TomTom’s Map Share update brings crowdsourced navigation to iPhone GPS app
Buckled early and sprung for TomTom's iPhone GPS app , did you? If so, that very app just got a lot better today, as version 1.6 has brought TomTom's Map Share -- a crowdsourcing aspect that'll keep your maps more up-to-date than you ever thought possible. Map Share enables iPhone users to make changes instantly to their own maps and to benefit from free map updates made by the TomTom community and verified by the company itself.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: app, engadget, excuse, iphone, iphone gps, iphoneapp, map, mapping, maps, speed, tomtom
Opera Mobile 10.1 for Android hits public beta
As promised , the boys and girls at Opera have pushed out an Android-flavored beta version of their Opera Mobile 10.1 product today -- and considering the company's track record for making awesome replacement browsers, odds are good that you're going to want to check it out. Besides pinch-to-zoom and support for location services, you'll find fan favorites like desktop browser sync and Opera's Speed Dial, a touchable grid of bookmarks. What's more, the visual tab management is downright slick (then again, outdoing the tab management in-built to Android doesn't take much), so you might want to take it for a test drive today -- can we suggest engadget.com as a fine starting point?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: beta, boys, browser, demo, drive, girls, opera-mobile, press, public, speed, Sync, tab-management
Ripxx ski app for iPhone great for athletes, useless for Epyx Winter Games
We received an interesting email from Ripxx this morning, stating that due to an unprecedented outpouring of comments on our previous post for its sports GPS , the company's gone and developed its very own iPhone app. That's right, instead of planning your ski trips around a piece of dedicated hardware, you can now do it on the same device you use to read Texts From Last Night while sitting on the loo
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app store, appstore, bucks, iphone, north, pmd, ripxx, speed, sports, Texts, Trainer, Vertical
Cricket’s 3G data roaming goes live
Regional value brand Cricket has really been upping its smartphone street cred lately -- and as such, data's becoming more of a priority. To that end, they'd announced a new 3G data roaming deal in August... and that deal is now live, instantly expanding Cricket's high-speed footprint from around 92 million individuals up to 280 million
Categories: Mobile Phone, Phone Street Tags: 3g data, 3gdata, becoming-more, big-expansion, cricket, crickets, footprint, Lot, partnership, Phone Street, speed
Samsung Wave 525, 575, and 533: Bada for Russia and beyond
Don't let the namesake fool you: these aren't high-end phones, nor are most of the devices in Sammy's Bada stable. Instead, the cryptically-named Wave 525, 575, and 533 look intent on keeping things affordable with features like 3.2-inch WQVGA displays and 3.2 megapixel cameras across the board.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: africa-looking, already-on-sale, cameras, debut, high-end-phones, latin-america, russia, samsung, samsung wave, speed, wave525
Epic 4G: problems so far — and a few solutions
Since the Epic 4G launched on Sprint August 31, we've been receiving notes from owners on various issues they've experienced with the phone. We've heard about and experienced problems with the supposedly-fixed GPS , to surprisingly slow 3G uploads (fix on the way), to odd issues with battery drain and glitchy market install problems
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: buyers-hanging, engadget, facing-the-end, galaxy s, galaxy s pro, galaxys, galaxyspro, issues, odd, period, speed, sprint, sprintepic4g, various-issues
Droid 2 R2-D2 boot animation, live wallpapers leak out at light speed
Not willing to wait for the genuine R2-D2 edition Droid 2 later this month? Then it looks like you can now get the next best thing -- the Star Wars -themed boot animation and live wallpapers from the phone have already been dug out from the recently leaked ROM and made available for download
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: droid2, entry, exciting-jump, field, millennium, recently-leaked, slug, space, speed, video, Wars
Windows Phone 7′s short-term future includes phone-to-console gaming, Twitter?
At this point you'd think we covered almost every nook and cranny of Windows Phone 7, from games and UI to a launch device or six , but of course there's a few dust balls of info our swiffer of newsgathering has yet to grab up. Microsoft Canada's Greg Milligan has revealed at a recent Xbox 360 event. The big takeaway is future plans for phone-to-console gaming.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: cross-platform, engadget, greg milligan, newsgathering, phone, phone to console, platform, speed, twitter, video
HTC Spark, Bee and Lexikon specs outted: one WP7 and two Froyo devices coming soon
Another day, another HTC leak . This time we're seeing some juicy specs for three upcoming devices, courtesy of notorious ROM leakster 911sniper (who appears to be buddies with Conflipper ). First up is the cutely-named Bee that sounds pretty much identical to the entry-level Wildfire in Europe, except for the pre-loaded Android Froyo (as opposed to Eclair ) and the Verizon-bound Qualcomm MSM7625 chipset.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: buddies, camera, Clock, froyo, htc bee, smartphone, spark, spec, speed, the-entry-level, window phone, window phone 7, wp7
Carmack blows minds with id Software’s Rage, running on iPhone at 60fps with ‘megatextured’ graphics (video)
We're sorry, but the Palm Pixi's rendition of Need for Speed no longer impresses us -- we've just seen John Carmack show off Rage for iPhone.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nintendo, PS2 Tags: app, awards, brick, course-it-looks, games-critics, john carmack, megatextures, nintendo, shoves-the-cell, speed