Confidence Archive

  • T-Mobile’s Samsung Galaxy S outed by way of FCC?

    T-Mobile’s Samsung Galaxy S outed by way of FCC?

    Posted on June 15, 2010 | No Comments
    We've already heard enough talk -- both from our own tipsters and other publications -- to say with some level of confidence that T-Mobile plans on unleashing the mighty Galaxy S at some point in the next month or two, but is this the smoking gun? There's now a phone called the SGH-T959 in the FCC's certification database that features AWS 3G support, and while external photos are rudely left out, the device's outline clearly mimics that of the generic, unbranded Galaxy S that we've been seeing since its unveiling back in March. At any rate, we've got this Samsung Android event coming up stateside here in a couple weeks, so we should figure it all out then.

    T-Mobile's Samsung Galaxy S outed by way of FCC? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Palm Pixi clears FCC with Verizon frequencies and WiFi in tow

    Palm Pixi clears FCC with Verizon frequencies and WiFi in tow

    Posted on December 13, 2009 | No Comments
    If you were looking for just one more reason to ditch Sprint then this could be it. A CDMA-flavored Palm Pixi just cleared the FCC -- yes, another one -- and we can say with confidence it's not coming to Sprint this time around. Better yet, Palm's model P121EWW matches up with that P121 code we saw leaked a while back for Big Red (Sprint's model is P120EWW), and this sucker got tested for 802.11b/g WiFi. Looks like that Sprint ad touting the Pixi's non-existent WiFi was more than just wishful thinking. With webOS-powered Palm gear already confirmed on Verizon for "early next year," are you really going to make the jump to a WiFi-less Pixi on Sprint knowing what's on the way? And more importantly, can we expect another terrifying series of ads targeting Sprint this time instead of AT&T?

    Palm Pixi clears FCC with Verizon frequencies and WiFi in tow originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Motorola prepping 3G module with support for AT&T and T-Mobile USA alike

    Motorola prepping 3G module with support for AT&T and T-Mobile USA alike

    Posted on December 10, 2009 | No Comments
    T-Mobile's oddball 3G network makes creating a device that simply supports all forms of North American HSPA a challenge for a very simple reason: even triband HSPA radios are still a bit of a novelty, and to support everything we've got going on over here, you effectively need to go quadband since AWS splits its duties between 1700 and 2100MHz. Happily, Motorola is coming to bat here, not with an actual phone but with an 850 / 1900 / AWS radio module that's intended for integration by other OEMs. We're not sure what kinds of devices this particular unit might find duty in, but if nothing else, it gives us confidence that Moto's now able to create phones that effectively straddle the T-Mobile / AT&T fence -- assuming it's got a business case to do so.

    Motorola prepping 3G module with support for AT&T and T-Mobile USA alike originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Monocle offers custom BlackBerry 9700 for the discerning business traveler

    Monocle offers custom BlackBerry 9700 for the discerning business traveler

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Looking for a BlackBerry for yourself or a special someone that's unique but not in a Colorware sort of way? Then you might just want to consider ponying up for this new limited edition BlackBerry 9700 crafted by the folks at Monocle in partnership with RIM. It'll cost you a hefty £950 (or just over $1,500), but that will get you the gift of confidence that this is one of just 100, along with some suitably luxurious touches like a custom leather strap, a reminder of its rarity on the back, Monocle's 25/25 travel guides pre-loaded on the device, a few custom wallpapers, and even a 16GB microSD card thrown in for good measure. Alright, so maybe it's a bit tough to justify the $1,000+ premium, but those ready to throw caution to the wind can expect their order to ship on December 10th.

    Monocle offers custom BlackBerry 9700 for the discerning business traveler originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Acer aims to be first to market with Google Chrome OS netbook

    Acer aims to be first to market with Google Chrome OS netbook

    Posted on December 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Acer, no stranger to netbooks with Google-backed operating systems, is hoping to have the first Chrome OS netbook on the market by the second half of next year, according to DigiTimes.

