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Analyst says Android and Symbian to merge, Nokia and Google to get matching tattoos

Engadget Mobile | 16 minutes ago

Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian, Android According to the oracle-like superbrains at J. Gold Associates, Google's Android OS and Nokia's Symbian will "combine to provide a single open source OS," sometime in the very near future... say, three to six months. Sure, Android is just about to launch on devices in late 2008, and Nokia just announced in June that it will be moving Symbian towards open source -- and of course the two companies have no formal relationship that would come close t...

Samsung Omnia gets previewed in final form

Engadget Mobile | 35 minutes ago

Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS Arne over at the::unwired has his hands all up on the production version of Samsung's touchtastic Omnia i900, and yeah, it's pretty much official: the Touch Diamond has a solid competitor on its hands. The skinning Sammy's managed to perform here atop Windows Mobile's ancient UI might not be quite on part with the magic that is TouchFLO 3D, but it looks pretty close -- it's still better by leaps and bounds by the default, ...

PE Firm Pushing for Inmarsat/Skyterra Combo

GigaOM | 1 hour 14 minutes ago

Harbinger Capital today offered satellite service provider MSV/Skyterra $500 million to pay for the company’s launch of its two new satellites. The private equity firm also made clear it’s planning to push for a deal to acquire British satellite company Inmarsat. The acquisition attempt isn’t welcomed by Inmarsat, but Harbinger owns 28.8 percent of its [...]

Ballmer: Microsoft to Get More Narrow-minded

GigaOM | 1 hour 27 minutes ago

Steve Ballmer sent an email to Microsoft employees this week in which he acknowledged the success of Apple — and what the Redmond giant needs to do in order to better compete. “Today, we re changing the way we work with hardware vendors to ensure that we can provide complete experiences with absolutely no compromises,” he [...]

Bomb Blasts Hit Bangalore, Impact to Be Felt in Silicon Valley

GigaOM | 2 hours 17 minutes ago

Over the past few years, the quaint and sleepy town of Bangalore has been transformed into a highly compressed version of Silicon Valley, only with worse housing and transportation problems. Some of the bigger technology companies — Texas Instruments, Intel and Qualcomm — have offices there, along with home-grown Indian tech giants like Infosys Technologies. [...]

VCs Have Their Heads in the Clouds

GigaOM | 2 hours 42 minutes ago

When was the last time you bought software that came in a box, an actual CD that you put into your disc drive in order to load it onto your computer? It’s probably been a while, since most applications are now downloaded straight from the Internet. Today a growing number of companies are buying their [...]

Welsh-Proofing Streets

Light Reading/The Blog Roll | 3 hours 1 minute ago

Pad the llampposts!

Samsung i740: all smartphone, no frills

Engadget Mobile | 3 hours 21 minutes ago

Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE The rumored i740 slider from Samsung has now been announced, and as expected, it's a 3G-free beast. That's actually pretty cool since it'll do its part toward keeping the sticker shock to an absolute minimum -- around €300 ($469) when it launches in October -- though it's a tougher pill to swallow when you consider that it also lacks WiFi. In other words, buyers should expect to use this Windows Mobile 6.1 bad boy as a slave to Ac...

iPhone roundup: Apple seeds 2.1 with new GPS features, possible copy/paste, also completely out of phones

Engadget Mobile | 3 hours 37 minutes ago

Filed under: Software, Apple, OS X Your morning iPhone news fix: looks like Apple's seeded a beta of firmware 2.1 (not to be confused with the supposed 2.0.1 that will fix the myriad bugs and issues with 2.0), which may have some new GPS features that would imply turn-by-turn directions. No argument from us if Apple really is including new Core Location hooks for tracking your direction and speed, which would both be needed for doing proper GPS navigation.Another bit which may or may not make...

Mobile IM vs SMS: Who Wins?

