Among the most eagerly awaited gadgets this year are the new Google Nexus Sailfish and Marlin designs. The recent released of apparently leaked photos of these devices show us what to expect, assuming that they are genuine photos. It has been suggested that the new phones will both be built by HTC. The Nexus Sailfish is the smaller of the two models, at 5 inches compared to the 5.5 inch size of the Nexus Marlin. Apart from the difference in size, it is said that there is going to be very little difference between the two Nexus phones,...
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The new HTC phone with fingerprint scanner has just been announced. It is called the HTC One Max and it was revealed to the world earlier than planned because of the leaking of details online. It is a bigger, phablet style version of the popular HTC One handset, is powered by Android and comes with a 5.9 inch screen. The fact that the Samsung Galaxy S4 has outsold the HTC One has been given as one of the main reasons why the firm recently suffered its first ever quarterly loss. The July to September results came in with a £62 million...
Taiwan-based smartphone maker HTC announced on Friday that it will be pulling out its operations in Brazil due to poor performance that resulted in a decline in shares in the smartphone market. The company said that it will lay off the staff it employs and stop the wholesale sales of its products. Reports say that the company has already notified some of its employees as early as last week because of the decline in market shares due to the increased competition from rivals Nokia, Samsung, Apple and LG. The company will also cancel the...
Apple Inc. has won a close battle against Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp. in their battle for smartphone patents after the United States International Trade Commission (US ITC) found that HTC has infringed one of the patents of Apple. The ITC ruled that HTC violated an Apple patent for a “system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer generated data.” The patent is for when a user taps a phone number located in an email to make a call. Even though the ruling of the ITC is in favor of Apple, the Taiwanese...
If you have an Evo 3D or Thunderbolt phone then you will want to know about the latest HTC Android security findings. It seems that any app you put on the phone with internet permissions can get into your contact details and your email account among other things and then send it off to someone else. That’s right, any old app which can access the internet can spirit away the most private details on your phone. The research into this matter was released in the Android Police blog and the issue seems to be down to a recent update which...
Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC is releasing the HTC Sensation XE, the first in a line of smartphones that features the Beats audio technology, in the UK next month. The company claimed that the Sensation XE smartphone will feature a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor and an extended battery that will boost the phone’s battery life and performance further than previous smartphones. When it is used with the included Beats by Dr. Dre in-ear earphones, the mobile phone automatically switches to the Beats by Dr. Dre sound profile, which...
Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC is considering acquiring Hewlett-Packard’s WebOS or buying another mobile operating system, according to some reports. According to an interview, Cher Wang, chairwoman of HTC, said that the members of the board have been thinking and looking at options whether the company will buy its own operating system, but ni decisions have been made. HTC has a range of smartphones that run Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating systems. “We have given it thought, and we have...
Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC is paying $309 million for a 51 percent share in Beats Electronics, maker of high-end headphones. Beats Electronics is well known for its partnership with music producer and rapper Dr. Dre. The Beats deal is the fifth acquisition of HTC this year and it will allow the company to integrate its sound technology into HTC smartphones. Like other phone makers that use the Android OS, HTC is trying to differentiate its phones from competitors like Motorola and Samsung. HTC said that it will release smartphones...
HTC has announced that its new HTC EVO 3D smartphone will be launched in September, two months later than the phone’s planned July release. The Taiwan-based tech company confirmed to tech site Slashgear that the European version of the EVO 3D smartphone will arrive two months after it was expected. HTC gave no reason why the phone’s release was delayed and we think that there might be some problems to its inventory and manufacturing process. It could also be a tactic which will put it head to head with the iPhone 5. In an...
Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC has recorded a massive increase in its mobile phone sales over the past year. For the month of June, the smartphone sales of HTC were 87.8 percent higher than June last year, which helped pause a decrease on its stock price, which had dropped 19 percent since early June. HTC’s increase in sales makes the company the fifth best handset maker in the world, just one place behind Apple. A number of financial analysts thought that the growth of HTC will stop and would remain flat year on year. It...
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