HTC Strengthens Management Team

HTC are making some structure changes within their organization, changes that will strengthen their management team and prepare them for future growth.

Read the full press release after the break....

HTC Shipping Desire and Nexus One with Super LCDs due to high demand

Due to such high demand for HTC, specifically their 3.7" range devices they are now shipping the Nexus One and Desire models with Sony provided Super TFT LCD screens.

Read the full press release after the break....

HTC Sense Will Appear On Windows Phone 7 (Kinda)

HTC's Drew Bamford told Forbes that Sense UI will still appear in the company's Windows Phone 7 creations, and believes it will live on in Android 3.0 (Gingerbread) as well.

"Microsoft has taken firmer control of the core experience," 

acknowledged Bamford, who added that Sense wouldn't be fully integrated into WP7 phones, but that HTC would "augment" the Microsoft experience with as-yet-undisclosed functionality of its own.

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HTC HD2 Running Android 2.2

7 minute video after the break of the HTC HD2 running Android Froyo (2.2).....

Major Privacy Flaw With HTC Sense OS

A report coming out today from Boy Genius Report is claiming and proving that the HTC Sense randomly creates Jpg files of websites you have visited and saves them to the phones system folders.

Whats the problem, is that even if you format the entire phone back to factory defaults these images remain on the phone, so if you sold your phone these images would be visibleto anyone who knows their way around HTC Sense.

An image could be of your internet banking statement for example.

HTC will probably move quickly on this with a patch, lets hope so anyway.

Specs Comparison: iPhone 4 Vs. HTC EVO 4G, Nokia N8, Palm Pre Plus and HTC HD2

Nice comparison by Engadget show the main players devices and how they stack up against each other, the new iPhone 4 comes out well but surprising the new N8 running Symbian ^3 comes out very well.

See the enlarged image after the break...

Droid Incredible confirmed to be suffering from AMOLED shortage

Being completely unable to keep a popular device in stock is a great problem to have, I suppose, but considering that Verizon Wireless' Lowell McAdam believes he could sell "twice" the number of Droid Incredibles that he has available, that's got to be a bit of a bummer if you're one of the company's bean counters (or a would-be buyer, for that matter). 

Flash 10.1 on Froyo goes tete-a-tete with Flash Lite 4 on Eclair: butter vs. stutter (video)

The newly-upgraded Nexus One isn't the first Android smartphone to have Adobe Flash video capability, nor even the first to play said content on a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU.  

Europe's had the HTC Desire since April, which sports a little something called Flash Lite even on the older Android 2.1 OS. Will frozen yogurt outperform puff pastry on its home turf? Find out in a video showdown after the break. 

Hands-on with HTC EVO 4G

The HTC EVO 4G will be the first phone in the U.S. to take advantage of Sprint’s 4G cell network, up to 10x faster than current 3G speeds. The Android handset will also be one of the most powerful “superphones” to hit the U.S. market when it launches June 4.

Check out the video after the break

HTC EVO 4G Review

This is the phone many have been waiting for, me anyway, its the HTC Evo 4G WiMax phone. It has a huge 4.3-inch WVGA display, 8 megapixel camera with 720p video recording, HDMI-out, and WiMAX compatibility and a Snapdragon processor.


For the full written review by Engadget head here


Check out the videos after the break

HTC Wildfire

Quick video tour of the new HTC Wildfire over at Tracy & Matt's blog, looks nice, Android 2.1 so lots of nice stuff.  The screen is a little squashed looking which makes web browsing seem a little strange but the screen seems quite wide.

Check out the video after the break.

HTC Mondrian with 1.3GHz Snapdragon detailed in leaked Windows Phone 7 ROM ?

As expected, the official-looking Windows Phone 7 OS ROM leaked over the weekend is already yielding results. Pictured above is an image extracted from the "oemavatar.cab." 


Now that could be a generic Windows Phone 7 image or it could be the HTC Mondrian already seen referenced by the 100MB file. The people at XDA-Developers have also pieced together specs from an ongoing analysis of the registry and RGU files. So far they've spotted references to a 4.3-inch WVGA (480x800) display from Optrex and a1.3GHz QSD8650A/B Snapdragon from Qualcomm.


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HTC files patent complaint against Apple, asks for ban on iPhone, iPad, and iPod

the Taiwanese phone manufacturer just filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission, asking for importation and sales of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod be halted due to alleged infringement of five patents. ITC complaints like this are pretty familiar territory.

