Posted by A Ocean on July 29, 2013 ·
Taiwanese phone maker HTC has announced a revenue and profit warnings for Q3 2013 which says that HTC may make its first ever loss in 16 years – first time since it’s inception.
The company’s profits have been heading south for few quarters now mainly due to fierce competition from dominant smartphone makers Apple and Samsung coupled by saturation of Smartphone demand. Delay in launch [...]
Posted by A Ocean on June 19, 2013 ·
HTC officially unveiled it’s much rumoured Butterfly S smartphone on Wednesday at the expected launch event in Taiwan.
HTC Butterfly carries the now almost standard 5-inch 1080p display, which is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad-core processor, the same one which is found in HTC One. It has 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, expandable via microSD.
Operating System is the latest [...]
Posted by A Ocean on April 5, 2013 ·
Facebook unveiled HTC First, the first Android powered smartphone that will debut with the Facebook Home suite of integrated apps with it right from the start at the “Home on Android” event.
HTC First is equipped with a 4.3-inch screen, a 5-megapixel camera, a front-facing camera, and a dual-core Snapdragon 400 processor and runs Android Jelly Bean.
The smartphone will be released in four [...]
Posted by A Ocean on April 1, 2013 ·
Reports of Facebook launching a Facebook-built Android phone on HTC got traction last week after Facebook sent invites for a April 4 media event.
AndroidPolice shares that it obtained a software dump of Facebook Home. The site’s analysis of the software seems to confirm some of the mid-range technical specifications reported by some bloggers.
Reportedly Facebook Home is an experience on top [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 18, 2012 ·
UK court gave a ruling last week that Samsung’s Galaxy tablets don’t infringe Apple’s registered designs, that iPad maker Apple should publish a notice on its U.K. website and in British newspapers alerting people to a ruling that Samsung Electronics Co. didn’t copy designs for the iPad according to a report by Bloomberg.
“Should Apple continue to make excessive legal claims [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 9, 2012 ·
Apple’s bad luck in UK courts continue, after losing a patent case against HTC recently, Apple lost another patent skirmish, this time with Samsung. UK High Court Judge ruled that Samsung tablets don’t infringe Apple patents. High Court of England and Wales ruled that three of Samsung’s Galaxy touch-screen tablet products don’t infringe Apple’s patents.
Judge Birss referred [...]
Posted by A Ocean on August 2, 2010 ·
Smartphone Market share Q2 2010
Apple’s iPhone may be hitting the headlines for right or wrong reasons and getting more than adequate attention, but, that does not guarantee better market share, likewise, the erstwhile Finnish mobile czar Nokia may be not making as much noise (barring few digs at Apple) as it use to,nevertheless, that hasnt stopped it from retaining a substantial lead in [...]
Posted by A Ocean on June 24, 2010 ·
iOS 4 and iPhone 4 (almost) have been released by Apple how can its nemesis in the smartphone market – Android, be away. Verizon Wireless has unveiled Android based Motorola’s Droid X a day before the iPhone 4 hits stores.
Droid X is the latest smartphone from Verizon Wireless to carry the Droid name, which the carrier has attempted to push as its line of high-end phones running on [...]
Posted by A Ocean on June 9, 2010 ·
If you own a HTC’s manufactured Google’s Nexus One phone and envy the option of shooting videos in high definition in the iPhone 4 do not despair, now your Google Nexus One could do the same If its running on Eclair ( Android 2.1 ).
Xda-developers.com has managed to hack the Nexus One and upgrade it to 720p HD video in an obvious effort to keep up with the iPhone 4. The hack is for [...]
Posted by A Ocean on June 4, 2010 ·
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HTC EVO 4G the latest smartphone from HTC Corporation which is also the first phone to run on 4G network is launching in few hours in US and will be available on Sprint network, priced at $199.99 with a two-year Sprint contract, the EVO is also offered for $449.99 without starting a new 2-year or extending existing agreements with Sprint.
Since Sprint and HTC [...]