The Mobile Phone Street Mobile Podcast, live at 2:00AM ET!
Now that power has mercifully been restored to our CES headquarters this evening, we’re ready to podcast — and we’ve got a lot of stuff to talk about. A lot. No, seriously — a lot. Seriously. Follow the break.
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The Mobile Phone Street Mobile Podcast, live at 2:00AM ET! originally appeared on Mobile Phone Street Mobile on Fri, 07 Jan 2011 02:00:00 EST. .
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by niallkennedy
I currently have a motorola cliq running android 1.5.
Does the quality of the text to speech voices improve when the operating system is upgraded to 2.1?
Also, what is the best text to speech app? I DON’T need an app that reads your texts. I need a text to speech app that speaks what you type into the phone, because I’m non-verbal.
The Mobile Phone Street Mobile Podcast, live at 6:30 ET!
We’re kind of in this post-holiday, pre-CES mood right now that should make for a very, very interesting show — a show that just happens to be our last of 2010. Do join us, won’t you?
The Mobile Phone Street Mobile Podcast, live at 6:30 ET! originally appeared on Mobile Phone Street Mobile on Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:15:00 EST. .
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by traviscrawford
androids eat apples!
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about the android plush: nicesoda.com/?p=2263
#ADL2010
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idea by dawvon
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Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app, crowd, from-the-crowd, individuals, pandora, street, udid, uniquedeviceid
RIM beats earnings estimates, falls just shy on subscriber growth; co-CEOs now co-chairmen, too
For now, RIM's looming mindshare problem is more theoretical than it is practical -- as far as Wall Street's concerned, at least -- on today's news that they've beaten the consensus estimates for fiscal Q3 revenue and income with $5.49 billion and $911.1 million, respectively. The company also shipped a record 14.2 million units in the three-month period, up a whopping 40 percent year-over-year, but subscriber additions fell a bit short -- 5.1 million versus the 5.2 million that analysts had counted on.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: consensus, core, entry, estimates, meetings, playbooks, street, the-three-month, waterloo
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Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: Best Buy, best buy mobile, bestbuy, droid 2 global, dynamic, engadget, globals, likely-cutting, mobile, shelves, street, verizon, verizon-wireless, verizonwireless
Meizu M9 christens site launch with full specs list
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Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: battery, beijing, china, drumroll, engadget, entry, polymer, removable-1370m, screen, shenzhen, street
Toshiba building new factory to churn out iPhone LCDs, says Nikkei
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Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple-iphone, construction, engadget, factories, iphone, japan, nikkei-business, polysilicon, result, street, toshiba, word
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Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: bada, gaming, mobile, operating, samsung, sdk, street, Versions
HTC job listing hints at an E Ink / 3D-filled future, new North Carolina facility
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Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: eink, epaper, ericsson, imaginations, imaging, Job, mobile, north, north-carolina, park, recession, result, smartphone, street, triangle
LG LU3000 quietly shows up, bests Galaxy S in YouTube test
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Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: clocked-at-1ghz, features, firepower-under, iphone, kes, kes2010, megapixel, mobile, phone, real, really-the-best, shoot-out-some, street, under-the-good