LG Ally works its Iron Man cred, leaves a few loose ends to tie up
We'll admit it, we really can't find anything straight-out "wrong" with the LG Ally . Maybe we could muster up a few matters of taste to gripe about, but it really does seem to be a pretty solid QWERTY Android slider. But unfortunately for LG, Verizon, and the good people at Stark Industries, we're having a lot of trouble stomaching this handset for the mere fact that we're up to our eyeballs in Android these days; nobody here has bothered to do anything different.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: basement, best-the-droid, edition, entry, eyeballs, limited edition, price, range, release, result, running, slider, word-on-release
Samsung Seek gets real for Sprint: touchscreen and QWERTY for peanuts
So that rumored Seek for Sprint from Samsung turned out to be totally real -- and what's more, it's available a few weeks earlier than we'd expected (in other words, you can buy it right now).
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: engadget, entry, peanuts, pixi, press, qwerty, release, samsung, slider, sprint
Firefox 1.1 beta for Maemo goes live
The N900 already features one of the best pocket browsing experiences we've ever seen, but it looks to be getting a whole lot better today with the beta release of Firefox 1.1. Major new features include portrait browsing (awesome), form auto-complete, a context menu, volume key zoom, and -- this is pretty neat -- the capability to save pages straight to PDF, so it seems like the kind of thing you'll definitely want to download, even if it's not quite solid enough to earn gold build status. Oh, and if you don't have an N810 or N900 handy and you're amped to play around, you can download the little guy for Windows, Mac OS, or Linux, too.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: beta, context, engadget, engadget-mobile, firefox, firefox1.1, firefoxbeta1.1, like-the-kind, nokia, pocket-browsing, release, the-capability, zoom
Portuguese carrier TMN pairs Samsung Blue Earth with world’s first paper SIM card
Tiny SIM cards seems like the last thing worth worrying about in our bid to save the environment one tree at a time -- but let's not forget that you end up throwing away about 80 percent of the card as soon as you pop the actual chip out and stick it in your phone. Portuguese carrier TMN has rolled out what it claims to be the world's first recycled paper SIMs in combination with the release of the Samsung solar-charging Blue Earth handset, delivering a powerful one-two combo of feel-good environmental responsibility that should boost your karma for a solid day or two (if not more).
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: devices, karma, other-devices, portugal, recycled-paper, release, tmn
Rhapsody for iPhone updated, now takes its music offline (in a good way)
We heard back in mid-March that Rhapsody for iPhone was getting an offline mode for downloading music and playing at times of no reception (like most subway rides). Good news, folks, today is the day the app get this coveted update. Lest we forget, too, with this summer's OS 4 release finally enables background music, Real's aural offering just got even more enticing
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: apple, apple-iphone, day, download-now, engadget, its-music, itunes, mode, music, offline-mode, release, today
Motorola gives Google the boot, turns to Skyhook for location services
Well, this is... something.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: corelocation, developers, droid, engadget, google-android, moto, news, phone, pretty-stoked, release, shot-on-its, skyhook, skyhookwireless, wifi
LG’s Snapdragon-powered LU2300 Android handset gets official
This one's been floating around for a while now and just spotted in the wild last week , but LG has finally come clean with its new LU2300 Android handset, albeit in a somewhat roundabout way on its official UK blog.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: available-over, entry, handset, handset-gets, korea, lglu2300, release, result, slider, support, u2300-android
The Engadget app for Android gets updated to 1.0.2 — now with more widgets!
If you're a fan of the Engadget Android app (and let's be honest, you are a fan), then we've got some good news for you today. The app has been updated with some minor fixes, and one not-so-minor addition..
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: addition, assorted-tweaks, engadget, engadget application, engadgetandroidapp, engadgetapp, fixes, more-widgets, release, widgets
Google’s Chromium project ported to N900
Web browsing fiends of the world already have enough reason to envy N900 owners on account of the built-in browser's excellence and the availability of an official Firefox release -- both with full Flash support -- but if that's enough, there's now another name-brand option in the works. Well, sort of. You see, Chromium for Maemo isn't an official port -- but the Maemo community is filled with tinkerers, and that has inevitably led to the availability of a hacked version of the Debian release that apparently works quite wonderfully on the N900 (yes, including Flash) with a 100 score on the elusive Acid test
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: browser, buggy, debian, engadget, flash, fri, n900, package, release, repo, web, webbrowser
Verizon’s Incredible new phone may be in stores within ‘two weeks’
It's a mighty aggressive schedule for a handset that hasn't even been announced yet , but the latest scuttlebutt regarding the HTC Incredible suggests that the phone will make its debut on Verizon's airwaves about two weeks from now. It was already known that the Incredible was destined for a rendezvous with Big Red, but this latest word solidifies and specifies that future nicely -- and it's claimed to come directly from internal sources at Verizon.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, htc, nexus one Tags: body, dimensions, eclair, engadget, nexus, release, senseui, snapdragon, spring, vzw