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Samsung Transform for Sprint: what is it? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yeah, the Droid Incredible update was technically already deployed, but you know how these things work: they’re usually long, painful phased rollouts designed to limit the damage if something catastrophic happens in the over-the-air push. On that note, we’re excited to report that we’ve gotten a constant barrage of tips today suggesting that the update is at this time going out en masse — and as continuously, the update file’s already been sniffed out for you to download if you haven’t gotten it on your phone yet and you’re as distractingly impatient as we are. Let us know how it goes, alright, folks?

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HTC Droid Incredible update to Froyo rolling out far and wide, manual install available originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’re actually surprised it’s taken that long for Sony Ericsson to join China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA bandwagon (potentially 554 million accounts!), but as the old Chinese proverb goes: “it’s never too late to fix the fence, even if you’ve already lost a few sheep.” The new Ophone 2.0 handset in question is the A8i, which bears much resemblance to the oh-so-popular Xperia X10 (also available in China) except for the smaller 3.5-inch touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera, CMMB mobile TV feature, and the seemingly missing Timescape plus Mediascape apps. No prices declare just yet, but we’re told that both the “Titanium Black” and “Shiny White” editions will be heavily subsidized when they come out in October.

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Sony Ericsson declare China-bound A8i Ophone: its first-ever TD-SCDMA smartphone originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HTC’s Desire is without doubt one of the headline Android devices of 2010 so far — and heck, when you’re using the already-great Nexus One as a starting point and re-upping it with an optical pad, physical buttons, and Sense, it’s hard to argue otherwise. US Cellular has at this time become the first carrier to bring the device to the States (nearly five grueling months since its first spats of international availability, we’d like to note), and because USCC’s a CDMA carrier, this is naturally a slightly different device than you’re getting elsewhere. Don’t get us wrong, most of the thoughts in our first review of the Desire still apply — but needless to say, this launch is notable enough to warrant a second look. Read on!

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HTC Desire (US Cellular) review originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HTC’s Desire is without doubt one of the headline Android devices of 2010 so far — and heck, when you’re using the already-great Nexus One as a starting point and re-upping it with an optical pad, physical buttons, and Sense, it’s hard to argue otherwise. US Cellular has at this time become the first carrier to bring the device to the States (nearly five grueling months since its first spats of international availability, we’d like to note), and because USCC’s a CDMA carrier, this is naturally a slightly different device than you’re getting elsewhere. Don’t get us wrong, most of the thoughts in our first review of the Desire still apply — but needless to say, this launch is notable enough to warrant a second look. Read on!

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HTC Desire (US Cellular) review originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The original Samsung Wave — which happens to be the first production Bada device — sports some pretty awesome specs, which probably doesn’t make much sense for a proprietary platform that walks a very fine line between the smartphone and feature phone labels, has an immeasurably small fraction of the market uptake Android has, and isn’t available in any form in the US. To that end, Sammy’s toning things down a bit for round two in the form of the oddly-named Wave 723, which eschews the original’s Super AMOLED display for a 3.2-inch TFT LCD but still manages to squeeze in 802.11n plus a 5 megapixel AF cam with LED flash. The phone’s based on Bada 1.1, which adds UI auto-scaling — in other words, Samsung’s prepping developers to make sure their bountiful Bada apps work seamlessly across devices of different resolutions. No word on pricing, dates, or regional availability at this point, but it’s reasonable to say that it’s devices like the 723 that’ll make or break Bada in the long term. Why this thing isn’t just an Android 2.2 phone with TouchWiz 3.0, though… well, only Samsung can answer that one, we suppose.

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Samsung Wave 723 declare, Bada keeps chugging originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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With September just a few days away, things are really about to get real for Nokia’s flagship N8, especially in Europe. For instance, Vodafone’s UK arm has just updated the “Coming Soon” page for this Symbian^3 device. What’s new? Just the fact that the carrier will be offering the phone in two colors: black and green, with the latter ironically exclusive to red Vodafone. Yep, that’s pretty much it — no prices or dates mentioned just yet, but we’ll be keeping an eye out for you N8 believers.

Vodafone teases with exclusive green Nokia N8, still mum on prices and availability originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Samsung Bada SDK hits version 1.0; in other news, a tree falls and no one’s around to hear it originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Right on time, US Cellular’s CDMA-flavored version of the HTC Desire is at this time available for a nickel under $200, making it the undisputed big dog in the regional carrier’s lineup (its first Android device, the Samsung Acclaim, launched a few weeks back). What you get for your hard-earned money in this place is a surprisingly accurate recreation of the GSM Desire the rest of the world has been enjoying for much of this year, with the same optical pad, 3.7-inch display, 5 megapixel cam, Sense, 1GHz Snapdragon core, and identical industrial design (which, considering how good the original looks, is just fine with us). With the Droid Incredible on tap, Verizon doesn’t really need this thing — but it’d be kinda nice if Sprint picked it up to slot under the EVO, wouldn’t it? Follow the break for the full press release.

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HTC Desire hits US Cellular today for $200 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As we discovered back at its CTIA intro earlier this year, Kyocera’s (and Sanyo’s) Zio isn’t the neatest Android phone you’ve ever seen — nor the most technically impressive — but at $230 without a contract after $20 discount, it’s pretty hard to argue that you’re not getting what you pay for. Regional carrier Cricket had been promising the Zio for some time, and at this time it’s in this place, just the latest in the company’s newfound push into the smartphone space — a space it’s traditionally avoided in the past — with the recent launch of the Curve 8530 (for the same price as the Zio, coincidentally). Trackballs are officially passé at this point, but considering the budget monthly outlay that Cricket offers, we’ve no doubt they’ll find some takers.

Cricket starts offering Android-powered Zio for $230 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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