OPPO N1 can be purchased worldwide Today
As we previously announced, the ginormous OPPO N1 5.9″ phablet aka the CyanogenMod Phone went on sale internationally today. (A full list of specs can be found HERE.) There will be an option to run CyanogenMod natively out of the box as a special edition which isn’t available…
Join the Engadget HD Podcast live on Ustream at 8:30PM ET
It’s Tuesday and time for the Engadget HD Podcast. We hope you’ll join us live when the Engadget HD podcast starts recording at 8:30PM. Tonight we cover the news leading up to CES before we take a break for a few weeks. Consider it the calm before…
Sprint to launch Galaxy S 4 variant with speedy Spark LTE
Sprint already has a few devices that support its extra-fast Spark data service, but one of its hottest smartphones — Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 — has been “stuck” with ordinary LTE. That won’t be a problem for much longer, as the carrier has reveale…
Play Books update, adds in uploading EPUB & PDFs from phone and Tablets [Download]
Google has pushed out a new update for the Google Play Books apps tonight. It moves the app to version 3.1.17. That is pretty substantial over the previous 3.0.15. It also gets a little bit larger coming in at 6.48MBs. The update offers quite a bit of new stuff for those book lovers out there….
Larger Stonestown Apple Retail Store Opening in San Francisco on Saturday [Mac Blog]
Apple is vastly increasing the size of its Stonestown Galleria Apple Retail Store in San Francisco, going from one of the narrowest locations in the chain at 25 feet wide — a total of 3,160 square feet including back of house space — to a much larger…
[RUMOUR] Is The Nokia Normandy Going To Be An Android Phone Released In 2014
Many of us have wondered what would have happened to Nokia if they hadn’t aligned with Microsoft and had instead adopted Android as their operating system (OS). We were almost given hope of that happening when we heard whispers of a Nokia prototype called “Mountain View” which…
Ubuntu gets its first smartphone deal, comes to high-end devices in 2014
Canonical’s smartphone-sized Ubuntu distribution hasn’t had an official device to call home since release, but it won’t have to live that nomadic existence for much longer. CEO Mark Shuttleworth tells CNET that his company has just signed its fir…
Nokia Normandy rumored to be low-end Android-based phone
The image you see above is the rumored Nokia Normandy, which Twitter leakster @evleaks revealed at the end of last month. While not much was known about the device at the time, the lack of hardware shutter button, capacitive buttons and LED flash …
Daily Roundup: Samsung’s EMC lab, interview with Qualcomm’s Raj Talluri, new Chromecast apps 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…
Twitter update takes on Snapchat with direct message photos, improved alerts
Well, it’s not quite the dramatic redesign Twitter experimented with then largely scrapped, but today’s update to its mobile apps still packs a pretty decent punch. For one, you can finally share images via direct message, which has until now been…
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