FaceTime video call works beautifully on airplane’s in-flight WiFi (video)
Yeah, seriously. While Aircell's Gogo in-flight WiFi service has been blocking VoIP calling services ( Skype being the most obvious example) from day one, it's apparently not throwing the same brick wall in the face of Apple's new standard
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: access, apparently-not, apple, being-the-most, brick, earth, entry, head-on-past, hotels, ios 4, most-obvious, skype, tue
Verizon catalog reveals Motorola Droid 2, new dumbphones
We knew the original Droid's replacement was coming, but we were never able to nail down the market name with confidence -- until now, it seems. The Droid 2 makes a prominent appearance in an official catalog of Verizon devices leaked to BGR , talking up its 5 megapixel cam, 8GB of onboard storage, and 1GHz processor, positioning it just ever so slightly below the mighty Droid X
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: Appearance, clamshell, droid, entry, intensity, jest, market, megapixel, mobile, motorola, salute, slightly-below, tue, verizon, verizon-wireless
Root already working on Samsung Captivate, other US Galaxy S models
Normally, you've got to wait... you know, at least a few hours after a new Android phone's released for a root technique to pop up -- but thanks to the Captivate's lineage, hackers have already been able to get the ball rolling. Indeed, it turns out that the root method already employed on the European version of the Galaxy S works just fine on the Captivate and Vibrant , and presumably, it'll work just the same on Fascinate and Epic 4G with a minimum of modification.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: captivate, epic4g, feeling-good, hackers, mobile, root-technique, tue, vibrant
Nexus One now a step closer to FM radio support, thanks to modified kernel
As you may or may not be already aware, the Nexus One and HTC Desire have the same Broadcom chip. Seems trivial at cursory glance until you realize the Desire has a FM radio app, which should ergo be just as feasible on the Google-branded device. Cut to xda-developers' intersectRaven, who's released a custom N1 kernel that theoretically brings life to the FM receptor
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: brien, cursory-glance, desire, device, fm-radio, fmradio, froyo-sense, glance, htc, john, paul obrien, radio, rom, sensefroyo, tue
Firefox ported to Pre, N900 says ‘psh, whatever, I’m still awesome’
WebKit's all well and good, but every once in a while there's a reason why you've got to pull out the Old Standby, right? Once reserved for the Maemo Elite , Firefox is slowly spreading from pocket to pocket, and webOS is mercifully the latest to get hooked up
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: full-backstory, half-the-time, maemo-elite, mobile firefox, old, package-right, pre, the-community, time, tue, webos