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  • The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It’s Coming Soon

    The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It’s Coming Soon

    Posted on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
    The debate over Droid v. iPhone rages on, but lots more Android surprises are on the way. Get ready for the Google Phone. It's no longer a myth, it's real. The next "super" Android device will almost certainly be a HTC phone that's much thinner than even the Droid or iPhone - The Dragon/Passion. This is the phone the senior Android guys at Google are now carrying around and testing, at least as of a couple of weeks ago. If you're willing to give up the Droid's keyboard, the Dragon/Passion is going to be a really cool phone. It should be fully available very soon. But it isn't the Google Phone. Everything up until now has just been a warm up to the Google Phone. Way more interesting are the rumors we've been hearing for months about a pure Google-branded phone. Most of our sources have unconfirmed information, which we describe below. But there are a few things we have absolutely confirmed: Google is building their own branded phone that they'll sell directly and through retailers. They were long planning to have the phone be available by the holidays, but it has now slipped to early 2010. The phone will be produced by a major phone manufacturer but will only have Google branding (Microsoft did the same thing with their first Zunes, which were built by Toshiba). There won't be any negotiation or compromise over the phone's design of features - Google is dictating every last piece of it. No splintering of the Android OS that makes some applications unusable. Like the iPhone for Apple, this phone will be Google's pure vision of what a phone should be. That's it for confirmed, super-high confidence information, which frankly isn't a whole lot more than we all heard back in late October. But we also have a few more details as well that we've gathered from a number of sources. Everything that follows we still consider to be just well-sourced rumors:

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  • An asteroid almost smashed into Earth, and we only knew about it 15 hours before it happened

    An asteroid almost smashed into Earth, and we only knew about it 15 hours before it happened

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Did you hear the news? An asteroid passed within 8,700 miles of the planet on Friday. The craziest thing is that scientists only knew about it 15 hours before it flew by. So if you have any confidence that this planet is safe from giant space objects smashing into the surface, possibly destroying all life in the process, well, think again.

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  • Palm Pixi definitely shipping with a new webOS version, but which?

    Palm Pixi definitely shipping with a new webOS version, but which?

    Posted on October 31, 2009 | No Comments

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    Whoa, is that webOS 2.0 we see on the horizon? No, sorry, it definitely isn't -- but we can say with relative confidence that the upcoming Pixi will be shipping with a newer, slightly more feature-rich version of webOS than its Pre brethren around the world; if nothing else, Synergy supports Yahoo on the new model, as PreCentral observes. What remains to be seen is the exact version number that'll be shipping out of the gate -- recent DSLReports user agent logs suggest that 1.2.9 might be the gold build (for the record, the Sprint Pre currently rocks 1.2.1), but apparently there's some chatter going on about a 1.3 as well. Doesn't seem like much of a difference, but a 0.1 increment usually means more features, fixes, and changes than a 0.01 increment does, so naturally, we're pulling for a bigger number. There isn't any intel on what this mythical 1.3 might contain just yet or whether it'd be heading to Bell, Sprint, and O2 Pres, but we'll keep an eye out.

    Palm Pixi definitely shipping with a new webOS version, but which? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • HTC Droid Eris allegedly already in stock — if you know who to talk to

    HTC Droid Eris allegedly already in stock — if you know who to talk to

    Posted on October 28, 2009 | No Comments

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    Officially, the Droid Eris launches on November 6. Okay, officially officially, we don't know when it launches, because Verizon hasn't even yet admitted that it exists -- but we've got enough evidence built at this point to say with confidence that it's hitting shelves in all sales channels that day. We've just been tipped off, though, that the phone is already sitting in warehouses just waiting to ship out, and experienced Verizon customers know that you can occasionally dupe a rep into shipping you a SKU -- if you know it. Well, we've got it right here: ADR6200VW. Good luck, folks, and let us know how it goes.

