For the last few weeks, Facebook had been rumored to be making a big April announcement. Now with just a few days before the big reveal, the good folks at AndroidPolice seem to have gotten their hands on the APK of the upcoming Facebook phone. The short version of this story goes something like this – …
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HTC announced their latest flagship phone in a dual city presentation both here in New York City and in London. The HTC ONE has long been confirmed via various leaks, but now that it’s been officially announced, we can gather ’round the news and make witty comments informed decisions on what the latest and greatest …
A recent report from various overseas publications, it appears that Chinese customers may soon be getting an upgrade to Windows Phone 7.8. The roll out is not unlike the way the 7.5 roll out was handled – first going live in select Asian markets, then ultimately making its way Stateside. The reports cite Greater China …
Everyone loves Bob Ross! PBSDigitalStudios is back with another remix of your childhood. Remember, every title is a link! Not necessarily tech, but cool anyway. Cloud Atlas, the 2004 novel by David Mitchell, is being converted into a movie by none other than the Wachowskis, of Matrix fame. The movie deals with reincarnation, and seems to …
If you’re on the Deathstar network and are looking for an upgrade deal, look no further. Just announced today, AT&T will be seeing two new flagship Windows Phone options from both HTC and Nokia. First up is the HTC Titan II. The Titan II is the evolutionary follow up to last year’s Titan, both come …
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The era of unmitigated growth for HTC is over. The Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer posted its fourth quarter 2010 financials this morning and the results were not welcoming. Year-over-year the fourth quarter revenue shrank 2.5% to $3.35 billion (NT$ 101.42 billion) and HTC’s net income dove 26% to $364 million (NT$ 11.02 billion). The results don’t …
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What do dildos and smartphones have in common? We don’t know, but Vivid Entertainment is pretty convinced that the HTC Vivid infringes on the porn company’s trademark. Usually porn and smartphones are two industries that are mutually exclusive from each other, with the exception of people using their smartphones to get access to pornography, but …
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Yesterday PocketNow published the first renders of the upcoming HTC Edge smartphone, a Tegra 3 powered quad-core successor to the HTC Rezound. The device looks much more appealing than the HTC Rezound which is quite ugly when compared to other Android phones in its class and features some pretty impressive specs on paper. A 720p …
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Yesterday I covered the announcement of the Sensation XL and I followed the reports from media colleagues who were present at the HTC event in London. Most of the stuff was the same: tech specs, Beats by Dr. Dre headphones, Sense 3.5 UI, and other technical details. I was quite clear in mentioning that Dr. …
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In case you didn’t know, HTC is throwing a pretty outrageous party in London right now to accompany its newest smartphone announcement. The HTC Sensation XL is the Android-toting brother to the Windows Phone 7 powered HTC Titan, featuring Gingerbread, a 1.5Ghz single-core Snapdragon processor, 768MB of RAM, a massive 4.7 inch S-LCD screen, an …
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It seems like a happy ending may arrive to the HTC security hole issue quite soon. Almost as quickly as the news broke RootzWiki posted a quick fix for those with rooted devices. It turns out HTC hasn’t been slacking either, with a patch already knocking on the door of carriers. HTC said that so …
So HTC dun goofed with its Android devices, allowing full access to all of your information to virtually any app on the Android Market that can access a very simple and open line of code. The issue exists with devices that are running the stock Sense UI software from HTC, so all you rooted and …
If you’ve got an HTC Android device, you may want to consider sending an angry email HTC’s way. It will go nicely with all of the others that they’re likely getting after it was discovered that a bug in a recent patch allows third-party apps to access a veritable treasure trove of your personal data. …
Not too long ago, Eric told you how Google Wallet was going to change the way we buy things away from our computers. And though I’m no techno-hipster, it was interesting at least. For all the Jetsons-like promises of the future Google Wallet seemed to make, its main hindrance was the lack of NFC compatible …
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