Microsoft said to be planning second Windows Phone 7 update for MWC in February
Coming this February, at a Mobile World Congress near you, from the company that popularized the Service Pack : a second major update to Windows Phone 7 . The observant among you will already be leaping out of their seats to point out that the first WP7 update hasn't even been delivered yet, but it seems like Microsoft's calendar stretches beyond the next month and the company's already churning away on enhancing and improving its rebooted mobile OS. Such is the scuttlebutt coming out of WinRumors , and it's kind of hard to argue with the postulation that Steve Ballmer wouldn't be keynoting MWC in 2011 without something significant to announce
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: congress, fri, microsoft, mwc, mwc2011, patch, phone, scuttlebutt, Steve, update, windows
The Engadget Interview: Steve Largent, President and CEO, CTIA
We had an opportunity earlier today to sit down with one of the powerhouses of the wireless industry in the US: Steve Largent, who heads up the CTIA .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: allocation, ctia, direction, entry, gamut, group, industry, much-everything, net neutrality, spirited, Steve, steve-largent, the-powerhouses
RIM’s Jim Balsillie says ‘you don’t need an app for the web,’ rejects Apple’s appification of the internet
It's no secret that RIM doesn't exactly agree with Steve Jobs' characterization of the company's prospects, and Jim Balsillie has some more to say on the Apple vs.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: adobeair, balsillie, browser, couple, fri, internet, jim balsillie, mobile, rim, Steve, support
Exclusive: Woz misquoted! ‘Almost every app that I have is better on the iPhone’
Some comments attributed to Steve Wozniak caused quite a kerfuffle this morning -- according to Dutch paper De Telegraaf , Woz said that "Android phones have more features," which would help Google's OS become the dominant smartphone platform. Obviously, a statement like that from Apple's co-founder rocketed around the web, and it's set off yet another round of furious Android-vs-iOS debate
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, apple, around-the-web, clarification, commands, commands-on-ios, dutch, entry, ios, iphone, kerfuffle, nov, result, Steve
Steve Wozniak: Android will be the dominant smartphone platform
Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak , has never been one to mince words. Today's no different as demonstrated in an interview with the Dutch-language De Telegraaf newspaper in The Netherlands. The first revelation is an admission that Apple had collaborated with a well-known Japanese consumer electronics company in 2004 to develop a phone that was ahead of its time.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: dutch-language, electronics, interview, nokia, smartphone, smartphones, Steve, windows
Andy Rubin responds to Steve Jobs with a coded tweet
It's common knowledge that the first words uttered by any nerd are " hello world ." That is, unless some CEO starts bad-mouthing your open-source motivations. Google's Andy Rubin -- the father of Android , as it were -- just uttered his first words on Twitter with the tweet you see above
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: account, entry, fragmented, latest, latest-build, nerd, open, result, Steve, twitter, unless-some, world
First (legitimate) Windows Phone 7 television ads unveiled (video)
Steve Ballmer's already working the salesman magic , but Microsoft won't try to sell you Windows Phone 7 solely on stage -- find a pair of familiar-looking debut TV spots for the new platform right after the break. Continue reading First (legitimate) Windows Phone 7 television ads unveiled (video) First (legitimate) Windows Phone 7 television ads unveiled (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:32:00 EST.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: ads, already-working, debut, salesman, Steve, television, television-ads, windows phone 7
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 launch event is tomorrow at 9:30AM ET, and we’ll be there live!
As you may have heard , Microsoft is having a major event tomorrow in NYC to announce details surrounding Windows Phone 7 launch dates and devices... and Engadget is going to be there delivering the best live coverage in the universe.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: live, live-coverage, liveevent, paris, Steve, universe, windows, windows phone 7
LG E900 (aka Optimus 7) finds its official press pictures unofficially leaked
We love a nice pre-release leak as much as the next tech blog, but come on, aren't you starting to feel sorry for these Windows Phone 7 guys? By the time Steve Ballmer takes the New York stage on Monday, we 'll be more familiar with the stuff he'll be showing off than the big Microsoft boss himself. Today, LG's Optimus 7 handset has suffered the only indignity left, after being videoed, pictured, and handled many a time -- it's had its official press shots unleashed unto the world
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: leak, lg e900, lg optimus 7, lge900, lgoptimus7, official-press, optimus7, Steve, time, windows-phone
Steve Ballmer and AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega to headline Windows Phone 7 launch event in NYC on October 11 — we’ll be there live!
Horror, shock, surprise! Microsoft CEO and prime fanboy of all things Windows and developer-related, Steve Ballmer, will be the keynote speaker at Microsoft's New York launch event for Windows Phone 7 . He'll be joined on stage by AT&T's Ralph de la Vega and when the pep rally is over, we're promised opportunities to finally handle the official incarnations of retail Windows Phones for ourselves. We know all this because Microsoft has just dropped a kind little invite into our inbox urging us to attend its October 11 get-together.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: fanboy, Keynote, launch-event, launchevent, microsoft, newyork, ralphdelavega, Steve, steveballmer, surprise, windows phone 7, windows-phones