Well good for Apple. A US District Court Judge has dismissed the class-action lawsuit against Apple over the iPhone’s limited battery life and $86 battery replacement fee. Jose Trujillo filed suit against Apple back in July 2007, complaining that Apple didn’t explicitly mention that the iPhone’s battery would slowly die and need to be replaced…
Leaked docs hint at Verizon BlackBerry Storm and Touch Diamond launch window
Sprint still has the exclusive on their HTC Touch Diamond variant, and we’re still waiting for the BlackBerry Storm to get some solid pricing and release information. But, thanks to an anonymous source, Engadget Mobile has shed some light on possible launch windows for the upcoming touchscreen handsets from two of the biggest names in…
T-Mobile G1 user’s manual leaked
It’s not often that the entire world waits for a US-only exclusive handset launch – an event made even more rare in that the US launch of the T-Mobile G1 ushers in a new age of Android-powered mobile phones. As we anxiously wait for T-Mobile USA to drop the Android-bomb on the US next month,…
Casio packs 960×540 pixels into 2-inch LCD!
And you thought those all those new handsets sitting just over the mobile-horizon with glorious VGA and WVGA resolution displays were impressive. Casio’s busting up the cellphone display market with their newest creation – a deceptive little 2-inch LCD display with a whopping 960 x 540 pixel count! That’s right, with a resolution rivaling some…
How to: Downgrade your iPhone OS
GPS problems? Email retrieval issues? Accidentally upgraded your iPhone OS, only to find that you can’t unlock the new firmware? Whatever problems you might be having with your newly upgraded iPhone or iPhone 3G might be solved with a quick iPhone OS downgrade. It’s not the most convenient or efficient method of dealing with iPhone…
Art Lebedev’s WiMAX concept phone for Scartel Russia is cool
It’s not often we see a concept phone that actually has a chance at making the crossover from vaporware to hardware. But, that’s just what you see pictured here. The artists at Art Lebedev dreamed up this WiMAX handset concept phone for use, presumably, on Scartel’s Russian WiMAX networks in Moscow and St. Petersburg. None…
iPhone 2.2 OS beta 1 seeded to developers
What’s this? Another iPhone OS update? Sure is. Apple has already seeded the beta 1 release of the iPhone 2.2 OS to iPhone developers. Following on the iPhone 2.1 OS‘s improvements to stability and overall system performance, there’s some speculation that Apple could be preparing to launch their Background Network Notification service with this latest…
Apple rolls out online iPhone 3G ordering
In the final stretch leading up to the holiday shopping season, Apple is making it even easier for multi-touch fans to get their hands on the iconic iPhone 3G. Rather than having eager iPhone 3G hopefuls waiting in lines to get their own iPhone 3G or buy one (or a handful) for friends and loved…
US Appeals Court upholds Broadcom patent win against Qualcomm,
The battle between Qualcomm and Broadcom over patented mobile chipset technology has been going for so long it’s hard to muster any more than passing interest in the legal back-and-forth between the two chipmaking giants. Today, we may have just seen the final chapter of this story unfold in a US Appeals Court. Following on…
Sleek battery charging stations – Juice-up in style
Until completely wireless, inductive charging technology becomes more integrated into mobile phones and hits the mass consumer market, mobile enthusiasts the world over will be stuck plugging their handsets and other mobile devices into the wall through myriad wall-chargers. As we wait for companies like Wildcharge to make our wireless charging dream become a reality,…