Thursday, 29 July 2010
Today Motorola and Boost Mobile announced the Bali, a basic flip phone that is available now in retail stores and online.
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Thursday, 29 July 2010
Remember the first time you used Google Street View? Amazing, right? Thing is, traversing a busy urban street in a 360-degree photographic bubble can be disorienting, especially when searching for a specific address or business. So check this: Microsoft Research has developed a rather nifty solution it calls Street Slide. Zoom out of your panoramic bubble and the street is presented as a dynamic, multi-perspective “strip” giving you an instant visual summary of the surroundings — similar to viewing the entire street from a distance. Fortunately, Microsoft took advantage of what would otherwise be the unused letterboxed screen above and below the strip to add navigational and informational aids like clickable business logos and building numbers. Pretty impressive, and Microsoft is already working on taking Street Slide mobile with an iPhone port, and no doubt a version for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 series of devices. Unfortunately, don’t expect this to be released anytime soon as the team has only processed about 2400 panoramas so far covering just 4 kilometers of streets. Check the video after the break, you’ll be glad you did.
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Microsoft Street Slide: it’s electric! (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Thursday, 29 July 2010
What is it about the word peel that screams “throw on the back of an iPod touch and grant it the power of mobile internet?” We spotted Yosion’s Apple Peel 520 just this morning bound for Chinese markets, and now the FCC has unveiled ZTE’s own Peel 3G router. Although the user manual and external photos don’t explicitly state it, one look at the (slightly enhanced) image above removes all doubt that this is made to fit snugly around a certain finger-friendly iDevice with a headset jack on the bottom right. Additionally, the user manual’s setup screens are all sketched out in what appears to be a more mobile Safari-friendly size. The Qualcomm-powered CDMA2000 case is brandishing Sprint logos on the front and back, which frankly wouldn’t be the first (or even second) time the carrier’s targeted the Apple faithful. Only this time, there’s no WiMAX — bummer. Crafty, wacky, zany? We’re sure Mr. Hesse is chortling, but perhaps he can catch a breath or two and disseminate out some proper release details post-haste.
[Thanks, The Kaiser]
ZTE Peel for Sprint outed by FCC, another 3G-equipped iPod touch case originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Thursday, 29 July 2010
Sharp fields its first phone for AT&T. The FX is a quick messaging device that carries forward Sharp’s messaging phone lineage, though it’s not the sharpest knife in the messaging phone drawer.
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Thursday, 29 July 2010
In a world of identikit phones, Lumigon’s three Android phones announced at CES were like a fresh-faced booth babe amidst a sea of technerds. Holding true to their promise, the T1 will hit October 20th with some nice specs. More »
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010
AFP - South Korea’s LG Electronics Wednesday reported a 33 percent drop in its second-quarter net profit compared to a year earlier as its mobile phone business lost money for the first time in four years.
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010
We can’t say we didn’t see this coming, but Vodafone’s finally put its bespoke 360 phones out of misery. The reason? To focus on making its 360 services — mainly social networking integration and an app store — “available on as many devices as we can as soon as we can.” Sounds a bit over the top (like Sony Ericsson bundling PlayNow with Android), but regardless of the implementation, ’tis likely a way of reflecting the lack of adoption for these Samsung LiMo handsets. A real shame, we tell ya. We don’t blame Vodafone — times is hard with other big-name mobile platforms competing with their own built-in services — plus the 360 branding never really extended beyond the H1 and M1, let alone the now-cancelled H2. But hey, at least that’s one less category for the store assistant to shower you with, right?
Vodafone 360 LiMo handsets are no more, probably not missed by many originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010
A look at the very pretty LG dLite for T-Mobile USA. The dLite is a slick flip phone with a great user interface and some unique features that are sure to be loved by users, such as the hidden external display and the lighting effects.
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010
LG Electronics today said it lost money for the first time in four years, as the embattled handset maker struggles to turn around its mobile business and come up with a blockbuster phone.
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010
A quick WHOIS confirms that RIM’s taken control of blackpad.com — yes, it’s long been rumored as a potential name for the BlackBerry tablet, but we’re certainly hoping Waterloo’s just parking a domain name to keep squatters at bay, because, seriously, we just got over the iPad jokes, you know?
P.S.- And might we see whatever this is at the RIM / AT&T event on Tuesday? Consider our interest piqued.
RIM takes control of blackpad.com, laughter takes control of our minds originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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