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HTC Touch Diamond3 is AMOLED WM7 Obsession?

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jan 22nd 2010 1 Comment

htc touch diamond2 10 480x467 The tipped HTC Obsession Windows Mobile 7 smartphone could end up as the HTC Touch Diamond3, sequel to the Diamond2. According to WMPoweruser’s tipster, the Obsession/Diamond3 will have a 3.7-inch AMOLED display using a multitouch-capable capacitive touchscreen, run a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor (like the HTC HD2) and have a 5-megapixel autofocus camera capable of 720p HD 25fps video.

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HTC Bravo caught on camera en route to T-Mobile?

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jan 20th 2010 2 Comments

htc bravo leak live 375x500 Out of all the smartphones on HTC’s leaked 2010 roadmap, undoubtedly the most interesting was the HTC Bravo. A device strikingly similar to the Google Nexus One, complete with HSDPA/HSUPA connectivity, a 3.7-inch touchscreen and a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, the Bravo also throws HTC’s well-esteemed Sense UI into the mixture. Now one of the first images of the Bravo in the wild has turned up.

With it comes the first tidbit of carrier information we’ve heard; according to Omio the Bravo (which may get a different name by the time it arrives on shelves) is headed to T-Mobile. They reckon it’ll land from free on contracts £35 ($57) or above, presumably with a two-year agreement.

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HTC HD2 firmware update

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jan 20th 2010 1 Comment

HTC have pushed out a reasonably significant firmware update for the HD2, addressing in-call voice quality as well as tweaking accelerometer performance. The update apparently improves automatic portrait/landscape orientation flips in the preinstalled Opera browser, together with offering what sounds like gapless music playback from the HD2's mediaplayer. Update: Antony points out that this update has been around for a while - Thanks! However HTC have also pulled the recent SMS update for the HD2, which users had mixed results with. No word from the company as to their reasons for doing so.

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T-Mobile HTC HD2 in March; myTouch Slide May 17th?

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jan 20th 2010 1 Comment

HTC HD2 T Mobile USA1 Details of T-Mobile USA’s upcoming handset launches have emerged, with TmoNews claiming to have release dates for several Android, Windows Mobile and other devices. Perhaps of most interest is the HTC HD2, previously confirmed for T-Mobile in the Spring and now expected in March 2010; we’re also curious about two new HTC Android phones, the T-Mobile myTouch Slide (which looks like it could be a QWERTY version of the HTC Magic/myTouch 3G) coming May 17th, and before that an update to the HTC myTouch 3G (described as v1.2) which throws in a 3.5mm headphone socket on February 10th.

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HTC abandons tablet PC plans – focus on smartphones for now

By Paul Fang on Tuesday, Jan 19th 2010 No Comments

The speculated HTC tablet running Google Chrome OS will have to be put on hold, as HTC’s sales and marketing director claims that the company has halted all work on a planned tablet PC, instead, the corporation will focus on smartphone development, using Google’s Android mobile operating system.

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Windows Mobile 7 Rumors Proliferate

By Paul Fang on Monday, Jan 18th 2010 1 Comment

With Mobile World Congress approaching next month, the flurry of rumors around the Windows 7 OS that might make or break Microsoft in the mobile operating system market have stepped up their pace.

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HTC Supersonic is Sprint’s WiMAX Android A9292?

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jan 18th 2010 No Comments

htc sprint logos Mention of an HTC smartphone for Sprint, the HTC A9292, that apparently packs WiMAX had us scratching our heads earlier in the month, but according to Engadget it does have potential. Their “trusted source” has been spilling some details about the handset – apparently codenamed Supersonic – which will supposedly run Android 2.1 with HTC Sense and have a 4.3-inch display in a “svelte shell”.

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HTC HD2’s capacitive stylus available to purchase for smartphones

By Paul Fang on Friday, Jan 15th 2010 2 Comments

It seems as if the world is trying to get rid of the stylus in favor of fingers, but HTC still manages to bring us a stylus, well, perhaps for those who still aren’t used to pinching and zooming and tapping and sliding on their smartphone.

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HTC HD2 WinMo 7 upgrade tipped by HTC support team

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jan 15th 2010 No Comments

Windows Mobile 7 has been in the headlines this week – and not for the best of reasons – when sources in Asia suggested it might be delayed into 2011, but there’s some potentially positive news for HTC HD2 owners or would-be owners. According to an email from HTC’s European customer support team to an xda-developers forum member, HTC plan to offer a free Windows Mobile 7 ROM download to HD2 owners “when it is available”.

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HTC HD2 update takes second shot at SMS woes

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jan 14th 2010 3 Comments

HTC have pushed out a second SMS hotfix for the HD2 today, described as a "new SMS function update". While the description is generic, it's believed that the new update might address ongoing SMS issues whereby outgoing messages fail to send and instead get stuck in the user's outbox.