Official Android 2.2 (Froyo) update emerges for Sprint’s Epic 4G
Samsung may have missed its promised September (and November ) ship dates for Froyo on the Galaxy S range, but at this point, we're just pleased to see any progress at all. Sprint's Epic 4G has just become the first US Galaxy S phone to nab an official Android 2.2 (v2.2.1, in fact) build, with the requisite files populating Google's servers this evening. If you'll recall, a near-final build actually leaked out around three weeks ago, but the DK28 version making the rounds at xda-developers looks to be the real deal.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: actually-leaked, download, evening, froyo, galaxy s, result, samsung, servers, update-emerges
Dell offering free Venue Pros to employees in exchange for their BlackBerrys
You'd think working for a big tech company would have its gadget-related perks and in Dell's case that's very much true. The big PC vendor has demonstrated its commitment to building up its own smartphone services by offering to trade employees' old and busted BlackBerry devices for the shiny new hotness that is the Venue Pro .
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: blackberrys, dell, gadget, its-commitment, limelight, result, servers, street, street-journal, trade-in, tradein, venuepro, windows-phone
Samsung comes clean with Galaxy S Froyo upgrade dates: all carriers in November
The Android 2.2 upgrade situation on the Galaxy S has been a veritable rollercoaster of emotions for owners recently, owing in no small part to the seemingly final firmwares that have been briefly posted and pulled from the company's servers in parts of the world over the past couple weeks.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: all-carriers, couple, galaxys, press, regional, servers, update, upgrade
Clearwire’s first LTE trial results are in: 90Mbps down, 30Mbps up
Yes, that's right: we said LTE , not WiMAX . The patron saint of WiMAX in the US has long toyed with the idea of switching over to the LTE technology path in the long term, and the results of its first live LTE trial -- based in Phoenix -- are looking pretty promising
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: clearwire, coats, division, flavors, lte, patron, servers, trial, white
RIM averts BlackBerry ban in India… for now
It was facing an August 31st deadline before India banned BlackBerry service in the country, but it looks like RIM has now managed to avoid that scenario -- at least for a little while. According to India's Ministry of Home Affairs, "RIM have made certain proposals for lawful access by law enforcement agencies and these would be operationalized immediately," and that "the feasibility of the solutions offered would be assessed thereafter." Details are still a bit light beyond that, but India's assessment will apparently come after 60 days, and there's still no guarantee that we won't end up back at square one at that point. Interestingly, India is also still raising complaints about Gmail and Skype, with it now saying that it wants Google and Skype to set up servers in the country that would give it greater monitoring capabilities
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: affairs, Capabilities, engadget, entry, feasibility, india, servers, skype
Apple patches iOS 4 Exchange issue
It hasn't gotten quite the attention of the iPhone 4's antenna problems or its proximity sensor troubles , but iOS 4 has caused some heartbreak for corporate users who connect to Exchange servers -- checking mail or syncing contact and calendars can stall out interminably, with no option but to restart and try again. We've definitely had this problem ourselves, but happily Apple's right on the case with this one -- iOS 4 users who need to get their Exchange on can download an updated configuration file that seems to make things better. The new settings don't seem to do much other than increase iOS 4's idle timeout, but if it works, it works -- and in our limited testing things appear to be going swimmingly
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, bug, exchange, fix, ios, ios4, iphone, iphone 4, iphone4, problem, sensor, servers, the-attention
Android 2.2 build FRF72 for Nexus One finally leaks
Its existence has been an on-again, off-again rumor for over a week now, but it looks like a new build of Android 2.2 Froyo for the Nexus One -- FRF72 -- is very real. It finally leaked in the past few hours, we've tested it on a Nexus One of our own, and as far as we can tell, it's straight-up legit. Get it if you dare -- it's up on Google's official servers right now, but if it's pulled, we've no doubt it'll be floating around on a bunch of mirrors ad nauseam.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: doubt, entry, existence, finally-leaks, friend-via, froyo, leaks, nexus, nexusone, past, result, servers
Android 2.2 Froyo manual update found, now available for select Nexus One devices
It was only a matter of time . The direct link to download the Android 2.2 "Froyo" update from Google's servers has been found. According to XDA-Developers, it only works if you have a "non-rooted stock ERE27 system" Nexus One
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one, Other Tags: albeit-less, another-link, direct-link, entry, friend-via, google android 2.2, google android froyo 2.2, googleandroid, googleandroidfroyo, nexusone, only-works, requirements, servers, time, xda
Sensorly aims to keep coverage maps honest
Say you're planning that next camping trip and you need to know whether you're going to be able to incessantly check your work email every 10 minutes -- do you trust a carrier's coverage map of unknown age, origin, and honesty, or real-world experience? If French firm Sensorly has its way, you'll soon be able to answer the latter thanks to the deployment of an app for your phone that continuously measures cellular and WiFi signal strength at your location and silently reports it back to the company's servers where it's compiled into color-coded maps predicting your ability to connect.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: available-right, coverage, coverage map, entry, french, iphone, location, maps-predicting, servers
Media Sharing and TVersity can kiss my ass.
I've been screwing around for over 4 hours trying to set up media sharing between my PC and my PS3 and all I've gotten so far is one freaking massive migraine. I've enabled media sharing, file sharing and folder sharing in both my Windows Media Player AND TVersity and my PS3 STILL can't locate any servers. Screw this noise
Categories: PS2 Tags: been-screwing, file, file-sharing, hassle, hours-trying, media, media-player, media-sharing, migraine, Noise, one-freaking, Player, screw, servers, worth-the-hassle