Engadget Mobile Podcast 180 – 05.29.13
It’s been three long weeks since you last heard us, but the news cycle has been far from quiet — we hope you’ll forgive our absence. In this episode we’ll focus on Google I/O and catch up on the...
View ArticleAtheer’s Mobile 3-D Interface Is Augmented Reality on Steroids
A California company has answered a question few people have probably thought to ask: What would happen if you combined the wearability of Google Glass with the gesture-based control of Microsoft...
View ArticleHow China Mobile called Apple’s bluff
Apple and China Mobile have been locked in bitter contract negotiations for years. Apple wants the same kind of deal it has with Verizon or Vodafone. China Mobile wants something much, much sweeter....
View ArticleCisco CEO predicts that mobile data prices will ‘come down rapidly’
It’s not often that we hear speculation about wireless carriers actually charging customers less for wireless data services, but Cisco CEO John Chambers seems to think that it’s really going to happen...
View ArticleGoogle reveals Mobile Chrome special events slated for June 7 and 13
Over on Google‘s Developer website, two YouTube videos have appeared for what is being called a Chrome Mobile Special Event. Both are going to be live events, with each set to take place a week apart...
View ArticleABI: Samsung’s Tizen will become No.5 mobile OS in the world this year
The race to be the world’s fifth-most popular mobile operating system may not be glamorous but Samsung will still be happy to know that its upcoming Tizen OS is likely to crush rivals Ubuntu and...
View ArticleVerizon FiOS Mobile arrives on Android, lets you watch live TV and video on...
The iOS crowd has been able to enjoy Verizon’s FiOS Mobile service for some time now, but now it’s the Android faithful’s turn to finally experience what they’ve been missing. The application, which...
View ArticleGaming controllers hit mobile: iOS 7 and the SHIELD factor
If you’re the sort of person who enjoys playing video games on-the-go, which of the following two announcements hit you harder this year: iOS 7 bringing standardized controllers to Apple’s mobile...
View ArticleNuance’s Dragon Mobile Assistant adds voice-enabled email, intelligent Driver...
Nuance has been steadily adding new capabilities to its Dragon Mobile Assistant application to help it compete with services such as Siri and Google Now, and its latest release of the software looks...
View ArticleFacebook Reader tipped to rival Flipboard for socially-curated mobile news
Facebook is cooking up its own socially-enabled Flipboard alternative in the hope of filling the gap left by Google’s near-death Reader, it’s reported, aggregating news and other content both from...
View ArticleProject Anarchy, Havok’s mobile game development suite now available at no cost
Havok — the physics middleware engine used by almost every big console and PC game — announced its start-to-finish mobile game development suite will be available at no cost to developers. Project...
View ArticleTV Everywhere is blowing up thanks to iPad, other mobile devices
TV viewers and providers are embracing multiscreen and TV Everywhere services. According to ABI Research, nearly a third of households that receive their TV from the phone companies will access these...
View ArticleGV Mobile + 3 launches for iPhone – and we have free promo codes to give away
Hands down the best Google Voice experience on the iPhone has been Sean Kovacs’ GV Mobile + app, and now he’s back with a brand new version. It’s a brand new app since well, you know, Apple doesn’t do...
View ArticleKyocera Hydro Edge now available from Boost Mobile and Sprint
We got our hands on the Kyocera Hydro Edge back in May (as well as the Hydro XTRM), with the word being at the time that it would be rolled out to the US market soon. Several weeks later, and both...
View Articleavast! Mobile Security & Antivirus Review
Not a fan of paying a premium for one of the paid security suites on Android? You may not have to with avast! Mobile Security & Antivirus, which bundles a set of powerful tools with fine-tuned...
View ArticleOffice Mobile for Office 365 Subscribers Review
In the long time that Microsoft Office has been absent in the iOS ecosystem, we’ve all likely found our own chosen alternatives. And those alternative apps have evolved so much that, to be honest,...
View ArticleSennheiser Presence Mobile Series line of business headsets unveiled
Sennheiser has taken the wraps off its new Presence Mobile Series line of business headsets, aiming them towards those who use the device in a variety of situations: indoors, outdoors, and in the car....
View ArticleChina Mobile really has Apple over the barrel
Apple reported revenue and earnings numbers that were solid and its iPhone sales volume that was actually 4 million to 5 million units above Wall Street expectations. But this was the quarter that...
View ArticleiOS is smoking rivals in mobile ad revenue
Want to know why it’s less important for Apple to have the top overall market share for smartphone sales? It’s all about the value that iOS devices can produce for the company and new data from Opera’s...
View ArticleFacebook may have finally figured out how to monetize its mobile users
Facebook reported its second quarter earnings on Wednesday, crushing Wall Street’s expectations with revenue of $ 1.81 billion. The social networking giant now has 699 million daily active users, 469...
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