perfect sense considering how earlier roots were " vanishing " post-reboot. Needless to say, this isn't exactly going over well with the tinkering community, and a 40+ page thread has already exploded over at xda developers .
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: ample, earliest, engadget, legions, mobile, nonsense, perfect, result, root, Roots, stock, time, tinkering, xda-developers
Game Gripper makes grand entrance on Nokia’s N900 (video)
Say what you will about Nokia 's strategy (or lack thereof ), but there's no denying that the N900 is one capable gaming machine.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: complete, controller, game, gripper, level, machine, n900, nokia, nokia-n900, nokian900, perfect, peripheral, result, roms, sense
Motorola Quench (and CLIQ?) XT3 / XT5 get an FCC reveal
Remember that so-called XT502 "Greco" from Motorola that the Bluetooth SIG slipped a few details on last month? We can't blame you if you don't, so allow us to refresh your memory: it's supposedly a full-touch Android device with 850 / 1900 / 2100MHz 3G, and from the looks of the tiny, crappy image they'd posted, it'd probably be a midrange phone.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: codenamed, details-on-last, fcc, greco, handset, memory, motorola, perfect, quench, quench xt3, quenchxt5, time
iPhone 4′s retina display claim put under the math microscope
Samsung might have entertained us with some trash talk about the iPhone 4's IPS LCD yesterday, but this stuff is of a rather more somber variety.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: density, display, eyesight, iphone4, math-microscope, perfect, raymond soneira, vision
Garmin-Asus Garminfone review
The holy matrimony between smartphone and personal navigation device just keeps getting stronger, scorning dedicated GPS units like forgotten flings and leaving navigation-free handsets wandering lost and alone. Garmin-Asus has been flirting with the perfect bond with its Nuvifone series for some time now, but rather tragically from a branding perspective its strongest attempt yet comes without the nuvi moniker. It's the T-Mobile Garminfone, and its Android underpinnings go a long way toward making the best mix of PND and smartphone to date.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: asus, engadget, featured, garmin-asus, garminfone, gps, its-strongest, perfect, perspective, pnd, smartphone
Wii Controller Demo gets active, Android and Wiimote handle Donkey Kong on video
We knew the Wii Controller Demo app (now known as "Wii Controller IME") was close to being able to interact with Android in a meaningful way, but we certainly didn't expect to see Average Joes playing Donkey Kong on their Nexus One devices this soon. Not that we're kvetching or anything -- and in fact, we'd argue that this landed at a perfect time for you hard-workin' Android owners to give this all a spin over the weekend
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one, nintendo Tags: coconuts, controller, donkey, emulator, googleandroid, kong-on-video, nexus one, nexusone, perfect, wii controller demo, wii remote, wiicontrollerdemo, wiimote
Keepin’ it real fake, part CCLVI: BlueBerry gets upgraded with optical pad
You see, this isn't our first run-in with BlueBerry . Nay -- this is a firm that has shadowed Waterloo's moves for some time, so when it came time for the real thing to make the transition from trackballs to optical pads, the Shenzhen doppelganger naturally had to follow suit. The result is this here BlueBerry 9500, a device that looks more like a Bold 9500 grafted to a Nokia E72 than it does a Bold 9700 -- but hey, for folks torn between their Finnish and Canadian loyalties, this might be the perfect solution.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: access, blueberry, dual, perfect, Retractable, Sheet, sheet-includes, trackballs, Transition, wifi, world
N900 gains PS3 Sixaxis control over SNES gaming (video)
Even if the N900 isn't quite ready for mass market appeal, that doesn't mean that it's not the perfect device for many of the Engadget elite. With impressive power and out-of-the-box hackability , this QWERTY handset is a tinkerers dream. In fact, Tomasz Sterna has already recompiled the kernel to add joystick (and mouse) support
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: dinosaurs, engadget, finished, impressive, maemo, n900, nokia, perfect, power, Snes, turn-the-n900
China Unicom profits down 50 percent, NTT DoCoMo up by the same margin
Call it proof that there's a global wireless karma equilibrium, if you will, that needs to be maintained: China Unicom has warned that its net profit for 2009 will be down a whopping 50 percent, while one of its doppelgangers across the Sea of Japan -- NTT DoCoMo -- has encountered exactly the opposite fortune on news that it has posted a 48 percent year-over-year improvement in black ink.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: china, china-unicom, engadget-mobile, fortune-on-news, handsets, ntt-docomo, over-the-course, perfect, profit, start, wireless