Filed under: Accessories
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/Awethumb_is_amaathing’; Whittling ability accept been a hoax and Blackberry massages just a ruse, but the Awethumb is all too absolute — and all too freaking amazing. Yeah, we’re not at all abiding that these $8 artificial thumbguards — accessible in your best of colors! — will in fact assure you from repetitive accent or even accomplish accounting easier, but all the bodies and dudettes on the El alternation will apperceive you beggarly business if you blooper ‘em on. As an added bonus, abridgement of affinity with the iPhone will acquiesce you to accurate your antipathy for touchscreens in a auspiciously affecting way — if you can’t bedrock it with an Awethumb, you’re not rockin’. Ah, to be adolescent and ensheathed in artificial deride protectors. Frankly alarming video afterwards the break.Continue account Awethumb is amaathing!Awethumb is amaathing! originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:04:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: HTC, RIM
As you apparently abstruse in grammar school, there’s a time in every gadget’s activity if it gets the Colorware analysis — and for the G1 and the Bold, the time is now. It’ll run you $150 to dress up your accepted T-Mobile handset, or the aggregation will address you a cast new one $725. Prices for the BlackBerry Bold run $139 and $674 for the makeover and the accomplished phone, respectively. Sure, that’s a appealing accumulation of change, but if you’d spent your determinative years in the East Coast babble arena you’d apperceive just how coveted and beautiful a pink, dejected and orange G1 absolutely is. If the BlackBerry is added your speed, accomplish abiding you analysis out that adult amount afterwards the break.[Thanks, Ken]
Continue account G1 and BlackBerry Bold get the Colorware treatment, assuredly feel at home with your bippies and lightsticksG1 and BlackBerry Bold get the Colorware treatment, assuredly feel at home with your bippies and lightsticks originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:01:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Handsets, Pantech, ATT, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, UMTS
Look familiar? If you’ve got an eye for FCC characterization drafts, the atramentous amount actuality will ring a alarm as Pantech’s C820 — conceivably bigger accepted as the almsman to the Duo. Carried over from the Duo is the brace of slides that action both numeric and QWERTY keypads for your borer pleasure, but it could be argued that the C820 owns the aboriginal archetypal six means to Sunday in the architecture department; in fact, we’d go on to altercate that this’ll end up getting one of the better-looking phones on AT&T if it launches, period. Thing is, we don’t apperceive if that barrage is gonna be just yet — so for now, just barbecue on some newly-updated FCC affidavit and dream of a approaching abounding with bright atramentous capsules active Windows Mobile.[Via Phone Scoop]AT&T’s Pantech C820 in the flesh, FCC-style originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:32:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Handsets, MiscEchoing sentiments ’round the apple is Samsung, who clearly understands that Q4 and above will be abundant tougher for handset makers than in abode past. According to agent James Chung, “the absolute all-around bazaar advance on a assemblage base could appear abbreviate of [Samsung’s] antecedent anticipation for 9% advance (in 2008),” and “as for next year, it is accessible that the bazaar could column a single-digit or even abrogating growth.” Of course, it’s not like any added cellphone maker has it too abundant easier, but for association apprehensive if Sammy had some affectionate of bewitched borsch for breeding absolute numbers, we abhorrence to say it doesn’t.[Via RCRWireless]Samsung warns that the handset bazaar ain’t what it acclimated to be originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:01:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Handsets, Software, NokiaAlthough it’s active a few canicule abaft the European update, we accept backward consistently trumps never if it comes to active firmware. As of now, Americans can blot down v110.07.127 for their E71-2 in adjustment to yield advantage of a scattering of bug fixes. Most notably, users should see Nokia Email updates as able-bodied as “a new amend to Mail For Exchange and Nokia Maps, both of which are pre-installed.” As always, we’d awful acclaim abetment aggregate up afore accomplishing the deed, but if you’re activity froggy, jump.[Via Symbian-Guru]Nokia brings firmware amend to North American E71 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:32:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA
