Hasta La Gadget!

After the two most craziest weeks ever in the history of the mobile technology news universe, it’s important to step back and just take stock of everything: a survey course, if you will. That’s why we’ve created Engadget Mobile Podcast 101, your first stop on the road to an otherworldly state we call CMA: Complete Mobile Awareness. Come along, won’t you?

Hosts: Myriam Joire (tnkgrl), Brad Molen
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Daestro – Light Powered (Ghostly International)

00:02:23 – Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple
00:10:00 – Tim Cook: Who is Apple’s new CEO?
00:25:27 – iPhone 5 coming to Sprint, other carriers in mid-October?
00:27:27 – App logs reportedly confirm dual mode CDMA / GSM iPhone 5 in testing
00:41:15 – Apple to release cheaper, 8GB iPhone 4 within weeks?
00:49:58 – Samsung Galaxy S II not coming to Verizon after all? (update: confirmed)
00:53:25 – Sprint’s Epic Touch 4G may be first US-bound Galaxy S II, arriving September 9th?
00:55:39 – Trio of US Samsung Galaxy S II models get together for a group photo?
01:04:05 – Samsung debuts new Galaxy lineup, refines naming strategy along the way
01:11:46 – Nokia announces Symbian Belle alongside three new devices
01:21:28 – Microsoft: Windows Phone Tango will be minor update, is meant for low-end handsets
01:25:35 – Microsoft: front facing cameras, Skype integration coming with Mango update (video)
01:26:05 – HTC Omega blessed with renders, revealing its front-facing camera
01:31:15 – Blackberry Curve 9360 hands-on

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Engadget Mobile Podcast 101 – 08.27.2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The WSJ has reported that Verizon will be passing on the Galaxy S II. Now BGR claims to have confirmed with several trusted sources that this is correct. Damn it, Verizon, what the hell is wrong with you? More »

AT&T’s fall and winter 2011 roadmap leaked in spreadsheet glory originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Welcome to Engadget’s Back to School guide! We know that this time of year can be pretty annoying and stressful for everyone, so we’re here to help out with the heartbreaking process of gadget buying for the school-aged crowd. Today, we’re tapping away on our smartphones — and you can head to the Back to School hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the month. Be sure to keep checking back — at the end of the month we’ll be giving away a ton of the gear featured in our guides — and hit up the hub page right here!

Now more than ever, collegiate studies require a wide variety of devices to help you get that prized “A.” The thirst for knowledge you so desperately seek can strike at any time, and you’re not always going to have that desktop or laptop nearby to find the answer to a burning question. Perhaps you just need to hurl birds at pigs for a while to blow off your stress. Whatever the case, you’ll need something to help you study, store (and edit) all of your important term papers, keep you in touch with classmates or family, and everything in-between. What better way to get all of that than with a smartphone? We’ve picked nine respectable candidates that can help you through your upcoming semester — three for each budget level. Oh, and while you’re looking, we’re giving away $3,000 worth of essential back to school gear to 15 lucky readers, and you can be one of them by simply leaving a comment below! So, which phones are most likely to help you get smart? Head past the break to find out.

Continue reading Engadget’s back to school guide 2011: smartphones

Engadget’s back to school guide 2011: smartphones originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We haven’t had a chance to head on down to The Hague to have a look-see for ourselves, but Dutch tech site Webwereld spotted some more inconsistencies in Apple’s Samsung lawsuit filings. This time the culprit is a shrunken Galaxy S II, standing side-by-side with an identically tall iPhone 3G — when in reality the Samsung phone is seven millimeters taller than its Apple counterpart, and slightly wider as well. The image, filed in the Netherlands, is part of an intellectual property suit against Samsung, and came to light just days after accusations that Apple manipulated photos of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 that it submitted to a German court. While misleading, this latest error isn’t nearly as concerning as last week’s shrunken Tab — which could easily be described as image manipulation, considering that the tablet included in that filing represented an incorrect 4:3 aspect ratio, while the Samsung device has a 16:10 display.

[Thanks, Florian]

Did Apple shrink the Samsung Galaxy S II in Dutch lawsuit filing? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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