The HTC Facebook phone? It’s real, and here it is. Or, rather here’s one of them. Say hi to the HTC ChaCha. Your eyes aren’t deceiving you, this is an entirely new shape, an entirely new design for HTC (notice the extra long “chin”) and yes, that’s a Facebook button on the front.
We’re bringing the heat this morning with your daily dose of tech. In today’s US Update we uncover the latest forecasts on mobile Adobe on Flash Player installs, look at the new iPhone 5 prototype with a hardware keyboard, check out the upcoming quad-core Snapdragon processors and more.
The wait is over. Words with Friends is now available in the Android Market. The self-proclaimed number one word game is compatible across platforms, allowing play between iOS and Android with ease. If you’ve been wondering why millions of iOS users have been raving about this Scrabble-style word game, it’s showtime.
LG is taking off the gloves, ready to battle the Apple iPad with their own wonder tablet, the Android-powered, dual-core Optimus Pad. In a fresh new video authored by the manufacturer, the two minute clip shows off the specs and brings a side-by-side comparison for you to decide a champion. Ready to wage war?
Forget the quad-core OMAP5 platform and the dual-core Samsung Exynos, it’s Snapdragon time. Qualcomm rocked the mobile industry this afternoon at Mobile World Congress with their next-generation, quad-core Snapdragon CPU architecture and Adreno GPU. With speeds of up to 2.5 GHz per core, the quad-core Snapdragon chipset is set to redefine the modern tablet.
Think you’ve heard it all? Think again. According to Apple rumor site apple.pro, not only is Apple working on the traditional iPhone 5 and an iPhone mini prototype, they’re also working on a third model — complete with a hardware QWERTY keyboard. Is this the real deal?
Still believing that Adobe Flash support is as trivial as Apple’s head honcho Steve Jobs suggests? According to Adobe, more than 20m smartphones were shipped or upgraded to Adobe Flash Player 10.1 on over 35 certified devices in the first sixth months following launch. Yes friends, Flash matters.
It’s been quite the busy afternoon in gadgetry, courtesy of the world’s biggest mobile expo, Mobile World Congress, going on in Barcelona right now. See what’s been going on there and elsewhere here in our teatime tech news roundup.
