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Google Voice iPhone app rejected, current GV apps lose connection with iTunes {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 28th 2009 1:26AM So what's the betting that Apple will reject the upcoming Spotify app too.
Way to drive more of us to Android guys....
HTC Hero freed from generic box, called best Android device yet {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 17th 2009 1:51AM Great new UI, but as above, we are waiting for a real 'killer' hardware device.
Once 2.0 donut is here later this year, that will enable WVGA screens. Then we'll just be waiting for the likes of Samsung to start putting android on their high end harware.
Imagine Android on a 12Mp samsung phone, with WVGA(800x480) OLED screen, HD video recording and HDMI out.
I'd sell my granny for that .....
LG's BL40 Black Label phone captured in the wild -- alongside a kid sibling {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 16th 2009 1:22AM Look at that 'Multitasking' button on the lower left. Even LG's 'dumb' smartphone can manage it.
Apple- please stop treating us as if we are complete dummies and give us multitasking. Otherwise we could end up with some horrible, messy bodge like push notifications instead. Oh, wait........
Opera Mobile 9.7 goes live {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 8th 2009 5:20AM
Been using it this morning and it is very very nice. Noticeably smoother and faster than Opera mobile 9.5. Best browser on WM by far.
It does the great WVGA screen on my Touch HD justice.
IE, even the latest version on WM6.5, is a big pile of stinking crap compared to this. IE is slow, has terrible slow scrolling in comparison.
But Opera have removed the zoom bar, and so all we have is the double-click zoom. Which on my WVGA screen means it zooms in way to far. I can read text much smaller on this great screen. so give us back out zoom bar
"iPhone V3" placeholders pop up in Carphone Warehouse systems -- white model coming too? {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 5th 2009 1:48AM What, a whole new model this year ? Possibly even 2 ?
I'll just wait and pick one of the 18 or so Android handsets coming this year. Or maybe the dozens that will arrive next year.
I can see what's going to happen here. I think the iPhone will become more like the Macs, and be the 'premium' device. Android phones will end up with the more numbers and so many of them will be available, from more expensive, quality models to more 'cheap and cheerful' ones.
Take the example of a friend of mine last month looking for his first ever smartphone. I recommended an iphone to him, for it's sheer simplicity and ease of use. After looking into it he decided against it ( he though it had too many restrictions as to what he can do) and decided to go with Android (HTC Magic). He realises that in a years time when he gets a new phone again, he'll have a wide selection of Android phones.
Dylan
(Oh, and he absolutely loves his Magic and drives his fiancee nuts playing with it all the time !)
T-Mobile myTouch 3G box art comes out to play {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 5th 2009 1:38AM This should be popular.
The UK version, Magic, was bought by a friend of mine as his first ever smartphone (After he rejected my suggestion of an iPhone as being too restrictive)
He absolutely fell in love with it. It's surprisingly nice to use and look at, and he loves the apps he has on it and keeps finding more and more and is very happy he didn't get an iPhone.
This will attract those people who thought that the G1 was a bit too bulky, and aren't bothered about a keyboard.
Video: HTC Hero with 'rosie' Android UI leaked? {Engadget}
May 29th 2009 8:30AM Yes that looks sweet.
I can see that from the icon size on the home screen that it looks like a WVGA(800x480) device.
And those widgets too look good. Android is going to get very, very good.
Zune rumors heat up, MS getting ready to launch Zune software on phones? {Engadget Mobile}
Apr 15th 2009 1:38AM
Well they need something to wow us this year on WM, and it certainly aint going to be WM6.5, from what I've seen running the latest versions of it on my Touch HD. Most of the changes they've made are already being done better by HTC's latest TouchFlo3D v 3.
And Windows mobile Media Player is truly, truly awful. I mean really bad. It could do with a replacment, and one with podcast support like Zune software would be ideal. It would save me having to use third party rss readers to download my podcasts.
So forget about a zune phone, just give all of us Wm users a good multimedia experience with Zune Software. after all, *worldwide* WM devices still outsell the iPhone.
Android 1.5 announced, early-look SDK available today {Engadget}
Apr 14th 2009 6:00AM For gods sake, stop this pathetic iPhone v Android crap.
Thank god we have BOTH of them. Decent competition will drive more and more and more features for both platforms in the coming years.
True, Apple are a bit restrictive and have been slow with some features, but they are getting there. But they changes the way we use our phones forever with the iPhone and I salute them.
Android- well, it's hardy even started yet. In a years time it will have matured when you can choose from a dozen or so handsets from 4+ manufacturers. Has good potential, but not there quite yet. Dont forget, this is 1.5 they are talking about. Wait till version 2 or 3 of software and it should be great.
Which would I choose ? If I could have android 1.5 on a phone similar to my Touch HD then I'd love it.
Which would I recommend to friends ? iPhone for ease of use and range of apps.
Will there or won't there be a T-Mobile G2 in the near future? {Engadget}
Dec 22nd 2008 2:23AM No matter what android phone you buy over the next 12 months- you know that within 3-6 months there will be a new, shinier, more powerful phone released.
I'm on Orange here in the UK, and they normally get HTC phones first. I'm due a free phone upgrade at the end of January but I figure that within a few months there would be a HTC Android phone being made available on the network. And this looks like exactly that which makes me very happy bunny indeed :)
