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NOKIA’S QWERTY SLIDER E75 SPOTTED IN THE WILD AGAIN

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:54:28 +0000

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
In the “form factors Nokia hasn’t absolutely explored, but apparently should” bucket, side-sliding QWERTY candybars ranks appealing accursed top on the list, so we’re captivated to see that — as far as we can tell, anyhow — Espoo’s still harder at plan banging out the data of its E75. We’re told to apprehend WiFi (naturally), a 3.2-megapixel camera, and a 2.4-inch display, but added importantly, you’ve got a acceptable keyboard that should accord the S740 a austere run for its money. We’re a bit anxious about account on a absolutely even keyboard like this (E90 anyone?), but hey, maybe that’s the acumen it hasn’t been appear yet, right?[Via Boy Genius Report]Nokia’s QWERTY slider E75 spotted in the agrarian afresh originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:40:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

TIVO MOBILE ENABLES REMOTE SCHEDULING, PROGRAM SEARCHES

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:54:28 +0000

Filed under: Multimedia, Others, MiscRemote scheduling has been accessible on TiVo boxes for years now, and Verizon Wireless users in accurate accept been able to do so on their mobiles back endure March. Now, however, TiVo Mobile is authoritative handset scheduling for Series2 / Series3 owners a assert by aperture up affinity with all platforms, browsers and carriers. Slated to go reside appropriate about now, the m.tivo.com website will aswell let subscribers and non-subscribers akin “browse, seek and ascertain television shows on the go,” and while the accepted abundance is in “beta form,” the final website should be formed out aural a few weeks. Give it a go — just don’t breach annihilation in there, alright? Full absolution afterwards the break.Continue account TiVo Mobile enables limited scheduling, affairs searchesTiVo Mobile enables limited scheduling, affairs searches originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:01:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments

NOKIA SLIPS OUT 5 MEGAPIXEL 6260 SLIDE WITH AGPS, A FIRST FOR S40 DEVICES

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:54:28 +0000

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, HSUPA
Peeped in spy pics on these Interwebs back June, Nokia just went official with the 6260 slide. Unfortunately, “slide” in this case reveals a numeric keypad not a QWERTY. Otherwise, it’s appealing abundant an accepted footfall above the 6220 classic. As such, we’re searching at a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens, WiFi, and HSDPA/HSUPA abstracts to bound allotment photos and video on Nokia’s Ovi account with the affiance of abutment for added photo and video administration sites you ability in fact use. The 6260 accelerate aswell appearance Nokia Maps benumbed AGPS — a aboriginal for a accumulation market, Series 40 device. Ships in aboriginal 2009 for about €299 afore taxes and carrier subsidies, naturally.Update: Detailed specs just appear appearance a 2.4-inch, 320 x 480 pixel affectation on this 15.4-mm blubbery slider with quad-band GSM/EDGE and tri-band UMTS radios and microSD expansion. [Thanks, L] Read — Press Release Read — Detailed Specs [Warning: PDF]Nokia block out 5 megapixel 6260 accelerate with AGPS, a aboriginal for S40 accessories originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:39:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments

OPERA MINI COMES TO THE ANDROID MARKET

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:54:28 +0000

Filed under: Software, Android
Perfect timing, eh? We’re absolutely not too anxious about the declared browser annex accepting appear on G1s the accomplished brace canicule — there’s no affidavit at this point that it’s in fact a browser issue, and even if it is, we apprehend Google to be Johnny-on-the-spot with a application — but it’s still air-conditioned to see a applicable another accepting developed in the anatomy of Opera’s admirable Opera Mini in its latest 4.2 beta form. We’ve played about with it for a few account and it seems to plan appealing accursed well, so if you G1 owners are activity agrarian and crazy abundant to about-face up your browsing routine, accord it a go — it’s free, afterwards all.[Via Phone Scoop]Opera Mini comes to the Android Market originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:57:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

T-MOBILE BLOWING OUT FREE MOTOROLA ZN5S THIS WEEKEND

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:54:28 +0000

Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE
Black Friday’s axis into a Black Weekend for Moto and T-Mobile, it seems, with the just-released ZN5 already accepting discounted to a big, fat goose egg (after rebate, anyway) for the continuance of the anniversary weekend. That’s down from $99 at launch, and a accursed acceptable accord because that you’re accepting a WiFi-equipped buzz with a 5-megapixel autofocus cam and xenon flash. We’re still not abiding we can absolve the gray / amethyst scheme, but if we could be reminded of just how crazily little we shelled out for the buzz every time we looked at it, we could apparently let it slide.T-Mobile alarming out chargeless Motorola ZN5s this weekend originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:15:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

