For voice and data alike, “unlimited” is a major buzzword among value carriers like Cricket , Virgin Mobile , and Boost Mobile lately — and when they can offer it for $10 or $20 less than the big guys, why shouldn’t it be? Boost is slicing the unlimited option in a new way this week with the announcement that it’s now offering unlimited nationwide voice, messaging, web, IM, email, and information for $2 a day, which if our rough math is correct, works out to $60 a month. That’s $10 a more than you pay if you just bite the bullet and prepay on a monthly basis, but obviously it’s a heck of a lot more flexible, too — and with these prepaid guys, flexibility is king. Follow the break for the full press release. Continue reading Boost Mobile adds $2-a-day unlimited everything option Boost Mobile adds $2-a-day unlimited everything option originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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So it’s just around the corner. What are we going to see? Some new iPods ? A revamped Apple TV ? Updates to iTunes ? iOS 4 for the iPad ? A fix to your heartbreaking antenna problem? New, brightly colored iShoes? Or all of the above? It’s hard to say, but luckily Engadget will be covering Apple’s latest event live with up-to-the-minute coverage. As usual, we’ll be providing the best liveblogging in the business, so you can just kick back with a cool drink and enjoy the show. Tune in at this URL at the times below today for all the action! 07:00AM – Hawaii 10:00AM – Pacific 11:00AM – Mountain 12:00PM – Central 01:00PM – Eastern 06:00PM – London 07:00PM – Paris 09:00PM – Moscow 02:00AM – Tokyo (September 2nd) Apple’s fall event happens today at 10AM PT / 1PM ET, and we’ll be there live! originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Ooh boy, do we have a good one for you today. We’ve been tipped off that the HD3 — HTC’s mythical successor to the wildly popular HD2 — is not only alive and kicking, but headed for a bright and sunny Windows Phone 7 future, starting as early as October 18. Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, all the evidence we have for now is the above spreadsheet, which we’re told is an internal planning doc from UK carrier O2. It’s not exactly the hardest thing in the world to forge so keep your skeptical wits about you, but as silly as this inflationary renaming to HD7 may sound, we find it strangely believable. After all, why wouldn’t the company that brought us the Incredible Wildfire of Desire jump ahead a few numbers to keep up with the hot new OS’ numbering? [Thanks, ZaK] HTC HD3 to be named HD7 in honor of Windows Phone 7, launch October 18? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Steve Jobs just dropped a few numbers on us. Firstly, that big one above, 120 million iOS devices — that’s iPhones, iPod touches and iPads, for the forgetful in the class — have been shipped since the original iPhone made its grand debut back in 2007 . 230,000 is the next number of significance — that’s the tally of daily iOS activations. Moving down to even more granular stats, Apple says 200 apps are being downloaded every second, which has resulted in the mind-bending 6.5 billion total downloads of iOS applications. This is from a catalog of over 250,000 total apps, with 25,000 of them being available for the iPad. Yeah, Apple’s just blowing its horn, but it sure is a big one, isn’t it? Apple ships 120 million iOS devices since iPhone’s launch originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Did you oooh and ahh at the fantastic gaming graphics that accompanied today’s Apple keynote ? You won’t have to wait for next week’s iOS 4.1 to get a taste of those textures for yourself. Though the full-on gladiator dueling of Epic’s “Project Sword” may be a while off, you can get your hot little hands on “Epic Citadel” right now, a 82.2 megabyte download that explores a beautiful medieval castle town. Oh, and did we mention it’s free? Even id Software’s mindblowing 60FPS Rage demo must be quaking in its boots right about now. Epic’s spectacular Unreal Engine 3 tech demo free at iTunes App Store originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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If you’ve been holding yourself back during these early rounds of the smartphone wars in anticipation of Windows Phone 7 , your wait just got a tiny bit shorter. Today Microsoft is announcing that its fancy new mobile operating system has been released to manufacturing, making the idea of you holding an actual WP7 device in your hands that much closer to reality. The finished product is now rolling out to partners around the world where it will be getting carrier and manufacturer tweaks and additions, and going through the kind of pre-launch testing you would expect for a release of this scale. If you had any doubt that the Windows Phone 7 onslaught was close at hand , feel free to abandon them now. Furthermore, the folks on the 7 team have managed to cram a few last minute goodies into the OS, one of which we’re particularly excited about. As you probably know from our in-depth preview of an early version of the software , we had a lot of issues with overflowing Facebook contacts in our phone. Microsoft has now solved that problem by enabling a contact filter system which looks for pre-existing matches to your Facebook contacts. If it doesn’t find a match, it doesn’t pull that contact into your address book (kind of like how Android filters Facebook friends). It’s a welcome addition and should make the Facebook / Windows Phone 7 combo a lot more palatable to a lot of people. Furthermore, Microsoft has added functionality into the People Hub which will allow you to “like” someone’s posts, and you’ll be able to comment directly onto someone’s Wall right in the hub. The company has also made tweaks and fixes focusing on feature discoverability (another issue we pointed out in the early look), along with the expected set of polishing and finish you’d expect from a product that’s gone gold master. Windows Phone 7 goes gold master, begins rolling out to partners for final launch preparations originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Been wondering how much T-Mobile’s first HSPA+ phone will set you back? Why, it’s that most generic of all smartphone prices: $199 with a two-year commitment or $499 without. To be fair to T-Mo, the G2 was one phone that it could plausibly have upmarked to, say $249, as Sprint has done with the Epic 4G , but nope, it’s landing squarely in the middle of the well beaten path to smartphone sales. There is the dreaded specter of a $50 mail-in rebate to deal with, but we doubt it’ll be enough to dampen anticipation for what’s looking like the next great Android slider phone. T-Mobile G2 priced at $199 with contract, $499 without, by latest leak originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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We’ll admit, we’d kinda figured that HTC’s venture into the seedy underworld of dumbphones with the introduction of the Smart earlier this year was a non-starter and that it’d quietly fade into the night before 2010 was out, but apparently not — at least, not if you ask AT&T. We’ve been slid a couple shots of a new handset from HTC for Ma Bell going by the model number F8181 (it’ll have a fancy name like “Bacon,” “Double Rainbow,” or “Nilay Patel” by the time it launches, obviously) that runs the Brew MP platform Qualcomm has been pushing this year for the sub-smartphone category; of course, it seems to us that smartphone hardware is getting cheap enough to push through nearly every price segment, but if we can expect this to be free on contract, we suppose there might be a market here. No word on dollars or dates just yet, but naturally, we’ll keep you in the loop. Exclusive: HTC F8181 is AT&T’s Brew MP-equipped dumbphone originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Interesting side note — we understand that Erick Schmidt, Larry Paige, and Serge Brin all own this phone. Oh, and Digiboy777, of course. Fake Nexus One browsing fake Engadget originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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