It’s taken about eight months, but Sky Go is finally available on select Android handsets (HTC Desire, HTC Desire S, HTC Desire HD, HTC Incredible, HTC Sensation, Samsung Galaxy S, Samsung Galaxy S II) after launching on iOS last year. Beyond the limi…
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Sky Go finally available on a few Android devices, brings some new channels
February 20th, 2012
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Refresh Roundup: week of February 13th, 2012
February 19th, 2012
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Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a…
Mobile Miscellany: week of February 13th, 2012
February 18th, 2012
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Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you’re like us and really want to know what’s going on, then you’ve come to the right place. This week, we bring you announcements of LTE expansion from AT&T, US Cellular and Verizon, alon…
ITC closes the book on HTC’s first complaint against Apple, still working on its sequels
February 17th, 2012
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Remember that first shot across Apple’s bow that HTC fired way back May of 2010? No? We don’t blame you. Since that initial exchange of complaints against each other the patent war has spun almost completely out of control. Well, in October an ITC jud…
Windows Mobile takes up roost in Windows Phone, thanks to WML project (video)
February 17th, 2012
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Whether you’re looking for a good laugh or a simple trip down memory lane, seeing Windows Mobile 6.1 hobble around like a grumpy old man within Windows Phone might just satisfy both those urges. The technical stunt comes courtesy of the Dark Forces Te…
More HTC Endeavor whispers: SLCD display, thin chassis, 32GB and no microSD
February 17th, 2012
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Months of rumors about the HTC Endeavor (aka the One X, Edge, Ville) have layered up to provide a pretty complete (if not totally reliable) picture of the forthcoming Tegra 3-powered Android handset. There’s room for a few more brush-strokes, however,…
HTC to give sneak peek of Sense-coated ICS to a few lucky Europeans
February 15th, 2012
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HTC’s already said it plans on handing out ICS treats in late March, but the Taiwanese mobile sensation wants to give a selected few the chance to join an early taste test. The Ice Cream Sandwich party is a fairly exclusive affair, with HTC restricti…
HTC developing music streaming service, wireless boombox?
February 15th, 2012
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After having already acquired a stake in Beats Audio, HTC is reportedly looking to expand its reach even further, with the help of a new music streaming service. That’s according to a report from GigaOM, which cites unnamed sources “familiar with the…
HTC phones getting PlayStation Suite certification in 2012?
February 14th, 2012
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Anonymous sources have told Pocket-lint that Sony will be allowing rival smartphone maker HTC to have PlayStation Certification for its devices. An official announcement is expected at MWC at the end of the month, with devices able to play PSOne games…
HTC Endeavor specs revealed in leaked ROM: Tegra 3, 720p, Sense 4.0 (update: screenshots)
February 13th, 2012
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HTC fans spent the last couple of days (i.e., their weekend) unpicking a leaked ROM Update Utility for an officially non-existent handset called the ‘Endeavor.’ The specs revealed so far include a 1280 x 720 display spread over 4.7-inches, a quad-core…
Switched On: The fit and the pendulum
February 12th, 2012
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Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. In the pre-smartphone era, the industry focused on making cell phones smaller. In the 2001 movie Zoolander, the title character played by Ben Stiller uses a humorously di…
FCC Fridays: February 10, 2012
February 10th, 2012
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We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down …
Unknown HTC phone running ICS pops up, looks Incredible
February 10th, 2012
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What’s this we have here? Well, clearly it’s an HTC phone, but it looks different to what we’ve seen before. If the pictures are to be believed, we’re looking at an Android 4.0 device with HTC’s Sense 4.0 on top. There’s LTE on board, and what looks l…
HTC’s first ICS update rolls out in late March, Sensation and Sensation XE call first dibs
February 9th, 2012
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Ice Cream Sandwich is slowly trickling out to the masses, but we’re still waiting on the major phone vendors to come out with their own tweaks of the latest Android dessert. We’ve known that HTC’s busy plugging away at its Sense-ified version of Andr…
Vodafone bringing LTE speeds to Germany, with the HTC Velocity
February 8th, 2012
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HTC has confirmed plans to bring its very first LTE handset to Germany, with the launch of the Velocity. The phone, known Stateside as the Vivid and in South Korea as the Raider, features a 4.5-inch qHD touchscreen and is fueled by a 1.5GHz dual-core…
HTC admits its bulky, quick-dying LTE phones kinda suck
February 6th, 2012
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After a long streak of skyrocketing earnings, HTC’s climb towards the stars seems to have stalled. Q4 was not kind to the company and CFO Winston Yung thinks he knows the reason why. During the today’s earnings call Yung admitted that HTC “dropped the…
HTC’s 2011 Q4: good summer, bad winter
February 6th, 2012
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HTC’s big 2011 was limited to those warm summer months, when everyone wanted a smartphone for the beach. Now the accountants have confirmed HTC’s initial statement: fourth quarter revenues were down 2.49 percent (year on year). It made 101.42 billion…
Dashwire closes up shop, all your data to get flushed on February 15th (update: Windows Mobile devices only)
February 4th, 2012
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Ok, so chances are you probably haven’t thought about Dashwire much in the last couple of years. Last time we covered the service was back in the halycon days of Windows Mobile 6.0, early on in the modern smartphone revolution. In case you need a bit …
Mobile Miscellany: week of January 30th, 2012
February 4th, 2012
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Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you’re like us and really want to know what’s going on, then you’ve come to the right place. This week, we’ve spotted a leaked Android 4.0.4 ROM for the Nexus S 4G, and we’ve also come across …
