Nokia taking over Symbian development, Foundation responsible for licensing
So it seems the Symbian Foundation isn't necessarily going away, but it's transitioning its role in a big, big way. They're undertaking a "strategic change" that will involve the Foundation moving to a new role where it controls the product's patent portfolio and licenses the Symbian brand and its research and development activities, but the meat of the operation -- the actual platform development -- will move over to Nokia beginning the end of March next year.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: amsterdam, breakingnews, Change, engadget, entry, meeting, nokia, patent, portfolio, presence, press, releases, result, symbian
What’s on Facebook’s mind? Mobile event set for November 3rd
Facebook's made no official push into the smartphone universe -- to date, we've been left using various mobile apps to connect with J. Timberlake, Marky Z. and the rest of the crew, but it looks as if the preeminent social networking site of our generation ( ahem ) is just about ready to clear the air on at least one issue.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: alto, clear-the-air, facebookevent, Generation, presence, recently-landed, smartphone, universe
MetroPCS goes live with LTE in Detroit
Verizon has yet to go live with its 4G network in even a single market, but regional carrier MetroPCS is now on its third -- and yes, it's still the only company in the country with any commercial LTE presence whatsoever. Having already taken Vegas and Dallas to the promised land, Detroit is the latest city to sup on the sweet, sweet nectar that only a next-generation network can provide; unfortunately, MetroPCS has yet to deliver any smartphones or modems capable of taking advantage of it, but that's another story for another time.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Carrier, detroit, engadget-mobile, keyboard, landscape, market, mobile, modems-capable, network, presence, start-out-slow, time, verizon
Skyfire 2.0 beta for Android video preview!
We just spent a few minutes playing with the beta version of Skyfire 2.0 for Android that was released today, and we'll cut to the chase: this is easily the best browser we've used on the platform. Clearly we'll need to spend more time with it to make sure it can handle all the typical sites you'd want to visit while you're on the road -- but loading the desktop version of Engadget is always a great barometer for this sort of thing, and this browser rocked it. Rendering is about as reasonably fast as you can expect it to be (on our Snapdragon -powered Nexus One , anyhow), and everything we saw displayed spot-on perfect (save for embedded Flash, of course), but if you're in a situation where you don't need to see the full page or it looks screwy, you can toggle it to send an Android user agent right from the app's toolbar below the URL field
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: browser, easily-the-best, minutes, presence, press-the-video, skyfire 2.0 beta, skyfire2.0beta, spot-on-perfect, video
Taking the Windows Phone 7 Series emulator for a test drive (video)
If you've been following the news about Microsoft's reinvention of its mobile presence, Windows Phone 7 Series , chances are you heard about how the company's developer-friendly emulator was... modified slightly by Dan Ardelean to expose a series of applications and hubs that you weren't supposed to see yet. Microsoft was quite gracious about it, indicating it basically expected this would happen and simply reminded everyone that these newly discovered apps are far from complete
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: been-following, developer, discovered-apps, emulator, microsoft, phone, presence, reinvention, unlocked, visual studio 2010, visual-studio, visualstudio, windows-phone, windowsphone7series
Intel to be part of Nokia’s MWC press conference — a new Booklet, or something more?
Well, this is interesting -- Intel just sent us an invitation to Nokia's press event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. We're told that the two companies will update us on the "latest developments" from their relatively new relationship , before Nokia launches into its solo presser directly afterwards. That could mean pretty much anything from a ho-hum Atom N450 refresh of the Booklet 3G to a fire-breathing Moorestown Maemo 5 phone , so we're obviously extremely curious to see what goes down -- our money is on the more conservative side of things, since we're thinking Intel just wants to have a presence at MWC, but we do love to be surprised.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: congress, intel, invitation, mobile-world, mwc, presence, presence-at-mwc, press-conference, something-more
Motorola MOTOROI demoed on video in very cozy quarters
You don't typically get this close to your phone unless you're about to put it against the side of your face, but hey, we figure a little intimate time with a device you use this much can't hurt, now, can it? Here we've got one of the first high-def hands-on experiences of Motorola's latest Android set, the MOTOROI , loaded with a Korean ROM in preparation for its upcoming launch on SK Telecom.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: cozy, cue, def, demoed-on-video, intimate, over-the-world, presence, result, telecom, time, upcoming-launch
Gigabyte steps out of its WinMo comfort zone, first Android GSmart comes to light
If the term "GSmart" didn't really mean anything to you, we can't say we'd blame you -- Gigabyte, after all, has absolutely no mobile presence in North America and limited presence outside Asia.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: america, edge, engadget-mobile, gsmart, mobile, mobile-presence, north, north-america, presence, smartphones, windows-mobile, zone