September 2008
251 posts
The T-Mobile G1 →
Filed under: Handsets
T-Mobile’s newest set was officially announced today at a press conference in New York. Set to launch on October 22nd for $179 on T-Mobile in the US on a…
Timberland and GSI cough up $7 million to settle... →
Filed under: Culture, Messaging, Misc
Not that we haven’t seen victories over SMS spammers before, but this one is sure catching a lot of attention due to the names attached….
Amazon: 6 million DRM-free songs on T-Mobile G1 →
Filed under: Multimedia
var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Official_Amazon_MP3_comes_on_G1_Android_phone'; It’s true, Amazon just announced that its MP3 music store will…
GSM-only BlackBerry Storm / Thunder leaks out →
Filed under: Handsets, RIM
We might be getting the CDMA BlackBerry Storm 9530 with GSM worldphone abilities on Verizon here in the States, but the rest of the world doesn’t need…
Re: BaiZhao 890 DualSim phone →
The Baizhao is a great phone. It features everything you’d expect from a modern cellphone, yet the price is much lower. As a seller, I have decided to use one for some time, and it has been a great…
Windows Mobile 7 pushed back to second half of... →
Filed under: Software, Windows Mobile
Good thing nobody’s working on anything right now in the smartphone space, or this could be really bad news for Microsoft, whose current…
E-TEN's V900 gets handled, unloved →
Filed under: Handsets, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, E-TEN
Bad camera, poor battery life, a dodgy d-pad, ugly color — is there anything good to say about…
SRS Labs, CSR team up for better Bluetooth audio... →
Filed under: Peripherals
Getting Bluetooth headset voice quality good enough to prevent the occasional “come again?” is a never-ending challenge, giving rise to devices like the Jawbone…
Meet the T-Mobile G1 →
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, Android
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Meet_the_T_Mobile_G1_Engadget'; Uh, c’mon guys —…
T-Mobile goes live with G1 website →
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, Android
It’s one thing to appear on a website before being officially outed. It’s another to have a web…
Amazon music, movie downloads coming to T-Mobile... →
Filed under: Multimedia, HTC, T-Mobile, Android
Amazon’s always looking for creative new ways to distribute digital media — and in light of its recently-launched Video…
T-Mobile's data coverage maps now have added 3G... →
Filed under: T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, Misc
Check it out, from this zoom level Chicago’s looking flush as far as T-Mobile 3G is concerned — yeah, that’s right, it…
Nokia N96 review roundup →
Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA
When the N95 was released, it was all but universally adored. Even today, nearly two full years after it was …
Verizon comes through with month-to-month plans →
Filed under: Verizon Wireless
As expected, Verizon has announced today that its customers (and would-be customers) are welcome to sign up for month-to-month plans with no contract —…
Suspected ASUS P565 turns up, gets detailed →
Filed under: Handsets, ASUS, Windows Mobile
Nothing is quite official about this ASUS phone just yet, but the current speculation is that it’s actually the ASUS P565 and,…
Best Buy Mobile to carry Nokia N96 next month? →
Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
Anyone (well, anyone stateside) hankering for Nokia’s latest and greatest flagship might need to look no…
Samsung's Armani Night Effect handset gets... →
Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA
There was little doubt Samsung and Armani’s latest tie-up was the real deal, but just in case you’re more skeptical than…
New agreement integrates satellite / cellular... →
Filed under: Handsets, Others
SkyTerra’s Mobile Satellite Ventures, ICO Global Communications and Qualcomm have jointly announced today a partnership that could have far-reaching…
Best Buy spills the beans on Telus' HTC Touch Pro... →
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Telus Mobility, EV-DO, CDMA
We absolutely love it when stuff like this happens, the FCC do it — well we might add — and now it appears Best…
Palm Treo Pro to get real for AT&T? →
Filed under: Handsets
File this under rumor — at least for now — but Palm’s quarterly earning report coughed up the usual financials and news that the Treo Pro’s heading to an…
DIS reveals 9-megapixel camera module for mobile... →
Filed under: Multimedia, Others
We’ve seen 10-megapixel cameraphones. We’ve seen 8-megapixel cameraphones. But if you’ve been holding out for that oh-so-elusive 9-megapixel…
Palm quietly slips next generation smartphones... →
Filed under: Software, Palm, Palm OS
Not that many of you are still paying attention, but for you Palm die-hards we’ve got more news (bad of course) regarding the next generation…
RIM's BlackBerry Javelin 8900 gets pitched through... →
Filed under: Handsets, RIM, GSM, EDGE
The zany folks at CrackBerry have done the planet a kindness by posting up a short review — though, it’s anything but — of RIM’s…
AT&T's BlackBerry Curve 8320 (and friends)... →
Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, RIM, Samsung, ATT, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
If you’ve been jonesing for a few more shots of that trippy Samsung a637 that’s…
Sidekick-esque UTStarcom Knick surfaces for... →
Filed under: Handsets, UTStarcom, ATT, GSM, EDGE
Whoa, what’s this? No, seriously — does anyone in attendance know what this device is? Clearly, we’re able to decipher that…
