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Take this one with a large grain of salt, but a tipster tells our friends at Android Spin that the long-awaited Android 2.2 software update will be hitting the Motorola Droid, Droid X and HTC Droid Incredible as soon as next week. That’s right folks, get ready for some Froyo. There’s no official word from…
T-Mobile is teasing us with a page about its upcoming smartphone with full HSPA+ capabilities but the page’s code reveals more than T-Mobile may have wanted. The good folks at Tmonews said the code referred to the first HSPA+ device as the “Vanguard,” which has also been known as the HTC Vision or G1 Blaze.…
HTC has announced four phones for China, some of which may seem familiar to those elsewhere in the world. The Wildfire, Desire, Tianxi (HD2), and Tianyi (looks like a Wildfire with a trackball) will all be coming to China Mobile under HTC’s name, nixing the Dopod brand HTC had traditionally used in the area. In…
If the video of CyanogenMod 6 bringing Android 2.2 Froyo to the Sprint HTC EVO 4G wasn’t enough for you, we’re happy to tell you that the first 4G phone now has its first CM6 release candidate from the most popular custom ROM maker in the Android space. The news should have Froyo fans with…
It looks like AT&T is taking a big bet on Microsoft’s upcoming Microsoft Windows Phone 7 smartphone operating system, as noted tech pundit Michael Gartenberg is saying the carrier has ordered 8 million units. According to his Twitter account: Interesting e-mail from a trusted source. AT&T has apparently signed up for 8 million #WP7 devices.…
This sounds a little too good to be true, but it seems that the upcoming Android 3.0 (Gingerbread) OS has already been seeded to a few testers’ handsets. If this new rumor is to be believed, Google could be gearing up to release the next-generation Gingerbread Android OS update sooner than we previously thought. While…
It looks like Verizon smartphone customers use more data than their counterparts on AT&T with the Apple iPhone, according to a study by Validas. The report said Verizon smartphone users generally use 421 MB of data per month, compared with 338 MB per month for Apple iPhone users. “The key detail in this study that…
HTC has a problem. It’s a good problem to have, but it’s a problem none the less. They can’t make enough devices utilizing the 3.7 inch OLED display they’ve been using since the launch of the Nexus One in January. The issue is wreaking so much havoc that they’ve decided to switch to Sony’s “Super…
Speaking of HTC devices running Windows Phone 7, a little mystery device has been spotted out in the wild. Up until now, we’ve only seen Samsung handsets running about with Microsoft’s latest mobile operating system. Now we’re seeing what one HTC Windows Phone 7 handset will look like. It’s nothing super exciting or groundbreaking since…
Windows Phone 7 is just around the corner and HTC is already planning on throwing its Sense UI onto the operating system. The Taiwanese company has been confirmed as one of Microsoft’s hardware partners when it launches Windows Phone 7 later this year, and HTC has already put its Sense interface on Windows Mobile 6.5…