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Filed under: Handsets, Others, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, HSUPA

As HTC’s already eager to demonstrate with the Touch Diamond2 and Touch Pro2 and Toshiba with the TG01, Windows Mobile 6.5 should bring with it a pretty wide range of interesting compatible hardware — and we’ll admit that we’re a little intrigued by this alleged device from Mio codenamed “Amber.” All we’ve got here is a render, but it’s certainly within the realm of plausibility — it looks quite a bit like the company’s G50, after all, and we’d certainly expect them to be releasing new WinMo devices in conjunction with 6.5. Anyhow, we’re told that we can expect a 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7200 series (we would’ve preferred Snapdragon-class silicon, of course), a whopping 3.61-inch WVGA display, 256MB of RAM paired with 512MB of ROM, a 5 megapixel AF primary cam, full HSPA, and an integrated FM transmitter. If it’s real, it looks like this one has the Touch Diamond2 squarely in its sights.

[Thanks, msav]

Mio codename “Amber” on the way with WinMo 6.5? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Apple

Apple’s guided tour videos have featured an endless variety of creepy-android perfect “Apple Store employees” in the recent past, but we’d just like to take a moment and pour one out for OG Bob Borchers, who kicked off the entire series in 2007 with the original iPhone tours and followed ‘em up with the iPhone 3G tour. Bob’s leaving his post as Apple’s senior director of worldwide iPhone product marketing to join VC group Opus Capital — yeah, it’s not hard gadget news, but we’re getting a little misty on Sunday evening remembering how closely we all watched those initial demos looking for any tiny nuggets of information about the then-mysterious platform. Peace out, Bob — it’s been a ride. Video after the break.

Continue reading Bob the Apple guided tour guy leaves for greener pastures

Bob the Apple guided tour guy leaves for greener pastures originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

We’ve already seen a couple of these semi-officially, but it seems that Samsung has now fully, honestly announced these four fresh models for all of the world to ogle. There’s actually not a lot to see here — they’re so well-buried in Samsung’s literature that we were only able to find the S6700 ourselves — but they present interesting options for anyone looking to get in on mobile music at a ridiculously low price point. Starting at the bottom, the M2310 and M2510 together formulate a powerful one-two flip / slider punch (okay, that’s saying a bit much) with dedicated music controls and support for up to 8GB of microSD storage; the M2310 has a VGA cam while the M2510 steps it up to 1.3 megapixels. Moving upwards, the C5510 adds in a dual-band 3G radio, 16GB expandability, and a 2 megapixel fixed-focus camera, while the S6700 slider (pictured) tops out the range with HSDPA, a 3 megapixel camera with autofocus and dual-LED flash, GPS, and 120MB of storage on board. Still no word on when or where these are launching, but it seems like the S6700 might be available in some regions if you look hard enough.

[Via GSMArena]

Samsung announces four phones spanning the low to midrange originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Android

We doubt the July 15 delivery date is set in stone, but UK residents itching to get a little Hero in their lives are now able to pre-order HTC’s latest for £429 ($708). That’s pretty much what we’d expect for an unlocked set, but Orange is planning to offer the Hero free on contract, so we’d be inclined to hang on just a teensy bit longer. Video after the break.

[Via Phandroid]

Continue reading HTC Hero up for pre-order on Amazon UK: £429, July 15 delivery

HTC Hero up for pre-order on Amazon UK: £429, July 15 delivery originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Software, Windows Mobile

So Microsoft France’s product manager for Windows Mobile, Audrey Zolghadr, is saying that the company’s upcoming Windows Marketplace launch will be accompanied by around 600 apps certified and available on day one. Depending on your perspective, that’s either ridiculously anemic — the iPhone’s App Store has a couple orders of magnitude more currently available, for example — or a veritable cornucopia. Though the Ovi Store has no shortage of “items” to buy, an overwhelming majority of those are currently wallpapers, ringtones, and the like, and Palm’s App Catalog launched with so few apps that many folks (we’re not naming names) literally had every app installed within a few minutes of buying the phone. At the end of the day, it’s all about signal-to-noise ratio; if Microsoft can deliver 600 apps and half of those are terrific, they’re on the right track — though at this point, we’re thinking the next battle in Smartphone Platform Wars doesn’t really kick off until WinMo 7 swings by anyway.