NeuroSky one-ups NTT DoCoMo, demos mind control... →
Filed under: Software
Oh, what’s this, NTT DoCoMo? Your eye movement control for phones — which isn’t even commercialized, may we add — is so 2050 compared to NeuroSky’s mind…
HTC's Touch HD, Diamond and Pro get together for... →
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Windows Mobile
You’ve seen HTC’s Touch Diamond, Touch Pro and Touch HD handled in separate instances, but CNET Asia took the opportunity to get…
Palm Treo Pro now available on Vodafone UK →
Filed under: Handsets, Palm, Vodafone, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
Business customers in the UK are now invited to sign up for the Treo Pro, beating out…
Samsung's Armani 2 Night Effect is well branded,... →
Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, EDGE, HSDPA
Well it seems Samsung and Georgio Armani weren’t happy to see an end to the battle of the designer phone, so here they are…
LG's KC910 Renoir detailed in pics, is high art →
Filed under: Handsets, LG
Yeah, we’ve seen the PR, ogled the specs, but real honest-to-goodness pics are doing nothing but make our grins bigger. LG’s KC910 packs everything…
T-Mobile to have 3G live in 21 markets by end of... →
Filed under: T-Mobile, HSDPA, UMTS
If you’ve invested in one of those Sony Ericsson TM506s being offered by T-Mobile, it certainly helps if you’ve got some place to take advantage…
Nokia's E75 QWERTY slider spotted in the wild →
Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian
Espoo’s usually a pretty cold place, but HTC’s S740 has to feel the heat coming off Nokia headquarters now that the purported E75 slider…
Mozilla's Firefox mobile kinda gets announced,... →
Filed under: Handsets, Multimedia, Software, Misc
Well the mobile browser world will likely be in for some serious churn now that Mozilla’s Firefox, codenamed “Fennec”, is…
LG's Secret gets new color choices, mums not the... →
Filed under: Handsets, LG, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA
LG’s Secret has arrived in Korea with an entourage of gems and precious metals in a couple flashy new colors: Ruby Violet and…
Velocity Mobile launches the 83, naming scheme... →
Filed under: Handsets, Others, Windows Mobile, EDGE
Don’t get us wrong, Velocity Mobile’s new 83 is certainly a well thought out Windows Mobile 6.1 device, but with its…
Apple prepping a 32GB iPhone update; bringing back... →
Filed under: Handsets, Apple
We’re not particularly inclined to believe them, but the whispers that Apple is about to bump the top-end iPhone capacity to 32GB are getting harder to…
Nokia 6650, 2600 classic, and a funny Samsung show... →
Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Samsung, ATT, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
It’s that most exciting time again for AT&T store owners and their customers — yes,…
FCC Fridays →
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…
Ed Hardy-ruined Palm Centro not available to... →
Filed under: Culture, Handsets, Palm
If you were wondering why Palm just posted another less-than-stellar quarter of earnings despite the runaway success of its Centro line, we…
Had any fun with that OpenMoko's Neo FreeRunner? →
Filed under: Handsets, Others, Linux
Once again, this week’s How Would You Change delves deep into the mobile realm, so we figured we’d give you folks a heads-up of the latest…
HTC's US Touch Diamond now shipping from Best Buy →
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA
It’s no shock to see a US 3G-enabled Touch Diamond showing up at Best Buy (unlike the hamstrung sibling
BlackBerry Pearl 8220 coming in silver, too →
Filed under: Handsets, RIM, GSM, EDGE
We’ve already known about burgundy and black versions of RIM’s first flip, but silver? Sure looks like it from new images posted on…
G1 appears on T-Mobile's site →
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile
Snap — looks like the Android-powered T-Mobile G1 is peeking out a little early in the form of a non-working pre-registration link on the…
Helio Ocean 2 arrives at the FCC →
Filed under: Handsets, Others, Helio, Virgin Mobile, MVNOs
Looks like we’re inching ever closer to getting our paws on the mythical Helio Ocean 2 — the fun-loving…
Nokia's first Comes with Music handset on sale... →
Filed under: Handsets, Multimedia, Nokia
A recent Reuters article doesn’t mention a specific model (although we have our hunches), but one thing’s for sure: some kind of …
T-Mobile G1 (or whatever it's called) takes in... →
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, Android
Why wait for next Tuesday’s grand unveiling? Well, the short answer is that most of us have…
HTC Touch 3G earns its FCC wings →
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
HTC’s “Jade,” as the Touch 3G is known internally, has just earned FCC approval — that’s the…
O2's GPRS network gets a speed boost, EDGE-style →
Filed under: O2, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, Misc, HSUPA
We all can remember a time when our mobile Internet experience consisted of the painful trickling bytes that only GPRS can…
Windows Mobile 6.1 comes to Verizon's Motorola Q9c →
Filed under: Software, Motorola, Verizon Wireless, Windows Mobile
“Better late than never” definitely applies here, seeing how Sprint beat Verizon to the punch by three and a…
LTE trial deemed a success: 170Mbps downloads in a... →
Filed under: T-Mobile, LTE
Controlled LTE trials have been going pretty well of late, but the first test “under everyday conditions” has just gone down in Germany. We’re pleased…