06
Jul
2012
Electronista: New quarterly data indicates little change in the US cellphone market, according to research firm ComScore. Android devices continue to dominate as a platform, up 0.8 percent to account for 50.9 percent of smartphones. Apple’s iPhone, meanwhile, has grown 1.7 percent to claim a 31.9 percent share. (more…)
29
Jun
2012
Engadget: Apple and HTC might be at each other’s throats in court, but they’re living in peace and harmony in Pioneer’s world. The fresh new SMA wireless speaker line supports both Apple’s AirPlay format and HTC Connect-certified DLNA to take audio over WiFi no matter whether it’s coming from an iPhone or a One S. (more…)
27
Feb
2012
07
Jan
2010
HotHardware: We’ve heard a fair amount about the Google-branded Android phone codenamed the Nexus One in recent months. Now, Google has officially taken the covers off of the device and given us some hard-core specs.
For starters, the Nexus One is available for $179 (€124) if you’re willing to commit to a two-year service contract with T-Mobile. If you’d rather have an unlocked version, it’ll cost you $529 (€368).
Looking down the road, Verizon Wireless in the U.S. and Vodafone in Europe will begin offering subsidies on the Nexus One this spring. In terms of specifications, many of the rumors were right on the money.
The Nexus One will sport a 3.7-inch AMOLED display, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, compass, GPS, accelerometer, light and proximity sensors, 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, and a 3.5mm headphone jack.
The phone runs on the brand new Android 2.1 operating system and comes with 512MB of Flash memory as well as 512MB of RAM and a 4GB microSD card.
29
Nov
2008
Phones Review: For those prospective G1-ers who have been holding out for the Google Android T-Mobile G1 in white, your wait is over as T-Mobile is now selling the white version along with the bronze and black versions.
The T-Mobile white G1 will still command the same pricing as the G1 black and G1 bronze and is available online and in store now.
The word is HTC, the manufacturer of the Google Android G1 expects to now ship one million of the Android powered G1 by year’s end which is a rise of 67 percent on the original sales target.
26
Nov
2008
Techradar: HTC has apparently doubled its projected shipments of the T-Mobile G1 handset after demand for the device has soared to unprecedented levels.
The company now thinks it can shift a million of the new mobile phone by the end of 2009, outstripping a huge amount of its more powerful rivals’ releases by some margin.
Earlier projections of 400,000-600,000 from analysts have now been quashed, so Google must be feeling pretty content at the moment with its first effort.
Although it has only been available in the wild for a month so far, the imminent sales in countries such as the Netherlands, Austria and Germany will help drive demand even further.
14
Nov
2008
Electricpig: HTC has unveiled its much-rumoured “4G” phone in Russia – the world’s first handset to integrate WiMax and Wi-Fi cellular connectivity.
The manufacturer’s handset, the Max 4G, sports 8021.11b/g Wi Fi, tri-band GSM/GPRS/Edge and mobile WiMax. It also supports Bluetooth 2.0 plus it has built-in GPS and it supports VoIP calls.
It was developed for Russia’s Yota WiMax network that operates in Moscow and St Petersburg by local telecommunications company, Scartel.
The monster list of features continues with a 3.8inch, 480 x 800 touchscreen display, Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro, an accelerometer that auto-rotates the display when the phone’s turned through 90° plus a proximity sensor that turns off the display when you hold the phone up to your ear.
28
Oct
2008
ITProPortal: HTC has painted an optimistic picture regarding sales of its T-Mobile G1 handsets by claiming that it will manage to sell more than 600,000 such handsets before the year end.
In an interview given to Mercury News, Peter Chou, the CEO of HTC predicted that it will be selling much more than it has originally planned and also expressed the hope that the market for smartphones will increase at an appreciable rate.
If predictions made by Chou are to hold true then the G1 will possibly become the best selling handset from HTC till date and will sure give the Apple iPhone a run for its money.
In a related statement Chou also dismissed speculations regarding its giving a lower preference to Windows Mobile owing to the use of Google’s Android in the G1 handset by saying “Of course we are not de-prioritising Windows Mobile by any means. However, with Android we can do more.”
15
Oct
2008
IntoMobile: Android’s first phone, the G1 on T-Mobile, was originally pitched to sell around 400,000 units before the year was done.
Based on some fresh orders to manufacturer HTC, apparently the G1 has already reached 1.5 million sales in pre-orders alone, with lots more on the way once it hits shelves on October 22nd.
The hardware design has left a lot of folks unimpressed (after all, the thing hasn’t changed in about two and a half years), but the massively open source nature of the project will bait in a lot of developers and give the G1 plenty of software fighting juice to run on.
01
Oct
2008
Register Hardware: T-Mobile G1 manufacturer HTC plans to develop more handsets based on Android. It maintains this will not affect its Windows Mobile business – the Google platform and Microsoft’s are “complementary”, it claimed.
According to a report by DigiTimes, John Wang, Chief Marketing Officer at HTC, said that both systems have their merits, and so handsets based on either platform will appeal to different users.
For example, he said, Windows Mobile offers high performance, interoperability and a large library of applications. Android is more flexible because of its open source architecture.
24
Sep
2008
Telegraph.co.uk: Google has unveiled its first ever mobile phone, which the company hopes will rival the Apple iPhone. In the UK, Google’s G1 phone is available on T-Mobile. The G1 phone runs Android, an operating system that is designed to bring the desktop computing experience to mobile devices, by allowing people to surf the internet and carry out everyday tasks on the move.
The G1 gives one-touch access to popular Google online services, such as its email service, Gmail, the video-sharing website YouTube, instant-messaging via Google Talk, and its maps service, Google Maps. Users can instantly share photos taken on the three megapixel camera, and post them to the web.
The G1 is the first phone to have a compass built into it in addition to motion-sensing technology, meaning users can navigate using Google Maps just by rotating the phone in their hand. The phone has a 3.2in touchscreen as well as a slide-out Qwerty keyboard. It offers high-speed internet access via the 3G phone network, as well as via Wi-Fi.
The G1, which is made by HTC, comes with 2GB of memory built into the device, which is enough to store up to 500 songs, but this can be expanded to 8GB using an additional memory card.
17
Sep
2008
TrustedReviews: Just five days after the Touch HD was leaked HTC has bitten the bullet and announced the impressive looking handset to the world.
The good news doesn’t stop there either since the Touch HD does indeed live up to all the leaked info meaning it will sport a WVGA (480 x 800 pixel) touch and widescreen display, a five megapixel camera, WiFi, aGPS, a fast 528MHz Qualcomm 7201A processor, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, a microSD/SDHC expansion slot, large 1350mAH battery and that all important 3.5mm headset jack.
In related news HTC has also come clean about two other entry level handsets: the ‘Touch 3G’ and ‘Viva’ with the former looking like a proper version of the leaked Opal (HSDPA, 3.2MP camera, aGPS, microSD, 2.8in QVGA LCD) and the latter appealing to those on a budget by matching it apart from its absence of 3G.
