Verizon Wireless is kicking off the holiday shopping season with a Black Friday sale on the Droid Incredible 2, the Motorola Xoom and the LG Revolution. The carrier is also offering an extra special, limited-time offer to customers who check-in to a Verizon retail store using Facebook or Foursquare. Verizon doesn’t say what it will…
HTC feels the heat from Apple, Samsung
Facing a struggling economy and increased competition from Samsung and Apple, HTC cut its sales forecast by nearly 23 percent. The company is also reevaluating its purchase of S3 Graphics. HTC cut its sales forecast and said that its quarter-to-quarter sales will slow for the first time in two years. In the United States at…
HTC releases source code for Rezound, Explorer, Desire S, and Amaze 4G
Great news for you developers and hackers out there. HTC recently announced the official release of the Kernel source code of its four top notch devices. These handsets include the recently announced HTC Rezound, HTC Amaze 4G, HTC Explorer, HTC Desire S and the HTC Desire. So what’s the big deal about source codes anyway? Well, source codes…
MetroPCS nabs the HTC Wildfire S
MetroPCS has picked up another Android phone, as users of the prepaid carrier can now pick up an HTC Wildfire S for about $180. If you think that nearly $200 may be too much for a mid-tier device like the Wildfire S, you’d best to remember that MetroPCS doesn’t come with a two-year contract, so…
Red DROID Incredible 2 coming on November 24th
Verizon Wireless will soon introduce a red version of the DROID Incredible 2 smartphone. As far as we understood, the new device will hit the stores on November 24th, just when people will start getting crazy, buying all the things they need and don’t need. I admit that red Incredible 2 looks like a perfect…
The Quattro may be HTC’s first quad-core tablet
Well, it looks like the mythical HTC tablet dubbed the Quattro is finally getting its close up. The Quattro is a beastly quad-core, 10.1-inch, Android-powered slate with a 1280 x 768 resolution, which is comparable to the iPad 2’s 1024 x 768 resolution screen. Other noteworthy features include: 1GB of RAM 16GB internal storage plus microSD…
HTC, porn company tussle over Vivid name
If you walk into an AT&T store and plan to pick up the 4G LTE-capable HTC Vivid, would you be confused into thinking this is part of a porn company? Well, Vivid Entertainment seems to think so, as it asking HTC to change the name or it will be sued. HTC told The Verge that…
HTC Zeta: Futuristic quad core smartphone that’s faster than your personal computer?
HTC’s design language is frankly starting to get a bit stale. Ever since the Nexus One shipped in early 2010, all of their devices since then have been nothing more than slight derivatives. The upcoming HTC Zeta however, it completely destroys the mold. Images of a device purported to be the HTC Zeta were sent…
BlackBerry maintains strong market share in UK and Canada
While the U.S. may be the biggest smartphone market out there, and RIM’s foothold there is slipping, BlackBerry continues to be popular in the UK and Canada according to recent survey data. In Canada, BlackBerry has snatched 41% of the smartphone market, which is more or less in line with where RIM sat at the…
Verizon already taking orders for HTC Rezound?
Well what do you know, you can already order the HTC Rezound from Verizon Wireless. Even though the official launch date is set at November 14th, some users managed to get the phone and make it delivered to their doorsteps. According to phandroid, the “trick” is to get the “right” sales rep on the phone…









