To the people who need to know code names, the next version of Android has officially been dubbed Gingerbread by Brian Swetland, a Google employee working on the Android kernel. Feature list? Nein. Release date? Between now and the end of the world, aka 2012. [Via: Engadget]
Nokia: We’re cutting 285 employees from our Salo, Finland factory and focusing on high end smartphones
Nokia makes phones in several countries spread out over the world, but Salo is special. It’s the only factory that the Finnish company has in Finland, and it’s mainly used for devices that are difficult to produce and require highly skilled workers. Yesterday Nokia announced that it’s cutting 285 people from that Salo factory, or…
Netgear and Ericsson get together, make a baby, call it the MBRN3300: Mobile Broadband WiFi Router
The MBRN3300 might not exactly roll off the tongue, but it fits inside a product category that you’ll see become more and more prevalent as countries start realizing that burying copper or fiber optic is simply too expensive, and that deploying a wireless network is a much better idea from both a cost perspective, and…
Brief: Texas Instruments WiLink 7.0: 65 nm chip that does FM, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0 and WiFi a/b/g/n
Texas Instruments announced their WiLink 7.0 chip today, less than a week before Mobile World Congress starts, and it’s rather impressive for what it does. It’s the first chip that can receive FM radio, transmit FM radio, has WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, and Bluetooth 3.0. It will also support WiFi Direct once that becomes a standard,…
Ultrabrief: Heads Up: Google hosting a private event in Mountain View tomorrow
Michael Gartenberg, Columnist at Engadget and Vice President of Strategy and Analysis at Interpret, posted these three tweets earlier tonight: Just received a mysterious invite to Google event on Wed. in Mountain View. #google “We’ll be unveiling some new product innovations and we’d like to invite you to join us” hmmmm #Google Oops. That Google…
Rumour: Photos: Is this the 4th generation iPhone, and how come it’s 1/4 inch taller than the original?
What you’re looking at below are supposed images of the next iPhone. It’s 1/4 inch taller than previous iPhones, but similar to the original aluminium backed iPhone, the screen is glued to the multi touch screen digitizer. There’s also a tiny reflective surface right above the ear piece, which could be there for video calls,…
Android to get 3x faster and more battery life thanks to Dalvik Turbo
Myriad, a company you and I have never heard of, is a member of the OHA (Open Handset Alliance). The OHA was created to bring companies together and have them contribute code that eventually becomes a part of Google’s mobile operating system, Android. A critcal part of any smartphone platform is 3rd party developers. Android…
Symbian’s countdown was to announce that the entire OS is now open source and free for all
The mystery of Symbian’s countdown timer has finally been solved. Tomorrow Symbian will announce that their operating system has completed transitioning from closed source to open source and that anyone can download their code, for free. This is big news. It’s like Microsoft announcing that Windows is going open source. Say what you will about…
Next iPhone found in new SDK, codenamed N89, has support for 720p video recording
Apple launched the iPad exactly 1 week ago today, and although they said it wasn’t going to be shipping for another 60 days, they were nice enough to post a new version of the iPhone SDK (3.2) so that developers can start working on their new higher definition versions of iFart. Inside that SDK there…
ARM Eagle: You thought the Cortex A8 and A9 was fast? Wait until you see the Eagle flying!
During ARM’s Q4 2009 and full year 2009 earnings call today (22 page transcript), ARM CEO Warren East showed a sneak peak of the company’s roadmap for 2010 and the bit that stuck out for us mobile phone geeks was the ARM Eagle. Based on the same ARM v7 architecture that the Cortex A8 and…