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Remember the T-Mobile G1, with its little chin and side-sliding keyboard? It may have been the first Android phone to hit market way back in 2008, but it has not been forgotten. A handful of enthusiasts over at XDA-developers have managed to port a Cyanogen Mod version of Jelly Bean to the almost four-year-old handset.…
HTC keeps making its Sense Android skin better. The most important change version 4.0 introduced was scaling down, relying more on the built-in Ice Cream Sandwich experience. And while we like what the Taiwanese maker managed to accomplish, they’re now going one step forward, preparing to launch an even improved version of the Sense, the…
Well what do you know – Samsung and LG won’t be the only phablet makers for so long with HTC planning to join the party soon and launch a competitor to the Samsung Galaxy Note and LG Optimus Vu. We don’t have all the information at the moment, but we do know few details. For…
If you’re into Android and HTC One X is “good enough” for you — i.e. you don’t want/need the Samsung Galaxy S III — you’ll be glad to know that Amazon Wireless is now offering HTC’s superphone for just $79.99 with a two-year AT&T contract. The best part is that this isn’t the price reserved…
HTC reported its detailed second quarter earnings and just as expected, the storm clouds just refuse to clear up for the company. Profits dropped by 58 percent, making last quarter its third consecutive quarter to see profits decline. Profits were at 7.4 billion New Taiwan dollars, which sounds like a lot until you realize that…
It’s been a long wait for HTC Rezound owners but it’s over now. You should be able to grab the latest update for your smartphone and join millions of Ice Cream Sandwich users all around the world. The 299 MB-heavy download brings firmware version to 3.14.605.12, and aside from Android 4.0.4 and new version of…
Verizon has announced its plans to update all HTC Trophy handsets with the latest Windows Phone offering, Tango (version 7.5 MCR3). The handset has one more update on the horizon (Windows Phone 7.8), and the Tango update will prep users for the last version the handset will ever see, which should land sometime later this…
As part of its bankruptcy proceedings, Kodak is putting 1,100 patents up for auction and the tech world is taking sides in a quest to acquire them. According to a Wall Street Journal Report, Apple is teaming up with Microsoft and patent aggregation firm Intellectual Ventures Management LLC to bid on the patents. Apple and…
The IDC have released their Q2 report on the mobile market, and it paints the same picture we’ve seen in quarters past. Mobile customers are adopting smartphones than feature phones en masse, with a 42% increase in smartphone sales year over year. Overall, more phones were sold in Q2 than ever before, with 406 million…
We’ve almost forgot about US Cellular’s version of the HTC Flyer, thinking it got its Honeycomb update along with the rest of the pack (last year’s December). Wrong – it’s still running Gingerbread. For like a dozen of you who own US Cellular’s version of the Flyer, you’ll be glad to know that now you…