Join us for Engadget Live in San Francisco on December 5th!
Having just wrapped up Engadget Expand New York earlier this month, and with CES fast approaching, you’d think our Events team would take a breather. Fortunately for those of you in the City By the Bay, we can’t stop ourselves from putting on a sh…
Daily Roundup: Lumia 2520 review, Xbox One teardown, day one patch frustrations and more!
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all ha…
Apple posts its first video trailer on the iOS App Store
Android app shoppers have long had the luxury of watching video trailers on Google Play, but their iOS counterparts have had to be content with static images on the App Store. Apple’s portal just got livelier, though, as MacStories has noticed wha…
Motorola lets unlocked Developer Edition handsets keep their warranties, reinstates old ones
If you’re one of a few who’ve obtained a Developer Edition handset, you’re likely the type who’d want its bootloader unlocked so that you could tinker with it as you so please. Unfortunately, requesting such an unlock code would often void your wa…
Vine expands its reach internationally with support for more languages
Twitter’s six-second video sharing app Vine is making a play for more markets, announcing today that its apps for iOS and Android have been translated into 19 new languages, plus two more just on Android. Also available on Windows Phone and sporti…
Dropbox gets an iOS 7 makeover with AirDrop sharing
Dropbox may be late to the iOS 7 app update party, but it’s making up for lost time with an abundance of new features in the just-launched version 3.0 release for Apple’s platform. The refresh brings the expected iOS 7-friendly look and includes …
LG To Scale Down Smartphone Business To Focus On TVs
With the release of two well-received Android smartphones, the LG G2 and the Google Nexus 5, you might be thinking that LG was doing quite well in the smartphone space and ready to make more waves. Not so according to Korean news site, ET News, who is reporting that LG is going to scale down…
Dropbox for iOS Updated With iOS 7 Redesign [iOS Blog]
Dropbox for iOS was today updated to version 3.0, adding a complete iOS 7-style redesign. The app features a revamped App Store icon and an overall design that incorporates more white space, a cleaner look, and lighter, less obtrusive navigation bars. Folder and menu icons have also been…
US carriers no longer let premium text message services bill customers
Among the many surprise costs that annoy cellphone owners, unwanted text message service fees can be the worst; they’re hard to stop, and not always worth the effort. Those fees may not irk many US subscribers after today, though — AT&T, Spri…
Planetary Resources and NASA team up to crowdsource the search for asteroids
Planetary Resources really wants to mine asteroids for valuable materials, but first it has to find them. So the company is partnering with NASA on a crowdsourcing project that would put the American public to work identifying and tracking near-Ea…
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