Remember that Visual Voicemail patent debacle from a couple years ago? Well, the plaintiff in those lawsuits is at it again with another Visual Voicemail lawsuit. This time, the legal battle is aimed in HTC’s direction, at a time when the Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer is dealing with lawsuits over 20 alleged Apple patents. Klausner Technologies,…
HTC Touch Pro2 and ‘Triumph’ Coming to TELUS?
Take this one with a grain of salt for now, but MobileSyrup has managed to get their hands on yet another internal systems screenshot from TELUS. In this one, we notice not only a WHITE version of the HTC Touch Pro2, but also a new device dubbed the HTC ‘Triumph’. No launch details have been…
Google drops Verizon Nexus One, pushes Verizon Incredible instead
If you’ve been waiting patiently for Verizon Wireless to go live with the much-anticipated Google Nexus One and bring its sexy, Android-powered aluminum unibody to the No. 1 wireless carrier (by subscriber count), you might be a little disappointed with this news. It looks like Google is no longer backing the Verizon Nexus One on…
The mobile roundup – An iPhone walks into a bar edition
So, you may have heard that there was that next-generation iPhone leak this week but there was also some really cool stuff from Dell (of all companies!), Research In Motion, and HTC. Hop over past the jump for a thorough breakdown of this week in mobile technology.
Lenovo now first in line for Palm buyout
Now that HTC has said pass on the potential acquisition of Palm, Lenovo is up to the plate. Lenovo may be trying to get into the mobile space, but I couldn’t imagine that they need to buy Palm as badly as HTC does. Lenovo is known best for it’s computers. The company acquired the ThinkPad…
Google Nexus One gets 802.11n!
If you watch the video above, you’ll see that some enterprising tinkerers have been able to utilize 802.11n WiFi on the Nexus One. The Broadcom wireless chip inside Google’s “superphone” has always been capable of 802.11n but updated drivers released by Google and the chip maker have enabled some to utilize this quicker connection. How?…
iPhone Owns 72% of Japanese Smartphone Market – Research
Apple’s quarterly results hinted at hefty growth in Japan, and to corroborate, the MM Research Institute has established that there are 2.34 million iPhones in Japan, constituting 72.2% smartphone market share. If these numbers are true, iPhone’s 2009 growth in Japan is double that of last year. HTC, the runner-up, nabbed only 11.1%, followed by…
HTC says no to buying Palm
With HTC’s current predicament at hand, one would think it very wise for them to acquire company like Palm. With Palm’s lack of sales on its WebOS line up, rumors of a buyout gave Palm’s stock reason to rally. But, as smart as many might think it would be for HTC to buy the beleaguered…
Update: HTC Desire to come in two flavours from 3UK!
As I reported the other day, the HTC Desire on 3UK is coming in two flavours, over the course of the next couple of months – the first flavour is vanilla (generic) version, without any customisation for Three – this is just to get the device out there and selling (with contracts I assume!). However,…
Sprint giving out ten Evo 4G’s to Premier customers
Sprint Premier – Sprint’s customer loyalty program provides users that spend the most, or have been with them long enough, a good amount of perks. Those perks have just been overshadowed with Sprint announcing a contest to said users that will give them a chance to win one of ten Evo 4G’s! The Evo 4G,…