Posts Tagged ‘handsets’
Friday, August 21st, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, ATT, Apple
Well, that was fast. Just one week after hitting the scene,
Qik for iPhone 3GS has been updated to move that nasty “WiFi only” restriction, meaning you can now stream your videos to the internet over a 3G network. We just tried it ourselves and, sure enough, it works like a charm. After you’ve read through all that
FCC literature, hit up the read link and download the (thankfully still free) app — just be careful how much fun you have with it this weekend. Let’s see how AT&T’s network handles this one. [Warning: iTunes app link.]
Qik for iPhone 3GS update removes ‘WiFi only’ restriction, 3G streaming is a go originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, Others, China Mobile, Android
The O1 isn’t even out yet, but a new filing with China’s regulatory folks suggests that Lenovo’s already hard at work at a lower-cost version that would swap out metal bits for plastic ones and kick the camera down from 5 megapixels to 3. On the plus side, buyers still make out with 8GB of internal storage and quite possibly China Mobile’s homegrown Android skin, so it can’t be all bad, right? Then again, this remix could be for a different carrier altogether, in which case we might be spared Open Mobile System’s uncomfortably iPhone-esque home screen — and really, that’d be just fine with us.
Lenovo’s O1e takes the O1 down a notch or three originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: china, china-mobile, chinamobile, culture, engadget, engadget-mobile, fcc fridays, games, handsets, Lenovo, mobile, o1e, oms, openmobilesystem
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, Nokia
The Garmin-Asus nuvifone is finally inbound to domestic retailers, but it’s taken so many wrong turns on the way that it’s given the competition plenty of time to catch up and prepare their own nav-enabled mobile offerings. TomTom’s iPhone kit is due any minute, and now Nokia is getting into the game, announcing the 5800 Navigation Edition. Instead of coming with music it comes with a pre-loaded copy of Ovi Maps and lifetime licenses for voice-guided driving and walking directions. It also includes a car charger and a handy-dandy auto mounting kit, all swingingly demonstrated in a video below, and is set to ship sometime in the third quarter of this year (i.e. soon) at an expected retail of €285 (about $410).
Continue reading Nokia’s 5800 Navigation Edition announced, finding its way to stores soon
Nokia’s 5800 Navigation Edition announced, finding its way to stores soon originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Android
In its brief three-model run so far, HTC’s already built a storied history of odd color options for its Android phones: brown on the G1, “merlot” on the myTouch 3G, and now, a sublime pink for the Hero that we’re finally seeing in the wild. Love it or hate it, Android fans, be real with yourselves: if it was somehow the only Hero you had access to, you’d take it in a heartbeat.
[Via MobileTechWorld, thanks WHOIS]
HTC beats Microsoft to the punch, rolls out a different kind of ‘project pink’ to the Hero originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: accessories, culture, engadget-mobile, handsets, hero, HTC, mobile, rogers-wireless, softbank-mobile
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, EDGE
We’d figured the 5530 was destined for markets around the globe where 2G still dominates, so imagine our pleasant surprise to see that good ol’ Nokia USA is as amped as anyone to start selling the company’s new low-cost S60 5th Edition device. This leaves potential buyers in a doozy of a dilemma, though: most retailers are now selling the 5530’s big brother, the 5800, for under $300, which makes the $290 sticker for a 3G-less version pretty hard to swallow. On the flipside, the 5530’s unquestionably the more attractive phone and the updated home screen is going to leave 5800 owners insanely envious. It’s a tough call, and it’s not a call we’d want to have to make — one of each, perhaps? There’s no shipping date listed on the preorder, but for your patience Nokia’s awarding you with an MD-8 stereo Bluetooth speaker if you order online — just pony up your $289.99, pick the white or black version of the phone, twiddle your thumbs, and don’t be shocked when the New York and Chicago flagships get stock before you do.
[Thanks, Oscar M.]
Nokia 5530 XpressMusic up for $290 preorder on US site originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: 5530, 5530xpressmusic, accessories, engadget-mobile, fcc fridays, games, handsets, network, Nokia, podcasts, preorder, Symbian
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, Nokia
It’s still hard to believe that Nokia’s already upstaging the N97 with the N97 mini just two months after the big guy shipped, but here we are, staring at the FCC documentation. There’s not much to go on here besides this label-location drawing, which is marked with a 1:1 scale — allowing us to set our regular N97 down next to it and show you just how little Nokia achieved with all that development money. Check it after the break, along with another pic of the mini the inimitable Eldar Murtazin just posted to his blog.
