Dec 12

Download leaked BlackBerry OS 7.1 now, make your mobile hotspot dreams come true

Posted in: BlackBerry, leak, leaks, mobilepostmini, research in motion, ResearchInMotion, RIM, Today's Chili, update
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An early peek at BlackBerry OS 7.1 revealed that RIM’s handsets would finally be getting mobile hotspot capabilities. Now you can download the leaked update yourself and start sharing your Torch 9810’s data connection. Of course, it goes without saying, this is not an official update yet and the usual caveats about stability and the danger of bricking your device apply. Then again, that might seem like a small price to pay for a feature that’s become standard on practically every other mobile OS. Hit up the source link to get your hack happy hands on the unsanctioned 7.1 upgrade for the sliding BlackBerry.

Download leaked BlackBerry OS 7.1 now, make your mobile hotspot dreams come true originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 31

HTC Rezound ad pays Verizon stores an early visit, soonish launch likely

Posted in: 4G, HTC, leaks, lte, mobilepostmini, rumors, Today's Chili, verizon, Verizon Wireless, VerizonWireless, vzw
The above image isn’t a leak — it’s a dye-in-the-wool, true-blue LTE poster that a few Verizon stores have preemptively hung up. We’re pretty sure these adverts aren’t supposed to be displayed for our eyes to see since they feature the HTC Rezound, a forthcoming 4G device that hasn’t even been announced yet. Oops. Additionally, the handset — featured front and center on the ad — shows off a pair of Beats headphones dangling out of its 3.5mm jack. Are there any naysayers that still think the Rezound won’t get its official outing at HTC’s event this week? Count us amongst the believers.

HTC Rezound ad pays Verizon stores an early visit, soonish launch likely originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 31

Panasonic GFX Photos Leaked: GF1 Successor At Last

Posted in: leaks, lumix, Panasonic, rumors, Today's Chili, video

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Panasonic may be on the cusp of launching a true pro-level successor to its excellent GF1, according to leaked photos.

Ever since Panasonic started watering down its GF range of Micro Four Thirds cameras after the first model, curmudgeon’s (like me) have been griping. While Panasonic chased the point-and-shoot crowd with the GF2 and GF3, people who like knobs and dials on their cameras (like me) were left considering a move over to the Olympus Pen range.

Now 17 leaked shots (since removed) at the Chinese Mobile01 forum show the GX1, which looks a lot more the GF1 than anything since. The layout of the buttons on the rear panel has changed, and the dedicated trash/DOF-preview button has been replaced by a programmable function button. Up top, the mode dial has lost the video mode, and the top plate gains an iA button for enabling Intelligent Auto. And rumors have it that the camera will have a touch screen.

There are also a pair of stereo mics, and the lens, with its motorized zoom, also looks geared towards video.

Inside, I’d expect the 12MP sensor found in all the other GF cameras to be updated, and video will likely be 1080p. We won’t have to wait long. These same rumor mongers have the product announcement date as early as November 8th.

Meet the Panasonic GX1 [MU-43]

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Oct 20

MetroPCS may be top contender for AT&T’s post-acquisition assets

Posted in: att, leak, leaks, merger, mobilepostcross, rumor, rumors, t-mobile, TMobile, Today's Chili
The likelihood of a successful acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T may largely depend on what the latter is willing to give up. The largest GSM carrier in the US may need to throw a few assets overboard in order to satisfy the Department of Justice, and has reportedly been Rethinking Possible by engaging in discussions with several parties interested in scooping up the leftovers. According to Bloomberg, MetroPCS appears to be the frontrunner in the talks, and plans to meet with the Justice Department (alongside AT&T, of course) in the next two weeks to determine if the strategy will appease the regulating body. No guarantees here, of course: it seems like a lot of assets would have to change hands for MetroPCS — a regional carrier with roughly nine million subscribers — to be considered a large enough competitor to assuage the government’s concerns here. We can’t imagine the Feds would be satisfied with any small offering, considering the Department’s filed a lawsuit against Ma Bell to block the merger. We have a feeling this saga is just starting to get real interesting, so stay tuned.

MetroPCS may be top contender for AT&T’s post-acquisition assets originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 20

Nokia Sabre brandished ahead of launch, expected to unveil its Mango of steel next week?

Posted in: leak, leaks, mango, Microsoft, mobilepostcross, nokia, rumors, Today's Chili, windows phone, windows phone 7, WindowsPhone, WindowsPhone7, Wp7
Andy Lees mentioned at AsiaD that Nokia would be launching more than one Windows Phone at its London-based event next week, and there’s a chance that the prototype you see above could be unveiled alongside the Nokia 800 Sea Ray. Pocketnow is referring to the Mr. Blurrycam-produced image as the Sabre, said to be running on a 1.4GHz single-core CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 3.5-inch WVGA display and a 5MP rear camera. The alleged price won’t stab your wallet, as the source claims it’ll cost somewhere between $410 and $480. Of course, there’s less than a week before Nokia World begins and the speculation ends, and we’ll be there to deliver the blow-by-blow action as it happens.

Update: Commenters have made the connection between this mysterious device and the recently-announced Nokia 603, a Symbian Belle handset, with the hardware buttons simply whited out at the bottom. And we’re definitely seeing the resemblance — in fact, if you look closely enough at the Metro UI it appears slightly crooked, as if the stack of tiles is leaning to the right. We’d say the chances of this image being a fake are quite high.

