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HTC executive: “iPhones are for old people”

  Martin Fichter, acting president or HTC America makes a stimulating market observation as Chris Taylor at Mashable points out: Speaking at the Mobile Future Forward conference in Seattle, Fichter related a story about taking his daughter to Reed College in Portland, where he took an informal survey of her dormitory buddies. “None of them [...]

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HTC EVO 3D: Not Vodafone UK, but possibly other territories

Now then, I’ve had quite a few emails from readers hunting for the rather gorgeous HTC Evo 3D phone on Vodafone UK. The operator *was* going to range it, however plans have changed. You won’t get it in the UK via Vodafone. However the company’s representatives point out that if you’re abroad, living somewhere with [...]

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361 degrees podcast – Episode 7: Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be

361 degrees podcast – Episode 7: Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be

  Listen! This week we reminisce about the devices we’ve owned and loved over the years. We highlight a few we think were real ‘market changers’, a few lemons and speculate about who might make the next game-changer. Rafe also lets slip the secret of his magic drawers. Amongst the devices we discuss this week are [...]

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HTC’s Chacha hits 3UK, check out Sedge’s video

In the UK, the mobile operator is king. If they don’t range your handset, then the chances of it selling in volume are pretty poor. The UK market — like a few others in Europe — is heavily, heavily dependent on ‘free phones’ (or operator subsidy). Consumers don’t mind paying a little bit of cash [...]

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Uplinq: Steve Perlman of OnLive shows off full-motion gaming on HTC Flyer tablet

Do take a few minutes to have a look at this rather fantastic offering from OnLive. Steve Perlman, CEO of the company, was invited on to the Uplinq stage by HTC’s Peter Chou to showcase what they’re doing with the all new HTC Flyer tablet. Essentially you’ll be able to experience phenomenal full-motion, fully-size, full-experience [...]

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HP, HTC, Nokia headlining at Qualcomm’s Uplinq event

Look at that list there. That tells you something about the ecosystem that Qualcomm has created in recent years. Uplinq is Qualcomm’s annual developer conference in San Diego and if my experience there last year was anything to go by, this year’s event (June 1st-2nd) is going to be fantastic. The keynote speakers themselves are [...]

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First look: HTC Mozart, Windows Phone 7 hits Orange

Here’s Conor from Orange UK showing off the latest HTC Mozart device that’s hitting the UK on the 21st of October. It’s a useful video overview of the basic Windows Phone user interface. See what you think:

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HTC Legend/My Tracks monitoring Tour de France riders

HTC Legend/My Tracks monitoring Tour de France riders

Team HTC-Columbia are currently whizzing through Stage 6 of the Tour de France bicycle race and right now, one of the riders, Maxime Monfort (age 27) is traveling at 36km/h and is delivering 241 Watts of power on top of a 102bpm heart rate. How do I know this? Well his HTC Legend phone is [...]

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Marketplace: HTC EVO 4G for sale

HTC Evo 4G WiMax Android Phone (Sprint) – Unboxing A reader emailed me this morning to point out that having returned to the UK from the Google I/O conference, he’s got an HTC EVO 4G device that’s utterly useless in the United Kingdom since it’s CMDA only. Ergo he’s wondering if someone else can make [...]

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HTC Smart (the Brew one) launches on India’s Airtel at £148 price point

HTC Smart (the Brew one) launches on India’s Airtel at £148 price point

Good news for Qualcomm and HTC as they continue their race across the simply stupendously large development marketplace. To India, then — Bharti Airtel have announced that they will launch the HTC Smart in 30 Indian cities. The ‘market operating price’ will be 9,990 Rupees — or approximately 148 Pounds Sterling ($222). Now in a [...]

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Vodafone is on a roll; opens Legend pre-ordering

Vodafone is on a roll; opens Legend pre-ordering

Vodafone’s UK handset team are on a roll. They really are. If you’re looking for a new handset and one of the widest selections of new handsets, you should be examining Vodafone. Hardly a week goes by when I haven’t had a piece of news in from the nice ladies at Shine Communications telling me [...]

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HTC Smart is the world’s first ‘budget smartphone’ (running Brew!)

HTC Smart is the world’s first ‘budget smartphone’ (running Brew!)

When I saw the above device, the HTC Smart, I did a double-take. BREW? I’d heard the rumblings of HTC’s latest foray into a new market segment (“the budget smartphone’) with Brew, but I’d never thought it would look as good as it does. So. Meet the HTC Smart. This is the first in a [...]

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