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The company notes that this is nothing more than a regularly-scheduled adjustment, but for what it’s worth, Nokia has quietly lowered prices across its entire range, in some cases by as much as 10 percent — nothing to sneeze at. Notably, the S60 5th Edition-based 5230 is at this time selling for €170 (about $239) in Finland, making it considerably inexpensive than dozens of mid- to high-end feature phones — an engaging attention reversal of fortune that puts Nokia precisely where it says it wants to be for positioning S60 as The People’s Platform as it sprinkles Maemo through the upper end of the lineup. Where this ultimately leaves Series 40 remains to be seen, but at the rate these guys are going with the mainstream push for S60, it may not matter in a year or two.

Nokia cuts phone prices across the board, S60 biting deep into dumbphone territory originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

DirecTV’s DVR Scheduler app may have just arrived on Android and WebOS devices but it’s been around on iPhone for nearly a year and has at this time been downloaded by over 1 million users. Next up? the ability to order PPV without a home phone line, recommendations and ratings, and even direct to mobile video trailer streaming. Unfortunately not mentioned? When we’ll see the promised Blackberry edition. Still, congratulations DirecTV.

DirecTV DVR Scheduler app celebrates 1 million iPhone downloads, new features on the way originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

They knew this day was coming, but still, we can’t help but feel like there must be some higher-ups at Verizon that are squirming today at the knowledge that the innermost workings of one of their highest-profile smartphones — the Droid Eris — are at this time available to anyone willing to invest the couple minutes that the package takes to download. This should give hackers some more elbow room to cook custom ROMs for Verizon’s remix of the Hero — and if they can beat an official Android 2.1 release for the phone by even a single day, that sounds like a win in our book.

HTC pulls wraps off Droid Eris’ kernel source originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.