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HTC Status now available on AT&T!
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As expected, the day has come and AT&T is now offering the HTC Status, which is the carrier’s version of the ChaCha. This Facebook-friendly phone rocks a dedicated button for accessing your favorite social network along with full QWERTY keyboard and touchscreen to make cyber schmoozing convenient. This privilege will get 50 bucks out of your pocket while at the same time requiring your signature on AT&T’s two-year contract with a plan starting at $39.99. Free shipping with online purchase comes included.
In a nutshell, the Status is not a device that will make you more productive, except if think of the time spent on Facebook as a job. If that’s the case, have no second thoughts – grab the S...
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HTC to appeal ITC ruling in Apple patent case
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HTC will appeal the U.S. International Trade Commission’s ruling that it is infringing on two of Apple’s patents. “Now the course of action is to appeal, we believe we have a very strong case, the attorney agrees with us, and therefore we will appeal,” HTC’s chief financial officer Winston Yung told The Wall Street Journal on Monday. On Friday, a U.S. ITC judge said that HTC was guilty of infringing on two of Apple’s patents that cover a “system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data,” and a “real-time signal processing system for serially transmitted data.” Apple originally filed the complaint last year, and HTC has filed its own lawsuit against Apple ...
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HTC Status "Facebook phone" now available from AT&T
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HTC's "don't call it the Facebook phone but it is a Facebook phone" Status is now available for purchase from AT&T. Fifty bucks and a new two-year agreement will net you an Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone with a 2.6-inch touchscreen and a portrait QWERTY keyboard. Of course, you also get a special button for all of your Facebooking needs, and HTC has included some Facebook-specific apps with the version of Sense that is installed on the Status. Take a look at our initial hands-on impressions and stay tuned for a more in-depth review.
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Judge finds HTC guilty of infringing two Apple patents; could mean trouble for Android [updated]
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A judge with the U.S. International Trade Commission on Friday ruled that HTC’s Android phones infringe on two of ten Apple patents covered in a complaint filed by the Cupertino-based company last year. “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement at that time. “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.” The ITC’s decision is an initial determination however, and it will now need to be reviewed by a six-member Commission. Apple’s complaint in this case covered a total of ten patents, and t...
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Another software update due for the HTC ThunderBolt soon?
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Even though the HTC ThunderBolt received its second software update last week (version 1.70.605.0), we've got word from one of our tipsters that another update may only be a couple weeks away.
The customer had contacted Verizon support via e-mail this week due to some issues with their ThunderBolt and was told about a new update that is due out soon. Some of the fixes are to include an issue with SMS/MMS messages going to the wrong contact, Gmail, and to resolve the pesky 4G data connection issue.
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HTC calls out Apple for competing in courts, not on products
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HTC has officially commented on yesterday’s news that Apple has added a fresh batch of patent infringement allegations to the ongoing legal action between the two companies, telling SlashGear that it “vehemently denies” all of Apple’s claims. “HTC is dismayed” the company’s general counsel, Grace Lei says, “that Apple has resorted to competition in the courts rather than the market place.” As expected, the second set of claims detail HTC’s more recent devices, including the EVO 4G and HTC Flyer tablet.
Patent law specialist Florian Mueller has dug out the full list of devices Apple has cited, and it’s basically a summary of the models HTC has released to the market prior to the fresh range a...
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Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) starts rolling out to Verizon's Droid Incredible 2
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Messin' with hacked ROMs? Fuhgetaboutit. HTC's Droid Incredible 2 is finally getting the Android 2.3 it has long deserved, with the luckiest of Verizon Wireless subscribers seeing the update pushed to their phones this evening. The update (coined 2.18.605.4) brings along performance improvements with mobile IM, solved Hotmail sync issues, better device connectivity, a built-in browser bookmark for the New York Times, the addition of the Wireless Charging UI and a new desktop dock app. Don't be shocked if it takes a week to get to your particular phone, but be sure to let us know how things go in comments once your turn arrives.
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HTC Status ships July 17th, currently in a pre-order relationship with AT&T
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Following the usual leak + wait-and-see saga, AT&T has today confirmed that it'll be the exclusive home to one half of HTC's Facebook-infused duo. The so-called Status will be making its way onto Ma Bell's airwaves on July 17th, with eager social networkers able to get their pre-orders in today. It'll sell for $49.99 on a two-year agreement, with that tally netting you a dedicated Facebook "Share" button that'll allow photos / videos /websites to be instantly uploaded to your account. We're also told that it'll ship with Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) onboard, with an "enhanced version" of HTC's Sense overlay. Other specs include a 5 megapixel camera (with autofocus and LED flash), a 2.6-inch t...
