Oct 04

HTC Titan, Radar on sale now at Phones4U, blow a raspberry at ‘launch date’ nonsense

Posted in: HTC, launch, mango, Microsoft, mobilepostmini, t-mobile, Today's Chili, uk, vodafone

Whether you’re a spendthrift or just happened to be down at the shops, Phones4U had an extra early bird special this past weekend. Turns out the mobile retailer had received stock of both the HTC Titan and Radar ahead of the planned October 7th launch date, and did what any good commercial enterprise would — they put’em up for sale. If you’re down with carrier chains, you can snatch both handsets in-store or online gratis, with a contracted monthly fee on Orange, T-Mobile or Vodafone (for the Titan only). For the no SIM attached route, you’ll have to practice a wee bit more patience, and wait until this Friday when Clove will offer the Mango phones at full price — £489 and £329, respectively. Statesiders, take a deep breath, your crack at this first wave of Windows Phone 7.5 devices is close at hand.

HTC Titan, Radar on sale now at Phones4U, blow a raspberry at ‘launch date’ nonsense originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 03

Double portion of prepaid LG Android handsets coming to Net10

Posted in: mobilepostmini, Today's Chili

The upcoming battle of the budget Androids just won two new recruits courtesy of Net10. The MVNO is offering up the LG Optimus Net prepaid with a 3.2-inch HVGA display, 800MHz processor, 3MP camera (though Net10’s site wrongly mentions 5MP), Bluetooth, WiFi, 3G and an included 4GB microSD card expandable to 32GB. There’s also a slider version called the Optimus Q, which we’re trying very hard not to confuse with last year’s Optimus Q and which actually looks like a variant of Virgin Mobile’s Optimus Slider. There’s no price tag in sight, but contrary to the saying you probably can afford it.

[Thanks, Dwayne]

Double portion of prepaid LG Android handsets coming to Net10 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 03

Mango rollout going smoothly, now available to half of all Windows Phones

Posted in: availability, firmware update, FirmwareUpdate, mango, Microsoft, mobilepostmini, refresh, Today's Chili, update, windows phone, WindowsPhone, Wp7

Bring. It. On. Rolling out a phone update tends to take a few weeks before it’s available to everyone, so we were expecting Windows Phone to have its share of hiccups when doling Mango out to several different models simultaneously across the globe. As it turns out, Redmond’s just as surprised at its silky smooth outcome as everyone else; in fact, it’s going so well that the team’s decided to open the floodgates ahead of schedule and make the refresh available to no less than half of all Windows Phone devices. According to Microsoft, the update still isn’t ready to be unleashed to the masses because it’s still “collecting and analyzing installation data from [their] smaller operators, and need to watch it a bit longer.” The team also mentions that this information gets collected as more users download their updates, which means the fate of the unlucky half rests solely on the fortunate 50 percent. Those of you who can download Mango and still haven’t, think of the tremendous power — and awesome responsibility — now resting in your tiny hands.

[Thanks, Stephen]

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Mango rollout going smoothly, now available to half of all Windows Phones originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 03

Engadget Mobile Podcast 106 – 10.03.2011

Posted in: mobilepostmini, podcast, podcasts, Today's Chili

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: it’s just crazy out there these days, and getting even more crazier each and every day. So crazy was this week in mobile news, in fact, we needed a few extra days to digest it all, but we hope you’ll find it was worth the wait. Enjoy the Engadget Mobile Podcast — now in permanent XXL mode.

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

00:05:34 – Windows Phone 7.5 ‘Mango’ update begins rolling out today
00:08:25 – Windows Phone 7.5 Mango review
00:39:07 – HTC Radar 4G headed to T-Mobile in time for the holidays, chock-full of Mango
00:42:30 – Hands-on with HTC’s Amaze 4G for T-Mobile (video)
00:45:45 – Samsung’s Galaxy S II for T-Mobile proves that unicorns do exist (hands-on video)
00:54:30 – AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II review
01:09:05 – Ice Cream Sandwich gets a two-minute tour, courtesy of a lucky eBay shopper (video)
01:14:43 – HTC Explorer now official, we go hands-on (updated)
01:16:42 – HTC Holiday spotted sunning itself on Australian shores
01:17:28 – HTC Hero S coming to US Cellular next month alongside Wildfire S and Flyer
01:18:55 – HTC Runnymede spotted in the wild (updated with backup video)
01:20:26 – HTC announces its next party, Beats Audio and ‘surprise headliner’ in attendance
01:21:02 – Samsung announces Galaxy S II LTE and Galaxy S II HD LTE handsets for Korean market
01:22:56 – Samsung Focus S snapped in the wild sipping on micro-USB juice
01:23:37 – Samsung’s Omnia W: Mango, 3.7-inch Super AMOLED, 1.4GHZ processor
01:24:18 – iPhone 5 / 4S placeholders pop up at Cincinnati Bell, questionable specs in tow
01:39:43 – Sprint’s LTE build out already underway, new 4G network to launch first half 2012?
01:42:10 – Sprint’s unlimited data plans aren’t going anywhere, CTO confirms
01:44:50 – Virgin Mobile announces LG Optimus Slider, sneakily postpones data throttling until 2012
01:52:20 – Amazon Kindle Fire tablet unveiled: Android-based, 7-inch display, $199 price tag

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Engadget Mobile Podcast 106 – 10.03.2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 03

Vodafone Data Test Drive enables users to experiment with data, see what tier fits best

Posted in: mobilepostcross, mobilepostmini, Today's Chili, vodafone
At the same time that kindly Mr. Vodafone released the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S to the children of the world, it announced a new program that helps you gauge your mobile data needs. Data Test Drive gives you three months of unlimited, kid-in-a-candy-van access for as much mobile Tweeting, Spotifying and YouTubing as your eyes and ears can handle. At the end of that period, the company will let you know if your current data plan would cover your usage and provide the option to increase if necessary. The program’s only open to new customers, and there’s no mention if you can down-shift your charges if you sip miserly at your data. Still, it’s better than getting a slap in the face with the wet fish of a penalty data charge.

