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Here on Thanksgiving Eve, we’ve got two dank Storm tidbits abiding to accomplish your Turkey Day that abundant added interesting. For starters, one adolescent over on HoFo has purportedly apart his touchscreen BlackBerry for use on T-Mobile’s GSM network. Hot, right? The action complex sourcing a SIM alleviate cipher from VZW, again afterlight the buzz with software advised for the Bold. If you’re not abashed yet, you’ll aswell charge a birr of Elvish abracadabra and a bit of luck, but you should apperceive that you can’t tap into T-Mob’s 2G articulation arrangement and Verizon’s 3G abstracts arrangement at the aforementioned time. Next up, the Boy Genius has it on ascendancy that two firmware updates are but weeks away, both of which will ambition some of the abounding issues that aboriginal adopters accept been harping on back barrage day. Hit the links beneath for added data on everything.Read - Storm apart for T-Mobile [Via SlashGear]Read - Storm updates [Via SlashGear]Two BlackBerry Storm updates imminent, handset apart for use on T-Mobile originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:41:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Handsets, Others, MiscWho’s praying now, Modu? The already arrogant and altogether able handset maker has allegedly collapsed on boxy times, with a contempo TalkingMobile address suggesting that about one-quarter of its agents (including a few executives) has been told to arch home. The reason? Aside from the accessible “the economy” cop out, the aggregation has aswell been hit harder by barrage delays and the disability to acreage a carrier accomplice accommodating to carapace out for promotions. Granted, this is far from the end of Modu — there’s still banknote to be burnt and avenues to airing down, but we’d apparently skip over it if sending out job applications appropriate now.[Via IntoMobile]Modu reportedly lays off about 25% of its advisers originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:23:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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It’s not like Nokia was assertive sales in Japan anyhow — far from it. So it’s not too big a accident to airing abroad from its abreast 1 percent bazaar allotment if it’s sitting aloft a (dwindling) 40% 39% allotment globally. According to Nokia carnality admiral Timo Ihamuotila, “We accept advised that we cannot abide to advance in artefact development just for Japan amidst the accepted boxy bread-and-butter conditions.” Nokia will abide to advertise its affluence Vertu branded phones though, apparently on that MVNO Nokia is accounted to be rolling out this spring.Nokia pulls out of Japan, cipher notices originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:51:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Merely weeks afterwards a scattering of TV broadcasters accurate their approval of the MPH adaptable TV standard, the absolute ATSC has animated its blueprint for Mobile Digital Television to Candidate Standard status. Or it will aboriginal next week, based on the affected December 1st date on the columnist release. Anywho, the accede brings the accepted one huge footfall afterpiece to absolute accomplishing in the United States, admitting a final accepted isn’t apt to be agreed aloft until backward next year. Not that the adjournment is absolutely a botheration — afterwards all, a admirable absolute of 19 humans in this abundant nation even affliction about TV on the go, right?[Via mocoNews]ATSC gives antecedent accede to MPH adaptable TV accepted originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:59:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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What would you get if you accumulated an iPhone, a unibody Macbook, a strobe ablaze out of a smoky, drugged-out disco, and a apartment from annoying absorb infringement? We assumption you’d get something like this, the creatively-named “iPhone V126″ that you’ll acquisition amphibian about the streets of Shenzen these days. The QVGA affectation shows off a analytic affectionate reproduction of the iPhone’s UI (for a non-touch device, anyway), but the similarities end there because that you’re traveling all the way down to a abortive VGA cam commutual with an Apple logo on the foreground awning that emanates adorable pulses of afire white ablaze every time you get a call. We’ll yield two in gold, please.[Via PHONE Magazine]Keepin’ it absolute fake, allotment CLXIX: the iPhone gets addled originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:31:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia
If you’ve been gritting your teeth and absolution the PR aggression of the iPhone 3G, Storm, and G1 beating you about as you waited for Nokia’s access into the widescreen, touchscreen superphone bazaar — that delay appears to be advancing it’s end. Nokia has gone and gotten all official and release-y with it’s advancing (if somewhat disappointing) 5800 XpressMusic… or as we apperceive it, the Tube. According to the company’s PR, the accessory “is now, or will be soon” accessible in Russia, Spain, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Finland, “among others.” If you’ll recall, the buzz boasts a 3.2-inch, 16:9 arresting touchscreen (hey, they bandy in a guitar aces stylus), a 3.2-megapixel camera, 8GB of on-board storage, and the connected affirmation that you’re application a buzz already alleged the Tube. No word on amount or plans, but we apprehend cheap, and lots.[Thanks, Pdexter]Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic goes on auction about in the apple originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:55:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Handsets, Software, Apple, OS XSo, get a amount of this. While tinkering aural the iPhone 2.2 SDK, ArsTechnica apparent a accurate little tidbit that could advance to some appealing adaptable applications. In essence, the MPTVOutWindow chic enables your iPhone to axle out video to a affiliated TV rather than the congenital screen. Of course, dock-connecting iPods / iPhones accept been sending out videos for ages now, but this could in fact accredit applications to be acclimated on the big screen. Sadly, the accepted cipher will not acquiesce awning alternation while the TV out action is active, but the accelerometer is still a go. Check out a abbreviate affirmation blow afterwards the break, and feel chargeless to let your acuteness run agrarian afterwards peeking the apprehend link.[Via AppleInsider]Continue account Hidden TV out appearance apparent in iPhone 2.2 SDKHidden TV out appearance apparent in iPhone 2.2 SDK originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:03:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Hello everyone, I am still almost new to the Tilt - I confused from a Palm Treo 700P recently.  I accept two questions: 1.  Is there any way to "normalize" the aggregate on the WM Media Player so that all songs play at the aforementioned output?  I apperceive you can do it on the desktop but I accept not been able to acquisition annihilation about it in the adaptable version. 2.  Is there a FREE music arena account like Pandora that works on the Tilt with WM6.1?  I just annulled my Sirius cable back they started with all the talking and their own commercials.  I couldn’t angle it any more.  I accept to Pandora at work.  Now I am searching for a website that lets you aces the affectionate of music you wish to accept to with no talking/no commercials so that I can run it from my buzz to my car if driving. Thanks everyone!  I attending advanced to your response(s).

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