    [Thanks, HTC Kid; image via gdgt]

    HTC Droid Eris allegedly already in stock -- if you know who to talk to originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Let’s remember Azeroth as she once was: Proud, full of confidence

    Let’s remember Azeroth as she once was: Proud, full of confidence

    Posted on August 28, 2009 | No Comments
    It's sort of a shame that the Azeroth we all know and love will be going away with World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, the game's next expansion. To that end, one brave soul has taken it upon herself to collect desktop wallpaper-sized images of the old game world.

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  • It’s time for The Pirate Bay to die

    It’s time for The Pirate Bay to die

    Posted on August 25, 2009 | No Comments
    You need only one word to describe The Pirate Bay. It comes from the Ancient Greek, is six letters long, and entered the English language in 1884, some 120 years before the Web site's founding. When The Pirate Bay starts to compare its struggles to those of Western Europe during World War II—you know, the struggle against Nazi Germany—only one word is needed. That word is hubris, and if it were possible to die from hubris, The Pirate Bay would have already expired. Hopefully there's no such thing as copyright in Heaven (or Hell).

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  • Gillette, with 83 blades per razor, has John Cena and Chris Jericho shooting about how great shaving is

    Gillette, with 83 blades per razor, has John Cena and Chris Jericho shooting about how great shaving is

    Posted on July 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Oh now this is rich. Gillette—I think they're up to 44 blades per razor now—has teamed up with WWE to promote the dark art of male grooming. Why should you care? I don't know, perhaps you enjoy “social networking” and all that? Maybe you still watch WWE, long after The Rock quit, and long after Triple H... nope, wait, he's still main eventing (with the exact same gimmick, no less). You can listen to the likes of John Cena, Chris Jericho and Cody Rhodes cut shoot promos, à la RF Video, about how using Gillette makes them confident.

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  • Pachter declares PS3 price cut by October 1

    Pachter declares PS3 price cut by October 1

    Posted on July 13, 2009 | No Comments
    I hate to do it, but I have to. Sorry, kids. Ahead of the June NPD numbers that will be released on Thursday, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter stated today that US sales of the Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3 have declined 43 percent from June of last year to June 2009. He predicts that Nintendo moved 350,000 Wiis while Sony sold 165,000 PS3s and Microsoft came up shy of a quarter million with 225,000.

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  • A color Kindle is years away, buyers remorse here to stay

    A color Kindle is years away, buyers remorse here to stay

    Posted on May 29, 2009 | No Comments
    A color Kindle is years away, buyers remorse here to stay
    Hey, Kindle 2 owners, remember when Amazon made the device official and you thought: "Well, it took them a year and a half to replace the old one, so I can buy this one without fears of immediate obsolescence." And then remember how three months later they announced the Kindle DX and you thought: "Oh." Well, if you're now fearing a color Kindle will come sauntering along in a few months to make everyone jealous, fear not, as Jeff Bezos is saying the tech is still "multiple years" away, adding "I've seen the color displays in the laboratory and I can assure you they're not ready for prime time." From the few prototypes we've seen we'd tend to agree. So, anyone still on the fence about a Kindle, go ahead and buy now with confidence, as your devices won't be made to look quaint any time soon -- at least until that pizza box-sized reader Amazon's been working on in secret is announced in July. Did we mention it actually cooks pizza?

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    A color Kindle is years away, buyers remorse here to stay originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 May 2009 07:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Eee PC 1008HA gets cracked open, ASUS’ obsession with Scotch tape revealed

    Eee PC 1008HA gets cracked open, ASUS’ obsession with Scotch tape revealed

    Posted on May 28, 2009 | No Comments

    We won't go so far as to say that the innards of ASUS' sexy Eee PC 1008HA are literally held together with tape, but man, there's an atypically high amount of sticky strips in there. If you're curious to see the ins and outs (but mostly the ins) of the first member of the newly created Seashell family, give that read link a look. Just be fully prepared to have your confidence shaken.

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    Eee PC 1008HA gets cracked open, ASUS' obsession with Scotch tape revealed originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 May 2009 11:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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