BlackBerry Curve 8980 shows up in FCC, offers some glam shots
Despite the more recent releases of the Curve 8500 series and the Curve 3G , RIM has never really offered up a true successor to the venerable Curve 8900 -- a device some would argue remains the prettiest that Waterloo has ever manufactured. Indeed, with the QVGA display and meager cam on the 3G, there's a pretty magnificent gap between it and the business-class Bold 9700 / 9780...
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: approval, business, curve, curve 8980, engadget, Filing, model, recent-releases, res, result, rim, venerable, waterloo
iOS 4.2 bringing speed improvements to iPhone 3G?
The recent iOS updates have mostly been welcome improvements for iPhone 4 and 3GS users, but it's been a decidedly different story for folks sticking to their venerable iPhone 3G . Not only have they been left out of some of the fun , but they were dealt a serious performance hit with iOS 4.0 that was only somewhat corrected by IOS 4.1. Could iOS 4.2 finally bring things back up to speed
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: Fingers, gold, ios, official, official-update, performance, story, their-results, their-venerable, venerable, your-fingers
Android 2.2 coming to Droid in ‘late July,’ Droid X in ‘late August?’
Care for some more specificity on when exactly to expect the Droid X to become even awesomer?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: droid, droidx, froyo, mile, motodroid, motodroidx, motorola, motorola droid x, operatingsystem, specificity, update, venerable
iPhone 3G gets an Android port to call its own (video)
You'll recall, studious little gremlins that you are, that we recently saw the venerable first-gen iPhone prancing about with an unusual little green droid providing it with operational commands. Well, the coder behind that project, David Wang, has now stepped his game up to the iPhone 3G, which has been outfitted with an almost complete implementation of Android.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: apple, binaries, days, engadget, fill-the-time, game, gremlins, operational, port, venerable, video
Nokia E71 and E66 owners get free Ovi Maps navigation
Nokia's new Ovi Maps software just made its way to the venerable E71 and E66 business handsets.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: being-treated, compatible, e71, engadget, from-offering, guide-michelin, owners-get, result, s60 3.1, venerable
HTC enhances Sense with Leap and Friend Stream
Our recent chance encounter with a multitouch-friendly iteration of HTC's Sense UI turns out to have been a preview of the company's latest version of the software. Announcing that it has "enhanced" the already quite delectable skin, HTC has noted it'll be available preloaded on the brand new Desire and Legend handsets, and as a free download for the venerable Hero . So what's new?
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: browser, facebook, find-the-full, friendstream, hero, htc, htc-desire, htcfriendstream, latest-version, new-newsreader, result, sense, skin, venerable