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Turns out
Mini 3i is only the beginning. Dell has announced plans to create a new Communications Group with a focus on mobile phones and similar portable devices. Current consumer division head and
former Motorola exec Ron Garriques will take the helm. Not much else to say at this point, but make no mistake, Dell is now officially in the phone business for the long haul.
Dell creates communications division for push into handheld market originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We've been saying all along that we'd love nothing more than to see someone throw a 3G chip into
Creative's
Zii Egg and sell it as a pretty strong smartphone, but so far we've been hit with little to no indication of interested parties making that happen. So when we spot phrases like "Zii Optimized Android Phone platform" and "the line-up of devices on display includes a Mobile Phone platform" on an informational site for the ZiiLABS Showcase happening early December in China, our interested are definitely piqued. The event is geared towards companies who'd like to use the
Plaszma platform for their products, and with any luck, some debonair decision-maker will give Zii phone a chance.
[Via
myCreative Fansite; thanks, Kyle]
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Creative to show off 'Zii Android mobile phone' next month at Chinese summit originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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You know what's ridiculous? Modern smartphones without WiFi (why hello there,
Pixi and
Tour). Looks like Dell's getting the message with the supposed Brazil-bound Mini 3iX, which as far as we can tell is the
Mini 3i as it should've been -- same specs, plus WiFi and 3G connectivity. The OPhone-esque user interface also seems to have gone through some changes, at least cosmetically, and
Cellular Cafe has the vivid imagery -- so might this be the little guy rumored to be
coming to AT&T, or will we get the 2G variant instead? How about we just skip this one altogether and
get the Streak?
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Dell Mini 3iX has WiFi, 3G, and a number of leaked UI photos originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We'll admit, we're jealous of this
Sina Corporation reporter, who appears to have gotten some hands-on time with LG's very sexy
Chocolate BL40 and its 21:9 aspect ratio screen. There isn't much said here aside from details we already knew and the occasional compliment on its form factor and display, but it is good to see this in the wild and not just in the
FCC's secret lab facilities. Now if only we can get a better idea of its
US 3G capabilities...
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LG BL40 caught in the wild, given brief hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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NVIDIA's
Tegra chip has shown itself to be quite a gem, especially in the field of
augmented reality zombie destruction. Looks like
Samsung agrees with that sentiment, and has confirmed that it's currently developing a smartphone with the powerful processor. That's not a lot to go on, but knowing the capabilities of the CPU, we're excited. It's probably safe to assume an AMOLED touchscreen is a given, as well as a plethora of
TouchWiz widgets, but whether or not the phone goes with Windows Mobile or
Android is still a mystery. A recent rumor suggested one of the "top five" smartphone makers would be releasing a
$199 GSM-based Tegra device by year's end -- no indication if these two reports are one in the same, but we'd love to see what Sammy has in store sooner rather than later.
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Samsung confirms a Tegra-based smartphone is in the works, all other details shrouded in mystery originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Verizon's getting very keen on entering the
app store industry, but not without some rough decrees to its smartphone partners. According to
GigaOm, VP Partner Management Ryan Hughes said in an interview Friday that its VZW-branded shop will house content from all the major platforms under one roof, with purchases being billed through the customer's Verizon account and not requiring a separate signup / credit card entry. Convenient for consumers, and devs are also being promised a more streamlined approval process and a "competitive" revenue-sharing program, but here's where things take a turn for the worse: according to Hughes, non-VZW app stores like BlackBerry
App World or
Windows Mobile Marketplace won't be bundled with the smartphones out of the box, meaning consumers will have to take the initiative to download those portals for themselves. An incredibly jerk move, and an extra burden on developers who'll be having to submit two approval applications if they want inclusion on Verizon's own store. Of course, that large subscriber base is the reason it can get away with it, but let's hope we hear some better justifications other than "because we can" when the full details are rolled out at the Verizon Developer Community Conference on July 28th.
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Verizon to its smartphones: thou shalt have no other app store before mine originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Better late than never, we suppose. Our friends at
Mobile Crunch have it on word from a
HTC spokesperson that a "vast majority of devices we launch after
Hero" are gonna be including a 3.5mm headphone jack as a standard feature. The rep also added that devices already announced would "not necessarily be part of this change," which while not ruling it out entirely, doesn't get our hopes up. Still, it's refreshing to know the future generations won't be beholden to the adapter-laden shackles of its ancestors -- so
Lancaster, where will you fall in all this mess?
[Via
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HTC's redemption song: 3.5mm jacks coming to 'vast majority' of post-Hero devices originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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It's been a while since we've heard a peep about Adobe's
Flash 10 for smartphone initiative, but according to a slide from its Q2 Fiscal Year 2009 earnings presentation, the platform's on track for a beta release this October at the company's MAX conference. Prime mobile OS candidates for the beta include those from Adobe's Open Screen Project, which at last count included
Nokia,
Palm, Google, and Microsoft -- and unless there's been some behind closed doors meetings, the two
glaring omissions on that list are still gonna be bugging you come this Halloween.
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Flash 10 for smartphone beta coming this October originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If you stop to think, really, about how much we take pleasure in seeing pictures of phones get utterly dismembered, it's quite disturbing. So don't think about it, and instead hit up the read link for a gallery showcase copious amounts of a prototype
Nokia E72 innards, ripped apart alongside an E71 (on the right in the image above) for comparative purposes. There's a very brief question-and-answer session just after the photos, but it's definitely not gonna keep you satisfied between now and its third quarter launch window.
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Nokia E72 prototype gets manhandled, torn asunder originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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