Sony Ericsson Yendo renamed Yizo?
We're not sure if this is a regional variation or a last-minute global decision, but a device known as the "Yizo" from Sony Ericsson has recently garnered the FCC's blessing -- and it looks suspiciously like the Yendo that was announced back in June. Of course, it's not unusual for Sony Ericsson to create both Walkman- and non-Walkman-branded versions of essentially the same device, but in this case, they both bear the trademark Walkman logo in their lower right corner and seem to be identical in every notable way, making this something of a non-Android remix of the X10 mini with a music slant. Interestingly, SE's got product pages up for both devices, and they're definitely showing the same phone, at least from the front -- though the Yizo's page seems to be a little screwed up, suggesting they might still be in the process of making the transition over from the Yendo name.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, from-the-front, from-the-yendo, music, slant, though-the-yizo, variation, yendo
Cricket hires goats to eat blackberries (video)
Yes, you did read that headline right, but it's not quite what you think -- rather than a children's tale of talking crickets and cell phone-eating goats, we're talking about clearing brambles covered with tiny black fruit at the cell towers of Cricket Wireless .
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Blackberries, casey, cell, cricket, crickets, headline-right, operations, variation
Pre gets a nasty 800MHz overclock patch for all to enjoy (at one’s own risk)
Looking to harness the real power inside of your Pre (or Pre Plus)?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bump, expected-issues, hack, palm-pre, palmpreplus, preplus, variation, verizon
BlackBerry slider photos leak out!
You can consider our minds completely and utterly blown tonight, as we've just stumbled upon these photos of what appears to be a new BlackBerry device... a vertical slider.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, blackberryslider, coincidence, early-version, engadget, legitimacy, result, storm3, variation
Wall Street Journal: Windows Mobile 7 coming next week
We pretty much knew that Windows Mobile 7 is coming next week at MWC, but the Wall Street Journal has a piece up confirming the announcement, along with a few other interesting details. As we'd heard , the new UI is a riff on the Zune HD interface, and the OS "reflects a much tighter focus" on hardware / software integration, all based around a "small number" of hardware chassis specs -- pretty much what we've known, but it's interesting that the Journal 's source says the plan is to "limit the wild variation" that's typically been the hallmark of Windows Mobile.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: announcement, integration, interesting, microsoft, mwc2010, riff, says-the-plan, separate-phone, street-journal, variation, windowmobile7, windowsmobile, winmo 7, winmo7