mobile phone
Windows Phone 7 to make October 11 debut in New York, London
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010Next Monday, the 11th, Microsoft is hosting a bunch of launch events for Windows Phone 7, in London and New York. Ars will be reporting live from both. The New York event kicks off at 9:30ET with a press conference with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, and AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega, followed by [...]
Microsoft Doles Out Windows Phone 7 Smartphones to Interns
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010It looks like Microsoft is making a huge push behind its upcoming Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system release, which is due to hit devices and launch by this coming holiday season. After the company has sent out a large number of test hardware to developers and promised that employees worldwide will be getting the [...]
Verizon confirms Droid X screen glitch and fix
Sunday, August 1st, 2010A small number of Motorola’s Droid X smartphones are experiencing display issues, Verizon Wireless has confirmed. However, Motorola has resolved the problem and is replacing affected units with new glitch-free models. Reports had emerged, including on Engadget, that some Droid X users were seeing vertical banding and flickering on their screens, as one unhappy owner [...]
Samsung Road SMS for Galaxy S hands-on
Friday, July 23rd, 2010We’ve a soft spot for augmented reality (AR) apps and a dislike of walking into lampposts, so Samsung’s new Road SMS app for the Galaxy S satisfies both our hunger for gimmicks and personal safety. Available exclusively through the Samsung Apps download store on the Galaxy S – and, we’re guessing, on the Vibrant, Captivate [...]
Mobile viewer digitizes your stack of biz cards
Friday, July 9th, 2010If you’ve ever spent more than a few days in Japan on business, you’ll have gone through more business cards than wooden sushi chopsticks. Japanese are endlessly exchanging cards, and it’s easy to accumulate a mountain of contacts. This digitizer cuts the mountain down to size and puts it in a handy mobile device. Tweet [...]
HTC HD2 Shown Running Android, Looking Like an EVO Doppelganger
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010There definitely won’t be an official Android version of HTC’s WinMo-running HD2, but the chaps at HTC Linux have finally released an Android 2.1 build for the WinMo-running largescreen, with a fully-working touchscreen. It’s a dual-booting release, meaning it also loads the Ubuntu Linux flavor ‘Karmic Koala,’ and Windows Mobile 6.5 with HTC’s Sense UI [...]
Samsung Windows Phone 7 prototype hands-on
Friday, June 25th, 2010It’s been a bit of a unicorn since making a quick appearance at MIX, but we just got the chance to go hands-on with Samsung’s Omnia i8910-based Windows Phone 7 prototype phone. Interestingly, we were told that this hardware will never be released to market — it’s just for testing purposes right now. That testing [...]
First Picture of the Galaxy S Pro
Monday, June 21st, 2010Usually we would call something like this a rumor but we now have cold hard evidence of its existence. I checked my mailbox and to my delight I was treated with the first real pictures of the Galaxy S Pro. As you can see from the picture, it’s the Galaxy S with a full QWERTY [...]
Microsoft outs Windows Embedded Handheld platform, Motorola ES400 is the first to get it
Saturday, June 19th, 2010Throughout the course of Windows Phone 7′s paced, deliberate unveiling this year, Microsoft has been very clear on the fact that it doesn’t intend for Windows Mobile — the legacy platform we know today — to disappear, arguing that it’s got several years of life left in it for certain verticals. We’re starting to see [...]
Silicon ‘nose’ turns cell phones into toxin detectors
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010The developers of a tiny silicon chip that can be embedded in cell phones say it could detect and then map the location and extent of gas leaks and toxins in the air. “Cell phones are everywhere people are,” says Michael Sailor, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California at San Diego, [...]