Keepin’ it real fake: Verizon-branded Droid X ditches Android for Windows Mobile 6.5 (video)
No matter how many we see, we never cease to be amazed by some of the KIRFs out there. Take this Droid X, for instance, which doesn't even bother with a name like "Motorolo Foid X," and even goes so far as to include some legitimate-looking Verizon branding to back up its nearly spot-on appearance
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, check-it-out, engadget, kicker, kirf, motorolo-foid, result, verizon, windows-mobile, windowsmobile6.5
Nielsen: Android makes huge gains in US smartphone marketshare, RIM takes a backseat, Apple leads in desirability
Nielsen 's just released a report finding that 29.7 percent of mobile users in the United States now own a smartphone. Of that 29.7 percent (as you can see in the pie chart above), 27.9 percent of them have iPhones, 27.4 percent own BlackBerrys, and 22.7 percent have an Android device.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, market, massive, palm, percentages, shift, source, united-states, users, windoesphone, windows-mobile, year
Acer confirms plans for Windows Phone 7
We saw the briefest whisper of an indication a couple months ago, but now Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci has come out and said it: Acer's working on Windows Phone 7.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: acer, beos, briefest, confirms-plans, engadget, gianfranco, gianfranco lanci, microsoft, windows, windows-mobile
ComScore: Android grows, iPhone stagnates, everyone else loses in US smartphone market share
This is getting to be something of a familiar story . ComScore's latest smartphone ownership figures for the US, spanning the quarter between July and September this year, show Android continuing to gain ground on its contemporaries with 44 percent growth of its share of smartphone subscribers -- to the detriment of almost everyone else in the market. Only Apple's iOS manages to maintain its slice of the pie constant (an iPhone 4-fueled improvement on last quarter, when it too was losing out to the Android juggernaut), as BlackBerry OS and Windows Mobile take the brunt of the losses
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: almost-everyone, brunt, comscore, comscoremobilens, familiar-story, market, mobile, mobilens, numbers, slice, windows-mobile
HTC Trophy review
Why yes, yes it is another Windows Phone 7 device review. Not that we're complaining
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: consumer, htchub, relevancy, slate-offering, thoughts, trophy, windows phone 7, windows-mobile, windowsphone7, wp7, wp7 launch
HTC HD7 review
The screen that just keeps on going meets the OS that refuses to fit on a single display. Yes, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, like Windows Mobile 6.5 and Android before it, is getting treated with a 4.3-inch display from HTC for its launch party. The aptly titled HD7 is, by virtue of Microsoft's stringent hardware requirements, mostly just a stretched-out version of its WP7 contemporaries: it offers the standard 800 x 480 res, 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon, 576MB of RAM, and a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with a 720p movie mode.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: benefit, contemporaries, entry, getting-treated, microsoft, party, phone, qualcomm, review, windows-mobile, windows-phone, xbox live
Microsoft sends out Lego Windows Phone 7 mockup to executives
A helpful tipster hit us up with this little photo today: a Windows Phone 7 mockup styled of Lego bricks. The fake phone is apparently being sent out in real invites to real executives for Microsoft's upcoming sure-to-be-swanky Executive Event for Windows Phone 7 in November (not to be confused with the sure-to-be-pretty-great launch in October ). Our question: where's the Duplo version for Windows Mobile 6.5?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, executive-event, Lego, legobricks, microsoft, mockup, real-invites, result, sends-out-lego, technic, windows phone 7, windows-mobile, windows-phone, windowsphone7
Nokia 5230 brutally overclocked to 800MHz
As overclocking hacks go, Nokia often takes a back seat to Windows Mobile and Android -- but why? In the year 2010, shouldn't we be showing these dusty 434MHz ARM11s some turbocharged mercy
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: battery, boy, entry, hack, hacks, mobile, result, stock, windows-mobile
Skyfire submits iPhone browser for App Store approval, we wait for the Flash to hit the fan
There was a time when Skyfire on Windows Mobile meant full Flash all the time. The 2.0 version on Android reigned that in a bit, really only supporting Flash video and little else, something Android 2.2 users no longer need to worry about. iOS users, however, do still spend their days ruing websites with such content, and so that's the market Skyfire is targeting next.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app store, apple, appstore, browser, engadget, entry, flash, iphone, skyfire, windows, windows-mobile
Exclusive: LG C900 for AT&T has Windows Phone 7, shows off a little carrier branding
If you're prepping for a Windows Phone 7 purchase later this year and the Cetus doesn't really do it for you, we understand -- not everyone can live without a physical keyboard, and devices like the Touch Pro2 have gotten us used to the idea that Windows Mobile and great QWERTY go hand-in-hand.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: cetus, entry, gallery, keyboard, phone, pictures, screen-paired, slider-equipped, windows phone 7, windows-mobile