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
HTC 7 Trophy first hands-on!
Here's yet another HTC handset from the WP7 launch today: the 7 Trophy . Features like the 3.8-inch WVGA LCD, 1GHz Snapdragon and the 5MP camera certainly sound familiar; even the phone's battery cover has taken a design cue from the Desire -- same peel-off method, and same matte texture. Not all that exciting, really, but the OS was running pretty smoothly except for the buggy HTC Hub and browser
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: cue, engadget, even-the-phone, handson, help-yourselves, htc, snapdragon, trophy, windows-phone, windowsphone, wp7 launch
HTC HD7 pictured and specced by rumormongers trying to outdo one another (update: even more pics!)
This morning we had schematics , by lunchtime the HD7 received its first purported image (visible after the break), and now there's already an even bigger and better picture showing the supposed HTC Hub -enriched Windows Phone 7 interface (see above).
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, chinese, dinner, expansion-slot, htc, htc hd3, htc hd7, htchd3, htchd7, htchub, ingeniously, snapdragon, supposed, windows
HTC Desire HD ROM gets dumped, ported, chopped, and screwed… oh, and benchmarked
Lots of activity involving the just-announced HTC Desire HD in the past couple days, despite the fact that it's yet to be released anywhere -- and frankly, that's just the kind of can-do attitude from the dev community that we like to see.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: ace, benchmark, dev-community, hack, hd2, nexus one, operating, Reason, rom, similarity, snapdragon
T-Mobile G2 comes out from hiding, pre-orders begin later this month
At last, T-Mobile just went official with its G2 QWERTY slider . As expected, this Android 2.2 device ships with Qualcomm's MSM7230 "Snapdragon" silicon optimized for T-Mobile's HSPA+ network with an 800MHz CPU and second generation application co-processor
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Capabilities, flash, flashplayer, froyo, Generation, mobile, snapdragon, sometime-later
Qualcomm: 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon devices to arrive at end of 2011, 1.2GHz in Q1
Bad news: Qualcomm's just informed us that while it's still on track to ship the juicy 1.5GHz dual-core QSD8672 Snapdragon in Q4 this year, the end-user devices aren't expected to hit the market until the end of 2011 -- potentially almost a whole year later than its previous "early next year" or "by Christmas" prediction . What a shame.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: core, dual-core, engadget, fill-the-void, msm8660, phone, qsd8672, qualcomm, ship-the-juicy, snapdragon, snapdragon qsd8672, windows
LG’s E900 said to have 1.3GHz Snapdragon inside, handsome looks outside (video)
Wherever it is that Mr. Blurrycam calls home, Poland isn't it. Android.com.pl has the best pre-release shots of the 3.7-inch LG E900 yet, replete with some titillating specs
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: connectivity, phone, qualcomm, sensors, snapdragon, training, training-wheels, video, windows, windows-phone
Qualcomm to ship 1.5GHz QSD8672 Snapdragon processor in Q4
And you thought a dual-core 1.2GHz chip was quick. If all goes to plan (that's a big "if," by the way), Qualcomm will one-up its Computex standout before the end of this year, with vice president of product management Mark Frankel affirming that his company is on track to ship a 1.5GHz dual-core QSD8672 chip prior to the dawn of 2011.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: arm, before-the-end, christmas, few-aggressive, individual, mobile station modem, mobilestationmodem, open gl es, open gl es 2.0, qualcomm, snapdragon, technology, vice, wxga
Android port for HTC HD2 overcomes big hurdle, finally getting close
The great thing about the HD2 is that it remains one of the most gorgeous pieces of smartphone hardware ever released -- but as long as it's saddled with the dead OS walking known as Windows Mobile 6.5 , its stature in the power user community is perpetually stuck in first gear, no matter how pretty HTC has managed to make it. To that end, some of those very same power users have been working tirelessly to salvage the beast and shoehorn Android on there, but they've been tripped up by some errors involving the phone's Snapdragon core and the so-called HaRET tool used to boot Linux from Windows CE-based devices that have made a proper port seem all but impossible. Those hurdles have been overcome in the past couple days, though, which means a marginally consumer-friendly Android build might finally be within reach -- and considering that there's no proper EVO 4G equivalent from HTC in Europe yet, this project could have an awful lot of value
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: europe, linux, power, project, snapdragon, user-community, users, windowsmobile65
HTC Desire in the US pipeline for ‘select regional operators’ this August
Since neither T-Mobile nor AT&T have ponied up a branded, high-end Android device yet (though the former is almost certainly about to announce the Galaxy S ), we were particularly chuffed to get the news from HTC today that it'll be bringing the lovely Desire to US shores through carriers in August.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: august-thing, desire, entry, galaxy, htc, mobile, result, select-regional, shores-through, snapdragon