Borders. Here at the Engadget Mobile Podcast, we’re so over them. That’s why we let former Engadget Mobile CEO-in-chief Chris Ziegler come back and hang out on our side of the fence for a few hours, no matter where he comes from. You know who’s NOT over border? The United States Border Patrol, Division of [...]
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Engadget Mobile Podcast 138 – 05.19.2012
Posted: 20th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Best Buy, Engadget Mobile, Fence Sitter, Google, Htc, Ios, Iphone, Lte, Molen, Ntt Docomo, Patent Infringements, Philipp Humm, Podcast, Rss Aggregator, T Mobile, Tycho, United States Border Patrol, Wolbe, Wsj, Zune Marketplace
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Microsoft exec says Windows Phone outselling iPhone in China
Posted: 20th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Android, Chinese Market, Cnet, Coo, Gray Market, Greater China, Hao, Ios, Iphone, Launch, Lumia, Michel Van, Microsoft Exec, Microsoft Windows, Nbsp, Nokia, Real Numbers, Six Points, Uptick, Windows Phone
Going by Microsoft’s Greater China COO Michel van der Bel, the launch of Windows Phone in China is off to an auspicious start — enough to give Apple the shakes. He claims that devices like the Nokia Lumia 800c have helped Windows Phone reach seven percent of the Chinese market, or just enough to get [...]
Microsoft exec says Windows Phone outselling iPhone in China
Posted: 20th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Android, Chinese Market, Cnet, Coo, Gray Market, Greater China, Hao, Ios, Iphone, Launch, Lumia, Michel Van, Microsoft Exec, Microsoft Windows, Nbsp, Nokia, Real Numbers, Six Points, Uptick, Windows Phone
Going by Microsoft’s Greater China COO Michel van der Bel, the launch of Windows Phone in China is off to an auspicious start — enough to give Apple the shakes. He claims that devices like the Nokia Lumia 800c have helped Windows Phone reach seven percent of the Chinese market, or just enough to get [...]
Distro Issue 41: a visit to the Lowcountry’s Twelve South, TiVo Premiere XL4 and HTC EVO 4G LTE
Posted: 18th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 4g, Apk, E Magazine, Engadget, Fri, Gander, Google, Harbin, Ios, Last Word, Lenovo Thinkpad, Lowcountry, Max Payne, Max Payne 3, Murph, Reaction Time, Reading Pleasure, Script Editor, Sounder, Wonderful Time
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It’s the most wonderful time of the week once again, pals. Like most seven-day periods, this one comes to a close with the latest issue of our e-magazine for your gadget reading pleasure. Front and center this time around, our own Darren Murph pays a visit to the South Carolina HQ of accessory maker Twelve [...]
Nielsen: Americans have 28 percent more mobile apps in 2012, look down on the web with disdain
Posted: 17th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Android, Blackberry, Brandishes, Comfortable Shoes, Cut The Rope, Disdain, Email, Engadget, Ios, Love, Mobile Apps, Native Apps, Nbsp, Nielsen, Windows Phone
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It’s not hard to see that Americans love their mobile apps, and Nielsen can now tell us by how much. The average US smartphone owner circa mid-2012 now brandishes 41 apps, a pretty hefty 28 percent increase from a year earlier. They’re preferring native apps to the web, as well: they’re more likely to spend [...]
Kantar: Windows Phone clawing back share thanks to Nokia, but Android still rules the roost
Posted: 16th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Android, Early Spring, Engadget, France Germany, Germans, Google, Htc, Ios, Lumia, Market Share, Native Soil, Nokia Phones, Rare Peek, Reuters, Rim Blackberry, Roost, Short Space, Successes, Three Months, Underdog
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It’s seldom the case that we get to look at world smartphone market share on a national level, but Kantar WorldPanel has given a rare peek that might give Windows Phone fans some good news to crow about. Even though things haven’t always gone well for the Microsoft camp, Nokia phones like the Lumia 800 [...]
BlackBerry 10′s predictive keyboard gets transplanted with Octopus Keyboard for jailbroken iOS devices
Posted: 15th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Blackberry, Break, Engadget, Gauge, Interface, Ios, Nbsp, Octopus, Resemblance, Rigmarole, Rim, Screen Keyboard, Ui, Vocab
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RIM’s latest on-screen keyboard effort may bear a passing resemblance to Swiftkey, but it also has us itching to see how the rest of the BlackBerry 10 UI will turn out. It looks like we’re not the only ones, as Octopus Keyboard aims to bring the same slick prediction interface to jailbreaking iOS users. Swiping [...]
RIM teams up with TomTom to bring HD Traffic to BlackBerry devices
Posted: 8th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Apps, Blackberry Applications, Blackberry Rim, Bound, Browser, Campers, Developers, Engadget, Gps, Handful, Hd, Ios, Mapping, Nbsp, Partnership, Research In Motion, Switches, Tomtom, Traffic Maps, Traffic Service
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Looks like executive switches aren’t the only thing happening at Research in Motion this morning. Earlier today, the Canadian company announced a partnership with TomTom that will see the GPS outfit’s HD Traffic service make its way onto BlackBerry devices. Essentially, this means a handful of BlackBerry applications such as Traffic, Maps and Locate Services [...]