Blog » June 2010

Steve Jobs: iPhone OS 'started on a tablet'

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Steve_Jobs_at_D_iPhone_OS_started_on_a_tablet_Engadget'; Well, Steve Jobs just dropped a little nugget of history on us during his chat with Walt Mossberg and Kara    

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Hitachi working on cheaper, higher quality IPS touchscreens for cellphones

In case you haven't heard, IPS panels are making inroads into the lucrative mobile market this year, and Hitachi's been working behind the scenes on something that should keep that momentum going. In    

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HTC EVO 4G splayed, found to contain wires, chips

Often, iFixit needs to wait for a product to be released before it can spend a few hundred bucks buying one and tearing it asunder -- but in the case of the EVO 4G, Google's pre-release of units to attende    

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Comsys to launch three versions of US$100 FOB WiMAX phone

Though handsets are not the main exhibits at this year's Computex, mobile communications remains in the spotlight with e-book readers, tablets and a wide array of portables grabbing headlines. But some of    

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Qualcomm ships dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon chipsets

Qualcomm has begun sampling its first dual-CPU Snapdragon chipsets that integrate two CPU cores running at up to 1.2GHz, according to the company. Targeted high-end smartphones, the dual-core MSM8260 and MSM866    

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