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Keepin’ it real fake: Verizon-branded Droid X ditches Android for Windows Mobile 6.5 (video)

admin — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:26:01 +0000

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. The real kicker, however, is that the KIRFers behind the device have decided to ditch Android in favor of Windows Mobile 6.5 for reasons unknown to us. Don’t believe us? Check it out in action in the video after the break, and look for the device itself to set you back around $244.

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Nielsen: Android makes huge gains in US smartphone marketshare, RIM takes a backseat, Apple leads in desirability

jedwan — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:03:40 +0000

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. Windows Mobile, Symbian, Linux and Palm are left to divide up the remaining chunk — about 22 percent — of the market. That’s a massive shift from the beginning of the year, when the iPhone boasted 28 percent of the market, BlackBerry had 35 percent, and Windows Mobile about 19 percent. The biggest winner in this story is Android, which has gone from 9 percent of the smartphone-owning market at the beginning of the year, to 22.7 percent of the market today. The story looks a bit different, however, when people are asked about what kind of smartphone they would like to own next. In that case, Apple and Google are the big winners, with 30 percent of ‘likely’ smartphone upgraders’ reporting they’d like an iPhone, while 28 percent said they want an Android device, and only 13 percent reporting that they’d like to have a BlackBerry.

The picture looks very much the same with current smartphone owners, as well. As far as gender goes, the percentages are very similar when asked what smartphone is desired next, except that more men report wanting an Android device, while more women — about 12 percent more — say they simply don’t know what they want next. Hit up the source link for charts of all this knowledge.

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Acer confirms plans for Windows Phone 7

jedwan — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:11:08 +0000

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. In an interview with Ina Fried, Gianfranco touched briefly on the company’s plans for Microsoft’s new OS, after an ill-fated stint with Windows Mobile not so long ago. Naturally, the addition of Windows Phone 7 won’t be coming at the expense of Acer’s newfound love of Android, but Lanci oddly says he sees for WP7 “the same opportunity you can see on Android in terms of customization.” We don’t know what sort of customization he could be referring to, but we’re trembling in anticipation. So, let’s just tally them up: MeeGo, Chrome OS, Windows Phone 7, Android, and, of course, Windows itself… pretty nice collection you’ve got for yourself, Acer. What’s next, BeOS?

Acer confirms plans for Windows Phone 7 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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ComScore: Android grows, iPhone stagnates, everyone else loses in US smartphone market share

jedwan — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:49:34 +0000

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. As to overall mobile OEMs, Samsung has added an extra few percentage points to its US lead, with LG keeping pace and Motorola and Nokia losing share. Hit the source link for the full breakdown.

[Thanks, John C.]

ComScore: Android grows, iPhone stagnates, everyone else loses in US smartphone market share originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HTC Trophy review

jedwan — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:07:40 +0000

Why yes, yes it is another Windows Phone 7 device review. Not that we’re complaining. It’s not everyday that a new mobile operating system this polished arrives at our doorstep. Having already gone in depth with Microsoft’s entirely new OS and half dozen or so other WP7 devices, it’s now time to dive deep into the life and times of the HTC Trophy. And it’s about time. We first saw the words “HTC” and “Trophy” on the same page in a roadmap leak all the way back in 2009. Several of the leaked handsets eventually launched — but not the 3-inch portrait QWERTY Trophy (codenamed, Spark) running Windows Mobile 6.5. Perhaps that original design was scrapped along with WinMo’s relevancy to the consumer smartphone market. We don’t know and we may never know. What we can tell you is what it’s like to live with a production HTC Trophy for a week — an average speced touchscreen slate offering anything but a middle-of-the-road experience.

This review is primarily of the HTC Trophy hardware. Check out our full review of Windows Phone 7 for our thoughts on the OS.

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HTC Trophy review originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HTC HD7 review

admin — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:03:17 +0000

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. So what sets it apart? HTC will have you believe its Hub enhances the buttery smooth WP7 software, while outside the shell there’s a handy kickstand for landscape lounging and you do of course benefit from an enlarged canvas for your finger inputs. Join us after the break to discover how much that matters in day-to-day use, along with the rest of our thoughts on the HTC HD7.

This review is primarily of the HTC HD7 hardware. Check out our full review of Windows Phone 7 for our thoughts on the OS.

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HTC HD7 review originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft sends out Lego Windows Phone 7 mockup to executives

jedwan — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:05:34 +0000

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?

Alternate groan-worthy end zingers:

“We suppose that puts a whole new spin on ‘bricked,’ huh?”
“Where’s the Technic version for Windows Mobile 6.5?”
“Micro$oft? More like Blacktron!”

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Microsoft sends out Lego Windows Phone 7 mockup to executives originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nokia 5230 brutally overclocked to 800MHz

admin — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:26:31 +0000

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? The answer is an unqualified “yes,” which is why we’re happy to see this video of a 5230 getting boosted from its stock 434MHz all the way up to a relatively mind-numbing 800MHz. The UI looks considerably snappier, though it’s unclear what kind of effect the hack has on battery life; fortunately, it looks like you can choose from a variety of speeds between 250 and 800MHz, so you can just scale accordingly depending on how close you are to your charger. Now, we just need Symbian^3 on this bad boy and we’ll be all set. Follow the break for video.

[Thanks, Daniel]

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Nokia 5230 brutally overclocked to 800MHz originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Skyfire submits iPhone browser for App Store approval, we wait for the Flash to hit the fan

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:12:29 +0000

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. The company has submitted a version of the browser for App Store approval, transcoding Flash video such that the phone only sees HTML5, with content coming in over H.264 adaptive streaming. As such, video is said to be compressed an average of 75 percent, in theory allaying any concerns about this thing being a bandwidth hog. In other words: there’s no reason for this to not be approved, right? Right! However, something tells us things may not be so easy…

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Exclusive: LG C900 for AT&T has Windows Phone 7, shows off a little carrier branding

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:04:07 +0000

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. To that end, we present to you the LG C900, a rounded landscape slider equipped with a four-row keyboard and a simplified two-button capacitive layout beneath the screen paired with a chrome Windows key. Notably, this is the first time we’ve seen carrier branding on Windows Phone 7′s home screen in the wild — you can see AT&T’s logo prominently displayed as a tile in one of the pictures in the gallery after the break. We’re not sure we’re digging the matte plasticky look up front, but to each his own, we suppose.

Exclusive: LG C900 for AT&T has Windows Phone 7, shows off a little carrier branding originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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