Samsung’s Bada 2.0 to move to ‘web-centric’ apps, getting ad framework and multitasking
We're still hesitant to call Bada a "smartphone platform" in the same breath as Android and iOS -- but despite our best attempts to write it off, Samsung's homegrown handset platform keeps chugging and expanding to new hardware.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: bada, bada 2.0, developer-event, entry, handset, korea, rumor, samsung, south-korea, web
Cricket TXTM8 3G tries, fails to include entire alphabet in name
It may not be quite as adorable as its 3G-less predecessor , but Cricket's TXTM8 3G is likely to find an audience just the same -- people love the portrait QWERTY form factor, after all. The phone features a 2.2-inch QVGA display, 2 megapixel camera, microSD slot, stereo Bluetooth, web browser, and -- as the name implies -- support for EV-DO Rev. 0 data.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: alphabet, audience, browser, cricket, Glow, include-entire, megapixel, portrait, predecessor, result, very-difficult, web, web-browser
Android 2.2 update for Samsung Epic 4G leaks out
We're still waiting on official Froyo builds for the American Galaxy S variants, but they seem to be getting close. How close? Well, close enough so that you can taste a leak for the Epic 4G if you like to live dangerously
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: buggy, close-enough, edge, engadget, fri, galaxys, some-sluggish, variants, web
Is this the Nexus S?
Woah, what do we have here? A new "In Store" web-based flier from Best Buy Mobile has this little nugget on its front page: a previously unseen Galaxy S, running stock Android (possibly 2.3, based on the green icons and black notifications bar) and harboring what looks to be a front facing camera. Sounds like a Nexus S to us! Paired with this morning's little Nexus S slip-of-the-tongue from Best Buy, we're starting to get our hopes up
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: Best Buy, best buy mobile, bestbuy, breaking-news, engadget, leak, mobile, nexus, Notifications, nugget-on-its, planet-earth, web, web-based-flier
Skyfire for iOS gets App Store approval, available soon
Getting something like a browser through Apple's App Store approval process can be a nail-biting experience both for the developer and for would-be users -- but now that Opera Mini set the precedent , there's little justification for denying them (assuming there's no foolishness going on under the hood). This time around it's Skyfire , submitted in early September and finally cleared by Cupertino's powers that be this week which means that it should pop up in the App Store in short order. As in the Android build, Skyfire's iOS browser does some back-end magic to convert any Flash videos that it finds embedded in web pages so that they can be viewed, a feature that could make this a pretty popular download.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: apple, browser, engadget, entry, ios, ipod-touch, ipodtouch, result, skyfire, web
Opera Mobile coming to Android within a month, bearing hardware acceleration and pinch-to-zoom
Forget all that Mini stuff , Opera is bringing its full-flavored mobile browser to Android some time very soon indeed. To tempt people on board, the new software will support hardware acceleration for buttering up frame rates while you zoom around at potato-scalding speeds, while pinch-to-zoom will also be implemented in a big O Android browser for the first time. Opera Mini will be partaking in the latter upgrade as well, while Opera Mobile proper is expected to make its debut on the Android Market at some point over the next month.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: coming-soon, comingsoon, mobile, mobile-browser, mobileweb, opera-mobile, operamobile, pinch-to-zoom, web
Nokia N8 going on general sale October 22, available online October 15
Been waiting for the N8 but weren't sure enough about buying it to get into the pre-order queue? Well, Nokia must have found your lack of faith disturbing as it's now stiffing those who didn't pre-order its all-new handset with another couple of weeks of waiting
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: belt, carphone, europe, mobile, nokia n8, phone, releasedate, slightly-later, united-kingdom, virgin-mobile, warehouse, web
Android accounts for one-quarter of mobile web traffic, says Quantcast
It's terribly difficult to get reliable statistics, as numbers tend to vary drastically depending upon whom you ask, but if you're inclined to believe that Android is mopping up Apple and RIM's declining mobile mindshare in the US, you'll find nothing but corroboration from Quantcast. The analytics firm reckons a full one-quarter of mobile web traffic stateside comes from devices running Google's OS, though it's important to know that the iOS tallies apparently don't include the web-friendly iPad .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: analytics-firm, apple, entry, figures, financial, find-nothing, metrics, our-internet, platformwars, statistics, the-disclaimers, web, web usage, webusage
BlackBerry email, web and messaging banned in UAE due to ‘security concerns’
Looks like those regulators over in the Middle East don't mess about. Following this week's revelation that the United Arab Emirates' telco overseers weren't happy with being unable to monitor how people were using their BlackBerrys, today we're hearing what their solution to the problem will be: an outright ban. Internet access, email and instant messaging on RIM devices will be blocked in the UAE starting this October -- provided, of course, that the Canadian phone maker doesn't do something in the meantime to appease the authorities
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: communication, concerns, data, internet, messaging, regulators, result, saudi arabia, saudiarabia, snoop, web
Apple launches ‘Find My iPhone’ app to remotely wipe and find your lost treasure
Stay with us here because this one isn't obvious.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, available-now, data, find-my-iphone, findmyiphone, fri, iphone-or-ipad, later-devices, missing, remote locate, remotely-lock, result, starbucks, web