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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.
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HTC EVO View 4G is the 4G version of the recently announced HTC Flyer Tablet which was featured last month during MWC. Sprint announced HTC EVO View 4G same time with the announcement of HTC EVO 3D at the same time. It is a 7-inch tablet equipped with the 2.3 version of Android Gingerbread OS, but is not going to be an untouched version of Gingerbread. On top of that there will be HTC’s famous Sense UI which will be of course optimized specially for tablets. Still it might not be a good idea for HTC to release such a highly capable tablet with an older version of Android when the market is going to be flooded with Honeycomb tablets at the same time. We can hope that the Sense UI will make up some of the shortcomings of the older OS as HTC has decided to stick with Gingerbread.
The HTC EVO View 4G packs a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon single core processor supported by a sufficient 1 GB of RAM. Gingerbread will run smooth with this system and multitasking should do more than it is used to do. +Continue Reading
HTC EVO 3D is a 3D Gingerbread phone that was announced this year at CTIA and is powered by a powerful 1.2 GHz Qualcomm 8660 dual core processor plus a massive 4.3-inch qHD display. This phone was already expected and most of the specs were revealed before this official announcement. With its high processing power and huge display it packs a good number of features and makes it become a complete phone as well as a good competitor to the small screen tablets.
The first feature of this phone is the 3D feature that will you to experience the magic of 3D without any glasses. It’s not only 3D in displaying contents, but is also able of capturing 3D videos with dual 5 megapixel cameras.
In the press release HTC has mentioned even more options to use 3D (except watching movies or playing games) like 3D virtual tours of rooms, watching sports like being in the field or 3D mapping of terrain which will be helpful for the hikers and tourists. +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.
