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HTC knows its next flagship must be an awesome device. In fact, if it fails to impress everyone — not just the media which loved the HTC One — it may end-up becoming irrelevant in the “smartphone game.” So the successor of the One must be something many will want to buy. The area of…
Verizon is kicking off 2014 with price drops on a few of 2013’s hottest Android smartphones. The LG G2, HTC One and DROID ULTRA can now be purchased off-contract for $449, a few hundred bucks cheaper than they were last year. That’s great news for Verizon customers who are looking to upgrade their devices, or…
Good news for owners of Sprint’s HTC Evo 4G LTE smartphone. The Taiwanese company is still thinking about you and will get your the Android 4.3 update in mid-February. The information — in case you wonder — came from Jason Mackenzie, the President of HTC America, who shared this little nugget via Twitter. HTC will…
The HTC One was clearly one of the most popular smartphones of 2013, but it didn’t come easy for the manufacturer. HTC began the year in the hot seat, with smartphone sales facing a slump. Once top of the heap in the Android smartphone game, the last few years had left HTC a little empty-handed.…
HTC is expected to launch a follow-up to its highly popular HTC One handset early next year, and a new concept shows us just how awesome the new handset could look. Jinesh Shah took to Google+ to share his concept design, naming the next HTC device the HTC Two. The photos reveal a device which…
HTC released a nice infographic to depict the process of an Android OS update. The Taiwanese company suggests that everything starts with Google releasing PDK (Platform Development Kit) to handset makers in order to evaluate the new framework. Soon afterwards, the search giant announces new version of Android and starts providing source code to the…
If the “regular” HTC One can get the gold color, so can the bigger HTC One Max. And yes, such version of the device has been released, though only in Taiwan, joining other color options (red and black) which too are limited to certain markets. Aside from a fresh paint job, this remains the same…
Without much fanfare, HTC has unveiled a new member of its Desire family of devices. The newly unannounced Desire 400 dual-SIM has been caught at the company’s Ukrainian and Russian websites. The problem, however, is that two websites list the device with different specs. Apparently, Russians will get a better version of the phone, one…
The HTC Butterfly S is receiving a software update which began its rollout today. The update brings Android 4.3 to the table, as well as HTC’s Sense 5.5 UI. The update is a beefy one, weighing in at 750MB. According to MaximusHD ROM developer @LlabTooFer, the update carries version number 2.21.708.1, indicating that the update…
While gold-colored smartphones are nothing new, they certainly seemed to catch on in 2013. Apple made a splash with their gold or “champagne” colored iPhone 5s, and Samsung released a curious gold-colored flip phone with smartphone innards, the Galaxy Golden. A few 24-carat gold encrusted smartphones released as well, with the HTC One and BlackBerry…