Nokia and Apple have both asked for similar bans in their lawsuit against each other but the interesting thing here is that HTC apparently hasn't filed a corresponding federal lawsuit.

We'll see if that's the next step for HTC down the line, so stay tuned.

Seattle – May 12, 2010 – HTC Corporation today took legal action against Apple Inc., filing a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) to halt the importation and sale of the iPhone, iPad and iPod in the United States.

"As the innovator of the original Windows Mobile PocketPC Phone Edition in 2002 and the first Android smartphone in 2008, HTC believes the industry should be driven by healthy competition and innovation that offer consumers the best, most accessible mobile experiences possible," said Jason Mackenzie, vice president of North America, HTC Corporation. "We are taking this action against Apple to protect our intellectual property, our industry partners, and most importantly our customers that use HTC phones."

HTC's commitment to innovation has continued for more than a decade as it has focused on building a portfolio of the world's most advanced smartphones that are inspired by consumers and provide them with a variety of choices in software, design, form-factor, price and wireless carrier. Today, consumers in the United States can choose between 12 HTC smartphones with the national wireless carriers. HTC has continuously strived to bring innovative smartphone choices to consumers, like the recently unveiled HTC EVO 4G with Sprint, DROID Incredible by HTC with Verizon Wireless and the HTC HD2 with T-Mobile. For more information on HTC's long-standing commitment to consumers innovation and choice go to: www.htc.com/quietlybrilliant

About HTC
HTC Corporation (HTC) is one of the fastest growing companies in the mobile phone industry. By putting people at the center of everything it does, HTC creates innovative smartphones that better serve the lives and needs of individuals. For more information about HTC, please visit www.htc.com.

UPDATE: Below is the full list of what HTC claim are infringements of their technology, HTC only need to prove one of them but put Apple in a bad place.

Patent #6,999,800 - Method for power management of a smartphone: HTC's asserting seven of the 14 claims in this patent, which covers independently switching the phone and PDA subsystems of a smartphone between off, standby, and normal in order to conserve power. This one obviously only concerns the iPhone and potentially the iPad 3G, since this patent only covers devices that have a "mobile phone system" -- the ITC will have to decide if the iPad 3G's data modem falls into that definition.

Patent #5,541,988 - Telephone dialler with a personalized page organization of telephone directory memory: These next three are related, as they were split apart from a single original patent application. '988 here has some 32 claims, of which HTC is only asserting two against Apple -- the first is a speed dial system with open and locked banks of numbers that requires an access control to get at the private bank, and the second involves scanning through a list of stored numbers with a "scan manipulation device." Obviously the ITC will have to decide if the iPhone's screen meets that definition.

Patent #6,058,183 (PDF) - Telephone dialler with a personalized page organization of telephone directory memory: This one also has to do with the phone dialer, obviously -- HTC is alleging three claims out of 32, which covers operating a telephone dialer with memory organized into multiple directories composes of pages, moving between the pages with a "page selection device," scanning through the telephone information on the page, selecting the number, and placing a call or adding a number using the numeric keypad. It's hard to see how the iPod and either iPad fall under some of these claims, since they can't place calls.

Patent #6,320,957 - Telephone dialler with easy access memory: The third of the dialing troika. '957 has 44 total claims, of which HTC alleges Apple infringes eight, covering essentially the same territory as the others: a dialer with memory that's organized into pages that can be accessed by ID numbers that can be displayed on the screen, as well as matching caller ID information to the address book and displaying the names on the screen. Again, it's hard to see how the iPod or either iPad would infringe some of these claims, since they can't place or receive calls.

Patent #7,716,505 (PDF) - Power control methods for a portable electronic device: Only four claims total in '505, and HTC's alleging Apple infringes three. They cover moving data from RAM to flash and cutting power to the RAM, CPU and flash when the battery amount falls below a certain level and restoring operation once the battery is charged back up, and turning back on when an input signal is received. We honestly don't know if Apple's devices work this way, but those are the claims -- and this one could potentially cover the iPod and iPad as well, so at least there's that.

Opera Spotted With HTC Evo 4G

See it pays to be rich and famous, Opera not that she even realised it had one of the greatest and first 4G phones in her hand.

Checkout the video below

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