HTC’s 4.3-inch Desire HD shows up on video
We saw our first images of the Desire HD over the weekend, and just as day follows night, video leaks typically follow pictorial ones. You'll already be familiar with the mooted specs -- including 720p HD video recording, WVGA screen resolution, and an 8 megapixel imager -- so what else does this handset tour reveal
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: 2.2, ace, desire, desirehd, entry, flash, hd2, Headphone, htc, htc desire hd, led, recording, well-rounded
HTC Schubert: Windows Phone 7 gets an aluminum unibody handset to call home (video)
And the Windows Phone 7 leaks just keep on flowing. After that mysterious ASUS pre-prodution unit we saw late last week, today we're being treated to the first sighting of the HTC Schubert
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, htc Tags: aluminum, being-treated, break, entry, htc, phone, result, schubert, Unibody, video, windows phone 7, windowsphone7, wireless
Mysterious HTC Windows Phone 7 device breaks cover at FCC, swears it was invited
It's one of the most barebones filings we've seen in recent memory, but there's no mistaking that at least one Windows Phone 7 device from HTC is going to make a stateside debut. If we had to guess, we'd say that this is the first official look at whatever phone we spotted late last month , but the only identifying mark anywhere is a PD26100 model number. Based on the test reports, we know for sure that it'll boast Bluetooth, 802.11n WiFi and support for GSM 850 / UMTS I and II, but it's obviously still up in the air as to what carrier this will be headed for.
Categories: Mobile Phone, htc Tags: apple, cover-at-fcc, gsm, htc, htc spark, leak, result, rumor, states, stateside, whatever-phone, windows
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, htc Tags: att, craigslist, endless-barrage, entry, fcc, fiesta, htc, in the wild, memory, paradise, phone, source
NPD: Android is now top-selling OS in American smartphones
Step aside, BlackBerrys and iPhones, the American consumer has voted with his wallet and picked Android as his favorite flavor in the quarter just gone. NPD's number crunchers have just announced their findings for Q2 2010, concluding that 33 percent of phones sold during the period had Android on board
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, htc Tags: accounting, data, findings, held-the-crown, htc, marketresearch, npd, npd group, number, research, rim, ross, soil, statistics
Keepin’ it real fake: EVO 4G Shanzai edition
Shameless isn't even the word for it. While some companies try to get away with calling themselves Nokla or BlockBerry , these Chinese KIRFers have no qualms about copying HTC's EVO 4G in its entirety (externally, anyhow). Yes, that includes the Sprint insignia and the promise of 4G, both of which are, of course, amusingly untrue.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, htc Tags: camera, chinese, gravy, htc, imitator, insignia, jobs, kirf, Paste, result, rides-the-winmo, shanzai, sprint, windowsmobile6.5
HTC Glacier leaks out in GLBenchmark database, boasts really high scores
Remember the HTC Glacier spotted in a database a few months ago? Neither did we, but it's back and eating most every other smartphone's pixel-pushing lunch
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: battery-life, entry, glbenchmark, htc, launch, leaks, mobile, scores, shores, smartphone
HTC Sync 3.0 for Wildfire hands-on: iTunes sync tested (video)
Good news for Wildfire owners: fresh from HTC's oven is its 3.0 desktop sync suite that -- like the one baked for the Desire over the weekend -- enables iTunes sync for the company's latest budget device. Since we had a Wildfire on hand, we decided to go through the trouble to check out this new feature
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: debugging, featured, htc, htc wildfire, htcsync, itunes sync, mediasync, mode, playlists, Windows Media Player
Canalys: Android takes Q2 smartphone market share lead in US with 886 percent year-over-year growth
We knew Android phones were selling like gangbusters -- Google has been none too shy in telling us as much -- but numbers were slightly less clear in a larger context. Well, if a new report by Canalys is to be believed, those numbers are just fine in a larger context. Canalys claims that in Q2 Android was up a whopping 886 percent over last year's sales during this time period (remember, the original Droid didn't come out until November), and those wild sales put it at 34 percent of the US market, compared to RIM's 32 percent and Apple's 21.7 share
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: apple, BlackBerry, droid, engadget, entry, htc, iphone, launch, percentages, sales, smartphone
Motorola turns Droid X’s source code loose — some of it, anyhow
This might not have a ton of relevance as long as we've got a nearly airtight bootloader lock standing in our way, but we suppose it's a start: Motorola has outed the Droid X's source code, though it's apparently left some key bits out, just as it's entitled to do under the terms of Android's Apache License. Of course, this isn't anything new -- HTC does the same, mainly releasing only stuff that it has to by virtue of the kernel's GPL licensing -- and considering the customizations all these guys are doing, it's not an entirely surprising way to go about it. In other words, don't expect custom firmware to start popping up left and right -- not until our ever-trusty hacking community figures out a way to fully circumvent the eFuse noise.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: apache, apparently-left, bits, customizations, droidx, engadget, expect-custom, htc, nearly-airtight, result, virtue, words