Posted April 17, 2013, 12:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Officials in Taiwan are investigating claims that Samsung paid people to post favorable reviews about their products online while at the same time offering up negative feedback on rival HTC’s products. The investigation launched after the Fair Trade Commission received…
Posted April 8, 2013, 10:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
The mobile phone industry is thriving like no other but of course that doesn’t exactly guarantee success as a vendor. HTC, Taiwan’s largest smartphone maker and one of the hottest brands just a few years ago, is one of several…
Posted March 29, 2013, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
The gang over at iFixit recently got their hands on the HTC One to perform one of their famous detailed teardowns. Unfortunately it’s not great news for HTC’s latest flagship as it earned a measly one out of 10 in…
Posted March 13, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
It looks as though the HTC One will miss its original launch date in the US and abroad. The handset was scheduled to arrive on March 15 but is now being pushed back to late March for certain markets and…
Posted March 8, 2013, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
Facebook and HTC are reportedly working on a second mid-range social-inspired smartphone tentatively known as the Myst. The gang at Unwired View recently received a specifications list for the device from a previously reliable source and was kind enough to…
Posted March 6, 2013, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
Apple recently met with Beats Electronics, the audio firm founded by hip-pop producer Dr Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine, to discuss a potential partnership involving the company’s planned music streaming service. CEO Tim Cook and Internet products chief Eddy…
Details about Samsung’s next generation Galaxy smartphone continue to trickle in as we’re just over a week away from the big reveal. The latest news on the Galaxy S4 comes courtesy of Samsung executive vice president of mobile Y.H. Lee…
Following a string of leaks over the last few days, HTC has officially announced its newest flagship Android smartphone at a press event in New York this morning. The HTC One represents the firm’s latest attempt to regain lost ground…
Posted February 5, 2013, 2:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
HTC is planning to unveil a new flagship smartphone later this month. Known as the M7, it is expected to be the first Android smartphone to use pixel oversampling technology – or some variant of it. In preparation for the…
Posted December 21, 2012, 9:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
HTC is reportedly developing two Windows RT tablets that will debut sometime in 2013 according to sources familiar with the company’s plans. The rumors contradict earlier statements by HTC which said they would withdraw from the heated tablet market in…
Samsung is poised to overtake Nokia as the world's top cellphone brand this year, according to iSuppli's preliminary 2012 forecast. The researcher has published its expected rankings for the top five handset OEMs with Samsung accounting for 29% of the…
Posted November 22, 2012, 12:30 PM by Steven Parker | Filed in Mobile Computing
A new era of Windows Phone is finally upon us, and HTC is leading the pack with their flagship smartphone: the Windows Phone 8X. Designed to be more compact than the Lumia 920 but equally high-end, the 8X introduces a…
Posted November 22, 2012, 11:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Apple, Industry News
A few days ago Apple and HTC settled a longstanding patent dispute that resolved all current lawsuits between them and resulted in a 10-year licensing deal to share existing and future patents. Financial details were kept under wraps, and though…
Posted November 15, 2012, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
A few days ago Apple and HTC settled a longstanding patent dispute that resolved all current lawsuits between them. The duo also signed a 10-year licensing agreement that will allow them to share existing and future patents.
HTC is looking to regain some lost ground in the U.S. smartphone market this holiday season with the release of a seriously spec’d up device on the nation’s largest carrier. Announced in a joint press event this morning, the Droid…
Posted November 12, 2012, 11:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Apple, Industry News
Apple settled its first patent battle against an Android smartphone maker over the weekend. In a joint announcement with HTC, the company said it had reached a global settlement with the Taiwanese firm that includes the dismissal of all current…
AT&T has finally announced release dates and pricing information for their line of Nokia Lumia phones as well as the HTC Windows Phone 8X. The wireless carrier will begin taking pre-orders for the the flagship Lumia 920 as well as…
Posted October 22, 2012, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
Best Buy is now accepting pre-orders for Nokia’s flagship Lumia 920 as well as the HTC 8X. The AT&T exclusive 920 will retail for just $149 while HTC’s handset can be yours for $99. Pricing for both includes the typical…
Posted October 2, 2012, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
HTC has officially announced the successor to the original One X that launched back in the spring. There isn’t much new aesthetically with the HTC One X+ as it includes the same 4.7-inch display and form factor as before but…
HTC has unveiled two Windows Phone 8 handsets at a joint event with Microsoft in New York. Simply called Windows Phone 8X and the Windows Phone 8S, the brightly colored devices will pitch HTC directly against Microsoft's main partner Nokia,…
Posted September 17, 2012, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
Steve Ballmer isn’t the only tech industry CEO in the giving spirit as of late. New Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer recently informed employees they would be allowed to select a new smartphone and that Yahoo would even foot the monthly…
Apple's latest and greatest phone is finally out of the cage. The iPhone 5 went throught millimetric scrutiny the weeks and months ahead its release and as it turns out, most of the late rumors we'd heard about a larger…
Posted August 20, 2012, 10:30 AM by Steven Parker | Filed in Mobile Computing
After a golden streak of reviewing high-end, flagship smartphones we find ourselves taking a step back and looking at the other end of the spectrum; after all, there are a lot of people out there who don't desire something so…
More rumors pointing at a joint effort by HTC and Facebook to build a smartphone have surfaced, this time via several anonymous sources speaking to Bloomberg. It's reported that the smartphone was originally planned to arrive later this year but…
Posted July 13, 2012, 6:00 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News
According to the latest report by Nielsen, smartphone penetration continued to increase during the second quarter of 2012, with 54.9 percent of US mobile subscribers now owning smartphones as of June 2012. Two out of every three handsets owned by…
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