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Above is a leaked roadmap for the devices T-Mobile plans to release for the rest of the year, and things are looking pretty exciting on the Android front. Please excuse the picture above, it’s very blurry, but tells a good story. The picture may be a little out of focus, but for the most part,…
When our favorite gadgets have limitations, we love to find, exploit and whine about them. Today, HTC explains the 30FPS limitation on the EVO 4G – more specifically, the 30FPS limitation on the HDMI out. Apparently, the frame rate cap is a hardware issue, but we’re also learning that it is imposed by the EVO…
You have to feel a little bad for the Verizon HTC Droid Incredible. It’s an amazing handset (check out our full review) but it has been beset by component shortages and it is being delayed again, probably to make room for the newer, sexier Motorola Droid X. The Verizon HTC Droid Incredible was released in…
HSPA+ is a technology meant to maximize the lifespan of 3G. Don’t get me wrong, LTE and WiMAX is all well and good, and we’ve seen what LTE can deliver in countries like Sweden and Norway, surpassing 20 megabits per second, but do you know what the upper limit of HSPA+ is? How does 42…
Android 2.2 is fast. Stupid fast. Crazy fast. I’ve only been using it since Sunday, but I can say without hesitation that my Nexus One literally feels like a new mobile phone. I’m not alone in that regard. Ars.Technica performed the age old SunSpider, and the new school V8 Javascript benchmarks on both Android 2.2…
HTC plans to end the summer (actually start the fall) with new products and we love ’em for that. In addition to the Vision which we’ve seen from that “in the wild” photo, the Taiwanese company will also unveil two other devices, codenamed Gold and Ace. The first of the two is rumored to be…
There’s been a handful of ways that users have been able to achieve root access on the Sprint HTC EVO 4G, but most have been patched up with OTA updates. Well, there’s another root method in town, and it doesn’t take too kindly to getting patched up from them OTAs. This method is unlike any…
The HTC Desire and Samsung Galaxy S are pretty evenly matched on paper – both have 1 GHz processors, run Android 2.1, WVGA touchscreens of similar size (3.7″ versus 4″), and about the same memory (576 MB versus 512 MB). One would argue that if you were to run a Quake 2 demo on both…
Financial results posts can be boring if you’re not into numbers, so bear with me. HTC posted a profit of $268 million in Q2 2010, that’s up 33%. Revenues hit $1.88 billion. In April alone the company sold 4.5 million devices. Yuanta Securities analyst Bonnie Chang predicts that HTC will ship at least 20 million…
Android fans on T-Mobile UK can now get the HTC Desire for a good price. The carrier now offers the HTC Desire for about $55 when you sign up for a contract (about $30 per month) that includes 100 text messages, 100 minutes and 3 GB of data. You can also get the Android-powered handset…