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Canada: Rogers also offers a free $25 Google Play Gift Card with HTC One purchase

After Bell and TELUS, Rogers Wireless is joining the trend, giving away a $25 Google Play Gift Card to anyone who buys the hot new HTC One. As expected, the deal assumes your signature on a three-year contract and will last until June 16th. Here are the terms: Available to new and existing customers with purchase of HTC One (while quantities last) and new activation on any Rogers post-paid plan between June 10 – June 16, 2013 with a 3- yr FLEXtab agreement. Subject to change without notice. Google Play Read more

Zuckerburg Reveals the Future of Facebook Home: On/Off Switch in Android App

Mark Zuckerberg revealed Facebook’s plans for its Facebook Home software at an investor’s meeting today, CNET reports. Facebook Home, which currently runs on a handful of Android devices such as the HTC First, Samsung Galaxy S4 and the HTC One, will eventually be distributed to Android users via the official Facebook for Android app. “We haven’t really made our big push yet … biggest thing that we’re going to do once we feel that we’re ready is to encourage people who have the Facebook app to go turn this on Read more

Ian Kersey

HTC One to be Available on C Spire “In The Near Future”

According to a forum post on the C Sprire Wireless website, the regional carrier will be offering the HTC One to its customers. Release dates and pricing are not mentioned, but the company will be providing more details “in the near future.” The award-winning HTC One will take advantage of C Spire’s regional 4G LTE network, which has launched in Mississippi, Texas, Kansas, Missouri and Georgia. 4G will soon be coming to Orlando, FL; Miami, FL and Nashville, TN. C Spire recently launched three flexible Unlimited plans, which start at Read more

Ian Kersey

HTC Butterfly S to be unveiled on June 19

HTC has started sending out invites for an event taking place on June 19 in its home country, when two devices will be unveiled – Butterfly S and Desire 600. The latter has already been announced globally so we tend to think this is just HTC’s way of saying “it’s now available in Taiwan.” As for the former, we’re not exactly sure what’s that all about. According to rumors we’ve heard, the Butterfly S will be an improved version of the Butterfly, which is known as Droid DNA in the Read more

HTC should release a version of the HTC One without a pair of front speakers and mandatory BlinkFeed

If you’re like me, you love the hot-new HTC One and its rock-solid aluminum body. However, you may not like the BlinkFeed, which is well – not my way of consuming news. And while I understand HTC for including it preloaded, I don’t get what were they smoking thinking when they made it mandatory. Sure enough, you can shove it on one of the homescreens and never scroll to that page, but that’s the point. I don’t want it on ANY of my homescreens. Period. I have my own way Read more

HTC Appoints New VP of Global Communications, Lorain Wong

A handful of top executives left HTC last month, and today HTC has appointed a replacement to its former VP of Global Communications, Jason Gordon. HTC has announced that Lorain Wong will be taking over as VP of Global PR and Internal Communications. “In this role, Wong will be responsible for leading HTC’s communication strategies globally –including public relations, media and analyst relations, corporate communications and issues management. In addition, she will oversee the company’s internal communications function across all operating locations.” Wong comes to HTC after holding senior roles Read more

Ian Kersey

HTC One scores the “Best Device” award at Computex 2013

Can’t say we’re surprised or something. After all, HTC is a Taiwanese company that won an award at the Taiwanese show. Moreover, the HTC One is indeed an awesome device so it wasn’t that hard to predict it will win over all other phones that were at display in Taipei. The judges agreed that the HTC One is the best device at the event where the design and innovation come first. That said, we’re not even sure Samsung was present at this year’s Computex or not. If it was there, Read more

Canada: Bell’s HTC One coming with a free $25 Google Play gift

Looks like HTC and Canada’s Bell Mobility are preparing to further grow the sales of the HTC One. The carrier will apparently bundle a free $25 Google Play gift card with every One purchase. Here’s how that sounds in Bell’s own words: New postpaid customers activating an HTC One on any term with any plan will receive $25 Google Play gift card credit via SMS on July 2, 2013. It is said that this promo will start later today, ending by the end of week on June 16th. Guess HTC Read more

FCC Docs Show Sprint LTE Compatable HTC Windows Phone 8 Device

We’ve known for some time that Sprint has been planning on carrying a few Windows Phone 8 handsets this summer, specifically the Samsung Ativ S and the HTC Tiara, and a new FCC filing points to an imminent launch of at least one of those devices. The filing shows a Windows Phone 8 powered HTC device, which looks to be the oft rumored HTC Tiara. While the Tiara has yet to be officially announced, a picture from a FCC document shows a device named HTC PO88100, which has support for Read more

Ian Kersey

HTC T6 Blueprints Leaked, Reveal 5.9″ Screen

Thanks to Dutch site Mobileaks, we now have some new sketches of the rumored HTC T6/One MAX phablet device. The sketches reveal a device that runs concurrent to previous rumors, which peg the HTC T6/One MAX having a 5.9 inch screen, forward facing speakers and a stylish bezel. Although the leaked blueprints do not reveal any information about the specs of the device, previous rumors have claimed that the HTC T6/One MAX will come with a quad-core 2.3 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, and 2 GB of RAM. The device Read more

Ian Kersey

Grab the 32GB HTC One on AT&T and a Beats Pill Speaker for $99.99!

AT&T is offering an awesome deal on HTC’s flagship smartphone, the HTC One. You can grab the hot smartphone plus a Beats Pill Bluetooth speaker for only $99.99 today with a two-year contract. Customers have the choice between the silver or black versions of the HTC One, and black, pink, white or red colors for the Beats Pill speaker. This is a steal for one of the hottest devices on the market, as the HTC One normally retails for $199.99 with a two-year contract. Not to mention the Beats Pill Read more

Ian Kersey