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As we see in this first ever video, the Windows Phone 7 interface is filled with simple, beautiful animations not so dissimilar to the Zune HD. UPDATE: https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-7-series-everything-is-different-now-5471805 UPDATE: Here’s more video showing us the experience of maps and web browsing. Very sharp. UPDATE 2: And here’s a full features rundown clip that’s a must-watch.…
It’s astounding that until this moment, three years after the iPhone, the biggest software company in the world basically didn’t compete in mobile. Windows Phone 7 Series is more than the Microsoft smartphone we’ve been waiting for. Everything’s different now. Today, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft is publicly previewing Windows Phone 7 for…
Steve Ballmer. Aggressive. Unpredictable. Highly territorial. He’ll be unveiling Windows Phone 7 today, Microsoft’s smartphone that looks every bit as bold as Ballmer. And you can watch the press conference live starting at 9am Eastern right here: https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-7-series-everything-is-different-now-5471805 Click to view[Microsoft Livestream and Image] https://gizmodo.com/steve-ballmer-rendered-in-bsods-5416420
At last, the Missile Defense Agency Airborne Laser has killed an actual ballistic missile in mid-air. The best part: They recorded it in video. This is not Star Wars pew-pew. It actually looks like the Enterprise’s phasers. https://gizmodo.com/boeing-airborne-laser-weapon-fires-for-the-first-time-5100377 It happened February 11, 8:44 Pacific Standard Time, at the Point Mugu Naval Air Warfare Center-Weapons Division…
BUG 2.0, the second version of Bug Labs’ Lego set for hardware hobbyists, is here, and it’s two things the first one wasn’t: blazing fast—and powerful as a Droid, to be specific—and ready for Android. The newest version of the BUGBase, the brain and nerve center of any and all BUG-based Frankengadgets, has been upgraded…
When Samsung first announced their Bada OS cellphone operating system I thought they were crazy. After seeing their flagship Bada OS phone—the Samsung Wave—in action, I don’t think they are crazy anymore. They are suicidal. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-first-phone-with-the-bada-os-will-be-released-5463974 I will have to try it myself, but just looking at this hands on is making me cringe. [Mobile…
AT&T, Orange, Telefónica, China Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, and several more carriers have announced the formation of the Wholesale Applications Community, which aims to create a viable alternative to Apple’s walled-garden approach to apps. They’ll be joined on the hardware side by LG, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson as they attempt to create an open system for…
If you’ve seen one of those tiny pico projectors, chances are, Texas Instruments‘ DLP tech is inside. And their latest version, the mHD DLP Pico, may be the first to squeeze into a cellphone that’s not humiliating to use. The new, low power chipset drives an optical module that’s 20% thinner and 50% smaller than…
Yes that’s right, you can now be a certified couch potato anywhere you find yourself with the new update to SlingPlayer Moblie, which can play back your DVR shows and control live TV from your iPhone or iPod Touch. Do you hear a faint fapping? That’s the sound of thousands of iPhone and iPod Touch…
Acer’s keen on racking up lots of firsts for its netbook arm, with this Aspire One 532G having the claim of being the world’s first to use NVIDIA’s Ion 2 graphics technology for 1080p playback. The 10.1-inch LED-backlit screen will playback videos at 1080p with 7.1-channel audio output. It’ll also be suitable for 3D gaming,…
After 13 days Nokia had seen 1.4million downloads of its free Ovi Maps. Now, less than a month after giving away the good for free, they’ve seen 3m downloads—with a map being downloaded every second. [TechRadar] https://gizmodo.com/nokias-free-ovi-maps-give-away-has-resulted-in-1-4milli-5463047
Behold! Windows Phone 7. Someone wasn’t quite careful enough with his last minute update of this MWC signage and a passerby managed to snap this first glimpse of the WP7 interface, featuring bold, rectangular icons and Xbox integration. This shot seems to confirm, to some extent, the bit of the last significant batch of rumors…
Nokia and Intel have joined up to marry their Moblin and Maemo platforms, creating the MeeGo spawn which will be seen on devices by the ends of the year. Another operating system? Moblin is, of course, the open source mobile Linux that’s been seen on phones and netbooks with Intel’s Atom processor. Maemo was seen…
Omnifone’s MusicStation music download store—which is pre-loaded on all HP laptops—is also getting an Android launch if you’re looking for another way to download music on your Nexus One. [Business Wire] https://gizmodo.com/hp-to-take-on-itunes-with-pre-loaded-laptop-music-downl-5456121
As well as the TG02, Toshiba’s brought the K01 slider phone all the way from its Japanese R&D department to Mobile World Congress, showing off a very nice sounding 4.1-inch OLED screen. https://gizmodo.com/toshibas-tg02-smartphone-delivers-winmo-6-5-and-1ghz-sn-5471834 It’s a bit thicker than the TG02 at 12.9mm deep, mostly due to the addition of a QWERTY keyboard. A 1Ghz Snapdragon…
The TG01 had it all on paper—an amazing screen, the first use of the super-fast Snapdragon processor, and a thin build not seen since before Nicole Richie started putting on the pounds. The TG02 will hopefully perform better. https://gizmodo.com/toshiba-tg01-may-be-best-windows-mobile-answer-yet-to-i-5145181 It’s not that the TG01 had anything particularly wrong with it, it just didn’t live up…
Details were shed on the open source Symbian^3 platform just a week ago, but at Mobile World Congress the friendly guys at The Symbian Foundation got reckless with details on HDMI support, and both 2D and 3D gaming graphics. https://gizmodo.com/symbian-going-open-source-from-today-5463970 It’ll be “feature complete” within the next month or two, and the first products with…
Acer’s updated its Android range of phones with the Liquid e, running Android 2.1 and built using a Qualcomm Snapdragon 768 MHz processor, so isn’t quite as zappy as some others we’ve seen recently. https://gizmodo.com/acer-lets-slip-the-liquids-custom-android-interface-wh-5383180 While we don’t have images of the Liquid e yet (seen above is the previous Liquid model), it has a…
A follow-up from the Cliq, called the Cliq XT—or Quench, depending on where you live—has been shown off running Android 1.5 (which is a shame when most companies are looking at 2.1 now), and has MOTOBLUR. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-cliq-review-5381995 Whether that’s for better or worse, I’ll leave up to you to decide—but in the meantime it has…
Samsung’s headline act may’ve been the new Wave handset yesterday, but here at Gizmodo we’re equally interested in the guts of these portable talky-phones. Take their two new CMOS sensors for phones, which show the future for Samsung’s new camphones. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-waves-hello-to-wave-s8500-smartphone-with-bada-5471459 The S5K4E2 is a 5.0-megapixel sensor that measures just 1/4 of an inch and…
