Caltech sues Nokia, LG, others over camera patents
Sure, your N8 might take a great picture -- but is it about to become a hotbed of legal wrangling between Espoo and one of the more prolific research universities in the States?
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: because-rockets, camera, nokia, pantech, patent, patent infringement, property, propulsion, states, stmicroelectronics, the-university, universities, university
Sony Ericsson faults ‘especially rigorous’ firmware testing in US for X10′s Eclair update delay on AT&T
We think this is a veiled way of passing the buck to AT&T -- but whatever it is, Sony Ericsson USA has extended an old, crusty, TimeScape-enabled olive branch to Xperia X10 owners in the States by attempting to explain what's going on with the Eclair update 'round these parts. Basically, the company says that getting an update out in the US is way harder than it is elsewhere because of "the technical requirements that must be met" over which Sony Ericsson has "no control." The blame is levied on an "especially rigorous" testing cycle that can (and presumably, often does) take several months, which is why they've thus far refused to offer guidance on when the update will be released.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: att, buck, eclair, entry, offer-guidance, our-warranty, sony-ericsson, sonyericsson, states, technical, update, update-delay, upgrade, x10
Verizon launching LTE network in December 2010 (video)
Verizon's been talking details on LTE deployment for some time now, but even at CTIA earlier in the year, the carrier insisted that it would be the first half of 2011 before the next-gen network was active in the US of A. Now, it looks as if the engineers have been working triple-time in order to get Long Term Evolution live in the States under Big Red's branding, as a new VZW commercial (embedded after the break) has affirmed that the first LTE waves will go public here in December 2010. Yeah, next month .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: engineers, internet, launch, long term evolution, mobileinternet, states, the-engineers, time, verizonwireless
Galaxy Tab coming to AT&T November 21st for $650, US Cellular on the 19th for $399 / $599
So, AT&T, it's true : you're charging $50 more for the Galaxy Tab than everyone else in the States off-contract. That's a pretty gutsy sense of entitlement, though you're bundling $50 in Samsung Media Hub credit -- and, of course, no other Tab has access to AT&T's $15 and $25 pay-as-you-go data plans at 250MB and 2GB, respectively. Pick your poison, we suppose.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: att, breaking-news, breakingnews, entry, plans-at-250mb, price-schedule, pricing-on-uscc, samsung, samsung-media, states, telling-the-tab, us cellular, uscc, uscellular
The Engadget Mobile Podcast, live at 4:00 ET!
Myriam's in Germany right now, Sean's in Canada, and Chris is in the United States. Where are you ? Listening to this podcast, we hope! Follow the break for all the action
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: engadget-mobile, myriam, podcast, result, right-now, states, the-break
Why is T-Mobile selling an iPhone cable?
T-Mobile USA has been an oft-rumored darkhorse to help kill off AT&T's iPhone exclusivity in the country -- and for the life of us, we can't think of a good reason that the carrier's corporate stores would be carrying iPhone charge / sync cables now other than in preparation for a launch. It's interesting to note that Deutsche Telekom boss Rene Obermann in part blamed the lack of the iPhone in the States as a driving factor in its third quarter churn rate..
Categories: Mobile Phone, nexus one, Other Tags: apple, country, darkhorse, driving-factor, iphone, iphone 4, life, mobile, nexus one, result, rumor, states, unlockers, usa
HTC CEO: ‘initially, we don’t have time’ to put Sense on Windows Phone 7
We think there might be a miscommunication or a disagreement in semantics here, because HTC CEO Peter Chou has mentioned in an interview with FierceWireless that its ubiquitous Sense UX won't "initially" appear on its first crop of Windows Phone 7 devices, but that "over time [they] will innovate on top of that to provide some HTC experience ." That seems like odd phrasing considering that we've already seen HTC devices in the wild running bits and pieces of Sense on WP7 , so we tend to believe Chou might have a more thorough, comprehensive experience in mind -- something that Microsoft is pushing back on (for now, anyway) by demanding that UI innovation be sandboxed in some pretty significant ways. In the same conversation, Chou mentioned that they'll be releasing an LTE phone in 2011, though he didn't give any details on design, platform, or carrier.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: ceo, design, htc, metropcs, phrasing, semantics, sense, sense-ui, states, windows, windows-phone
HTC Desire (US Cellular) review
HTC's Desire is undoubtedly one of the headline Android devices of 2010 so far -- and heck, when you're using the already-great Nexus One as a starting point and re-upping it with an optical pad, physical buttons, and Sense , it's hard to argue otherwise.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one, Other Tags: availability, cellular, desire, engadget-mobile, headline, mobile, sense, states
iWiz dev does good, becomes Apple App Store director
To be perfectly honest, we can't believe the above image is running on Engadget either. But with all the ongoing hoopla surrounding the App Store approval process , we'd be remiss if we didn't hep you to recently reported news that Phillip Shoemaker, director of applications technology at Apple, seems to have a healthy sideline developing iOS software with names like iWiz and, ahem , Animal Farts. We'll let you hit the store yourself if you want to learn more about these fine products (search for his company, Gray Noodle)
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, applications, appstore, employee, ipod-touch, Job, orientation, phillip shoemaker, pocket-pain, publishing-apps, result, sideline, states, store-yourself
Epic 4G review
Of the seemingly countless variants of the Galaxy S that Samsung's in the process of deploying around the globe, one stands out in a couple very unique (and important) ways: Sprint's Epic 4G . The Epic hangs on to a couple of the Galaxy line's most important characteristics -- namely the 1GHz Hummingbird processor and the 4-inch Super AMOLED display -- but adds in a sliding landscape QWERTY keyboard, support for the wickedly fast WiMAX network that Sprint shares with partner Clearwire, and a handful of other notable one-off customizations. We've already taken a look at two of the other US-bound Galaxy S models -- AT&T's Captivate and T-Mobile's Vibrant -- but it shouldn't take more than a quick glance at the Epic to tell you that this is a very, very different beast.