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HTC to reveal special HTC One M9 with supermodel Jourdan Dunn
HTC leans on Twitter today to announce a new addition to the brand ambassador lineup, iconic supermodel, Miss Jourdan Dunn. The famous British fashion model brings with her a body-art inspired design for a campaign called HTC INK M9 Limited Edition. The campaign will introduce unique designs engraved onto a limited number of HTC One M9 smartphones.…
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HTC One M8 Sense 7, Android 5.1 update to begin as early as August
HTC has already confirmed that the HTC One M8 will be updated to HTC Sense 7, but a Tweet from HTC UK how gives us an idea of when that update will be delivered. HTC UK will begin updating the HTC One M8 to Android 5.1 with HTC Sense 7 this August. While the update…
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HTC’s year-over-year profits put 2014 to shame
This morning, HTC released final number for the first quarter of the year. Revenue for the quarter hit NT$41.5 billion ($1.36 billion USD) while net profits after tax came in at NT$0.36 billion ($11 million USD). While the numbers are lower than what HTC managed to pull in during the last quarter of 2014, the…
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HTC planning India-specific smartphone launch in Q3
Following the unveiling of the Xiaomi Mi4i for India, HTC has revealed that the company is working on an India-specific smartphone as well. The name, specs and design details of the phone were not shared, but Chia-Lin Chang, HTC’s CFO and president of global sales stated that the phone will carry a price tag ranging from INR 15,000…
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Android game review: Star Wars Commander
As a Star Wars fan I have always sought out games and apps that would feed my imagination on the events that occur in a Galaxy Far Away… Star Wars Commander (SWC) does an awesome job of immersing us into the fantasy of Star Wars. Superficially, it is a typical game of building your base,…
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Android app of the week: Pocket
This week’s app of the week wasn’t made by HTC, but the big OEM thought the service was so good it was integrated into BlinkFeed for user’s to save articles to. Pocket is a “Save-it-for-later” service that has been around as a web service since 2007 and in the mobile world for only a few years, but it serves such a useful…
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HTC and Valve will send out the HTC Vive to developers for free over the summer
As promised, HTC and Valve are gearing up to get the HTC Vive into the hands of developers. Valve has annoucned that it is now talking applications for developers who plan on creating content for the HTC Vive. Since there will be no cost to developers, we’re sure there will be fearce competition from the developers…