Forget MP3, forget OGG, forget FLAC…THIS is what I want to see tomorrow in digital music!

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Our esteemed editor in chief, Chris Leckness, just posted an excellent response to the spreading assumption that the Motorola Droid will someone be the nail in the coffin of Windows Mobile. Like him, I find that concept to be simplistic and silly and born out of marketing speak, not reality. You see, the mobile telephony market has simply become obsessed with “killers”.

These days, every new smartphone is here to “kill” some other smartphone. Whoever coined the term “iPhone Killer” really needs to be hurt badly with a microwave antenna. At first any phone with a large touchscreen was dubbed an iPhone Killer, then of course the Palm Pre was the first major contender to the iPhone’s throne, next the Moto Cliq, now the Motorola Droid, maybe the Xperia X10 in a couple weeks. The Droid has not only been dubbed an “iPhone Killer”, but a “Pre Killer” and yes, a “Windows Mobile Killer” as well…quite the natural born killer is the Droid.

Or is it? Are any handsets really dying at the hands of these ”killers”, or is it just macho marketing speak? Is the telephony world really so “red of tooth and claw”?

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Well, that’s what people are saying. An article over at Cnet questions Windows Mobile’s need in the mobile world in an article title, “First iPhone, now Droid. Who needs Windows?”.  Businesses need Windows Mobile, lots of Windows Mobile faithful need Windows Mobile. There are tons of Windows Mobile users still out here. I think that many will give Microsoft another chance with WinMo 7. If it doesn’t produce something worthy of getting excited, I will buy the author’s opinion. He claims that the iPhone killing "Droid” won’t get that job done, but he thinks it will put a nail in Windows Mobile’s coffin…

So the Droid may not be the iPhone killer but rather the Windows Mobile slayer. Microsoft, of course, will always have the unassailable PC franchise. But, wait, isn’t Android coming to Netbooks next year? Maybe the real battle royal for Microsoft is yet to come.

I think the Droid looks really nice, but I think it’s going to take more than 10 nice Android phones to get the final nails into the coffin people. Don’t get me wrong, I am excited about what Google is doing with Android, and there is certainly nothing wrong with it now, but HTC and Samsung are still pushing out some hot WinMo phones that are drool worthy. Until that stops, Windows Mobile will still be a player. Maybe not the player it once was, but still top 4.

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If you thought that AT&T’s “There’s a lawsuit for that” response to Verizon’s “There’s a map for that” ad campaign was going to stop or slow them down any, you thought wrong.

Verizon has released a slew of Christmas ads along the very same theme, not only are the ads humorous, but if you check AT&T’s own website for their coverage maps, kind of makes you wonder if the lawsuit has any validity.

Best advice to AT&T if they want to be on Santa’s good list, concentrate on improving your network, and leave Verizon alone.

Check out the ads after the jump, there’s even a little Windows Mobile love thrown in.(…) Read the rest of There’s a map for that. Christmas Style! (7 words)

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We all know Verizon and AT&T are on top with Sprint and T-Mobile not far behind. Well, actually T-Mobile and Sprint are further behind that I thought really. I am not much on looking into the size or income of the carriers, but I was reading over at Fierce Wireless and this caught my eye.

 
I thought Celluar South was the largest independent carrier too. Check out how this chart looked for Q1 and Q2 also.

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T-Mobile is now offering unlimited voice for little enough cash through its Even More promo these days that it’s officially bidding myFaves adieu, spelling out the final chapter of one of the better-known plan packages in the US wireless biz. It won’t go away completely — the myFaves app will apparently continue to be offered as a convenient, cutesy way to access five frequent contacts and existing subscribers won’t be kicked off their plans — but for new subscribers, Even More is being billed as the spiritual successor. For the record, unlimited voice through Even More Plus starts at $49.99, so the price is definitely right — but more importantly will this end up meaning that we lose the beloved silkscreened myFaves logo on the back of virtually every T-Mobile handset sold today?

T-Mobile to myFaves: ‘Good day, sir; I said good day’ originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Software, Apple, iPhone OS

A little later than previously alluded to, but Navigon’s finally rolling out live traffic update to its MobileNavigator iPhone app. Same prices as mentioned before, it’ll regularly be $24.99, but for the next four weeks, it’s only gonna ring up at $19.99 for lifetime use, no monthly fees. Not that TomTom needed anything else to think about, of course. Full presser after the break.

Continue reading Navigon updates US iPhone navigation app, live traffic updates are a go

Navigon updates US iPhone navigation app, live traffic updates are a go originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, HSUPA, Android

Whenever a Moto with triband HSPA hits the FCC, we’re naturally going to end up scouring the documentation — what can we say, it’s in our blood — and today we’ve found a model claiming to be the rumored Motus. As a refresher, this is a device we’d heard would rock the Android midrange with a 5 megapixel AF cam, 3.1-inch QVGA display, and HSPA for a Q1 ‘10 release, so it’s not much more than a tweaked CLIQ as far as we’re concerned — but the big news here might actually be that the Motus filing adds legitimacy to the leaked roadmap where we’d originally heard of it. That document made mention of a “Sholes Tablet” that takes the already-high-end DROID / MILESTONE further upmarket with an 8 megapixel cam and xenon flash, and as you can imagine, we’ll be listening to our friends at the FCC pretty intently over the next few weeks to see if we can catch that one sliding through.

Motorola Motus gets FCC approval, Sholes Tablet looking legit originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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“DRRRROOOOOOOOID.” Okay, we spare you from actually playing the “DROID” alert sound at any point during the podcast, but the fact remains: Verizon’s powerhouse from Motorola is a major topic of conversation on this week’s show. Dig in!

Hosts: Chris Ziegler, Sean Cooper
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Solvent – Devices and Strategies (Ghostly International)

01:38 – Motorola DROID review
22:15 – Verizon’s LG Chocolate Touch skips on the BL40 influence
24:33 – Verizon’s DROID ERIS by HTC does Android and keeps it cheap
30:25 – BlackBerry Bold 9700 hands-on and impressions
32:36 – HTC HD2 officially coming to US, out in Europe and Asia today!
36:44 – Telus kicks off HSPA+ network with iPhone November 5th, HTC Hero, LG New Chocolate and more to follow
41:16 – Bell confirms HSPA launch on November 4
53:02 – Listener questions

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Engadget Mobile Podcast 029 – 11.09.2009 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Others, GSM

Continue reading Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXXX: HTC Hero gets iPhone flair

Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXXX: HTC Hero gets iPhone flair originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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