Google’s Eric Schmidt says Android is profitable, could eventually be a $10 billion business
It may not exactly be a huge surprise given the recent market share numbers , but Google CEO Eric Schmidt has recently confirmed that Android is, in fact, profitable for the company.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: advertising, ceo, cover-the-cost, engadget, entry, eric, eric-schmidt, ericschmidt, money, perspective, revenue, rubin, schmidt, source
Engadget’s Darren Murph nabs Guinness World Record for most blog posts ever written!
We always knew Darren Murph had oodles of talent and was extremely prolific -- but now the man has got the paper to seriously prove it. Our own Mr. Murph was just awarded the Guinness World Record for most posts ever by a blogger.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: breaking-news, category, engadget, murph, peace, perspective, since-surpassed, word
WebOS 2.0 gets fresh round of screenshots; new Palm phones and Touchstone certified?
The name of certification firm T
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: memory, model, models, perspective, result, screen-shots, touchstone, webos, webos 2.0
Windows Phone 7 has tethering support, up to carriers whether to enable it
Sound familiar? For Windows Phone 7 , seems like Microsoft's taking an angle shared by both Apple and Google on a feature that enjoys a tenuous relationship at best with network operators, saying that data tethering will be available but it'll be up to carriers to decide whether to offer it
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: doubt, entry, giants, microsoft, perspective, result, tenuous
Nokia software engineer says ‘hardware rules,’ software follows
Care for a little more insight into Nokia's smartphone development habits? In an email to our pal John Gruber, a former Nokia software engineer has laid out his perspective on why the Finnish phone maker seems to be struggling in that lucrative high-end smartphone market: "Here's the problem: Hardware Rules at Nokia. The software is written by the software groups inside of Nokia, and it is then given to the hardware group, which gets to decide what software goes on the device, and the environment in which it runs.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: maybe-the-winds, nokia, operatingsystem, perspective, taken-the-helm, windows, windows-phone
Dell Streak review redux: thoughts from the New World
If you've been following the ongoing saga of Dell's Streak , you've probably already read our review of O2 UK's version -- thing is, the British perspective can be very different from the Yankee one (we didn't see eye-to-eye during the War of 1812, for instance). To that end, we wanted to circle back now that the gargantuan Android beast is finally coming close to a US release and get another quick take. As a refresher, this thing matches or exceeds the specs you'd expect to find on any modern high-end smartphone in most respects, starting with a 1GHz Snapdragon core, a 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, 850 / 1900MHz 3G for use on AT&T, Rogers, Bell, and Telus, and 2GB of internal storage coupled with a bundled and pre-installed 16GB microSDHC card.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: dell, during-the-war, mini 5, perspective, result, yankee
Ericsson estimates mobile lines have hit 5 billion, gives shout out to China and India for the help
Ericsson -- one of the world's top-tier infrastructure suppliers for mobile networks -- has crunched some numbers recently, figuring the five billionth cellphone line came into existence last Wednesday, July 8, largely from major surges in uptake in emerging markets like China and India. Mobile broadband access (which we take to mean access to 3G speeds and beyond) still trails significantly at just 360 million in 2009, though they're predicting a cool 3.4 billion users by 2015
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: earth, growth, india-mobile, infrastructure, over-the-decade, perspective, subscription, suppliers
HTC EVO 4G meets magnetic macro lens, shoots gorgeous closeups
As phone accessories go, protruding lens attachments are rarely top of our wishlist , but this one here might just alter our perspective a little bit. Good and EVO have gone to the trouble of obtaining a magnetically mountable macro lens to test out how well the EVO 4G 's camera performs with a little more optical prowess. The answer is that in spite of the inevitably goofy appearance, the jumbo Android handset delivered some highly impressive imagery, getting really up close and personal with its subjects and picking out exquisitely tiny details.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: accessory, evo4g, inevitably, macro lens, magnetic, optics, perspective, wishlist
Verizon looking to partner up for rural LTE deployments
If you're wondering why T-Mobile doesn't have 3G in the middle of the Mojave, the answer's pretty simple: it's hard for any of the Big Four to justify spending millions of dollars on infrastructure in sparsely-populated areas. Rather than ignore it and leave the spectrum blank, though, Verizon's asking other companies to step in and share the responsibilities -- sort of -- by letting partners do most of the hard work (build towers and operate backhaul) while Big Red chips in its 700MHz spectrum holdings and "core LTE equipment." Presumably, Verizon will help itself to a share of the proceeds, which from their perspective, makes it look like a win-win scenario: they're helping to bring 4G technology to underserved areas, doing less work and spending less capital than they'd have to otherwise, and profiting off the spirit of an initiative that FCC chief Julius Genachowski is pushing very, very hard at the moment. And hey, we bet you'll be getting some insane throughput when you're rocking the LTE modem in the middle of nowhere
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: backhaul, companies, engadget, getting-some, middle, perspective, pretty-simple, spending-less, Spirit, underserved
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