[Via Mobile Bulgaria]
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Read – Eldar Murtazin’s blog with additional pic of the mini
Continue reading Nokia N97 mini pops in the FCC, not so much mini-er than the N97
Nokia N97 mini pops in the FCC, not so much mini-er than the N97 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: Apple, culture, FCC, fcc fridays, handsets, messaging, mobile, N-series, N97, n97 mini, network, Nokia, podcasts, rogers-wireless
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Sprint, EV-DO, CDMA, Android
We know of precisely two types of radios going into Heros (or would that be Heroes?) right now: the 900 / 2100MHz 3G for global use that everyone’s using so far, and an 850 / 1900 version for North America that the FCC’s had the pleasure of using. Well, you know how FCC labs work — they get to play with all the toys before anyone else does — and now they’re checking out another version of HTC’s latest and greatest Android device with CDMA / EV-DO. This lends near-infinite credibility to the buzz that Sprint’s signed up to launch the phone this fall, presumably around the same time it drops the InstinctQ from Samsung, at which point it’ll have both the QWERTY and full-touch Android angles covered. Options are good, are they not?
HTC Hero earns FCC approval with CDMA, Sprint launch rumors more solid than ever originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: browser, CDMA, engadget-mobile, ev-do, FCC, fcc fridays, handsets, hero, HTC, messaging, network, podcasts, Sprint
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, T-Mobile, Danger, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
Would-be Sidekick LX 2009 owners have one less reason to keep dragging their feet this week with the dropping of the model’s price (in both Carbon and Orchid variants, of course) down to $175 on contract after discounts from the original retail price of $250. We’re not sure what’s ultimately responsible for the price cut beyond the usual ultra-rapid retail shelf aging process and the gnat-like attention span of consumers like ourselves, but either way, the move helps put the high-end featurephone back in line with some of its contemporaries (we’re sorry, but running more than a BlackBerry Tour or an iPhone 3GS on subsidy makes about as much sense as mail-order beef). So, does this tip the scale for anyone out there? Who’s taking the plunge?
[Via Hiptop 3]
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T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009 down to $175 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: accessories, engadget-mobile, fcc fridays, features, handsets, network, News, podcasts, sidekick, sidekicklx2009
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, GSM, EV-DO, HSDPA, UMTS, CDMA
If you spell happiness T-W-E-L-V-E M-E-G-A-P-I-X-E-L-S, you’re looking in the wrong place. Samsung’s SCH-W830 — along with its SPH-W8300 and SPH-W8350 cousins for other networks — finds inner peace through the simplicity and beauty of a scintillating light show set around an ultra-low res display. You’ve only got two megapixels to work with around back, but seriously, who has time to snap pictures when you’re being dazzled by a seemingly endless array of colored lights? Between that and the spring-loaded opening mechanism, this is a flip fit for the fiddler / fidgeter in all of us, and it’s available now on South Korea’s LGT, SKT, and KTF.
[Via mobile-review]
Samsung’s SCH-W830 is like a window to your soul, if your soul is a circular dot-matrix display originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: accessories, Apple, clamshell, fcc fridays, games, handsets, Korea, ktf, lgt, lgtelecom, Nokia, Samsung, soul
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Verizon Wireless, Windows Mobile, EV-DO, CDMA
HTC’s making some serious moves in North America at the moment — not to say that’s necessarily anything new — and the Touch Diamond2 and Pro2 are both getting love from every angle. That’s a good thing, we figure — and the parade of high-end Windows Mobile hardware continues with the Whitestone, a presumed Diamond2 variant with a 3.6-inch WVGA display and 5 megapixel cam. Test documents confirm that it’s CDMA / EV-DO, though we’re not seeing any evidence of GSM; that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not there since the FCC doesn’t care to test non-US bands, but we definitely expected to see a full report on EDGE 850 / 1900. Now that the approval’s in, Verizon, it’s your move — let’s get the ball rolling, shall we?
Verizon’s HTC Whitestone garners FCC approval originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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