HTC has recently announced that its Touch Cruise is coming to the Middle East this month. The Windows Mobile powered smartphone will be available through all the major retailers in selected ME regions starting with UAE at an estimated end user pricing of $654. Although it lacks a hi-res screen (it’s QVGA only), the HTC…
Samsung Android Phone Coming in Q3?
All of the Android users out there are no doubt excited these days, especially with the leak of the Samsung slide that featured an oh-so-blurry image of the next (and first) Android-powered device from the company. While proof of concept is always cool, today more rumor is coming out on an actual release point. DigiTimes…
HTC Magic heading to China Mobile sans 3G and WiFi
We thought Android will debut in China by the means of Lenovo’s Ophone. O(h) we were apparently wrong, as HTC is preparing to bring its Magic (aka G2) to the world’s (still) fastest growing economy. Along the way, the Taiwan-based smartphone maker will dump 3G and WiFi connectivity in an effort to make the device…
HTC Launching ‘At Least’ Three Android Devices This Year
So how many Android phones should we expect from HTC this year? While at the Merrill Lynch technology conference in Taipai, HTC CEO Peter Chou was recently asked this question and actually gave a clear answer without leaving too much to question. Chou commented that we should expect ‘at least’ three new Android devices on…
Sprint ’09 Roadmap Leaked: Mi-Fi Hotspot, BlackBerry Niagara, Samsung Mini and More Spotted
Hooah, now here’s some news for y’all: Sprint’s entire 2009 roadmap has made it out into the wilds of the blogosphere. First HTC, now Sprint? Man, what’s going up with the big companies these days. Loose lips sink ships, they say. Samsung, HTC, LG, Palm, and Sanyo all make an appearance in the leak, but…
More details on the HTC Maple
HTC’s making a big push into the smartphone market for 2009 with some interesting new hardware. And, we have it on good authority that HTC’s booth presence at CTIA Las Vegas 2009 should be a fair bit more grandiose than in previous years – a sign of big things to come, perhaps. So, what does…
Dual-mode HTC Cedar Due for Verizon?
Some clever snooping has revealed Verizon may be picking up a new handset from HTC that will cruise both GSM and CDMA networks. The Cedar, Whitestone and Twin spotted in HTC’s roadmap are all posibilities, but the QWERTY-clad Cedar seems like the most likely possibility, especially since it passed through the FCC recently. To be…
T-Mobile to launch G2 at CTIA?
File this under “rumors” or “assumptions,” whatever. It’s the logic thinking actually, and yes we think T-Mobile will be launching the second HTC Android handset during the upcoming CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas. Even though Verizon Wireless is sort of a Vodafone’s U.S. office, I doubt HTC will make a CDMA-based Magic in the near…
Inject some Diamond2 goodness into your HTC Touch Diamond!
You’re going to have to shell out some cold, hard cash to get HTC’s upcoming HTC Touch Diamond2 smartphone in your pocket, but you can get some of the Diamond2’s software goodies without spending a single dime. The updated Diamond-successor sports nothing less than a 5-megapixel camera (with autofocus), GPS, WiFi, and 3G data connectivity.…
Smartphone gains boost Apple and RIM marketshare at Nokia’s expense
It seems one of the only things growing in this hostile global economy is the number of smartphones being sold around the world. The growth of sales in this particular segment highlights the smartphone’s recent push to popularity. The smartphone market now sits at a new high, showing 3.7% growth in sales (38.1 million handsets)…