[Via PhoneArena and WMExperts]

Windows Marketplace launching with 600 apps, or one bazillion times what the App Catalog has originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Games, Handsets, Sony Ericsson

As recently as May Sony has itself stated that a PSP phone “could happen,” and now a report from Nikkei business daily states that Sony is planning on putting together a team as early as next month to build product that would act as a combination of a PSP and a Sony Ericsson handset. It makes plenty of sense, both as a differentiation from Nintendo and as a confrontation of the looming iPhone threat — and hey, it might also act as a decent salve over the lukewarm reception of the pricey PSPgo. Unfortunately, if Sony is just about to get started on this, we likely wouldn’t be looking at any resulting product for a while to come. Sony declined comment according to Reuters, which doesn’t mean a whole lot, but it’s worth keeping in mind that we’ve been hearing this sort of rumoring since back when the N-Gage (as a product) was still almost relevant.

[Via Mac Rumors]

Sony investigating PSP phone? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Others, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, Android

It looks exactly like a Samsung Omnia, but don’t be fooled — what you’re actually looking at here is Spain’s first go at producing an Android handset (which is especially ironic considering we just reported on the andromnia project). Our colleagues from Engadget Spanish were live in Barcelona today for the grand unveiling of the GeeksPhone One, a Cupcake-powered phone featuring a 625MHz PXA310 core, quadband EDGE plus HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth, AGPS, 3.2 megapixel primary camera plus a front-facing cam for video calling, and microSD expansion — sounds great, but the package is marred a bit by the fact that it’s rolling with a resistive 3.2-inch touchscreen. Hard to complain with the price, though — GeeksPhone expects to sell the set for somewhere between €250 and €300 (about $352 to $422) unlocked when it launches this fall.

[Via Engadget Spanish]

Spanish firm GeeksPhone launches “One” Android set originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

While we twiddle our thumbs and wait for the Dash 3G and the Touch Pro2 to make their fanfare-laden debuts on good ol’ Number Four (that’s our pet name for T-Mobile USA, of course), literature is starting to show up that should make the wait marginally more bearable by giving us a few pretty pictures to look at and words to read. There’s nothing Earth-shattering in here, but we see that the Dash 3G has 256MB of ROM and an impressive rated 8.3 days of standby time — we’ll believe that when we get that kind of performance ourselves — while the Touch Pro2 moves up to 512MB, keeps the 8.3 days of standby, and touts its unusual full-duplex speakerphone that dominates the rear of the device. If you do a lot of conference calling, you must be beside yourself right about now, eh?

T-Mobile’s HTC Touch Pro2 and Dash 3G get spec’d originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Apple

Now, we’re hoping this isn’t some elaborate hoax perpetrated on the kind citizens of the internet, because if it’s real, it’s amazing. Here’s the deal: a man capturing video poolside with his iPhone 3GS somehow loses control of the device and ends up dunking the entire phone… while filming. Miraculously, he manages to fish out the handset and it’s still rolling. We don’t know what the lifespan was / is beyond this clip, but obviously long enough to upload the video or transfer it to a computer. Impressive stuff, though we strongly suggest you don’t test this one out on your own. Check out the full video after the break.

[Via George Ruiz]

Continue reading iPhone 3GS takes plunge in pool while shooting video… and lives to tell the tale

iPhone 3GS takes plunge in pool while shooting video… and lives to tell the tale originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, RIM, Sprint, BlackBerry OS

When the teaser went up, we knew the hotly anticipated BlackBerry Tour for Sprint was right around the corner, but the only hint of a release date was “later this summer.” Lucky for us, the, um, insiders at Inside Sprint Now have clarified the vague window for all of us mere mortals. They confidently state that the Tour will be available on July 20th, just over a week after the purported release date on Big Red. This hasn’t yet been confirmed by Sprint, but we’re sure they want this baby out sooner rather than later, so quasi-mark your calendars, quasi-set your alarms, and get your $199.99 ready.

