Toshiba TG01 slowly, surely gets hacked to run Android
It's easy to forget about the TG01 nowadays, but bear in mind that Toshiba's WinMo beast from last year was the first production phone in the world to use Qualcomm Snapdragon silicon.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: capability, developers, hack, honored, htc, phone, silicon, snapdragon, surely-gets, tg01, toshiba, tradition, winmo, world
Samsung Orion dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 chip spotted in the wild
We know it's a little tough to get excited about a chip, even if that chip is the hotly anticipated Samsung Orion . Still, bear with us, because this isn't your average slab of cellphone silicon -- the Orion's got a dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPU and a quad-core Mali 400 GPU on board
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: Chip, engadget, mali, mali400, orion, samsung, samsung-orion, silicon, video
Motorola’s wraparound S10-HD Bluetooth headphones: for the Usain Bolt in all of us
Clearly, introducing one Bluetooth headset in a single day just isn't enough for Motorola. In addition to the Oasis , the outfit has also let loose the new S10-HD, a wraparound set that is marketed as Bluetooth headphones rather than a BT headset (though it's fully capable of acting as either / both). As expected, these guys are designed to withstand all sorts of sweat beads, enabling fitness junkies to keep on rockin' in the free world regardless of how steamy the conditions may be
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: beads, electrical, engadget, fitness, Headphone, headphones, headset, moto, motorola s10-hd, music, oasis, result, silicon, usain, usain-bolt
Motorola Europe repents, restores Milestone XT720 CPU to 720MHz speed with software update
Bought a Motorola Milestone XT720 , only to find that " up to 720MHz " processor was actually clocked at a paltry 550 million cycles per second? If you live in Germany or the UK, you're in luck -- Motorola's poised to wash your troubles away with a software update that restores the OMAP3440's full 720MHz potential, and reportedly adds DLNA connectivity to the device as well. The company released the news on its official Facebook page earlier this week, and it was then reportedly available "today," so barring accident or injury you should be able to update your device or wait for the OTA.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: device, device-or-wait, dlna, europe, facebook, hardware upgrade, hardwareupgrades, milestone xt720, motorola, news, omap3440, silicon, xt720
Motorola responds to Droid X bootloader controversy, says eFuse isn’t there to break the phone
There's been a lot of chatter going around the interwebs in the past 24 hours about the Droid X's exceptionally well-locked bootloader -- a situation that is going to make running custom ROMs considerably more difficult (bordering on impossible) compared to your average HTC. Specifically, the culprit is said to be a technology known as eFuse -- developed by IBM several years ago -- which allows circuits to be physically altered at the silicon level on demand.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: bootloader, bricks, circuits, droid-world, efuse, fuse, interwebs, motorola, phone, roms, silicon, stock, term
Psion veteran Charles Davies leaves Nokia for TomTom
Charles Davies might not be as immediately recognizable as some other industry veterans, but anyone that's been following this business since the early days of PDAs will no doubt be familiar with his work. Davies was Psion 's very first employee way back in 1981, and stuck with the company all the way up until 2003 when he left to join Symbian, before moving on to Nokia with the rest of the Symbian staff a few years later. During that time, Davies helped Psion pioneer the use of flash memory and custom silicon in handhelds, served as Symbian's CTO, and helped Nokia head up the strategy and architecture team for its R&D division.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: architecture, charles davies, custom, details-at-some, doubt, handhelds, nokia, pioneer-the-use, psion, silicon, strategy, team, tomtom
Droid X vs. iPhone 4… hang out!
So, these aren't exactly the most similar phones ever. The Droid X has Android, a high res 4.3-inch screen, Verizon, and a hump in back. The iPhone 4 has iOS, a higher res 3.5-inch screen, and some of the slimmest smartphone dimensions ever.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, droid, engadget, handsets, respective, silicon, stab, verizon
EVO 4G gets 802.11n WiFi by changing two lines of code
The EVO 4G has a lot of weight in the smartphone arena thanks to WiMAX and that 4.3-inch screen, but though its Broadcom BCM4329 silicon also technically supports 802.11n WiFi over 2.4GHz, the protocol was disabled for some reason.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: broadcom, engadget, evo4g, friend-via, hack, hacks, htc, htcevo4g, inspire-fear, protocol, result, silicon, throughput, wifi
Motorola Droid 2 fully exposed?
And finally, the puzzle pieces are coming together. There's been a lot of confusion the past few weeks about these two new models for Verizon in Motorola's pipeline, but by all accounts, this seems to be the A955 Droid 2 in its entirety -- the true successor to the original Droid , of course, and a distinctly different product than the more slate-like Xtreme
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: keyboard, microsd, motorola, motorola-droid, puzzle, silicon, verizon, verizonwireless
HTC EVO 4G splayed, found to contain wires, chips
Often, iFixit needs to wait for a product to be released before it can spend a few hundred bucks buying one and tearing it asunder -- but in the case of the EVO 4G , Google's pre-release of units to attendees at IO appears to have been just the kind of event these guys needed to get in the door early. Taking the phone apart is described as a "wonderfully easy" process, and changing the screen's glass is said to be pretty easy as well -- good news considering how easy it'll probably be to crack those 4.3 inches of pure WVGA glory
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: business, chips, easy-as-well, engadget, evo, evo4g, full-rundown, htc, phone, process, released-before, silicon, surprises, teardown