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What Windows Phone 7 Could Have Been

From what we’ve heard about the development process of Windows Phone 7, rumors about the OS predated its earliest seeds. How? The secret lies deep underground in Redmond, buried with a little project called Photon. We were posting about Windows Mobile 7 (and 8!) in great detail back in 2008, and we weren’t the only…

Tech News John Herrman

Nokia Confirms Ovi Maps Will Appear On Android, But Will That Be A Nokia-Branded Android Phone?

Why’d Nokia give away Ovi Maps for free to other OS users? Unless they’re…planning an Android phone themselves? We’ve already heard whispers they’re to release just one Maemo device this year—and they can’t possibly survive on Symbian alone. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-is-nok-nok-nokking-on-tomtoms-door-with-free-turn-5453520 Greig Williams, who is Nokia’s general manager for the Alps and South East Europe, told the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Windows Phone 7 Series Could Be On An LG Phone As Soon As September

We all know Windows Phone 7 is due at the end of the year, but according to the Chinese version of Engadget, LG is preparing for a launch date as early as September, as late as November. It’s still a wide gap, but certainly a lot more hopeful than “early 2011.” [Engadget Chinese via Engadget]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

HTC Incredible Turns Up On Verizon Wireless’ System, Implying Launch Is Near

The chocolate brown HTC Incredible has reappeared on the scene, this time in Verizon Wireless’ inventory system. Is the Android phone close to announcement? It’s peculiar HTC hasn’t officially announced it yet, instead outing the Legend and Desire. https://gizmodo.com/htc-incredible-photos-leaked-reveal-incredibly-brown-b-5466195 The Android 2.1 phone (with HTC Sense slicked on top) is rumored to run on a…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Motorola Devour Review: What Have You Done To My Droid?

You can’t talk about the Devour, Motorola’s new slide-out QWERTY Android phone, without talking about the Droid, Motorola’s favored child. And it’s precisely when pitted against the Droid that the Devour stops making sense. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-review-5396168 The Price The Devour runs $150, with a two-year Verizon contract. But not really. (More on that later.) What It’s…

Reviews John Herrman

Android App Store Is 57% Free Compared to Apple’s 25%

App store analytics firm Distimo recently released a bunch of juicy info about the major mobile app stores, and the results are pretty interesting. For one, Android has a much higher proportion of free apps. Apple and BlackBerry are pretty close with their app stores, offering free apps making up 25% and 24% of their…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Cellphones’ Location Patterns Show That We Are Predictable Ramblers

A study on cellphone location data—made over users calling every two hours on average—says that human moves are predictable 93% of the time. And here I was, thinking that I was better than a bacteria. The study—published last week in Science magazine—found out that no matter how far humans travel, they almost always do it…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Google Cancels Chinese Nexus One Developer Event (To Prove a Point?)

Joking they were not, when Google vowed to take down China. Ok, that’s not exactly what they said—but after refusing to launch two Android phones there mid-January, they’ve now pulled out of a developers event in Beijing. Updated. https://gizmodo.com/google-refuses-to-continue-censoring-results-in-china-5446712 Following developer events at TED and MWC (plus the upcoming GDC), they were scheduled to tour…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Nokia Admits That The N97 Sucked, Working to Improve Their Phones

So the Nokia N97 was a bit of a disaster. Normally, companies pretend that all of their products are great, even when they aren’t. But one Nokia VP is willing to admit that the N97 was a steamer. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-n97-review-nokia-is-doomed-5308440 Nokia’s VP of Markets Anssi Vanjoki recently said in an interview that the N97 was a…

Tech News Adam Frucci

The Three Kinds of Windows Phone 7 Phones

During the Frankly Speaking podcast, the hosts, who are Microsoft Australia Developer Evangelists spilled some details on how limited the hardware for Windows Phone 7…phones are going to be. There are precisely three chassis variants. https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-7-and-the-end-of-hardware-choice-5475916 Chassis 1 is the phone we all saw on launch day—a huge touchscreen with a minimum 1GHz processor (read:…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Nokia and Symbian Still on Top in Gartner’s Annual Worldwide Sales List, Android Creeping Up Slowly

The iPhone 3G may be the most popular phone in the US, but Gartner’s annual phone sales tally still puts Symbian as being the most-used smartphone OS worldwide. Snapping at its heels, BlackBerry’s OS has less than half the sales. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-meet-razr-the-ten-most-popular-phones-in-the-c-5432284 And the iPhone? They may have 14.4 per cent market share worldwide (a nice…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Google Earth Hits the Android Market, For a Lucky Few