Vodafone Data Test Drive enables users to experiment with data, see what tier fits best originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 03

White Galaxy S II gets not-so-festive October launch in Canada

Posted in: Android, availability, canada, galaxy, galaxy s ii, GalaxySIi, gingerbread, mobile, mobilepostmini, phone, price, samsung, smartphone, Smartphones, Today's Chili

Smartphone obsessives in Canada will be getting their hands on some snowy Galaxy S II goodness sooner rather than later. Yes, Samsung’s dual-core bestseller has been leaked with an October 7th launch date on Bell, with prices matching the dark original: CAD$599.95 off-contract or CAD$149.95 for three years. And we know all phones look better in white, right?

White Galaxy S II gets not-so-festive October launch in Canada originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 02

Google and ITA’s OnTheFly app update puts flexible flight planning in your pocket

Posted in: Android, app, apps, BlackBerry, Google, ios, iPhone, mobilepostmini, Today's Chili, Travel

Google went through a lot to buy ITA and its travel software, and we saw the acquisition first bear fruit in the form of Mountain View’s web-based Flight Search. Now the partnership has produced version 1.2 of the OnTheFly airfare booking app for Android, iOS and BlackBerry. What’s new? Flexible date searches that let you peruse departures 35 days at a time, plus a price graph that shows the most fiscally prudent times to travel. Additionally, globetrotters can access their itinerary search history and see price changes for those fares throughout the year. Nice job fellas, now let’s work on bringing bargain-basement fare finding for the final frontier in the next revision.

Google and ITA’s OnTheFly app update puts flexible flight planning in your pocket originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 02

Samsung Stratosphere lays it all out with spec sheet treatment

Posted in: Android, gingerbread, Google, lte, mobilepostmini, qwerty, QwertySlider, samsung, smartphone, Smartphones, Today's Chili, verizon, Verizon Wireless, VerizonWireless

The upcoming Samsung Stratosphere for Verizon Wireless is hardly a secret, but other than a few rumored details, the specs for this LTE-equipped QWERTY slider have remained a bit of a mystery. Now, all that has changed, thanks in large part to its leaked spec sheet from Big Red — just take a peek after the break. It’ll be packing a 4-inch Super AMOLED display with WVGA resolution, a (presumably) single-core 1GHz processor, along with 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage and a 4GB microSD card that’s pre-installed. Curiously, it’ll be the first of Verizon’s LTE phones to incorporate a Micro SIM in place of the larger, traditional offering. Other than that, it looks as if the speculation of Android 2.3, along with its 5MP rear / 1.3MP front cams were dead on. There will also be an LED flash in tow, although video capture will be limited to a rather mundane 480p. That said, if you’re thirsting for speed but are needing a keyboard, the Stratosphere is looking like your obvious (albeit only) choice.

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Samsung Stratosphere lays it all out with spec sheet treatment originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 02

The Engadget Mobile Podcast, live at 2PM ET!

Posted in: mobilepostmini, podcast, Today's Chili, Wireless
Friday afternoons just aren’t the same without a mobile podcast to listen to, but hopefully your Sunday afternoon is now a heckuva lot better this weekend. It turned out that 2PM ET was the perfect window of time for Myriam and Brad to get their rants in order and dissect the absolutely gargantuan week of wireless happenings all at the same time. Join us for a special Sunday edition of the Engadget Mobile Podcast, live at 2PM ET (11AM PT, 6PM GT)!

The Engadget Mobile Podcast, live at 2PM ET! originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 02

Sony Ericsson lends hand to FreeXperia devs, shows love for CyanogenMod 7.1

Posted in: Android, developer, developers, diy, Google, mobilepostmini, rom, smartphone, Smartphones, Sony Ericsson, SonyEricsson, Today's Chili, xperia

Turns out, Sony Ericsson is really coming around to the understanding that Android phones are not a one-size-fits-all proposition. After taking notice of the FreeXperia team’s tireless efforts to bring CyanogenMod 7.1 to certain SE devices, the company is now “pulling a Samsung” by lending its support to the cause. The firm has provided the group with approximately 20 phones, along with debugged and rebuilt camera library binaries to ensure a proper user experience. Not stopping there, Sony Ericsson hopes to make these bits available to all developers under a special EULA in the near future. Of course, the company continues to remind its users that it doesn’t specifically condone unlocking the bootloader — which still results in a void warranty — even though it’s willing to help you do just that.

[Thanks, Thorsten]

Sony Ericsson lends hand to FreeXperia devs, shows love for CyanogenMod 7.1 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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