Sprint launching BlackBerry Tour on July 20th? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Software, Palm, webOS

Palm has done its darnedest to keep the riffraff away from webOS development while it finishes up its Mojo SDK for webOS development, but the floodgates have finally opened with an opportune leak of Mojo to Torrent-vill. Naturally, Palm will still be locking out unapproved developers from releasing their creations to the App Catalog for the time being, but this should hopefully give the everyman a chance to hone apps in anticipation of a day of approval — and should really beef up the homebrew community in the meantime. The other good news is that Palm is actually adding developers to its “early access program” at a fairly rapid pace, announcing that it doubled its membership this week, and plans to double it again next week. It’s all coming together.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Update: The original leak was strictly Windows-style, but PreThinking notes that it’s available for Mac now as well.

Palm’s Mojo SDK beta for webOS leaks into the wild originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Features

We here at Engadget Mobile tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there, we’ve gathered up all the raw info you may want (but probably don’t need). Enjoy!

Phones
Read - Huawei U9105
Read - Huawei G3500
Read - Samsung SGH-A887
Read - Samsung S6700C
Read - Samsung SCH-W920
Read - Samsung SCH-i920
Read - Samsung SCH-U450
Read - ZTE S131-T
Read - LG AX310

Peripherals
Read - Option GI0452
Read - LG HBM-580
Read - LG HFB-510
Read - Huawei K3715

FCC Fridays originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Features

We here at Engadget Mobile tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there, we’ve gathered up all the raw info you may want (but probably don’t need). Enjoy!

Phones
Read - Huawei U9105
Read - Huawei G3500
Read - Samsung SGH-A887
Read - Samsung S6700C
Read - Samsung SCH-W920
Read - Samsung SCH-i920
Read - Samsung SCH-U450
Read - ZTE S131-T
Read - LG AX310

Peripherals
Read - Option GI0452
Read - LG HBM-580
Read - LG HFB-510
Read - Huawei K3715

FCC Fridays originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, RIM, Verizon Wireless, GSM, EV-DO, HSDPA, UMTS, CDMA, BlackBerry OS

You know what’d sell like a cold glass of water in hell? A $199.99 BlackBerry Tour on Verizon, that’s what — and it looks like that might be what the carrier’s planning to unleash. Boy Genius Report has what seems to be a promotional graphic advertising the release of the Tour on July 12 — just over two weeks from today — which has the potential to make it the first Tour release anywhere, beating Telus’ July 15 date and Sprint’s nebulous “later this summer” window. Who’s camping out in line with us?

BlackBerry Tour hitting Verizon on July 12 for $199.99? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, RIM, Verizon Wireless, GSM, EV-DO, HSDPA, UMTS, CDMA, BlackBerry OS

You know what’d sell like a cold glass of water in hell? A $199.99 BlackBerry Tour on Verizon, that’s what — and it looks like that might be what the carrier’s planning to unleash. Boy Genius Report has what seems to be a promotional graphic advertising the release of the Tour on July 12 — just over two weeks from today — which has the potential to make it the first Tour release anywhere, beating Telus’ July 15 date and Sprint’s nebulous “later this summer” window. Who’s camping out in line with us?

BlackBerry Tour hitting Verizon on July 12 for $199.99? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Software, Samsung, Android

This project’s a few days old, but it’s so cool that we wanted to bring it to your attention anyway: “andromnia.” From the name, you might be able to gather that this is all about porting Android to the Samsung Omnia, which represents the marriage of one awesome piece of hardware with one very awesome platform, as far as we’re concerned. Of course, a project of this magnitude requires hackery of the highest order, and the going’s not easy — things like “calling” don’t readily work at the moment — but it appears to be actively developing, so if you’ve got an Omnia handy and WinMo isn’t really your bag, we’d recommend keeping an eye on this.

Android lovingly, painstakingly ported to Samsung’s Omnia originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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