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The HTC Bliss – you know the upcoming Android phone for Verizon that’s aimed at females? Not only will this device be ultra-sleek, it also looks like it will be getting first dibs on the latest version of HTC’s custom Android skin, Sense. We also got word of a couple of rumored specs for the…
Apple is continuing its battle against HTC, and this time the International Trade Commission, or the ITC, is reviewing five patent complaints from the iPhone maker. According to Reuters, Apple is claiming that HTC “HTC infringed five patents related to software architecture and user interfaces in portable electronic devices, hardware for touch screens and movement…
Companies file trademarks for products or gimmicky marketing terms all the time. Whether or not they actually use said trademark is for them to decide. HTC recently filed one such trademark for “CLOSECONNECT”, which according to the description below is nothing more than a fancy way of saying NFC or Near Field Communications. Considering HTC…
Good news for you Inspire 4G owners, as the giant-sized Android smartphone is getting 2.3 Gingerbread as an over-the-air update as we speak. You should know the drill by now but if you want to check if your device gets the update, go into Settings, hit the AT&T Software Update, HTC WiFi software update and…
Remember the HTC Ruby, the unannounced Android smartphone which we caught at Flickr? Well we now have a more revealing photo to show you, clearly suggesting this baby is slated to hit T-Mobile. And while we have no other information at the moment — like the release date and price — we think of the…
We’ve already seen leaked photos of HTC Puccini — the Taiwanese company’s upcoming 10-inch tablet — and have also “witnessed” the device getting the clearance from FCC. Now we have first screenshots to share, compliments of PocketNow and its ninjas. As you can see from the images below, HTC seemed to have invested substantial resources…
HTC plans to make its Sense UI much more cloud-friendly with the $18.5 million purchase of the cloud-service provider Dashwire. “Cloud services are key to delivering the promise of connected services to our customers,” said Fred Liu, HTC president of engineering and operations, in a prepared statement. “People want access to all of their important…
On the heels of that Droid Charge deal we covered few days ago, Amazon informed us about their latest offering. The online retailer has slashed prices for two additional 4G smartphones – Sprint’s Nexus S 4G and Verizon’s HTC Thunderbolt. The first of the two is available for $0.01 for new users, which is a…
Verizon will be stepping up its game on the LTE front in the coming months, with virtually every new device supporting the blazing fast network. We’re already seeing some follow-up handsets for phones that haven’t even been out a full year at this point, as well as some new devices we’ve never heard of. The…
The latest numbers from IDC are out and the research firm confirms what other firms have been reporting: Apple is now the largest smartphone maker in the world based on sales for the second quarter. Even without the help of a brand new iPhone, Apple was able to ship 20.3 million iPhones in the quarter…