HTC phone with CDMA and WiMAX hits the FCC: the EVO Shift 4G, perhaps?
It's not every day that a new HTC phone with CDMA and WiMAX support swings through the FCC's labs -- so even though we don't really know what this is, we thought we'd better point it out. Odds are it'll be headed to Sprint considering the unique combination of technology, and the test report lists it as a "Smart Phone" -- Windows Phones from these guys usually say as much, so we're thinking this is probably Android
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: crazy, entry, phone, smart, through-the-fcc, unique, windows-phones
Adobe announces Air 2.5 for TVs, tablets and phones, launches Adobe InMarket to package apps
Adobe's making a serious play for the app space today, and it's not limiting itself to phones -- its new Air cross-platform runtime environment is designed to toss apps on your smart televisions and tablets as well. Air 2.5 supports accelerometers, multi-touch gestures, cameras and microphones, GPS data and hardware acceleration in a variety of silicon
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: adobeair2.5, air, app store, apps, cross, gestures, hosting, microphones, result, samsung, samsung-as-well, samsungsmarttv, smart, smarttv, televisions
Nokia ends talk of Symbian^4, adopts HTML5 in Qt framework
Things are turning upside down in Espoo today. Besides, earnings and reported job cuts of some 1,800 employees, Nokia also announced that it'll be streamlining its development strategy to unify environments for Symbian and MeeGo. Nokia's new approach calls for the adoption of Qt , and only Qt , as its application development framework from today onward
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: adoption, application, approach, environments, experience, framework, interface, nokia, platform, rich green, smart, smartphone, strategy, symbian, user
LG debuts Optimus smartphone series, Froyo-powered ‘One’ and ‘Chic’ arriving first
While all of you Droid, Incredible and EVO 4G owners wait patiently for an official Froyo update to call your own, LG's wasting no time introducing its first phones based on the latest and greatest Android build. Over in the UK today, the company has decided to launch the Optimus Series, a family of smartphones that'll run "on a range of operating systems as well as Android." If all goes well, LG will introduce around ten new smart devices worldwide in the second half of this year under the Optimus label, though only two are being partially revealed for now. The Optimus One with Google and Optimus Chic will both ship with Android 2.2 onboard, with the latter being specifically aimed at fashionistas who just might appreciate the "sleek curves" that make themselves so apparent
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: flood, froyo, google-android, googleandroid, half, lgoptimus, operating, optimus, optimus one, optimus-chic, optimus-series, smart, smartphone, systems
Apple acquires virtual assistant search app maker Siri
Apple has acquired Siri, a company that makes a virtual assistant app.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: acquisitions, app store, apple, assistant, calo, darpa, direction, insider, means, neighborhood, Recognition, smart, smart-search, the-acquisition
HTC ‘continues to assess’ developing its own smartphone OS, Palm says ‘hey, assess this’
Failing a Palm acquisition , there might still be justification for for HTC to build out its own software platform for many of the same reasons that buying Palm would make sense -- the company's getting bigger and more important to the market by the day, after all, and being left at the mercy of Google and Microsoft to produce cohesive platforms of their own might not sit well with Chou's team ad infinitum . The HTC Smart could be regarded as its first baby step toward that goal, though the handset -- based on Qualcomm's Brew MP platform -- is actually a featurephone that won't fly with the same kinds of consumers that are cross-shopping Android and Windows Phone products. To that end, Bloomberg says that HTC's CFO revealed in an interview that his company continues "to assess [developing its own smartphone operating system], but that requires a few conditions to justify." Naturally, he went on to clam up when nudged about the Palm sitch -- and he never got around to laying out what those "few conditions" were that would spur HTC to pull the trigger on any of this -- but it's starting to seem inevitable that this is all going to go down one way or another.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: build-out-its, developing-its, entry, few-conditions, htc, operating-system, smart, smartphone, windows-phone
Rockchip’s prototype RK2808-powered Android smartphone spotted… finally!
The Ramos W7 Android-powered MID has come to pass, but for the last year one question's remained: where is that RK2808-based handset we were promised? Finally Rockchip has provided us with some pictures of its prototype called, of all things, Smart Phone.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: all-things, china, Chipset, entry, finally-rockchip, friend-via, its-prototype, prototype, result, rk2808, rockchip, smart, Smart Phone, smartphone
Beijing Gorld combines sub-par cellphone with lackluster e-reader
Alongside the Get Smart shoe phone , Beijing Gorld's 600TW e-reader / cellphone has to be one of the less useful combos we can imagine. As an E Ink device, it's pretty straightforward -- 6-inch display and a battery life of approximately 6,000 page turns.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 600tw, battery-life, beijing, beijing-gorld, cellphone, connectivity, engadget, gprs, plethora, shoe, smart, sms, the-plethora, useful-combos
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