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Vodafone’s Microsoft Surface: like Go Fish for phones

Posted on 03. Sep, 2010 by IBM. 

Microsoft worked with Vodafone late last year to deploy Surfaces to a few dozen stores in several European countries (much as AT&T has done in the US), and one of those units happens to be set up at the carrier’s IFA booth this week. The basic ide…

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Huawei Ideos hands-on

Posted on 03. Sep, 2010 by IBM. 

Chinese telecom giant Huawei — which has been playing the Android game with major carriers around the world for some time now — has selected IFA to debut the Ideos, a new entry-level model running Froyo in a variety of colors. Huawei’s press release…

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Samsung Wave 723 flaunts Bada, little else at IFA

Posted on 02. Sep, 2010 by IBM. 

Samsung just grew its Bada line with a low-end foil to the original Wave, the so-called Wave 723 — and we just happened to catch it hanging out tucked away in a distributor’s booth at IFA this week. Though the leather-grain flip cover is a classy tou…

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Sharp shows off mobile prototype with 3D screen, 3D camera, and 3D output

Posted on 02. Sep, 2010 by IBM. 

We’ve seen enough home theater 3D already to be well and sick of it, but mobile 3D is still an upcoming sector, one which Sharp seems to be making a bid for. It’s showing off a mobile device prototype (it looks like it could be your friendly neighborh…

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Orange HD Voice service and handsets go live in the UK, we go ears-on (video)

Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by IBM. 

Good news for UK mobile addicts: Orange’s long-anticipated HD Voice service has officially made it to the Land of Hope and Glory. Starting today, British customers can pick up a HD Voice-enabled handset — including the Nokia 5230, X6, E5 and Samsung …

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Motorola Milestone 2 arrives, 720p HD video, Android 2.2, and Motoblur Enhanced in tow

Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by IBM. 

Even without yesterday’s premature video promo, you had to know Motorola wouldn’t leave its international audience without a successor to the Milestone, so today — surprise, surprise — we’re being treated to the Milestone 2′s launch. The first thing…

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Motorola Defy: Android 2.1 goes rugged with water, dust and scratch resistance

Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by IBM. 

Remeber the Motorola i1? Moto has just added its second rugged(ish) Android handset in the 3.7-inch Gorilla Glass-fronted Defy. It’s dust-, scratch-, impact-, and water-resistant. Matching up to the IP67 durability spec means it’s expected to resist b…

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Exclusive: Dell Thunder prototype preview (video)

Posted on 19. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

Christmas came early at Engadget HQ this year, as evidenced by the picture above — you’re looking at two Dell Thunder prototype smartphones, each with some surprising quirks, and hints that they might include global HSPA, AWS for the likes of T-Mobile, and maybe even a dash of CDMA support. We’ll warn you ahead of time that these are labeled EVT1 for “engineering verification test” and date back to the April leak, so they’re about as early as you can get — don’t expect the final handset to arrive without some significant differences. Good? Then peek the gallery below, hit the break, and let’s get on with the show.

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HTC Sync 3.0 for Wildfire hands-on: iTunes sync tested (video)

Posted on 03. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

Good news for Wildfire owners: fresh from HTC’s oven is its 3.0 desktop sync suite that — like the one baked for the Desire over the weekend — enables iTunes sync for the company’s latest budget device. Since we had a Wildfire on hand, we decided to…

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Adobe Air peer-to-peer video call concept Android app hands-on (video)

Posted on 24. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

If you recall, a few days ago we stumbled upon a cheekily-named concept app (which has since been renamed for obvious reasons) from Adobe that does video-calling on Android. This is pretty rad considering it’s just Qik and Fring offering the same serv…

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Motorola Cliq / Dext gets leaked Android 2.1 update, not pinch-to-zoom (video)

Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Don’t know about you, but our poor Motorola Dext (or Cliq as it’s know in the Land of the Free) had been left gathering dust for some time as it got unbearably laggy, even after a few wipes. We only clung onto this Android 1.5 device in the hope that …

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MOG arrives on iPhone, Android with 8 million songs but no multitasking mode (update)

Posted on 20. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

The name may sound like something out of a Final Fantasy game, but we hear it stands for Music On the Go, and today MOG is doing the name proud by bringing a wide swath of streaming music to Android and iPhone. $10 a month gives you access to over 8 m…

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PlayOn for iPhone brings a wealth of streaming video to iOS, we go hands-on (update)

Posted on 14. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

It’s ugly. It’s buggy. It requires a Windows PC. But PlayOn for iPhone actually works, slinging Netflix, Hulu, CBS and more to your waiting Apple device over WiFi and (occasionally) 3G. Using the same PlayOn desktop client that presently redirects vid…

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Aava Mobile reveals Virta 2 smartphone development kit, we go hands-on

Posted on 12. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

When we met with Finnish startup Aava Mobile today, they pulled out the same old prototype phone… then, to our great surprise, dropped a brand-new device right alongside to show us how their Moorestown-based ambitions have grown. This is the Virta 2…

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Confirmed: HTC Sync lets tethered AT&T Aria sideload apps

Posted on 11. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Looks like more than HTC’s description was erroneous yesterday afternoon — we’ve just confirmed that the HTC Sync desktop client for the AT&T Aria allows users to install third-party apps on non-rooted devices, just as promised. We ran some quick…

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Junaio’s augmented reality app for iPhone and Android can add cartoons to your otherwise-boring existence

Posted on 07. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

As an augmented reality navigator that you want to use for finding pizza joints and friends on Foursquare and Twitter, you’ve got more polished options than Junaio’s new 2.0 release — Layar and Yelp, just to name a couple — but Junaio has at least o…

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Android 2.2 (Froyo) versus iOS 4: the browser showdown (video)

Posted on 07. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

A little while back Google boldly claimed that Froyo would have the world’s fastest mobile browser, but the lack of final software back then meant we’d had to tie up our itchy hands until now. And boy, it sure looks like it was worth the wait — Ars Technica’s JavaScript benchmarks show that not only is Froyo’s browser almost three times faster than its Éclair counterpart, but it also beats iOS 4′s Safari by at least two-fold. That said, numbers alone don’t always reflect real-life performance — especially with Froyo supporting iPhone’s much-missed Flash — so we went ahead and conducted our own browser speed test. Read on for our videos and results after the jump.

Update: for those who were concerned about the battery affecting the Nexus One’s performance, we did use Android System Info to verify that the CPU was still clocked at 1GHz. We were also able to reproduce the same results with a full battery. Either way, it’s still a win for Android.

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