Windows Phone 7’s short-term future includes phone-to-console gaming, Twitter?
At this point you'd think we covered almost every nook and cranny of Windows Phone 7, from games and UI to a launch device or six , but of course there's a few dust balls of info our swiffer of newsgathering has yet to grab up. Microsoft Canada's Greg Milligan has revealed at a recent Xbox 360 event. The big takeaway is future plans for phone-to-console gaming.
Categories: Mobile Phone, htc Tags: cross-platform, engadget, greg milligan, newsgathering, phone, phone to console, platform, speed, twitter, video
Exclusive: HTC’s Windows Phone 7-equipped T8788 breaks cover for AT&T
In case you needed any more evidence that AT&T is going all-in with Windows Phone 7 , take a gander at this little beast, a phone known only as the HTC T8788 at this point (rest assured, you'll get a snappy, memorable, trademarkable name by the time it's on shelves).
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: gallery, htc, phone, time, windowsphone7, winpho 7, winpho7
LG GW910 slider turns heads at FCC; likes AT&T, Windows Phone 7, and long walks on the beach
So, BEJGW910, we meet at last... or should we call you the LG GW910 with Windows Phone 7
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: act-surprised, entry, fcc, gallery-below, lg gw910, phone, photos, Radar, result
Windows Phone 7 dev tools go gold September 16, Marketplace taking submissions in October
Microsoft's held the line since its February announce that Windows Phone 7 is going to be ready in time for the holidays this year -- and from what we've seen recently , we believe it -- so today they're announcing another small step in the process by finalizing the dev tools that first bowed at MIX in March. Specifically, the gold build will be hitting streets on September 16, just a little under a month from today, while the Marketplace will start accepting apps sometime in early October
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: breakingnews, healthy-catalog, hitting-streets, holidays, microsoft, phone, retail, shelves, windows, windows-phone, windowsphone7sdk, wp7
Confirmed: Galaxy S unlock codes are stored in your phone, Vibrant capable of AT&T 3G
Sure, the Samsung Vibrant's a T-Mobile device and the Samsung Captivate belongs to AT&T, but there's no longer any reason you can't swap them around -- all you need is a simple script and a USB cable to completely unlock your phone.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: captivate, hack, hacking, hacks, mobile, myriam-joire, phone, samsung, samsung vibrant, samsunggalaxys, tested-it-out, unlocked, Unlocking, vibrant
Exclusive: LG C900 for AT&T has Windows Phone 7, shows off a little carrier branding
If you're prepping for a Windows Phone 7 purchase later this year and the Cetus doesn't really do it for you, we understand -- not everyone can live without a physical keyboard, and devices like the Touch Pro2 have gotten us used to the idea that Windows Mobile and great QWERTY go hand-in-hand.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: cetus, entry, gallery, keyboard, phone, pictures, screen-paired, slider-equipped, windows phone 7, windows-mobile
Verizon launches its first ZTE handset: the Salute F350
Nice to see Verizon and ZTE making nice with the newly launched -- but not very surprising -- ZTE Salute. The Salute's launch marks ZTE's second foray into the arms of Big Red this month and the set maker's first top-tier carrier launch in the US.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apps, entry, launch, launches-its, little-slider, phone, salute, verizon, verizonsalute, zte, zte f350
Koush’s Droid X Recovery paves the way for ROMs to come
The Droid X got rooted just about a month ago , but still users are unable to run their own custom ROMs -- something seen as a basic right amongst the Android community. Now those chaps are a good bit closer to getting there thanks to a new recovery mechanism posted by Koush. What's taking so long
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: bitch, custom rom, customrom, nandroid, phone, rom, runs-at-boot, something-wild
Dell Streak gets ripped to shreds by iFixit, Blondie reportedly satisfied at last
Our friends at iFixit have made short work of the Dell Streak , doing what they do best. They've torn apart everyone's favorite giant mobile phone (or is it a tiny tablet?), and found some interesting innards in the process.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: cameras, cellphones, dell streak, dellstreak, extremely-easy, gets-ripped, ifixit, Mobile Phone, phone, reportedly-satisfied, shreds, streak
Meizu CEO Jack Wong spills more M9 details: Android 2.2 and retina-busting 960 x 640 screen
It's hard to call Meizu a straight-up KIRFmeister at this point, but the company certainly does like to flirt with copyright disaster. The M8 started off as an iPhone clone, but we've been hoping its successor, the M9 , will be a bit more original. Meizu's Jack Wong has been dropping hints about the thing since January , and now he's tossing out a few more nuggets, like a Retina-matching 960 x 640 display -- making us wonder if this isn't just going to be an iPhone 4 wanna-be after all
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: ceo, disaster, engadget, jack wong, meizu, october-please, phone, proper-release, result, retina, retinaldisplay