Samsung releases ‘GPS Restore’ app for Captivate and other Galaxy S models
Seems Samsung still hasn't solved the GPS woes on many of its Galaxy S models to the satisfaction of every user -- complaints of inordinately long (or impossible) lock times continue to trickle into our inbox to this very day. To that end, folks might be interested in the news that Samsung Mobile is tweeting about a "GPS Restore Application" that it's thrown together for wiping the GPS subsystem and making it factory-fresh.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: defaults, factory, galaxy s, gps, news, only-compatible, restore-values, samsung-mobile, tweaks
Nexus S in the wild gives us a blurry Gingerbread walkthrough
The old adage "when it rains, it pours" certainly applies with leaks -- and to that end, the Nexus S we saw a a few hours back is now turned on and ready to give us a frustratingly blurry preview of Android 2.3 (which you may know better as Gingerbread ). Of course, Eric Schmidt himself did the same on stage at the Web 2.0 summit recently, but there's a difference: Schmidt wouldn't admit he was holding a Nexus S, wouldn't show us all of Gingerbread's UI tweaks, and wouldn't take a bunch of dark, low-quality shots and submit them to xda-developers . There's not a lot to see here, but you can make out some of the icons on the redesigned, blacked-out status bar, the redone phone keypad, and the About screen where we get confirmation that it really is a Nexus S running 2.3 (granted, this screen is incredibly easy to fake, but we'll allow it in light of all the other visual evidence we've got going on here)
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: adage, developers, keypad, leaks, make-out-some, phone, quality, schmidt, shots, tweaks
id’s Carmack talks Rage HD, iPad’s power, and future iOS games
Rage HD for iOS is a seriously gorgeous game -- well worth the $2 , if you ask us.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nintendo Tags: commander, game, games, interview, nintendowii, psp, tweaks, wizard
Android Gingerbread style tweaks revealed by way of new Maps version?
Seems that reaching into the innards of the latest version of Google Maps for Android and changing the API level from 8 ( Froyo ) to 9 ( Gingerbread ) changes the UI a bit, as you can see above. What we know today is on the left, and the right side represents the tweaks that we presume will match up with the changes Google has made systemwide in Gingerbread, a build that we now believe will likely be Android 2.3 at retail.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: api, changelog, dialog, duarte, froyo, google-maps, googlemaps, increment, Job, number-instead, tweaks
Android 2.1 starts rolling out to Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 line this weekend
Doesn't get much more "late October" than this, does it? Sony Ericsson has announced that it'll begin delivering Android 2.1 upgrades to its X10 line of phones at long last this coming Sunday, October 31st -- but odds are pretty good you won't be in the first batch. In fact, only unbranded X10s, X10 Minis , and X10 Mini Pros in Nordic countries will be getting boosted at first, followed by "more kits" on Monday and throughout November.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: capture, coming, countries, engadget, ericsson, fri, minis, nordic, phones-at-long, tweaks, update
Hack improves Nokia N8′s image and video quality, puts a hurting on your memory card (video)
Clearly a lot of folks out there are pretty passionate about the quality of their cameraphone pics. So too is cellphone modder hyperX, who is developing some custom tweaks to improve the quality of the stills and vids coming out of Nokia 's latest darling. First is a hack to enable 720p30 video, a slight improvement over the 720p25 default
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: darling, improvement, memory, over-the-720p25, quality, stock, tangible, tweaks, video-quality, your-memory
BlackBerry Bold 9780 caught on video running OS 6
This new Bold 9780 is really looking like the real deal, isn't it? The phone, which includes some ultra-minor aesthetic tweaks over the 9700, along with 512MB of RAM to handle the new BlackBerry 6 OS, has been described on paper, caught on camera , and now has gotten the requisite video walkthrough. The video, obtained by Driphter.com , includes some nice WebKit browsing , with fast page loads but some slightly sluggish scroll speeds.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, blackberry bold 9780, blackberrybold9780, caught-on-video, entry, leak, over-the-9700, tweaks, webkit
Aava Mobile reveals Virta 2 smartphone development kit, we go hands-on
When we met with Finnish startup Aava Mobile today, they pulled out the same old prototype phone ... then, to our great surprise, dropped a brand-new device right alongside to show us how their Moorestown -based ambitions have grown
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: atom z6xx, atomz600, compliment, hardware-inside, meego, result, tweaks, virta2
Engadget app update: iPhone app passes the 1m download mark, Android and webOS get an update!
Hey cats and kittens, here's an exciting little piece of news we wanted to share with you. Thanks to the love and support of our readers, our iPhone app has just crossed the million downloads mark in the App Store! That is, of course, just iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users -- we're growing our numbers steadily across BlackBerry, webOS, and Android formats as well
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: black, downloads, engadget, engadget app, engadgetapplication, formats-as-well, iphone, Love, market, pipeline-as-far, recent-version, result, tweaks
BlackBerry Pearl 3G revealed: two keypad styles and 802.11n WiFi
As smartphones go, the original BlackBerry Pearl 8100 series' longevity is nothing short of astounding -- with some minor tweaks, the phone has lasted essentially unchanged for well over three years. Needless to say, it's time for the granddaddy of consumer-grade BlackBerrys to start collecting pension, so it's an awfully good thing that RIM has chosen its WES conference this week to announce the all-new Pearl 3G.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: 11b, 9100, BlackBerry, colors, granddaddy, gsm, hsdpa, nothing-short, numeric-14-key, pearl9100, result, the-phone, tweaks