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HTC HD2 fulfills its unboxing obligations on video

You’ve already seen the HD2 that HTC would have you see, but now it’s time to take the obligatory journey to the world of unboxings. Seen here in “not-yet-final” packaging, the WinMo 6.5-packin’ handset looks sexier than ever, even in that still-to-be-tweaked green box. Hop on past the break and mash play if you’re looking to get all sorts of jealous this morning.

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HTC HD2 fulfills its unboxing obligations on video originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted: October 27th, 2009
at 11:37am by Darren Murph

Topics: HtcHd2, Windows phone, WindowsMobile6.5, WindowsPhone, Winmo6.5, hd2, htc, htc hd2, smartphone, unbox, unboxed, unboxing, video, windows mobile 6.5, winmo 6.5

Palm Pixi on sale November 15 exclusively at Sprint for $100 on contract

Just as we’d heard earlier this morning, today’s the day that Palm and Sprint come clean with their undercover plans for the former’s second-ever webOS device. The Pixi, which we toyed with back on our first Engadget Show, is slated to hit Sprint stores, Best Buy, RadioShack and select Walmart locations on November 15th for $99.99, but that’s after a $50 instant rebate and a $100 mail-in rebate that you’ll be waiting ages for. Nothing here is all that surprising — after all, we knew it’d be on shelves before the holiday season — but the $100 price point is downright depressing. The Palm Pre can be had right now for just $150 (also on contract), and beyond that, both webOS devices are being offered on the exact same network. Throw this thing on Verizon, AT&T or T-Mobile, and you’ve got a whole new wave of Palm customers; as it stands, who’s really buying this with the Pre just $50 away?

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Palm Pixi on sale November 15 exclusively at Sprint for $100 on contract originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted: October 26th, 2009
at 11:27am by Darren Murph

Topics: BreakingNews, OnSale, Palm pixi, PalmPixi, Sprint, availability, available, breaking news, cellphone, official, on sale, palm, pixi, smartphone, webos

BlackBerry Storm update landing tomorrow, bringing lots of good stuff (update: now with changelog!)

Hey, you — yeah you, the BlackBerry Storm owner over there. You listening? Good. That mythical software update we heard about just last week is obviously the real deal, and a screen grab from Verizon’s internal systems has shown up to prove it. We’re told that it should go live tomorrow (that’s October 25th for those in strange, potentially illegitimate time zones) at 6PM. On the whole, it’ll make your Storm act a lot more like the forthcoming Storm2, but specifically you can expect a “faster, more accurate and more natural text input experience, word completion, a virtual QWERTY keyboard in portrait view and enhanced sensitivity when editing, copying and pasting.” You’ll also get the ability to “enable Auto Correction as opposed to Word Completion in landscape view.” The full changelog should be coming soon, so hang tight! Oh, and cancel those plans for tomorrow night, okay?

[Thanks, Anonymous]

Update: Check out the full (purported) changelog after the break!

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BlackBerry Storm update landing tomorrow, bringing lots of good stuff (update: now with changelog!) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted: October 24th, 2009
at 12:01pm by Darren Murph

Topics: BlackberryStorm, SoftwareUpdate, Storm9530, blackberry, blackberry storm, firmware, qwerty, rim, smartphone, software, software update, storm, storm 9530, surepress, update

Nokia N900 not coming until some time in November

We’ve just heard some pretty sour news. Peter Schneider, head of Maemo marketing, has waxed official about the N900’s release and quite casually noted that it’ll “start shipping during November 2009,” which as you very well know is a whole month later than originally expected. An interesting tidbit to his post is that he notes Nokia had lent out 300 pre-production units to the community, and he stresses the importance Nokia places on the feedback received. Connecting the dots might suggest that feedback wasn’t quite as hot as Espoo had hoped, and a few last-minute refinements are now being applied. Either way, you’re gonna have to refill your patience for potentially another month of waiting.

[Via Chronicles of N900; Thanks, Habib Q]

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Nokia N900 not coming until some time in November originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted: October 22nd, 2009
at 6:45am by Vladislav Savov

Topics: Maemo5, NokiaN900, cellphone, delay, delayed, maemo, maemo 5, n900, nokia, nokia n900, qwerty, slider, smartphone

Dell Streak is a 5-inch Android 2.0 MID, packs 3G and WiFi (video)

Well, hello there! Those Dell MID rumors we’ve been hearing have finally received vindication in the form of a nice, picture-heavy leak courtesy of some industrious folks in Vietnam. What we know as of now is that there’s an 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreen display (with multitouch zooming), WiFi, Bluetooth and 3G WWAN connectivity, all riding atop an Android 2.0 (aka, ~~Donut~~ Eclair) install. A dual-LED flash 5 megapixel camera adorns the back, and there’s a 1,300mAh battery to power all that goodness. See pics below and a video awaits after the break, where an old friend of ours plays with the jumbo smartphone.

[Via SlashGear; Thanks, Nicky N.]

Gallery: Dell Streak is a 5-inch Android 2.0 MID, packs 3G and WiFi