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Apple looks to block sale of HTC devices with new patent complaint
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Apple on Monday filed a new patent complaint with the International Trade Commission looking to block the sale of several HTC devices it claims infringe on Apple patents, Bloomberg reports. Apple recently filed a similar complaint with the ITC looking to block the sale of several Samsung smartphones and tablets that Apple feels copy the iPhone and iPad. The move was the latest in an ongoing legal battle between Samsung and Apple surrounding multiple patent disputes. Apple’s patent disputes with HTC date back even further, however — Apple first filed a patent complaint against against the Taiwan-based smartphone maker early in 2010. HTC responded by denying claims that it was infringing on Ap...
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HTC to unlock bootloader for Sensation 4G, EVO 3D by September
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HTC took to its Facebook page last night to update fans on the status of the unlocked bootloaders that it promised, back in May, would be coming. According to the new info, a few of HTC's top-tier smartphones should be getting unlocked bootloaders as early as September.
HTC says that unlocking the bootloader on phones, which allows users to install custom operating system software and make other tweaks, is a complicated process and requires a lot of testing to make sure that the phones work properly after being updated with an unlocked bootloader. The complexity of unlocking the bootloader is the reason why HTC has yet to do so on a number of its phones, even though it announced its new poli...
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HTC Desire Gingerbread action coming in July
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The will it, won't it saga seems close to an end now with HTC stating that the Android 2.3 update for the HTC Desire "will begin rolling out...by the end of July".
The statement was made on the UK HTC Facebook page - the same place the company stated back in June that the device wouldn't be getting the update as "there isn’t enough memory to allow us both to bring Gingerbread and keep the HTC Sense experience on the HTC Desire".
HTC, just a day later, backtracked though saying: "Contrary to what we said earlier, we are going to bring Gingerbread to HTC Desire" and admitting that "to resolve Desire's memory issue and enable the upgrade to Gingerbread" it would be ditching some apps.
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UK Hot Deal: HTC Sensation available for 69 GBP with 20 GBP a month contract
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Online retailer Phones4U has an awesome deal for those of you looking to grab themselves the HTC Sensation, but don’t want to get into an expensive monthly plan. The offer includes paying 69 GBP upfront and committing on a two-year 20 GBP a month contract from Orange UK. That money gets you 200 voice minutes, 3000 text messages and 250 MB of mobile data per month. I don’t like the mobile data part, but then again it seems kinda fair for 20 pounds. Of course, if you opt for a better (read: more expensive) plan, you’ll get more data while also paying less upfront.
As a reminder, the HTC Sensation is one of the best Android smartphones ever made. It comes with a dual-core processor, 4.3-inch qH...
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HTC claims Desire will get Gingerbread by the end of July
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Android OS upgrades are the most fickle of all things, even when you are told over and over that it will be coming soon, soon never seems to arrive. At this point T-Mobile G2X users may never see their update even though they have another reason to believe, because they've been hearing that it is "coming soon" or coming "in less than a month" since the phone was released back in April. HTC, however, has been better about upgrades than many manufacturers, and they are claiming now that HTC Desire users will be getting Gingerbread by the end of the month.
At first, Desire users were told not to even expect Gingerbread, then a day later, they recanted and said Gingerbread would be coming to th...
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Droid Incredible 2 gets root, CM7 and MIUI show up to party
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Call it a case of bad-timing. When VZW's newest red-eyed family member -- the Droid Incredible 2 -- hit the market, it was too premature to benefit from HTC's recent unlocked bootloader policy. Rather than sit and wait for an official OEM retroactive solution to come, devs managed to crack the black beauty open and achieved some perm root and S-OFF goodness. With all that messy hacking business out of the way, the real ROM-flashing party's about to start courtesy of CyanogenMod7 and MIUI. If you're not familiar with the ins and outs of Android rooting, but think you're game to give this a try, DroidLife's got a wiki link to walk you through. As with any smartphone hack, the possibility to br...
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Verizon pushes latest Thunderbolt update: solves reboot issues, kills free mobile hotspot
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Don't act like Verizon didn't warn you: for Thunderbolt owners who see an available software update pop up on their phone this evening, they'll be placed squarely between a rock and a towering boulder. Why? On one hand, the Froyo OTA update promises to nix random reboots, improve data connectivity and fix the Bluetooth Discovery Mode pop-up windows. On the other, it adds a helping of bloatware (V CAST Music, V CAST Videos and My Verizon) while also killing the lust-worthy free mobile hotspot feature. Not like the carrier ever said it'd be any different come early July, but it's certainly a case of picking your poison here. If your T-bolt seems to be humming along just fine, we'd probably avo...
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