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HTC Desire HD Android 4.0.4 port now available thanks to development community
The official Android 4.0 update for the HTC Desire HD may have been cancelled, but that doesn’t mean that your handset has to live out its remaining days on Android 2.3. The development community has come through, creating a port of the latest Android 4.0 update with HTC Sense 3.6 from the HTC Incredible S…
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HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE source code now available
The Droid Incredible 4G LTE community can do a little celebrating after today. It looks like HTC has released the source code (kernel: 3.08, Android version: 4.0) for this device on the HTCDev download page. Those savvy programmers on XDA-Developers will surely grab the 97.1 MB file and begin to make changes that may persuade you to root and override…
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Gartner lists HTC in 8th place in global cellphone sale race
According to the latest numbers from Gartner, HTC is now ranked as the 8th largest global phone manufacturer having sold 9.3 million mobile phones for a 2.2 percent market share. The good news is that HTC showed an increase in sales during Q2, up from 7.7 million units (1.8 percent market share). Unfortunately, the launch…
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HTC’s Peter Chou: “We are coming back”
HTC has been struggling to keep up with Samsung and Apple, but its CEO, Peter Chou, is fired up and looking to motivate his employees to cut through any internal bureaucracy to make sure that the company can regain its position in the smartphone sector. A company-wide email titled “We are coming back” from Peter Chou was leaked…
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Will your HTC handset be updated to Android 4.1? Here’s what we think
Update 11.13.12: HTC has announced that phone running on 512 megs of RAM or less will not be updated to Android 4.1. HTC specifically named the HTC Desire C and HTC one V, but other handsets from 2011 will most likely be effected as well. Last fall we wrote a detailed article, highlighting which HTC…
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Security Updates for the HTC G2 and HTC myTouch 3G Slide
We have some good news and bad news for owners of the HTC G2 or HTC myTouch 3G Slide. HTC is offering a new update for these models, and the contents may or not mean much to you. So let’s get the bad news out of the way so we can focus on the good news longer. The bad: At…
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HTC Rezound for Verizon goes global OTA update on its way
It appears that Verizon has an update for HTC Rezound users to download that will enable global roaming for the Android-based smartphone. Our source listed below caught wind that XDA-Developers member, MicroMod had extracted the 104 MB download from a leaked ROM and began a thread to see if other users had installed the patch and how it was working out. As time went…