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HTC Desire 728 now available in India
HTC is continuing its expansion plans in India this week with the launch of the HTC Desire 728. Priced at Rs 17,990 ($269 USD), the HTC Desire 728 is a fairly nice mid-range smartphone with a 5.5-inch 720p display, octa-core Mediatek MT6753 processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, microSD card slot, 13 megapixel…
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HTC will start taking HTC Vive pre-orders on February 29
We’re know for a while that HTC Vive pre-orders would start in February, but Cher Wang gave out the exact date during an interview with The Telegraph. The date to circle on your calendar is February 29 – the week after Mobile World Congress. Not much is known about the HTC Vive’s price, but we’re…
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UA Record is using IBM Watson to analyze your fitness
Before you get paranoid about IBM’s Watson super computer keeping track of every step you make when using the UA Record app, we’d like to point out that the partnership between Under Armour and IBM does not give IBM access to any of the data. Under Armour is using Watson Analytics from IBM which is…
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HTC and Under Armour will sell UA Band, UA Scale, UA Heart Rate individually – here are the prices
Announced last week at CES, the HTC-built UA HealthBox carries a $400 sticker price. While it wasn’t included in the product announcement, HTC has confirmed with us that the UA Band, UA Scale and UA Heart Rate will be sold individually after the UA HealthBox goes on sale. Our contact would not give details regarding…
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HTC picks up 10 awards at CES for the HTC Vive Pre, UA HealthBox
HTC hasn’t had much of a presence at CES over the years, but the company changed that in 2016. It not only unveiling the HTC Vive Pre and its UA HealthBox fitness products, but it also managed to secure 10 awards in the process. It was pretty much a given that the HTC Vive Pre…
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December was the worst month for HTC in 11 years
The numbers are in and they’re not good. After showing signs of progress in November, HTC’s revenue for December fell flat on its face. In total, HTC brought in NT$6,517,000,000 – just a hair more than $195 million USD. TO put that in perspective, that’s less revenue that what HTC pulled in during a month…
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HTC One M9 receives Android 6.0 update in Taiwan
HTC is continuing its Android 6.0 rollout today by releasing the new software build for the HTC One M9 is Taiwan. HTC One M9 owners have started receiving the two-step update this afternoon. The first update (which tweaks a few system settings before the big update) is only 65MB, but the main Android Marshmallow update…