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Continue reading Olivetti’s OliPad 110 tablet runs on Honeycomb, olive oil

Olivetti’s OliPad 110 tablet runs on Honeycomb, olive oil originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Up until now, all we’ve had to go on were leaked Blurrycam photos and a few morsels “from the inside.” Now, however, HTC’s going to have an awfully difficult time denying the existence of its so-called Kingdom, known to the FCC as PH44100. The filing itself doesn’t reveal a whole heck of a lot beyond what we already knew — a 4.3-inch qHD display, namely — but the presence of both a CDMA and WiMAX radio assures us that it’ll be heading for Sprint sooner rather than later. A qHD contender for The Now Network? Yes, please.

HTC Kingdom soars into FCC’s database, WiMAX radio signals a Sprint release originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Desire owners who believed HTC’s promise to bring Gingerbread to the handset can stop waiting now

[UPDATE: HTC has now changed its mind again. A new Facebook post reads “Contrary to what we said earlier, we are going to bring Gingerbread to HTC Desire.” ]

Those who bought the HTC Desire because of a promised future upgrade to Android 2.3 Gingerbread can put there heads in their hands and begin to softly weep. HTC has announced — via Facebook — that it has officially given up on the project. The problem? The phone doesn’t have enough memory for both Gingerbread and HTC’s own Sense user interface. To save you entering the seething morass of Facebook, here’s the announcement in full.

Our engineering teams have been working hard for the past few months to find a way to bring Gingerbread to the HTC Desire without compromising the HTC Sense experience you’ve come to expect from our phones.

However, we’re sorry to announce that we’ve been forced to accept there isn’t enough memory to allow us both to bring Gingerbread and keep the HTC Sense experience on the HTC Desire. We’re sincerely sorry for the disappointment that this news may bring to some of you

This isn’t really a surprise. We got our first look at the Desire at the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, in February 2010. But as recently as this year’s MWC HTC was promising that the upgrade was on its way.

What this news really highlights is the way Android works. Instead of being a single OS that can be sent out to users, it’s more of a platform that is taken by phone makers and bent to their will before being passed on to you. And it seems that now we can’t even trust the manufacturers to tell us the truth.

Desire and Gingerbread Update [Facebook via ★]

See Also:

• Hands-On With HTC Desire, Legend, HD Mini
• HTC Desire
• What You Need to Know About Android 2.3 Gingerbread

Is that 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8255-powered Xperia Arc just too darn fast? We may have just the KIRF you’re looking for. A simple phone with a simple name: the “DR.” This petite pretender shaves 0.2-inches off of the Arc’s 4.2-inch display, adding only 0.03mm of thickness along the way. Forget that Adreno 205 graphics processor, this baby runs on a Meditek MTK6516 ARM compatible processor, a setup often mistakenly advertised as dual-core with a whopping 416MHz core for running Android 2.2.1, and a second 208MHz core dedicated exclusively for the wireless radio. For the record, radio-dedicated partitions are usually skipped on core counts. Wrap it up with premo luxuries like a 3.5-inch headphone jack and 2 megapixel camera, and you’ve got an Xperia knock-off that’s… well, pretty timid. But hey, it’s only 1000 yuan ($154), so at least you can get dangerously close to Xperia territory without shattering the bank. If that’s enough for you, check out a hands-on video (in Chinese) after the break.

Continue reading Keepin’ it real fake: Xperia Arc KIRF has KIRFy dual-core processor (video)

Keepin’ it real fake: Xperia Arc KIRF has KIRFy dual-core processor (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There’s a fine balance to be struck when you want to drum up interest in a device but not release too much information before its official launch. Huawei did that very nicely with its first MediaPad teaser image last week, showing us only the tablet lounging casually atop the desk of a surely sophisticated businessman. Today we’ve come across a followup video that also lets us peek the pad’s rear — which looks just about identical to the one on the company’s Ideos S7 Pro — but also confuses the hell out of us with its, erm, narrative. You’ll have to just jump beyond the break and be befuddled with us. The MediaPad should get its proper launch in just under a week, on June 20th, though Huawei’s Facebook page already shows an Android Honeycomb screenshot on it and our rough estimation from the video places the screen size at 7 inches. Not that we ever get to see it, cursed uninformative teasers!

Continue reading Huawei MediaPad debuts in weird, confusing video ad

Huawei MediaPad debuts in weird, confusing video ad originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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