Smartphones

iPhone Video Apps Now Have to Be Sensitive to AT&T’s Fragile Network

AT&T and Apple finally allowed iPhone apps to stream video over 3G, but now they’re enacting a new condition: To get approved, Justin.TV’s new iPhone app needed a low quality video stream to downgrade to during periods of network congestion. https://gizmodo.com/slingplayer-iphone-app-finally-allowed-to-stream-tv-ove-5464089 In other words, video apps will apparently need to be able to adapt to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Nexus One’s Subpar Screen Saga: It’s the Subpixels

The Nexus One’s display continues to be less than meets the eye. Ars’ breakdown reveals that the PenTile subpixel arrangement means that, depending on how you count the pixels, it could have an effective resolution that’s smaller than 800×480. https://gizmodo.com/the-nexus-ones-dirty-display-secret-updated-5477320 Nouvoyance’s own diagram of the PenTile subpixel arrangement explains it pretty well: it uses a…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Android Phone Samsung Galaxy S Has 3x Faster GPU Than Snapdragon

AndroidAndMe has rewatched the Samsung Galaxy S keynote from earlier in the week (barrel of laughs ’round their way!) and realized that the 1GHz chip they mentioned—which can “process a staggering 90 million triangles per second” actually works out to three times faster than the Snapdragon processor. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-s-smartphone-is-the-first-step-in-samsun-5500164 Samsung’s S5PC110 processor contains an ARM Cortex-A8…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Why We’re Not Reviewing the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Yet

You’ve probably seen some reviews of Sony Ericsson’s first Android phone, the Xperia X10, which tries to do something a little different with its custom interface. We’ve got one, but the software is riddled with strange issues, and Sony Ericsson confirmed to us that when the phone’s actually released in “Q2,” consumers will be running…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Scientific Test: The Most Accurate Smartphone Touchscreen

Some people said that Moto Development Group’s original touchscreen accuracy tests were unreliable because there were done by a human. Their solution? Use an industrial robot with precise constant pressure and speed. And the winner is… https://gizmodo.com/smartphone-touch-screen-analysis-tests-finger-fidelity-5444514 The iPhone still retains its crown as King of the smartphone touchscreens, with the Nexus One in a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

AT&T MicroCell 3G: Salvation for Your Crappy Reception Is $150, No Strings Attached

Sure, we kinda think AT&T’s cell-reception boosting MicroCell 3G should be like, free, since it’s using your pipes to route calls, but I suppose this is about as swell as we could’ve hoped for—$150 with no monthly fee. https://gizmodo.com/at-t-3g-microcell-site-live-home-base-station-boosts-s-5363880 A femtocell, briefly, is sorta like a mini cell tower—it hooks into your broadband connection, and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Who Really Has the Fastest 3G Network?

Turn on your TV, and AT&T will tell you it’s them. Use T-Mobile’s beefed up 3G in Philadelphia and you’ll be sure it’s not. Is it time for AT&T to pass the champion’s belt? Not yet, but maybe soon. AT&T handily trumped all the other carriers in our last nationwide 3G speed test, surprising a…

Tech News John Herrman

T-Mobile’s Crazy Fast HSPA+ 3G Network To Reach Over 100 Metro Areas This Year

T-Mobile has announced that they’re rolling out their super speedy HSPA+ network to over 100 metro areas covering 185 million people in 2010. More than half of that will be complete by the middle of the year. That’s aggressive. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-hspa-speed-test-3g-gets-pumped-up-to-21mbps-5493830 HSPA+ is an easier roll out than 4G, because it’s overlaid over T-Mobile’s existing 3G…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Samsung Galaxy S Smartphone Is the First Step In Samsung’s Smart Life

Samsung has been hinting at “S Life” so far at CTIA, and now we’ve got some details: the Galaxy S phone is a 1GHz, 4-inch AMOLED display, feature-filled Android smartphone. Updating live: In addition to its high-powered screen and processor, the Galaxy S also features advanced location-based services and the Layar Reality browser, which allows…

Gadgets Brian Barrett

Sprint Names 7 New WiMax Cities, Including Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Miami

Moving ahead with their ambitious plan to bring WiMax to 120 million Americans by the end of the year, Sprint added seven new cities to their list: Cincinnati, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Miami, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City and St. Louis. https://gizmodo.com/sprints-super-speedy-wimax-available-to-120-million-peo-5479634 These join Boston, Denver, Kansas City, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Rotting Corpse of Windows Mobile: Goodbye Mobile Firefox

Mozilla’s officially abandoning development of Firefox Mobile for Windows Mobile in the wake of the shiny—er, matte—future of Windows Phone 7. Which they’re not latching onto, either, because there’s no native SDK. The event’s worth noting because they’re among the first high profile devs to officially flee Windows Mobile, which has no future, even if…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

