Samsung pulls Froyo update for Bell’s Vibrant after reports of fried internal storage
We have no idea why Samsung's having such a hard time delivering its overdue promised Froyo upgrades worldwide for the Galaxy S series, but it's not looking any easier for them this weekend: the only Canadian Galaxy S to get upgraded so far, Bell's Vibrant, has just had its update pulled. Seems a healthy number of users attempting the upgrade using Sammy's Kies desktop software ended up with inaccessible internal storage, which sucks for a variety of obvious reasons -- and that would be the apparent reason for the removal of the update.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: bell, firmware-update, fried-internal, internal, official, point, Reason, result, samsung, time, update, vibrant
AR.Pursuit augmented reality shooter app for AR.Drone now available on iTunes
Do you really need another reason to lust after the AR.Drone ? Ok, then how about AR.Pursuit , Parrot's new multiplayer augmented reality game and the first developed for the AR.Drone
Meizu M8 ceases production amid pressure from Apple and intellectual property office
Well, can't say we didn't see this coming; we're just surprised that it's taken this long for Meizu to take a hit over its notorious handset. In case you have no idea what we're talking about, earlier this month said Chinese company's been in heated talks with Apple due to the M8 smartphone bearing an "appearance roughly similar" to the iPhone .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, engadget, forum, insatiable-step, iphone, meizu, mobilephone, Reason
Clearwire’s San Francisco WiMAX launch was a bureaucratic nightmare
It seems awfully odd that San Francisco -- you know, San Francisco , part of America's technology nexus -- had been left out in the 4G cold for so long while over 70 other networks have been brought live in Clearwire's WiMAX footprint. Well, turns out there's a good reason...
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: antenna, appeal, clearwire, customers, future, other-networks, planning, planningcommission, Reason, tremblor, wimax
HTC Desire HD ROM gets dumped, ported, chopped, and screwed… oh, and benchmarked
Lots of activity involving the just-announced HTC Desire HD in the past couple days, despite the fact that it's yet to be released anywhere -- and frankly, that's just the kind of can-do attitude from the dev community that we like to see.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: ace, benchmark, dev-community, hack, hd2, nexus one, operating, Reason, rom, similarity, snapdragon
Nokia hires Peter Skillman, former Palm Design VP, as MeeGo user experience chief
Now this, this is what we call exciting. Nokia has managed to scoop up Peter Skillman from the wreckage of the HP/Palm merger. One of the many senior VPs to leave Palm upon its assimilation into the HP empire, Peter spent 11 years with his previous employer and was in charge of the design team that produced the deliciously curvaceous Palm Pre
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: deliciously, experience, hire, hired, meego, merger, palm, peter-skillman, platform, Reason, skillman, the-platform, vice president, wreckage, years
Validas study finds Verizon smartphones consuming more data than iPhones
You know how we've good reason to believe that Verizon Wireless is at least mulling the switch to capped / tiered data plans?
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: att, datacapping, datacaps, internet, Reason, study, study-finds, user-consuming
EVO 4G loses 30fps limit thanks to devoted community (video)
Whatever the reason HTC instituted that 30fps cap on the EVO's graphical output, the issue has just been remedied by -- surprise, surprise -- coders over at xda-developers . We've come across video evidence of the EVO 4G rolling along at a swift 54fps average clip, and another motion picture reel shows the positive effect this has had on the touch-tracking of the handset.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: been-remedied, cap, entry, evidence, evo, evo4g, hacking, handset, htc, htcevo4g, loses-30fps, output, picture, Reason, video
Rogers HTC Dream upgrade plan is official, still free
We smile when carriers do us a kindness, and we'd expect a few of you HTC Dream owners will agree that Rogers momentary lack of reason offer for a free upgrade to an HTC Magic is just that. So, the rub you ask?
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: engadget-mobile, freeupgrade, htc-dream, htcmagic, Reason, result, rogers
How can I forward a Port? PLEASE HELP!!!
Ok, yesterday I finally figured out the reason I couldn't play MW2 online and that was because port 3074 was closed.
Categories: PS2 Tags: because-port, finally-figured, instructions, open-the-ports, port, ports, ps3, Reason, result, Router, router-config