According to a recent conference call, shipments of HTC-branded handsets are expected to grow 5-6% on year in the fourth quarter, whereas ODM shipments are expected to come to the end of their business cycles (which means hat HTC no longer building devices for other OEMs like they did before ex. iPaqs, SE Xperia , [...]
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Weee, here’s some big news. Mighty Google, just announced that they have sign an agreement to acquire AdMob, the mobile display advertising company (you know, all those sucky ads you see in your iPhone and Android apps…it’s them). For a boatload of cash/stock…. US$750 Million ! Wonder what Microsoft’s reaction will be now (or [...] According to the UK online retailer Devicewire their first bach of unlocked HTC HD2s should arrive on Friday 13th. But you’ll have to be fast to get yours because the second shipment isn’r expected until sometime in December: “devicewire.com currently has additional stock not yet allocated to pre-orders. Whilst orders are continuing to be processed devicewire.com [...] #gallery-1 { Here’s a hands-on video of the HTC Droid Eris (Verizon’s version of the HTC Hero) for those intersted in it. Nothing really new obviouslyother than the new phisical design comapred to the original Hero oand Sprint’s version: Source: IntoMobile [...] The Itatlian boys at HDBlog.it another HTC HD2 video, this time demonstrating the browser’s speed (Opera Mobile 9.7) against the iPhone 3GS. As you can see, the iPhone 3GS either slightly faster or equal to the HTC HD2 (who btw doesn’t render the hdblog.it correctly). It should be noted that the HD2 is rendering 2.5x more [...] HDBlog.it just posted a video of the HTC HD2 running two GPS navigation applications, TomTom and CoPilot Live: The HD2’s 4.3″ screen looks freaking huge in this video btw. Source: HDBlog.it Unfortunately it’s not Windows Mobile 6.5. Just a small “Notifications Enhancement” : This update for HTC Touch HD combines your SMS function with our unique notifications to bring you your messages as soon as you get them. You will receive notifications whenever your phone is powered on and has reception, allowing you to stay close to [...] Seeing as everybody got the story twisted I decided not to report about it earlier. Now that the dust has settled I will try to make things a little bit clearer.. For whatever reason a couple of blogs reported that Microsoft was no longer going to license Windows Mobile directly to OEMs/ODMs and handed this [...] Here’s an interesting piece of news that totally went under the radar, especially after all the Nokia vs Apple lawsuit talk a couple of days ago. The big news is that Samsung is going to renew its licensing deals with Qualcomm and pay them $1.3 Billion to use patents related to third- and fourth-generation wireless technology [...] Looks like Samsung has already planned a couple of promo videos of the Behold II which just leaked on youtube ahead of the November 12th unveiling. The first thing we learn is that the devices is unfortunately shipping with Android 1.6 (Cupcake) instead of 1.6 or even 2.0. An upgrade to Android 2.0 is [...] Tracy & Matt have just posted a video hands-on of the HTC HD2. Let’s just say that it isn’t the best we’ve seen yet. To paraphrase what the reviewer says “the touch-screen doesn’t have full multi-touch because it doesn’t work with the on-screen keyboard” what the heck ? He just demonstrated multi-touch zooming in the [...] |
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