This May Be Nokia’s New Top Phone, the N8-00

A 12MP Nokia handset has been on the cards, and if IT168 is right, the above blurrypic could be it—the N8-00, Nokia’s newest flagship. Good to see that Nokia’s ditched the resistive touchscreen in favor of the (rumored) 3.5-inch capacitive, and like with previous Nokia models the 12MP camera will have a Carl Zeiss lens…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

HTC Supersonic, Sprint’s WiMAX Android Phone, Due For Announcement Today

Last week we said the HTC Supersonic would be announced next week, and as it’s now “next week,” it figures that select Sprint Premier customers are being told about a “groundbreaking new device” due to be announced today. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-htc-incredible-launching-on-verizon-in-a-fortnig-5496240 These Are The Droids got the above screenshot from a Sprint Premier customer which shows an…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

HTC Sense Ported To Motorola Droid

The best Android skin has married one of the best Android phones, despite HTC piping up in the back saying “sheeee’s miiiine!” While it’s not an official marriage, it doesn’t mean the love is any less real. It’s the work of AllDroid user Greek35T, and while it’s not perfect (calls can’t be made over 3G,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Cameraphone Photo Quality Set To Improve With InVisage’s QuantumFilm Chips

On the whole, cameraphone pictures tend to “make do,” but with these new QuantumFilm chips from InVisage Technologies you could potentially ditch the Nikon and rely solely on your HTC. InVisage Technologies’ QuantumFilm uses a layer of nanometer-sized quantom dots, or semiconductor particles, which apparently attracts more light into the sensor than typical silicon sensors…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Nokia Crowdsources All That Boring “Design” Business

You know what? Nokia’s just about had it with you guys complaining about the design of their devices. “Let’s see you do better,” the company says. “No, really, use this panel of sliders and buttons to design your dream phone.” The Design by Community project kicked off last week and will run through May. Every…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

You’d Be Crazy to Buy a Palm Now

Palm is dying. They’ve been hemorrhaging money since late last year, and yesterday’s woeful earnings announcement sealed its fate. It didn’t have to be this way. But it’s been coming for a long time. https://gizmodo.com/two-phones-and-a-new-os-later-palm-is-still-hemorrhagi-5429118 Palm’s got great hardware, and WebOS is a genuinely terrific operating system. But that’s not enough anymore. While Android’s got…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Leaked BlackBerry OS 6.0 Screenshots Show Widgets Aplenty

This is it. This is the moment us BlackBerry users have been waiting for. After countless Android, Symbian and Windows Phone 7 OS leaks, our time has come. This could be the turning point—BlackBerry OS 6.0. From what we can garner from the disappointingly low-res screenshots is that OS 6.0 could be using widgets for…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

“Last summer, I forgot my friend Norman’s birthday.”

Dave Pell, on what it means to have our heads in the cloud, as he puts it: Recently, our babysitter was struck by a car just a few steps from our front door. Luckily, none of her injuries were life threatening. Her cell phone, however, was brutalized beyond recognition. Before heading to the emergency room,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

What Palm’s Sorry Sales Really Mean

Palm’s results for last quarter are out, and they’re grim. Not as grim as Palm had warned, but still: yikes. What does this mean to you, loyal Palmsters? It means your beloved company—and its phones—might get gobbled up. https://gizmodo.com/with-lowered-sales-expectations-palm-runs-out-of-optio-5480098 When a quarterly report requires a heads-up, like this one does, the news can’t be great.…

Tech News John Herrman

iPhone Video Apps Now Have to Be Sensitive to AT&T’s Fragile Network

The Nexus One’s Subpar Screen Saga: It’s the Subpixels

Android Phone Samsung Galaxy S Has 3x Faster GPU Than Snapdragon

Why We’re Not Reviewing the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Yet

Scientific Test: The Most Accurate Smartphone Touchscreen

AT&T MicroCell 3G: Salvation for Your Crappy Reception Is $150, No Strings Attached

Who Really Has the Fastest 3G Network?

T-Mobile’s Crazy Fast HSPA+ 3G Network To Reach Over 100 Metro Areas This Year

Samsung Galaxy S Smartphone Is the First Step In Samsung’s Smart Life

Sprint Names 7 New WiMax Cities, Including Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Miami

The Rotting Corpse of Windows Mobile: Goodbye Mobile Firefox

This May Be Nokia’s New Top Phone, the N8-00

HTC Supersonic, Sprint’s WiMAX Android Phone, Due For Announcement Today

HTC Sense Ported To Motorola Droid

Cameraphone Photo Quality Set To Improve With InVisage’s QuantumFilm Chips

Nokia Crowdsources All That Boring “Design” Business

You’d Be Crazy to Buy a Palm Now

Leaked BlackBerry OS 6.0 Screenshots Show Widgets Aplenty

“Last summer, I forgot my friend Norman’s birthday.”

What Palm’s Sorry Sales Really Mean

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