Mobile Phone News

It’s sort of hard to believe, but AT&T finally has an Android phone worth paying attention to. Mind you, the AT&T compatible Nexus One is easily the best Googlephone on America’s largest GSM operator, but this is the first one that the company has bothered to brand and sell on a subsidized plan within its own stores. Pundits could argue the reasons why forever, but considering that the carrier’s Makeall it can just to keep up with the demand for iPhones, it’s hard to imagine that AT&T has been longing to pursue Android with reckless abandon. Believe it or not, it’s been over 1.5 years since T-Mobile gave the world the first taste of a mobile OS that would soon rival (and surpass) the other options already on the table, but outside of the forgettable Backflip (and the nowhere-to-be-found Aero), there’s been no Android to speak of on AT&T. HTC has somehow managed to break down the blue and orange walls, piercing the heart of a hardened operator and squeezing a delightful mid-range Android smartphone into a lineup that’s about to be monumentally overshadowed by the iPhone 4. So, is the HTC Aria worth the $129.99 that you’ll be forced to pay on a 2-year agreement when it ships on June 20th? Read on to find out.

As promised, Vodafone has busted down any last remaining shreds of O2’s iPhone exclusivity today with the official launch of Apple’s wares on its airwaves. Both the 3G and 3GS are available, and yes — it’s possible to get even a 32GB 3GS for free as long as you’re willing to step up to a big-boy plan of £75 (about $123) per month or greater. For its efforts in securing a deal, the carrier believes that it will have moved about 50,000 iPhones by the time it counts all the receipts from the first day’s sales, beating Orange’s numbers from late last year by a solid 20,000. It’s not Orange they’re necessarily going after, though: Voda’s quick to take a pot shot at original seller O2’s network issues by proudly boasting “Outstanding phone, Outstanding network” on the iPhone’s landing page. Honestly, we wouldn’t get too cocky, guys — the iPhone has a tendency to do unfortunate things to those that offer it.

Vodafone kicks off iPhone sales, expects 50K sold today originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

At just 3fps and 213 x 160 resolution, we hesitate to call iVideoCamera a “video recording app” — it’s really more of an extremely low-res continuous-shooting still camera — but at least owners of iPhone 3Gs and original iPhones at this time have some sort of option for capturing their most treasured moments as one o’ them newfangled moving pictures. Jailbroken solutions are nothing new, but this marks the first time a video recording app for older iPhones made it all the way through to the App Store, and at just 99 cents, it may not really matter that the output sucks. At any rate, the real news in this place might be the fact that iVideoCamera is believed to be using unpublished APIs, so this might signal the opening of the floodgates — not to say the App Store necessarily needs any more floodgates opened.Apple greenlights ridiculously crappy video recording app for older iPhones originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.