Well, that certainly was a quick little experiment, wasn’t it? Just months after quietly becoming available, Nokia has just as quietly slapped an “end of life” label on the N810 WiMAX Edition, officially ending Nokia’s consumer-level support for the wireless standard — for the time being, anyhow. Though we’ve been able to confirm that the discontinuation is official, no word was given as to why it fell off the market so quickly — Nokia inststs that it was a “natural” end of life — but if we had to take a stab at it, we’d guess the Baltimore-only availability had something to do with it.

[Via MobileBurn]

Nokia N810 WiMAX reaches ‘end of life’ originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Half of the would-be buyers are probably holding out for the N97 at this point, but for what it’s worth, the first S60 5th Edition device is ready to rock in the UK this month. Starting January 23, 5800 XpressMusics will be shipping for £249 (about 7) — while Moscow residents are already totally over with it and onto the next great thing, by the way, and North Americans can keep right on lusting for a few more months. Love that launch stagger.

[Via All About Symbian]

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic comes to the UK on January 23 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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No surprises in this place, but Sling Media has created a new SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone portal on its website in order to accomplish two important tasks. 1) To announce that it will indeed be submitted to Apple for certification this quarter and 2) to show off a new video of the software in action. If you just can’t wait, head to the read link and mash play.

SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone demoed on video, coming in Q1 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You know what’s awesome about used phones? They’re usually inexpensive than new ones. Like that time AT&T started selling refurbished iPhone 3Gs for off (even 0 off), fr’instance. bes. Buy’s getting on the action at this time, too, hawking the reconditioned 8 giggers for 9 and the 16GB models for 9 on contract at 350 of its bes. Buy Mobile locations nationwide. Since AT&T’s pushing these for the same price directly, wouldn’t Equivalent Buy be a better name for this joint?

bes. Buy at this time selling refurbed iPhone 3Gs originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yeah, sure, name any IR-equipped phone in existence and odds good to exmobile phoneent that you can find a universal remote app for it, but you probably can’t think of many for the iPhone, at this time, can you? They exist, yes, but they tend to carry a home-automation slant since the lack of an infrared port leaves the thing relegated to WiFi duty. Enter UiRemote, an ambitious little project undertaken by a handful of scrappy University of Toronto students that uses a fingertip-sized IR blaster connected to the headphone jack paired with a totally customizable app to get the job done. Novel? Not necessarily, but when you consider that a dedicated remote with these specs would probably run half a grand, it’s an engaging attention way to save money and still end up with the coolest AV controller on the block. The devs are still tweaking Bot. the module and the app, but hopes are high that they’ll be available to all interested parties in the next couple months.

UiRemote is like a remote… in your iPhone originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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LG finally figured out how to do a watch phone that doesn’t make us physically ill, and fortunately, the company’s CTO happened to be sporting one at the press conference today. Head on over to Engadget to check out the very device that — let’s face it — will probably be on your wrist later this year.

LG’s CTO flaunts GD910, we get it on video originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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at this time that we have serious buy-in from a major phone manufacturer to bring watch phones to market, we’re just plan to go ahead and say it: the Dick Tracy era has begun. LG’s just declare that the GD910 will start production later in 2009, featuring 7.2Mbps HSDPA, Bluetooth, speakerphone, video calling, voice recognition, an integrated music player, and a touchscreen in case those three side-mounted buttons don’t cut it. We hope to have a hands-on shortly!

LG shows off GD910 Watch Phone, production later this year originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Digitimes claims that HTC intends to launch a 10-strong mix of WinMo and Android handsets in 2009 — sounds about right, if we had to guess — and not all of ‘em will be Qualcomm powered. Apparently, HTC’s HSPA devices will employ guts from Ericsson’s Mobile Platforms group, and as lucrative contracts go, the HTC’s chipset contract going into a serious Android year has to be at or near the top. Funny how HTC makes the X1 for Sony Ericsson and Ericsson makes chips for HTC, but business is business, eh?

[Via wmpoweruser.com]

HTC said to be dipping into Ericsson’s silicon for 3.5G chipsets originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you took a Touch Diamond and put it one of those tumblers you had when you were a kid that you use to polish cool-looking rocks you found in your backyard, you’d probably get something like this. The Iolite — not “Lolite” as we’d previously thought — appears to rip the Touch Diamond’s basic form factor from this tiny lil’ image that’s been leaked on Expansys, but steps down to a WQVGA display from VGA. On the upside, Europeans still get their 7.2Mbps HSDPA fix, TouchFLO 3D and AGPS make it through unscathed, and the 3.2-megapixel cam carries over. No official announcement on this one, but seeing how the radio is Euro-focused, we’d expect it at MWC next month.

[Via Cellpassion]

HTC Iolite gets pictured, actually pretty blah originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We swore we wouldn’t fall for tech demos of Toshiba Matsushita Display’s sexy optically compensated bend LCDs and their CRT-like ultra wide viewing angles and high refresh rates ever again but by adding autostereoscopic 3D (read: no glasses necessary) we’re falling in love all over again. By adapting a 3D film for use with 3- and 9-inch displays, this year’s CES demo promises simultaneous 2D and 3D viewing on the same display in high res. How close is OCB’s curved, rather than horizontally or vertically aligned liquid crystal approach to reality? Your guess is as good as ours but for at this time we’ll wait for some eyes-on time and throw it on the wait-and-wait-and-see heap with SED and the rest.

Toshiba Matsushita Display teases handheld, high res, no glasses 3D originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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