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Nokia Sabre brandished ahead of launch, expected to unveil its Mango of steel next week? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 19

Nokia 800 press shots leak, Espoo’s Windows Phone Mango lovechild now close at hand

Posted in: leak, leaks, mango, Microsoft, mobilepostcross, nokia, Today's Chili

Stephen Elop famously fumbled when shots of Nokia’s “super confidential” Mango handset made their way to the interwebs. Since then, we’ve seen footage from the factory floor, and even teases of upcoming marketing materials outing the 800, or the phone formerly known as Sea Ray. Now, leaked press shots over on PocketNow, once again, treat us to a preview of the Espoo / Redmond mobile marriage and its candybar-shaped offspring — available in blue, pink and black. From what we can see in these renders, the volume rocker, power button and apparent dedicated camera shortcut key are all placed on the right side of the handset, with a speaker grille located at the device’s base. Of course, there’s that familiar Windows Phone 7.5 live-tiled interface and three capacitive buttons on the handset’s screen. For now, that’s all she wrote, but is it enough to tide you over ’til its eventual reveal at Nokia World? Our trusty magic 8-balls says, “You may rely on it.” We’re inclined to agree.

Nokia 800 press shots leak, Espoo’s Windows Phone Mango lovechild now close at hand originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 17

Motorola Droid RAZR gets an early introduction ahead of tomorrow’s launch

Posted in: Android, droid, Google, leak, leaks, mobilepostcross, motorola, rumor, teaser, Today's Chili, verizon, Verizon Wireless, VerizonWireless, vzw


One thing we love about teasers: they oftentimes backfire, allowing the general public to see more of the product than the company intended. This is the story of the Motorola Spyder (aka Droid RAZR), its first teaser attempt spoiled when the phone’s name was included on the image file. The second sneak peek is cleverly designed as an incomplete puzzle with the missing pieces added one-by-one as we get closer to the device’s launch, but Motorola left a full image of the phone hiding in plain view. So what we see above is an uber-thin Verizon LTE device with kevlar backing and a Droid X-style hump on the top, a rear camera (presumably 8MP) with 1080p HD video capture, a front-facing cam, a standard set of four capacitive touch buttons and a redesigned Droid eye. We’re still hoping to get a glimpse of the Xoom 2 before the big event, but at least you can consider us sufficiently teased for now.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Motorola Droid RAZR gets an early introduction ahead of tomorrow’s launch originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 17

Ice Cream Sandwich may have a built-in photo editor to help your pictures turn out halfway decent

Posted in: Android, camera, Google, leaks, mobilepostcross, rumor, rumors, Today's Chili

If you envision Ice Cream Sandwich — the latest iteration of Android — as a revolutionary update that satisfies every single one of your geeky lusts, we sure hope you’ve been aching for a photo editor. It appears that AndroidPolice has hunted down a variety of icons and logos presumed to be associated with the feature, but it’s not certain if these will actually appear in the final build. The icons hint at a smattering of image editing tools: crop, sharpen, flip, rotate and a selection of 19 possible photo effects are among the options. Again, this is highly speculative, and rumors such as these will likely ramp up as we approach the official announcement. ‘Course, we won’t scoff at the idea of a native photo editor in Ice Cream Sandwich, but we’re sincerely hoping this won’t be the coolest thing about the new OS at Tuesday’s announcement in Hong Kong.

[Thanks, Paul]

Ice Cream Sandwich may have a built-in photo editor to help your pictures turn out halfway decent originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 16

RIM tells devs to get ready for BlackBerry Curve Touch and Bellagio

Posted in: BlackBerry, developers, leak, leaks, mobilepostmini, research in motion, ResearchInMotion, RIM, rumor, Today's Chili
If you’re going to give your devs a nugget of info about some of your unannounced devices on a publicly available site, we hope you won’t be so surprised that word actually gets out about them. That’s exactly what happened to Research in Motion, as the company let it “slip out” to devs that two future BlackBerry OS7 smartphones — the Bellagio 9790 and Curve Touch 9380 — are inbound. The whole point in the message was to inform developers of what kind of resolution to expect in the new phones’ displays. From the bits and pieces we’re given, it appears that the Bellagio will have a 2.4-inch screen using 480 x 360 resolution to produce a respectable 245 PPI; the Curve Touch, on the other hand, will feature an identical res on a larger 3.2-inch display, resulting in a PPI of 189. The probability of hearing an official announcement this week is pretty high, but we’d say the intended (and likely unintended) message has come through loud and clear for now, wouldn’t you?

RIM tells devs to get ready for BlackBerry Curve Touch and Bellagio originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 10

Details on the Samsung Galaxy S III leak out: 1.8GHz dual-core CPU and 12MP camera? (Update: wrong terminology)

Posted in: Android, dual-core, GalaxyS, leak, leaks, mobilepostcross, rumor, rumors, samsung, Today's Chili

We’re still awaiting the release of the Samsung Galaxy S II on T-Mobile this week, and yet it’s already starting to look like yesterday’s half-eaten breakfast. That’s because some fuzzy details are now leaking out about its inevitable successor, the mystical Galaxy S III. The leaked presentation slide above, uncovered by Phandroid, shows a phone that’s packing a 1.8GHz dual-core Exynos 4212 CPU with 2GB of RAM and a 12 megapixel rear-facing camera. Oh, and a 4.6-inch Super AMOLED Plus HD display isn’t too shabby either. If this ends up being true, we’re a bit puzzled by the inclusion of four buttons on the bottom — a departure from the first two Galaxy S devices — and why the slide refers to the original Galaxy S as running on an Exynos processor, rather than Hummingbird. Color us a shade of skeptic since we’re still a few months out from CES and MWC, but it’s never too early to start getting excited over an upcoming device, right?

Update: One other piece of evidence that leads us to believe this is fake is the fact that the term “Super AMOLED Plus HD” is used; if this were real, Samsung would likely use its proper terminology, which is HD Super AMOLED.

Details on the Samsung Galaxy S III leak out: 1.8GHz dual-core CPU and 12MP camera? (Update: wrong terminology) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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