Tizen is the talk of the mobile town at the minute. Android’s still charging on unfazed, but the arrival of a newcomer to any scene will always cause a stir – and that’s exactly what the new open source OS from Samsung, Intel and others is doing. Today it seems to have gained a powerful new follower: is HTC prepping a Tizen phone to call is own? Read more
Back in March, we reported that HTC was planning to port Ice Cream Sandwich to a whole laundry list of its previous devices, including the Desire S, Incredible S and the Desire HD. While no date’s been pencilled next to those names, the community of Android hackers are trying to beat HTC to it: a port of Android 4.0.3 has just landed for the Desire HD, and we’re gonna tell you how (and why) to get it. Read more
Oh hello. The HTC Desire C broke cover unofficially only yesterday, but today we’ve had official confirmation that it’s coming from HTC, and will be available on Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, Virgin Media, Three, O2 and Tesco Mobile as of early June. It’s pitched as a budget Android 4.0 handset, but, well… Is it too expensive to sit in that gap? Read more
Finally. We’ve been banging on about the lack of truly cheap Android 4.0 handsets for a while now, but it looks like HTC is set to do something about it with this: the HTC Desire C. What’s under the bonnet, and has HTC struck the right blend of hardware for price? Read on for the details.
Remember HTC’s run of Facebook-focussed smartphones? They didn’t exactly set the market alight, but found a home with a fair few fans nonetheless. Now there’s word of a ‘Facebook Phone’ round two, but will HTC want to leverage the social network’s biggest new asset? Read more
Time moves quickly in mobile. So much so that a sequel to a 2010 phone can seem like a blast from the past. The HTC One V is just that, a reminder of a time when Android phones weren’t just about the biggest screen size, at the expense of potential customers who weren’t NBA basketball players. It’s even brought HTC’s old trademark “chin” along for the ride.
This morning, Samsung sent out press invites to an announcement event on May 3rd, which it claims will be an opportunity to ‘come and meet the next Galaxy’. It’s undoubtedly going to mark the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S3, but what can we expect?
We’ve been through all the rumours and supposed specs before, but we thought it’d be best to look at the current benchmarks and see what Samsung has to beat. Join us on a tour of our dream Android specs… Read more
We’re big fans of the HTC One X here. In our review, we called it the best Android phone money can buy. It’s a shame, then, that word is filtering out of a problem in the handset’s design that causes it to flex and discolour when held too tightly. Is it a major design flaw? Read on for all the details. Read more