Google Earth is available on Android! (Isn’t is weird that this didn’t happen earlier? It’s been on the iPhone for a year! Anyway.) The catch? For now, it only works on the Nexus One, which basically nobody owns. Don’t worry, Droiders: Soon. https://gizmodo.com/nexus-one-sales-continue-to-lag-just-80-000-in-first-m-5465326 For now, Google Earth will only work on handsets with Android 2.1,…

Tech News John Herrman

Manufacturing Complicated Chips for Phones Is Real Expensive-Like

That’s the moral of this NYT story about the bubbling war in mobile chips. They’re expensive to make. And, no one’s better at making them than Intel, whose manufacturing tech is years ahead of anybody else. Until recently, foundries which manufactured chips on contract stuck to simpler chip designs because that’s what their tech was…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Motorola Doesn’t Love Android That Much After All

Talking to the WSJ about the new Motorola, CEO Sanjay Jha had some interesting stuff to say. Like, if Motorola wasn’t poor, they’d develop their own OS. And now that Windows Phone doesn’t suck, they’re open to using it again. Motorola has been balls-out Android since its resurrection—when Windows Mobile ran into delays, Jha killed…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The 12 Best New Phones You Can’t Buy

Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress came and went, and didn’t amount to much in the way of US cellphones. The rest of the world got some seriously nice gear, though. Here’s the best of the best of the out of reach. HTC Legend https://gizmodo.com/the-htc-legend-traps-android-2-1-in-unibody-aluminum-5472640 Why You Want It: It’s like an HTC Hero, except with Android…

Tech News John Herrman

Sprint Confirms First WiMax Handset Will Arrive By Summer

A leaked roadmap had previously indicated that Sprint would be launching a 4G WiMax handset sometime in 2010, and now the company has confirmed that we’ll be seeing the technology within the next few months. But is the network ready? https://gizmodo.com/roadmap-leak-htc-android-phone-with-wimax-coming-to-sp-5444005 Well, sort of. Sprint’s been working with Clearwire on building up a 4G WiMax…

Tech News Brian Barrett

What Is Google Voice? Let Google Tell You.

Maybe this is just me, but as innovation moves to the cloud, I find that simple concepts can become esoteric—like Google Voice. Here’s a handy explanation as to what the heck it actually does. This clip is actually just part one of twelve. Inside the GoogleVoice YouTube channel, you can find more specifics on what…

Tech News Mark Wilson

LEAK: iSandwich 4G

According to multiple, reliable industry sources, this iSandwich 4G video is both real and delicious. How Microsoft will eat lunch knowing that this new menu offering exists, I do not know.

Tech News Mark Wilson

AT&T Finally Gets Android: Motorola Backflip Arrives March 7

AT&T is late to the Android games, but they’re making up for lost time with five Android handsets in the first half of the year. First up: the Motorola Backflip, coming March 7th for $100 with contract. Wait… $100? https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-motorola-backflip-a-folding-android-phon-5442110 To me that seems a little steep, but I guess that’s because I’m not the…

Tech News Brian Barrett

HTC Legend, Desire and HD Mini UK Pricing and Availability

HTC swept the show with the sexy Legend, well-specced Desire and rugged WinMo HD Mini, and while US availability hasn’t been confirmed yet we can let our UK readers in on the good news. All phones will hit eXpansys on the 12th of April, with the HD Mini at £349.99, the Legend at £399.99 and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

What Windows Phone 7 Could Have Been

Nokia Confirms Ovi Maps Will Appear On Android, But Will That Be A Nokia-Branded Android Phone?

Windows Phone 7 Series Could Be On An LG Phone As Soon As September

HTC Incredible Turns Up On Verizon Wireless’ System, Implying Launch Is Near

Motorola Devour Review: What Have You Done To My Droid?

Android App Store Is 57% Free Compared to Apple’s 25%

Cellphones’ Location Patterns Show That We Are Predictable Ramblers

Google Cancels Chinese Nexus One Developer Event (To Prove a Point?)

Nokia Admits That The N97 Sucked, Working to Improve Their Phones

The Three Kinds of Windows Phone 7 Phones

Nokia and Symbian Still on Top in Gartner’s Annual Worldwide Sales List, Android Creeping Up Slowly

Google Earth Hits the Android Market, For a Lucky Few

Manufacturing Complicated Chips for Phones Is Real Expensive-Like

Motorola Doesn’t Love Android That Much After All

The 12 Best New Phones You Can’t Buy

Sprint Confirms First WiMax Handset Will Arrive By Summer

What Is Google Voice? Let Google Tell You.

LEAK: iSandwich 4G

AT&T Finally Gets Android: Motorola Backflip Arrives March 7

HTC Legend, Desire and HD Mini UK Pricing and Availability

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