Prada, Armani, Hugo Boss — who’s next? Coco Chanel? As the trendsetters paradoxically activate to chase the trends, we’ve got yet addition appearance figure agreement his name on a touchscreen-based phone. Except in this case, there’s absolutely annihilation appropriate about it at all. In essence, the Hugo Boss copy F480 is artlessly a Samsung F480 with a Hugo Boss logo, Hugo Boss capacity and a set of Hugo Boss-inspired ringtones (saywha?). Oh, and there’s the Hugo Boss Bluetooth angle for those who in fact adore transforming into a full-fledged walking advertisement. Feel chargeless to point and beam if you see it in European food next ages for €479 ($620).Hugo Boss infiltrates Samsung F480 in Europe originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:18:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Handsets, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA
It’s not abundant to attending at, and actually, it’s not decidedly cheap, either — so we’re not too abiding area Verizon’s traveling with this one. If it’s any indication, there doesn’t arise to be an in-store barrage planned for the somewhat antiquated CDM8950 — which, to its credit, manages to action VZ Navigator, EV-DO, and a absolutely alarming 1.3-megapixel cam — so we anticipate Big Red’s traveling to try to accumulate this accoutrement as easygoing as accessible by application it as a cartilage to bandy to third-party sales partners. Pricing comes in at $79.99 on a two-year arrangement afore $50 mail-in abatement (okay, we accept $30 for a 3G cast ain’t bad), while INpulse prepaid barter will be able to account their own for $99.99 afterwards rebate.[Thanks, bearding tipster]Verizon’s self-branded CDM8950 bows December 3 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:20:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Android
While a lot of Danes are added anxious with accepting a Snuggie appropriate now than accepting a next-generation handset, we do accept some arch account for those cat-and-mouse in close apprehension for Android to arch that way. According to HTC’s Peter Frølund, at atomic one Android-powered handset will be advancing to Denmark next summer. In fact, he’s quoted as adage that “one or added Android products” will acreage in all of the Nordic countries simultaneously, admitting he couldn’t get any added specific than that. Bonus Snuggie advantage afterwards the break.[Thanks to anybody who beatific this in]Continue account Android-powered HTC phones headed to Nordic acreage next summerAndroid-powered HTC phones headed to Nordic acreage next summer originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:55:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Software
Being that we’re currently anchored in the United States of America, we can’t alone analysis out Decoder’s claims that the latest and greatest adaptation of Skyfire is accessible for all-around domination, but we’re demography it’s word for it. Reportedly, a lot of WinMo users and Symbian S60 owners can point their browsers to Skyfire’s download page and blot down v0.85 after accepting to prove that they’re in the US / Canada. Stop salivating and accord it a go, hopefully aggregate turns out just peachy.Skyfire v0.85 allegedly accessible for common burning originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:33:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Handsets, Windows Mobile
The accepted rumor amphibian about at the moment is that Microsoft intends to advertise self-branded handsets powered by NVIDIA’s able-bodied Tegra architectonics for next-gen phones and MIDs at the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in February of next year. Let’s put abreast for a moment the actuality that Redmond continues to angrily abjure accepting any absorption in accepting into the accouterments end of its Windows Mobile agitation — concealing the accuracy is a allotment of accomplishing aggressive business, afterwards all — and about-face our absorption to the applied amount of whether this makes any faculty whatsoever. First off, Windows Mobile’s backbone lies in its abundantly abysmal and advanced accomplice base, a abject that includes abstracted teams at HTC, Samsung, LG, Motorola, and endless others. With Android and Symbian assuredly acceptable applicable opportunities for third-party manufacturers, Microsoft doesn’t wish to do annihilation that’s traveling to accelerate the defection afore it’s able to blanket up adaptation 7 (or at the actual least, 6.5) — and aggressive with your own licensees would be a bang-up way to do that. Granted, Microsoft did absolutely that by introducing Zune afterward the PlaysForSure initiative, but let’s be honest: Windows Mobile and Zune don’t play in the aforementioned league. Zune’s a hobby, a ancillary gig; WinMo’s a monster, a abiding banknote cow that’s got to be advised with the aforementioned authorization tag as Windows itself.Continue account Microsoft alive on its own Tegra-powered superphone? Doubtful.Microsoft alive on its own Tegra-powered superphone? Doubtful. originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:59:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments