Rogers getting Android 2.1-equipped Acer Liquid e this spring
Acer may make plenty of cellphones, but they've so far been a pretty rare sight on North American carriers. That's now set to change this Spring, however, when Rogers will reportedly be the first carrier in North America to offer Acer's new Liquid e phone -- and, incidentally, the first carrier in Canada to offer an Android 2.1 phone (not counting the upgradable Milestone, that is). In case you missed its debut at MWC, the Liquid e packs a 3.5-inch touchscreen, along with a slightly underclocked 768MHz Snapdragon processor, a 5-megapixel camera, 7.2Mbps 3G and Wi-Fi and, of course, a basic implementation of Android 2.1.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: acerliquide, carriers, debut, engadget, exact, liquid, liquid e, phone, release, rogers, rogers-wireless, rogerswireless, snapdragon
Motorola cable boxes to get Blur, connect with phones
Now that Moto's phone and set-top box divisions are being split out into their own company , it looks like there's some convergence afoot: the MOTOBLUR interface found on the CLIQ and the Backflip is currently being tested on the company's cable boxes with a tentative release scheduled for this year. That's the word according to CEO Sanjay Jha, who also told the Wall Street Journal that he wants Moto's phones and set-top boxes to eventually support a common platform so they can "share media and features" -- lending credence to those old rumors about Android-powered Moto cable boxes
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: backflip, boxes, cablebox, cliq, common-platform, currently-being, custom, entry, fri, motorola, release, street
Puma joins forces with Sagem to birth the Puma Phone
Looks like the rumors we heard were true : august cordwainer Puma has teamed up with Sagem to make a phone -- and it's quite a looker, too. The Puma Phone (as it's called) is a lightweight little guy that boasts an integrated solar cell for charging and charge indicator to let you know how you're doing on juice, a QVGA TFT 2.8-inch capacative touchscreen, plus a 3.2 megapixel cam with LED flash and 6x zoom.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: birth-the-puma, cellphones, compass, entry, europe, indicator, looker, phone, puma, qvga, release, solar
Nokia N900 gets new firmware, new games coming too (video)
If your N900 is in need of a little more excitement, this post is for you.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bit, coming-too, mwc, mwc 2010, mwc2010, nokia, nokia-n900, nokian900, release, result
Garmin 010-10889-00 Forerunner 305/205 Quick Release Kit
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Categories: Android Tags: 0101088900, 305/205, Forerunner, garmin, Quick, release
WebOS 1.4 hitting Sprint’s Pre and Pixi on February 15th?
Good news for nonplussed (in more ways that one ) Pre and Pixi owners: come the day after Valentine's, it looks like you'll be able to capture your loved ones in moving pictures format! This comes from an alleged Sprint technician who reportedly took the above screencap promising a firmware update with all the features we've heard debuting as webOS 1.4 , except for Flash support on the Pre. Note our use of "alleged" and "reportedly," though -- we can't independently confirm this image, so take it with a grain of salt
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: entry, features, Grain, halfway, moving, moving-pictures, nonplussed, palm-pre, pixi, release, sprint, update, web os, webos 14, webos1.4
Inbrics’ Android-based M1 slated to ship this year
We already caught a fair amount of play time with Inbrics' Android-based M1 at CES, but it looks as if the company is fixing to "officially" reveal it next week at Mobile World Congress.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: already-caught, ces, congress, details-scooped, europeans, Lint, media, pocket, release, release-later, whether-or-not, year
Xperia X10 lands on Vodafone UK in April
We don't have pricing, we don't have specific dates, we just thought we'd let you know that Sony Ericsson's already outdated Android phone is arriving in the UK in April. This agrees with the release schedules for Japan and Germany , making the fourth month of the year seem like a certainty for the global launch of what is still a hotly anticipated device. Just why the X10 engenders such fervor, we're not really sure, but it still marks Sony Ericsson's most aggressive plunge into the smartphone shark pool yet
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: fourth, japan, launch, release, schedules, smartphone, sony, sony-ericsson, sonyericssonx10, the-smartphone, x10, xperiax10, year
Apple lifts VoIP over cellular restrictions in new iPhone SDK
Great news for the VoIP world: iCall, the maker of the iCall VoIP iPhone app that can catch a GSM call and flip it over to WiFi, has issued a press release saying that the new iPhone SDK allows for VoIP over 3G cellular connections. Previously such calls had to be made over WiFi, since AT&T's network (or someone well acquainted with AT&T's network) didn't think it was man enough to take the VoIP traffic.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: appstore, available-now, cellphones, cellular, flip-it-over, iphone, iphonesdk, iphonevoip, news, press, release, result, streets, take-the-voip, totally-works
Nanosys and LG Innotek agree deal for newfangled LED-backlit displays
For the nitty gritty of how Nanosys' proprietary LED backlighting technology works, check out our earlier coverage here -- what you really need to know is that the company promises a significantly wider color gamut from its displays, while reducing power consumption by up to 50 percent. Quantum dot LEDs have shown their faces before, but now there's the big hulking heft of LG Innotek -- LG's component manufacturing arm -- behind what Nanosys is offering, which indicates we might actually see the release of nanotech-infused displays within the first half of this year as promised.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, component, consumption, engadget, fri, innotek, led, ledlight, lg innotek, mobile, mobile-phones, nitty, quantum, release, result