GigaOM | 4 hours 36 minutes ago

Yesterday, the guys from eBuddy send me a press release that made me wonder: with the rise of flat rate data plans for feature-packed mobiles and high speed 3G network becoming coming place, will Mobile IM start to eat into the lucrative SMS business? The data from eBuddy would suggest so - the company [...]

ASUS preparing Xda Zest for O2

Engadget Mobile | 8 hours 12 minutes ago

Filed under: Handsets, ASUS, Windows Mobile, GSM, UMTSWhat could possibly constitute a "zesty" smartphone? We're not sure, but if O2's latest Xda device intends to live up to its name, we're going to find out. An ASUS-sourced handset bearing the "GM5 / Crystal / Xda Zest" name just garnered approval from the Global Certification Forum, and as we all know, anything starting with "Xda" is pretty much a lock to see duty on O2 as a Windows Mobile smartphone. Nothing is known about the thing at th...

Nokia-Qualcomm Truce: Bad News For Motorola

GigaOM | 8 hours 36 minutes ago

Nokia and Qualcomm buried the hatchet this week, deciding to settle matters out of court and become friends. While the details of the settlement aren’t clear - The Wall Street Journal reports that as a result of this settlement, Nokia will pay less to Qualcomm. The deal ensures that Qualcomm continues to get money in [...]

iPhone 3G Illustrates What A Real Contract Looks Like

Techdirt Wireless | 12 hours 33 minutes ago

I spent most of my day last Friday acquiring an iPhone 3G. It was a long and tedious process involving several hours of waiting, a visit to the Apple Store, and two visits to AT&T. Part of the reason it took so long is that Apple wasn't willing to let me have the phone until I'd signed up for a 2-year contract with AT&T. Mike has previously discussed the pros and cons of cell phone subsidies, and the associated carrier lock-in. Whatever you think of that debate, the iPhone story is ...

Sprint Nextel sells off "nearly all" of its towers to TowerCo for $670 million

Engadget Mobile | 12 hours 46 minutes ago

Filed under: Sprint, EV-DO, CDMA, Misc Details are scarce right now, but you can make of it what you will. Sprint hasn't been in the best of situations since it acquired Nextel in 2005, and while this move may not be seen by everyone as definitively negative, it certainly is questionable. The flagging carrier sold off "nearly all" (around 3,300) of its wireless communication towers to TowerCo for some $670 million in cash. According to Sprint Nextel's Bob Azzi, the move to lease rather than o...

Cartoon Network Joins MMOG-Via-Web Crowd

GigaOM | 14 hours 4 minutes ago

Today at Comic-Con, the Cartoon Network announced FusionFall, which it described as “the first AAA, browser-based massively multiplayer online game (MMOG).” (The “AAA” qualification is probably meant to distinguish it from low-budget, web-based MMOGs like Runescape.) Set to be released this fall, the game will incorporate characters from the network’s many shows. Given the Cartoon [...]

What's the best iPhone 3G alternative?

Engadget Mobile | 15 hours 6 minutes ago

Filed under: Handsets, Others, Studies, Apple Hey, Mobile readers -- Engadget Classic has an "Ask Engadget" that will surely get your motor running this week. Eager to give some advice on what the best iPhone / iPhone 3G alternative is? Then head on over and deposit your two cents, will ya?Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

BlackBerry Bold's internet browser gets toyed with

Engadget Mobile | 16 hours 21 minutes ago

Filed under: Handsets, RIM, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS Look, we know how it is. Waiting, twiddling those thumbs for John Mayer's moment to become one that you too can experience. Thankfully, the Boy Genius has caved to requests to show off what exactly the Bold's browser can do, a point of interest for many, we're certain. There are even a few comparison shots to Mobile Safari just for reference. Overall, things don't look too bad from photographs alone, but hit up the read link to form your own ...

