Hey all of you Canadian Android-lovers, looking for a good price on a first-gen Android device? How about the Rogers HTC Dream? Sound good? The folks at Canada’s ‘Big Red’ have dropped the price on the HTC Dream (about time) to $49.99 on a 3-year contract. If you don’t mind being locked-in to a device…
HTC Hero on Sprint Gets Firmware Update
An over-the-air software update for the Sprint Hero is now available, the biggest change being a fix to SMS and daylight savings time bugs. There’s no documented changelog, but if you notice anything different, feel free to drop a comment. If you didn’t automatically recieve the option to update to 1.56.651.2, go to Settings, About,…
HTC Hero, Tattoo launched in Australia
HTC announced that Australia is now officially blessed with two of the company’s Android smartphones – Hero and Tattoo. The first of the two is a more capable device, sporting a large 3.2-inch HVGA (320×480) capacitive touchscreen, HSDPA, WiFi, GPS, 5-megapixel camera, and so on. On the other hand, the Tattoo is known as an…
Brief: HTC to offer Qualcomm Brew MP powered feature fone in early 2010
Highly shady and controversial Taiwanese news site Digitimes is claiming that HTC, maker of such famous devices as the Android powered Hero and Windows Mobile 6.5 packing HD2, is going to be releasing a feature fone in early 2010 that will run Qualcomm’s Brew MP operating system. The first American operators to offer Brew MP…
Quick Rumor: HTC Hero for $99 at Best Buy Mobile?
Heard this over the weekend, and I’m posting it so that you can tell me if it’s true in YOUR area or not. Apparently, the Sprint HTC Hero is now up for grabs for $99 on a 2-year contract at Best Buy Mobile locations. Just finished checking the Canadian Best Buy Mobile website, and sure…
T-Mobile G1 can run Google Maps Navigation, too
Read the headline? It’s not just the “Moto Droid thing” only – the good ol’ G1 can also be used for turn-by-turn navigation provided by Google Maps, thanks to the ever active XDA development community. Of course, we’re not talking about the official ROM update, but something that requires a little effort, yet delivers great…
HTC expects to grow 23% in Q4 2009
HTC expects its revenues to top NT$40-42 billion (US$12.3-12.9 billion) in Q4 2009, up from Q3’s NT$34 billion, and 5-6% more from the same period of last year. ODM shipments, on the other hand, are expected to come to the end of their business cycles. Q4’s gross margin is expected to be in the 32-33%…
HTC Passion/Dragon coming to Verizon in mid-December?
You see this little snippet of a photo of an HTC smartphone? This may just be an image of the rumored Verizon-bound HTC Passion/Dragon’s display. The photo comes bundled with new speculation that has the big-screened Android phone bringing its 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera and Android 2.0 OS to Verizon Wireless sometime in the…
The Unboxing: Verizon’s HTC Droid Eris
We’ve already had a chance to play with the HTC Droid Eris from Verizon Wireless, but there’s nothing like a retail package unboxing ceremony to really get up close and personal with a new handset. As the “ying” to the Motorola Droid’s “yang,” the HTC Droid Eris offers Verizon customers a fully capable Android smartphone…
HTC considering ‘unique value’ netbook
Remember the HTC Shift? It was HTC’s first attempt at a super-portable laptop capable of running both Windows Vista and Windows Mobile. These days, we’d be inclined to call it a “netbook” if not for its prohibitive price tag. Despite its innovative design and features, however, the HTC Shift never gained any traction in the…