All of the latest mobile news
Blackberry OS 4.5 is expected to be released sometime in the middle of this month. This update will include things like:
Apple will host an event titled “Let’s Rock”, next Tuesday at 10am in San Francisco.
It’s expected that they’ll have some updates to the iPod line, as well as possibly an update to their MacBooks. We’ll find out on Tuesday.
A few days ago, we told you that the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 was delayed until “December or January”. Sony has now come out and said that the phone is still on target to come out in Q4 of this year. That could still mean December, but at least it rules our January (in theory).
The relevent snippet, from IntoMobile:
“There is absolutely no delay. The product is on track,” Sony Ericsson spokeswoman Merran Wrigley said. “We have said it will roll out in Q4 and we are on target to do that.”
I’m anxious to see this phone, so hopefully they can stick to the Q4 target.
Engadget has posted the first good photos of the HTC Dream, running Google’s Android OS. The phone is clearly branded for T-Mobile, and we’re hoping these photos mean that it’s coming very soon. Enjoy!
The further out they push this thing, the less excited I get. We first mentioned this phone back in February, then expected it in mid-September, then pushed it back for an October release.
Now it appears the phone won’t be out until December or January. According to IntoMobile, the reason for the delay is issues with Windows Mobile 6.1. Hopefully they can get their act together soon, because it still looks like a pretty cool phone.
Photoshop Mobile is coming next month, but the news about it so far is quite disappointing.
First, I’ll only be available for some Windows Mobile phones — no S60, no iPhone. It’s presumed that those will be supported in the future, but no one knows for sure.
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, there won’t be any photo editing tools. None. Just upload and share. We can already do that with a plethora of apps on every device, so I fail to see why this is so special. They give you 5GB of space, which is nice, but most folks have piles of space already (add up your Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, MySpace, etc accounts and see what you have).
Maybe I’m missing something, but this just seems kind of boring…
We presumed that September 7 would be the launch date, and that has proven to be correct. According to iClarified, the phones will be in over 900 stores on the 7th.
There will be a limit of one phone per customer, and pre-orders will not be taken.
This is kind of a shame. The first projector phone, the Epoq PP01, looks pretty sweet. It can project an image up to 640×480, and can hook up to a DVD player or laptop to show a movie. It’s a great little device.
The problem is that the interface is a total rip-off of the iPhone UI. Not similar, but stolen. This will certainly make it more difficult for this phone to come to market, since Apple certainly won’t let it fly. Hopefully they’ll get their act together so we can someday get our hands on this cool phone.
It’s just a rumor right now, but it appears that a tethering plan may be coming to the iPhone after all.
Despite being up in the app store briefly (a few times), NetShare app was eventually pulled because it didn’t comply with the TOS. Now it seems that AT&T may be in talks with Apple to provide this service to their users. Gizmodo has the brief e-mail exchange between a Gizmodo reader and (allegedly) Steve Jobs. In short, Jobs says they’re working on it. We’ll see…
It appears Google will have an app store of their own, dubbed the “Android Market”. For all intents and purposes, it will likely be very similar to the iPhone app store (download apps for your phone).
When it initally launches, it will be for free apps only, though they plan to launch paid apps at some point in the future. It will also feature much less control than the iPhone store, instead putting it on the users to flag bad apps. The hope is that this will allow apps to be released (and updated) much more quickly, and I think they might be right.