Facebook Connect for Mobiles to Come This Fall, With iPhone Support

GigaOM | 17 hours 11 minutes ago

Fresh off their launch of Facebook Connect at their second developer conference, the social networking company is going to launch a mobile version of the Facebook Connect this fall, Jed Stremel, director of mobile for Facebook, said in a chat today. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company is going to release the code of their entire [...]

Intel Is Branching Out With Embedded SoCs

GigaOM | 17 hours 30 minutes ago

Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, is spreading its R&D efforts far outside of its server and PC kingdom. The company has just launched a new line of products that will combine four processors onto a single chip, reducing both power consumption and the footprint required by the chips. Intel rightly points out that in a [...]

Tag Heuer Meridiist hits FCC courtesy of ModeLabs

Engadget Mobile | 18 hours 28 minutes ago

Filed under: Handsets, Others, GSM Looks just a little less glamorous when it's chilling in some clean-room lab somewhere, doesn't it? Tag Heuer's mighty Meridiist, the luxury set designed to compete with the Vertus and Mobiados of the world, has just navigated its way through the FCC's mighy bureaucracy on the wings of French ODM ModeLabs complete with a posting of the user's manual. And let's be honest, at well over five grand, an online user's manual is about as close as most of us are eve...

What's in a Name?

Light Reading/The Blog Roll | 18 hours 34 minutes ago

Would a Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii by any other name smell as sweet?

14 Things Corporations Can Learn from Seasoned Web Workers

GigaOM | 19 hours 25 minutes ago

As travel costs continue to rise, big corporations are looking for alternate ways to get their employees in front of one another, including investing big bucks in things like teleconferencing systems. But while the giants are just waking up to this new world of distributed and remote work, web workers everywhere have already spent [...]

iFund Has Invested in 5 Companies So Far

GigaOM | 20 hours 3 minutes ago

I am hanging out at the MobileBeat conference in Sunnyvale, Calif., today, watching Erick Schonfeld grill panelists on the “Bang or Bust” panel. One of the panelists is Matt Murphy, head of the $100 million iFund at Kleiner, Perkins Caufield & Byers. “We have invested in five companies so far,” he told the room. He named [...]

Samsung breaks 150 million US handset sales

Engadget Mobile | 20 hours 11 minutes ago

Filed under: Samsung By blanketing every corner of virtually every carrier in the American market, Samsung's mobile division has now laid claim to the rather lofty mark of 150 million handsets sold in the US market since it first set up shop this side of the pond eleven years ago. Though glitzy, marketing-heavy efforts like the Instinct, Glyde, and BlackJack series get the better part of the spotlight, Samsung likely owes almost all of its success to its stunning effectiveness in getting seri...

Juniper's Going Places

Light Reading/The Blog Roll | 21 hours 19 minutes ago

At least rhymes are better than mimes

Palm Treo 800w review

Engadget Mobile | 21 hours 20 minutes ago

Filed under: Features, Palm, Sprint, Windows Mobile, EV-DO We'd been hearing rumors about the Treo 800w for what seemed like ages. Between the clatter of "Zeppelin" talk, glimpses of a new model during Gates' last CES keynote, and the ever-persistent idea that a fresh new Palm phone is just around the corner, it wasn't exactly a mind-blowing surprise when the new model finally came to light (of course, Sprint selling it a day early didn't help either). Now we've had a chance to spend some qua...

Samsung's i8510 INNOV8 gets official in Europe, shown off on video

Engadget Mobile | 23 hours 8 minutes ago

Filed under: Handsets, SamsungWe've already gotten word of most of the details of Samsung's i8510 INNOV8 (get it?) smartphone, but things just got a whole lot more official for the device in Europe and, coincidentally, a number of sites recently got to spend some time with the phone in NYC (despite the lack of an official US release). Of course, there's not a whole lot of surprises to be found, but it certainly seems like the phone will get the job done and then some, with its built in camera...

Plot Thickens at AlcaLu

Light Reading/The Blog Roll | 23 hours 27 minutes ago

Who will go next at the vendor giant?

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