Android 2.3 Gingerbread in pictures
You may not be able to get Android 2.3 loaded in any official capacity on your Nexus One yet -- or any other phone, for that matter -- but Google's 2.3 SDK is now available, which means there's an emulator attached, too.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one, Other Tags: apps, bearing-on-how, copy-the-text, engadget, equivalents, gingerbread, glows, Menus, performance, prefer-the-new, ter, the-performance
Qualcomm teases 28nm dual-core Snapdragons, pixel-punching Adreno 300 GPU
By the time Qualcomm's 1.5GHz QSD8672 Snapdragon finally makes it to market , it might be obsolete -- the company just announced that the new 28nm dual-core MSM8960 system-on-a-chip will have five times the performance and consume 75 percent less power than the original Snapdragon when it arrives in 2011. It's got the usual WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and FM radio modules but also a multi-mode LTE / 3G modem too, and reportedly four times the graphical muscle on board. Speaking of graphics, Qualcomm seperately took the time to detail a new GPU: the Qualcomm Adreno 300 series, which will allegedly offer the gaming performance of an Xbox 360 or PS3
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: adreno, adreno 300, dual-core, engadget, modules, msm8960, performance, qualcomm snapdragon, qualcomm-adreno, radio
AT&T: 80 percent of network now upgraded to HSPA+
AT&T promised that it would be expanding its HSPA+ rollout this year, and it's now finally touting some actual results.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: att, data, entry, expanding-its, hspa, johndonovan, Mobile Data, mobile data use, performance, three-thousan, traffic-growth
iOS 4.2 bringing speed improvements to iPhone 3G?
The recent iOS updates have mostly been welcome improvements for iPhone 4 and 3GS users, but it's been a decidedly different story for folks sticking to their venerable iPhone 3G . Not only have they been left out of some of the fun , but they were dealt a serious performance hit with iOS 4.0 that was only somewhat corrected by IOS 4.1. Could iOS 4.2 finally bring things back up to speed
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: Fingers, gold, ios, official, official-update, performance, story, their-results, their-venerable, venerable, your-fingers
Nokia N900 firmware PR 1.3 goes live
The addition of support for the full Ovi Suite and "performance improvements" are the only two items listed in the Nokia N900's latest published firmware update, but there's a third item skulking around that Nokia seems less willing to talk about: "easy" (albeit experimental) MeeGo dual-boot support, as promised in a recent posting on MeeGo's official site. We suppose the capability isn't mentioned because Nokia has said on no uncertain terms that the use of MeeGo on the N900 is an unsupported configuration -- but seeing how the N900 has been a hacker's delight from day one, we fully expect hundreds of thousands of the machines to be happily booting up the new platform within a day or three of this firmware breaking loose
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: firmware-update, hacker, machines, maemo, n900, nokia, ovi, performance, skulking, thousands, uncertain, update, upgrade
Official Twitter app for Windows Phone 7 goes live (update: hands-on)
Surprise of surprises! On the day that Europeans finally got to dig into the Windows Phone 7 cake in earnest, Twitter's official app for the hot new platform has also gone live. We've downloaded it to our own WP7 device and are having a play around with it now.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apps, bugbear, europeans, exiting, going-on-behind, gordon, launch, live, performance, scratch, twitter, twitter-app, windows-phone, wp7
Latest smartphone displays pitted in no-holds-barred deathmatch
If you're a numbers geek, you're trying to be scientific about your next smartphone purchase, or you just like pretty colors, you might appreciate DisplayMate's latest report rounding up examples of all (well, most) of the latest and greatest display technologies out there: IPS LCD, Super AMOLED , AMOLED, and TFT, represented by the iPhone 4 and Droid , the Galaxy S , the Nexus One , and the iPhone 3GS , respectively. Noticeably missing is SLCD , the technology HTC has been using to make up for lost ground on its AMOLED shortage from component supplier Samsung, but we've got a hunch DisplayMate's hard at work at adding that into the mix. Anyhow, considering the sheer number of variables the firm takes into consideration -- everything from color depth, to brightness, to reflectance, to color gamut -- there's no clear-cut winner, but the Droid and iPhone 4 are obviously a cut above the rest with generally higher scores and better performance across the board
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: decent, displaymate, engadget, galaxy, ground-on-its, nexus, nexusone, performance, reflectance, result, super amoled, superamoled, tft, variables
Einstein brings Newton OS to the iPhone, handwriting recognition and all
Palm OS on the iPhone? Check . Android on the iPhone
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: diy, einstein, engadget, hand writing recognition, handwriting, ios, melcher, operating-systems, optimizations, performance, Recognition, retro, source, systems, the-much-hyped
LG talks up Optimus smartphone line: 10 devices by year end, NVIDIA’s Tegra for high-end model, tablet will be ‘productive’
LG's Ally might be scratching at the boring end of the Android landscape right now, but LG certainly isn't stopping with one smartphone on the market in 2010. LG stated on Wednesday that it's pouring some mega cash on R&D and marketing to play catch up, and it plans to release a whopping 10 smartphones by the end of the year, projecting sales of 5 million units in that time. The low-end Optimus One kicks things off in September with a whopping 120 carriers globally, but LG also said it has a dual-core Tegra based handset in the works for the performance minded.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: ally, certainly-isn, from-the-ipad, froyo, landscape, landscape-right, one-smartphone, optimus, optimusone, performance, smartphone, supposedly, tegra2, u2300-optimus
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 gets software update (and no, it’s not Eclair)
Sony Ericsson had previously committed to the fourth quarter for an update to Android 2.1 on its X10 , and as far as we know, that date's still holding firm -- in other words, the update that's now rolling out to units around the world is still the same old Donut you're used to.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: engadget-mobile, mobile, performance, result, sony, sony-ericsson, sonyericsson, still-the-same, update, upgrade, x10, xperia-x10, xperiax10