VERIZON ANNOUNCES SAMSUNG OMNIA FOR $249.99

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:54:28 +0000

Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Verizon Wireless, Windows Mobile, EV-DO, CDMA
If it’s a 5-megapixel cameraphone you’re searching for, there are absolutely cheaper entries on the bazaar — but if alone a 5-megapixel WinMo Professional set will do, the Omnia’s just about the best (read: only) accord you’ll acquisition on an American carrier these days. The CDMA adaptation of the smartphone that Samsung’s been affairs in added locations of the apple for abundant of 2008 in GSM anatomy carries over a lot of of its key features, namely Windows Mobile 6.1 with TouchWiz, WiFi, DivX certification, the love-it-or-hate-it optical directional pad, and that able-bodied cam with beam and autofocus. It aswell nabs VZ Navigator support, stereo Bluetooth, a 3.2-inch 400 x 240 display, and 8GB of centralized memory. Gives abeyance to that approaching Touch Pro purchase, doesn’t it? Look for it to be accessible for adjustment this anniversary — a abounding retail barrage is accepted appear December 8 — for $249.99 afterwards abatement on a two-year contract.Gallery: Verizon announces Samsung Omnia for $249.99Verizon announces Samsung Omnia for $249.99 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:00:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

SAMSUNG SETTLES UP WITH INTERDIGITAL IN LONG-RUNNING PATENT INFRINGEMENT CASE

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:54:28 +0000

Filed under: Others, Samsung, MiscAt last, it’s over. InterDigital, which is best accepted for its episodes in the attorneys with Samsung and Nokia, has assuredly accomplished an acceding with the above firm. The two accept been at anniversary other’s throats back April of endure year apropos patents allegedly acclimated in some of Sammy’s added adult phones. The accommodation was accomplished just a day afore the US International Trade Commission was set to aphorism on whether to acclaim barring afflicted Samsung imports altogether, which we can assure you was not at all coincidental. There’s been no accessible acknowledgment of adjustment value, admitting one analyst at Hilliard Lyons estimates that Samsung will be coughing up $400 to $500 actor over the next 5 years to accomplish this botheration go away. Talk about a alternating nightmare.Samsung settles up with InterDigital in long-running apparent contravention case originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:29:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

MOTOROLA’S HINT QA30 GETS OFFICIAL

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:54:28 +0000

Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, Announcements
We weren’t decidedly afflicted if we got our aboriginal blink at MOTO’s QWERTY-sliding Hint QA30 bygone morning, award the anatomy agency to be a little too broad for our tastes whether accessible or closed. Today the buzz has been accustomed the official analysis and, while things attending a little bigger in a new set of glamor shots from Motorola (no added Alltel branding on the UI), the “innovative” architecture still doesn’t attending decidedly adequate to backpack or to use. Now that we can accomplish out the buttons on the foreground we see that they’ll serve as controls for the media amateur if closed, afresh authoritative us anticipate this should be a acceptable best for your family’s texting-addict rocker. The specs we got afore are confirmed, the one barring getting that the microSD abutment acme out at 8GB, not 32GB — bigger about-face down that bitrate, son.Continue account Motorola’s Hint QA30 gets officialMotorola’s Hint QA30 gets official originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:58:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

T-MOBILE G1 NOW AVAILABLE IN FROSTY WHITE

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:54:28 +0000

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, Android
We’ve heard that it’s been assuming up on doorsteps and in food for a few canicule now, but T-Mobile has just clearly accustomed the word that the G1 is now accessible in white to accompaniment brownish and the abnormally personality-free atramentous (not to say there’s annihilation amiss with that, atramentous G1 owners). The price, hardware, and software are all the same, so if you anticipation this absolution ability somehow magically accompany a bendable keyboard with it, anticipate again. Any guesses what — if any — approaching colors we ability see on this puppy?T-Mobile G1 now accessible in chill white originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:22:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

LG RHYTHM OFFICIALLY BEATS ON US CELLULAR

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:54:28 +0000

Filed under: Handsets, LG, EV-DO, CDMA, US Cellular
You knew it was coming, and now the day your affection has been cat-and-mouse for has assuredly arrived. Effective immediately, LG’s Rhythm is accessible to US Cellular customers, alms up a 1-inch annular touchscreen and “one of the a lot of avant-garde music systems accessible in adaptable phones today (oh, really?).” To be fair, the amateur does cover DSP and an audio blaster acquainted by Mark Levinson, and the FM transmitter / 3.5-millimeter headphone jack exudes calmness about audio. You’ll aswell acquisition a microSD agenda slot, 2-inch capital LCD, a 1.3-megapixel camera / camcorder and Bluetooth 2.0; subscribers can snatch this slider up in atramentous or blush (a USCC exclusive, apperception you) for $79.95 afterwards rebates and acknowledged obligations.LG Rhythm clearly beats on US Cellular originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:49:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments