Two weeks ago you’d have to pay an Australian importer for a specialized USB key. Four days ago open-source software let you roll your own. Today, there’s no need for any of that — you can hack your PS3 with a tethered smartphone. Working closely with the PSGroove team, hacker Kakaroto adapted the same jailbreak [...]
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PS3 jailbreak adapted to Nokia N900, Palm Pre in wake of Australian ban (video)
September 5th, 2010 
admin Verizon officially announces prepaid smartphone data packages
September 2nd, 2010 admin After a flood of leaks, Verizon’s just officially announced its prepaid data plan for smartphones. The new 3G Prepaid data package will offer smartphone users “unlimited” data for a month, while feature phone users can score 25MB of data a month for with a 20-cent-per-meg overage fee — all contract-free, of course. The [...]
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No Comments »Nokia C6-01 is a Symbian^3 touchscreen candybar with 8 megapixel camera?
August 30th, 2010 admin The nerds over at Mobile Geek Inc did a nifty investigative piece revealing more details about Nokia’s mid-level C6-01 candybar. After making an awkward early appearance on Nokia’s Dutch online storefront, more pics along with the user agent profile have been located thus confirming its lack of QWERTY, 8 megapixel camera, and Symbian^3 OS. A [...]
Posted in Mobile Tags: C601, camera, candybar, megapixel, Nokia, Symbian^3, touchscreen No Comments »Fully-functional Android port for N900 threatens to beat N9 to market
August 27th, 2010 admin The NITDroid project has been slogging along this year in an effort to get Android fully ported to Nokia’s N900, and the progress has been promising so far — but wouldn’t it be nice if you could, you know, make calls? Looks like these guys are making some solid progress there with a new video [...]
Right on time: Verizon phasing out Pre Plus, Storm2, Curve 8530, others?
August 24th, 2010 admin Judging from some documents we’ve received, Big Red is looking to clear out a lot of inventory right about now — presumably to make room for some upcoming models, some of which we’ve already heard about through the grapevine. Specifically, the Pre Plus along with the BlackBerry Storm2 and Curve 8530 are apparently marked “Phase [...]
The iPhone gets third party apps for third party hardware, but the proprietary SDKs make the future sad
August 20th, 2010 admin Leave it to Apple to make the process of building software to work with new third party iPhone hardware sound like some Kafkaesque nightmare. Here’s the basic gist of it: Apple, just like always, has to approve any third party hardware that plugs into one of its iOS devices over the 30-pin dock connector. What’s [...]
US Cellular adding BlackBerry Bold 9650 tomorrow for $160
August 17th, 2010 admin For a carrier that only offers the lowly Pearl Flip 8230 and Curve 8530 right now, you could definitely argue that regional US Cellular is in desperate need of a BlackBerry freshening — and it’s getting exactly that this week with the launch of the Bold 9650. Though it won’t have BlackBerry 6 at launch, [...]
FCC Fridays
August 14th, 2010 admin We here at Engadget Mobile tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there, we’ve gathered up all the raw [...]
Motorola’s dev site details Android-powered Ming A1680
August 11th, 2010 admin We’ve always been fans of the odd form factor espoused by Motorola’s longstanding Ming series of devices in China — a form factor seen only briefly in the US with Verizon’s Krave — and now that Moto’s made the leap to Android across its global smartphone lineup, it makes sense to move the MING from [...]
RIM averts Saudi Arabia’s BlackBerry messaging ban, negotiates surrender (update: 48-hour ultimatum)
August 8th, 2010 admin It took two long years for India to (allegedly) tap BlackBerry traffic, but Saudi Arabia may not have to wait nearly as long; the Wall Street Journal reports that RIM has all but agreed to set up a local server in the country. While we’ve no details yet on what the deal entails, an unnamed [...]
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