Kindle for Android updated with periodicals and integrated web store, can be installed on SD card
Version 2.0 of Amazon's Kindle for Android software has snuck out tonight, bringing with it access to the company's library of newspapers and magazines, the ability to purchase content in-app, and the freedom to choose where you want to store the app itself, which is now happy to reside on your microSD card. Other additions include social networking updates of your reading progress, the appearance of chapter titles in the reader status bar, zoom for images and graphics, and the volume keys doubling up as your page turners should you wish them to do so. The updated app's available in the Market now -- you know what to do with that QR code, right?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: card, chapter-titles, e reader, magazines, market, microsd, networking, newspapers, reading, the-appearance, update, upgrade
Wall Street Journal releases Android Tablet Edition app, phones need not apply
Given that the first truly respectable Android tablet just came out , the Wall Street Journal is timing its Tablet Edition app release pretty much perfectly. It aims to offer a faithful reproduction of the printed version of the paper while augmenting it with full-screen video, market data, customization options, and the ability to save articles for offline reading.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: app, application, drive, edition, ipad, market, printed, reading, reproduction, street-journal, tablet-edition, tablet-editions, tabletedition
Opera Mini 5.1 hits Symbian, moves away from Java
Version 5.1 has been Opera Mini's big push for much of this year, and the release is finally filtering down to Symbian today. The big news, though, is that S60 owners will be able to use a native version of the popular proxy-based browser rather than the Java build they'd been left with previously, so we can assume that the move to native code is probably going to have a positive effect on performance
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: browser-rather, engadget-mobile, improvements, opera, opera-mini, positive-effect, reading, release
Power mad modder rips the keys out of his Epic 4G, calls it a gamepad (video)
Sometimes a mod is more than just a mod: it's a manifesto.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, cosmetic, epic 4g, epic4g, factory-keypad, gamepad, hack, keys, power, reading, rips-the-keys, slider, touchscreen
Palm webOS 2.0 preview video hits the wilds
First things first -- before you jump on past the break and mash play, mute your speakers. Mute
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: dropbox, emulation, emulator, entry, gets-released, hits-the-wilds, operatingsystem, palm, quickoffice, reading, webos2.0beta
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch: the full interview
If you've seen the most recent Engadget Show , then you know that Kevin Lynch is one interesting dude. In fact, we had such a lengthy conversation with him that we couldn't fit the whole thing into our allotted time! Still, we thought what he had to say was pretty darn interesting, so we wanted to share the entire clip here. If you've got about 37 minutes and a hankering for Flash talk..
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: chieftechnicalofficer, conversation, engadget-show, hankering, kevin, kevin lynch, kevinlynch, reading
HTC Hero spied with Cox firmware?
We've known for some time that Cox -- a name traditionally associated with cable television -- is on the cusp of turning over its trial CDMA networks in a handful of markets to the public as it marches towards LTE on a swath of 700MHz bandwidth , but what we don't know is the kind of hardware selection we can expect once these guys go live. Take it for what you will, but it seems that an unbranded CDMA HTC Hero that looks suspiciously like Sprint's version of the handset has just changed hands on Craigslist , and -- you guessed it -- it's got a Cox splash screen when you power it on. Cox's strategy boss said just last week in an interview with Light Reading Cable that there'd be Android devices in the mix for the launch, but he played coy when pressed on details; the Hero could certainly be on the short list, but doesn't it seem a little long in the tooth to kick off a brand new network launch?
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: cox, cox communications, craigslist, handset, hoax, marches-towards, reading, screen, swath, tooth, unbranded, video
Palm Pixi Plus hits Vodafone Spain on May 10, Pre Plus conspicuously missing
Wherever the Pre goes, the Pixi typically likes to follow, which makes it pretty interesting to see that Vodafone Spain will be launching Palm's new GSM flavor of the Pixi Plus on the 10th of this month without any sign of its Pre Plus sibling. That's a marked departure from the line Vodafone and O2 have both been taking in other markets , so it makes you wonder: does Vodafone think that the Pre Plus won't sell well here (it already offers the Pre), is there some firmware issue holding back the localized version, or is there some other mysterious conspiracy brewing altogether?
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: already-offers, markets, mysterious, offers-the-pre, pixi plus, reading, vodafone, vodafone es, vodafone-spain
Palm and AT&T give the Pre Plus (and WebOS) an ad we can all agree is not completely terrible
Hey, hey, look at this! A short, sweet Palm Pre Plus ad that shows off the phone's innovative UI, its ability to multitask, and its 3D gaming -- you know, all the great stuff it can do.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: ads, att, gaming, misfortune, palm, phone, plussize, reading
Game Gripper puts your Droid’s D-pad where it belongs (video)
There's nothing better than a simple solution to a complex problem, and for Droid owners that problem is a keyboard that's not exactly well-suited for gaming. Having a D-pad is great, but having it on the wrong side is a bummer.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: controller, demo, droid, keyboard, nothing-better, play, reading, simple-solution, Solution, super-mario