HTC is revamping its Android lineup with the One series of marquee phones. The company has just introduced the One X, One S, and One V Android phones, and it has also announced Sense 4, the newest version of the love-it-or-hate-it Android skin. Keep up with all of the announcements and hands-on impressions as they come in...
Although the worldwide patent lawsuits between Apple and nearly every major Android smartphone vendor have been bitterly fought and may eventually involve government intervention, there's really no day-to-day impact on the consumer — Apple,...
Barcelona, Spain: a city so important to mobile, the GSM Association has crowned it "Mobile World Capital," home of the annual Mobile World Congress trade show, through 2018. Each February, it's a place where the heavies of the wireless industry come from every corner of the globe to wheel, deal, and steer strategic initiatives that will affect mobile subscribers for years to come. With global...
HTC's new One series of Android smartphones garnered much of the attention and praise at Mobile World Congress this year. That's partially because the One X, One S, and One V are each compelling phones, but mainly the attention came because the One line represents a significant change in strategy for HTC. For the past few months, HTC has been a company adrift, losing marketshare and mindshare to its competitors.
The One series represents HTC’s attempt to get back on course, both in terms of hardware and software. HTC's AVP of User Experience, Drew Bamford, explains that all of HTC is aligned behind the new strategy: "Over the past year there's been a desire across multiple teams to become more focused. [...] That's the result you're seeing in HTC One."
HTC was trying to emulate Samsung
For the past year or so, the...
"There are always improvements to make and we feel we're making huge improvements on the base Android user experience." Drew Bamford, HTC
We've been hearing for a while that the next version of Android will be called Jelly Bean, in accordance with Google's alphabetized and dessert-inspired naming scheme for the platform. Short of some none-too-subtle hinting, however, the company seems reticent to address the issue in public. Well,...
Tegra 3, Nvidia's new quad-core chip for smartphones and tablets, has been the most talked-about new processor at MWC 2012. Its popularity continues a habit the company established last year when almost every phone maker had a Tegra 2 handset to...
Microsoft has just tweeted out the news that its Consumer Preview build of Windows 8 has been downloaded one million times within the first day of availability. Although still in its beta form, Windows 8 has attracted attention and sparked imaginations in a very big way, so...
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In an interview with ARM lead mobile strategist James Bruce at Mobile World Congress today, we inquired about the status of the company's...
Microsoft covered a lot of ground this morning, giving us a look at the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, the new OS running on ARM tablets, and the Windows Store. If you've read our live coverage and...
Microsoft clearly wants to get ARM-based hardware in the hands of Windows 8 developers as quickly as possible — Nvidia is announcing that it's working with Microsoft to distribute test PCs running on Tegra 3 hardware to both software developers and device manufacturers. This news comes just one day after Microsoft and Qualcomm announced a s...
Huawei didn't go nearly as far as ZTE in releasing a bunch of Android phones, but the company did actually expand its 2012 lineup more than it let on while unveiling the Ascend D quad. The "Diamond" line includes the aforementioned quad, the D quad XL with a larger battery, and the Ascend D1. The...
Microsoft's Windows 8 Consumer Preview was made available to download yesterday, giving everyone a chance to experience the company's most revolutionary change in user interface since Windows 95. The interaction paradigm has shifted from a mouse-centric desktop to a touch-friendly, highly visual Metro style UI. The old Start orb has been retired and replaced by a Charms bar, which is brought to life with an inward swipe from the right. A swipe from the top down dismisses the app you're in and returns you to the home screen, and the left and bottom edges also have actions associated with them. Gestures play a very significant role in...
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Microsoft is using its Windows 8 Consumer Preview event to show off some examples of hardware that'll come fresh out of the box with the new OS when it ships later this year. The company has demonstrated both ARM and Intel x86 flavors of Windows 8...
We're starting to see the first demos of working Metro apps for Windows 8. Amazon has created a Metro version of its Kindle app — no surprise, really, given that the company has been supporting as many platforms as possible, PC included. M...
Skype's big news this week is the release of a beta Windows Phone client — the first fruit of its collaboration with new owner Microsoft — and we circled back with the company today to get some more clarity on the product and its plans for the...
The biggest splash of MWC 2012 was made by HTC's One X, a 4.7-inch Android 4.0 phone whose skyscraping spec sheet is built around the quad-core Tegra 3 processor. Unless you live in the United States, that is. In the world's most important smartphone market, HTC will be shipping the One X with a dual-core chip. Wherefore, you ask? Simple: AT&T is the network carrying the phone and, much like its nearest and dearest rival Verizon, it now demands LTE in all of its high-end smartphones.
You can't have a hero device on either of the two big US carriers without an LTE modem in it. And the...
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