iControlPad heads into production, support for other phones promised
It's been promised for years and was said to have gone into production before , but it looks like this time it's for real -- that's the very first iControlPad fresh off the production line pictured above. No orders are being taken just yet, but that's promised to be announced soon on Craig Rothwell's Twitter feed (linked below), and the first run is said to be limited to 3,000 units, which are expected to sell out fast. It looks like that's just the beginning for the peripheral, though -- Rothwell is also promising to support additional phones in the future, which can be accommodated simply by swapping out the two side pieces.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: announced-soon, craig, engadget, gaming, head-on-past, history, iphone, phones, pieces, production, rothwell, Saga, sell-out-fast, the-peripheral, the-production
Samsung Galaxy S gets torn down, looks equally beautiful on the inside (video)
You'll be hard pressed to find a sane individual who'd argue that Samsung's Galaxy S isn't a lust-worthy piece of kit on the outside, and after watching the video past the break, we doubt you'll get too many takers on proving things unsightly within. Equipped with a Super AMOLED display and a bit of that Hummingbird goodness within, there weren't too many bits and pieces to tear apart. What was found, however, leaves a new appreciation for steady hands
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: break, dissect, galaxy, galaxy s, jun, past-the-break, pieces, smartphone, steady, teardown, torndown, video
HP CEO: "We didn’t buy Palm to be in the smartphone business"
You'd think spending a billion dollars on a smartphone company would indicate a desire to, say, make and sell smartphones, but you'd apparently be thinking wrong: HP CEO Mark Hurd just told investors at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch tech conference that his company "didn't buy Palm to be in the smartphone business," and that he's not going to "spend billions of dollars trying to go into the smartphone business; that doesn't in any way make any sense." Yes, that sound you're hearing is Jon Rubinstein's heart breaking into a million tiny pieces. According to Hurd, HP was actually more interested in Palm's IP -- specifically webOS, which he wants to put on "tens of millions of HP small form-factor web-connected devices." Sure, that makes sense, and it lines up perfectly with HP's plan to " double down on webOS " and put it on everything from netbooks and slates to printers , but hey, Mark? You should really look into the smartphone business when you get a second, okay?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: america, bankofamerica, billions, entry, hewlett-packard, hewlettpackard, lynch, mark hurd, netbooks, operating, pieces, printers, smartphone, tech-conference, tens
Android NDK hits Release 3, brings OpenGL ES 2.0 access to devs
We know from a brief spat of iPhone 3GS controversy that OpenGL ES 2.0 brings a new level of immersive realism to 3D gaming on mobile devices, so Android developers (and users, for that matter) should be delighted to hear that a new release of the official Native Development Kit exposes its capabilities to anyone targeting Android 2.0 or higher. As a refresher, the so-called NDK is a bolt-on to the standard Android SDK that gives folks the ability to write and compile critical pieces of functionality in native code, closer to the processor without that pesky Java virtual machine standing in the way -- in other words, it's exactly what gamers and game devs need to make Android a serious gaming platform, and better access to badass 3D capabilities are a fun little piece of the puzzle. The latest NDK's available for download now -- so seriously, hurry up and go wow us with your revolutionary first-person shooter.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Capabilities, controversy, entry, functionality, gamers, iphone, mobile, nativedevelopmentkit, opengl, opengles, opengles20, pieces, realism, standard