Sharp investing $1.2b in expanding smartphone LCD production, Apple fingered as the major client
Apple's practicing its self-imposed rule of supplier polygamy this week and Japan's Nikkei is telling us all about it. It started off on Monday, when we learned that Toshiba's throwing down some cash to build a new smartphone display production plant, with Apple as the key investor and subsequent consumer, and today we're hearing pretty much the same story, only with Sharp playing the role of Japanese producer to Apple's hardware whims.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, iphone, japanese, much-the-same, plans, portion, production, result, roadmap, screen, toshiba
Nokia ups the ante on Apple, adds 13 more patents to the 24 already asserted
We told you that this would likely go on forever . Nokia just announced that the company has filed claims in the UK, Germany, and The Netherlands alleging that Apple's iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad are infringing upon Nokia's patents. This adds 13 more patents to the 24 already asserted in the ITC and US federal claims .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, compelling-user, enabling-access, entry, lawsuit, netherlands, Noise, on-device-app, patent, screen
Meizu M9 christens site launch with full specs list
Meizu CEO Jack Wong has been teasing the M9 handset for some time now, and if we're not mistaken, the official site just went live with a full list of specs to boot. As promised , there's a 3.5-inch 960 x 640 resolution screen (reportedly the Sharp ASV display ), and we're also apparently looking at a 1GHz S5PC110 processor (just like the Samsung Galaxy S), Android 2.2, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, A-GPS, 802.11b/g/n, microSDHC, a removable 1370mAH lithium-polymer battery, and support for (drumroll, please) GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, HSDPA,and HSUPA. Too good to be true
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: battery, beijing, china, drumroll, engadget, entry, polymer, removable-1370m, screen, shenzhen, street
BlackBerry News Feeds hits the beta wires
If you're in the market for a good -- or at the very least, free -- RSS reader for your BlackBerry , a new app from RIM itself might be a good place to start your search. The aptly-named BlackBerry News Feeds looks to be a serviceable app from the screen shots that RIM has sent us, offering the ability to share the gold you dig up in your feeds through countless conduits -- email, text, BBM, Facebook, and so on. It's launching both through BlackBerry Beta Zone and App World's Test Center today, so if you're feeling adventurous -- and you like yourself some newses -- you might want to have a look.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: beta, BlackBerry, blackberry beta zone, engadget, engadget-mobile, facebook, feeds, from-the-screen, gold, mobile, reader, screen
Motorola’s 10-inch Honeycomb tablet meets Mr. Blurrycam, shows off Verizon logo
By now you're probably familiar with this slate, seeing as how Google's Andy Rubin recently unveiled it on stage , but we're willing to bet you've never seen the top edge -- you know, the part now bearing a front-facing webcam and a conspicuous Verizon tattoo. Yes, this is Motorola's 10-inch Honeycomb tablet, and it's playing for Team Red just as foretold , though the tipster who obtained these images isn't sure whether it will bear the name Stingray, Everest or even potentially "Trygon." Spec-wise, we're told our previous tipster was right on the money, and it'll have a 1GHz Tegra 2 T20, a gyroscope and 32GB of storage underneath that 1280 x 800 multitouch screen, as well as 512MB of RAM and and a slot for an up-to-32GB microSD card
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: 10Inch, 7 inch, blurry, blurrycam, blurrypictures, engadget, entry, everest, hdmi, honey comb, screen, seeing-as-how, tablet, verizon
LG enV Pro not canceled, just delayed?
A trusted source has told us today that the LG enV Pro -- the latest incarnation of LG's line of dual-screen clamshells for Verizon, and the first with Android -- isn't actually canceled as we'd heard before . It is, however, delayed, with the launch currently scheduled for "some time in January." The good news is that the phone will launch with Android 2.2 installed, leading us to wonder whether the delay was put in place to give LG the time it needs to toss Eclair and get the Froyo build ready...
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: dual, engadget-mobile, entry, envpro, phone, result, screen, trusted-source, verizon, wonder-whether
Tactile+Plus brings buttons, of a sort, to your capactive touchscreen games
That fish sausage stylus might improve your cold weather accuracy, but it's not the wacky accessory of choice to reliably pull off that Ultra Combo in Street Fighter IV .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: accessory, entry, fighter, game, hedgehog, sausage, screen, street, tactile, tactile+plus, wacky-accessory, weather
Apple sues Motorola right back over six patents
What, you didn't think Apple was just going to sit around and take it after Motorola first sued for patent infringement and then asked to court to declare some 20 of Cupertino's patents weren't applicable to its products, did you? Apple's fired back with two lawsuits claiming that Motorola's Android phones, including but not limited to the Droid, Droid 2, Droid X, Cliq, Cliq XT, BackFlip, Devour A555, Devour i1, and Charm, infringe a total of six multitouch and OS patents. That would be pretty much par for the course -- you sue me, I sue you -- but there are a couple interesting strategic wrinkles to note: We've only seen Apple litigate one of these patents before: #7,479,949, Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Determining Commands by Applying Heuristics.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: breaking-news, covering-scroll, graphical, legal, litigate, motorola, multi touch, multitouch, patent, screen, sue, tactic
Samsung to unveil new Android device November 8th
Two weeks. That's how long you'll have to wait before Samsung Mobile officially shows off its latest Android device
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: continuum, engadget, event, limelight, limelight-via, mobile, oled, samsung, samsung-mobile, samsungmobile, screen
T-Mobile G2 trouble roundup: loose hinges, missing storage?
You know the drill -- new handset, new problems. It's pretty much inevitable that sporadic reports of bugs and hardware problems are going to start popping up by day two of any major phone launch, and sure enough, complaints are starting to circulate on two biggies for the G2
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: g2s, hinges, know-the-drill, legit, missing-storage, result, roundup, screen