htc articles
If you do not get your data off of HTC’s backup service at HTCSense.com before April 30th, you are out of luck. HTC is shutting down HTCSense and deleting every shred of users’ data. You might be asking if it makes sense to erase Sense – pun intended. Here is our evaluation of HTC’s crazy thinking.
HTC states that they are under construction of a new Sense and that when it is ready, they will notify customers. However, that begs the question, why destroy the old one before the new one is built, tested, and in place? Does this not alienate their customers and undermine customer confidence? +Continue Reading
HTC realizes that it needs to overhaul its entire line of phones, but is it doing what it needs fast enough and is it being instituted as widely as it needs to please the public? Of course, the company line is to glamorize it as an already achieved success, but reality proves otherwise. This reality can be seen in the so-called “new” HTC phones for 2012: One S, One X and One V which were announced at MWC 2012.
Head of UK marketing for HTC, James Atkins tried to justify the slow and inconsistently applied changes, “We are still a young company and everything in our market is changing so quickly.” Is this a statement or an excuse? After all, HTC made a rather meteoric rise from white label to the top Android phone. But it slipped, yielding to Samsung and would rather forget this entire time period and start afresh. +Continue Reading
Millions of Americans were tapped secretly by a nefarious software company, and with the aid of Samsung and HTC. The controversy is a tornado twisting about Carrier IQ. This company loaded tracking software on consumers’ mobile phones, which has sparked two lawsuits to start with.
The plaintiffs filed the suit on Thursday against Carrier IQ, Samsung, and HTC, claiming the companies failed to adhere to a federal statute banning wiretapping.
Hundreds of millions of dollars are being sought through the class action lawsuits. The plaintiffs filed them in the Chicago and St. Louis courts to win restitution for Americans whose phones had been loaded with the software in question. The basis for these suits is the Federal Wiretap Act. The penalty is $100 daily for each count, violating the ban on “intercepting oral, wire and electronic communications.” +Continue Reading
The HTC Vivid is a bulky phone, which is the first impression when it plops into your hands out of the box. It is no feather-weight at 176 grams (6.24 ounces). The thickness is similar to some of the newest notebooks, at 11.2mm (0.44 inches). There is no good reason for the bulk, either. Try to figure it out as you may, you will end up without excuse.
Compare this bulk to the promise made by Ralph de la Vega at CTIA this year. He swore AT&T LTE phones would be both thinner and longer lasting. Of course, he could only have been referring to the Galaxy S II.
The performance of the HTC is similarly disappointing. When compared against the Galaxy SII Skyrocket and the Droid RAZR, Vivid took last place in everything. You might be asking yourself how that can be, with the dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8060 powering the phone. Perhaps the blame can be laid on the qHD pixels and Sense. +Continue Reading
The HTC EVO View 4G is a beautiful 1.7 GHz gadget, with an attractive active pen input, but the Sprint plan that is required to purchase it at $399 (+ $35 monthly for the plan) may shy customers off.
In size, the HTC EVO View 4G is nearly identical to the Samsung Galaxy Tab, even weighing in at 0.9 lbs, it is a mere 0.1 lbs heavier. It’s appearance, though, is that of a knockoff of the Wi-Fi-only HTC Flyer. Yet, it looks more elegant dusted in the charcoal gray finish.
The Home, Menu, Back, and Stylus buttons shift their position based on the rotation of the screen, so they are always on the bottom. It is an amazing development that makes you scratch your head and say, “Why didn’t anyone come up with this before?” +Continue Reading
According to some reports, HTC pays $5 to Microsoft for each Android device they sells. Walter Pritchard released a report this morning in which he claims that Microsoft, best known for its Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite, receives $5 per device.
HTC Corporation, founded in 1997, produces the Android and Windows Mobile based smartphones. HTC launched their first device back in 2006 and now they have dozens of products around the world; recently they announced that the HTC Diamond will overcome iPhone market hold.
According to Business Inside, Walter Pritchard who is analyst of Citigroup released a report in which he disclosed that HTC adds $5 to Microsoft’s account on every sale of Android device by HTC. He added that so far HTC had sold 30 millions Android sets and added $150 million of worth in Microsoft’s wealth. Well, this is not over, Microsoft is suing other Android manufacturers too, to seek $7.50 and $12.50 per device. +Continue Reading
HTC Sensation 4G is now official and as expected it is almost similar with HTC EVO 3D except two things. Firstly, it’s not 3D and secondly, it has a better camera at the back. On the other hand it has a 4.3 inches Super LCD display which is similar to the EVO 3D besides the same 1.2 GHz Snapdragon processor and the same version of Android, Android 2.3 Gingerbread. This smartphone also includes the newest version of HTC’s Android customization called Sense 3.0. This version of Sense has some new features and tweaks which makes it more user-friendly and effective.
+Continue Reading
If you do not get your data off of HTC’s backup service at HTCSense.com before April 30th, you are out of luck. HTC is shutting down HTCSense and deleting every shred of users’ data. You might be asking if it makes sense to erase Sense – pun intended. Here is our evaluation of HTC’s crazy thinking.
