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“Mango” Gets Some Developer Update Testing! Should Roll Out Soon!
This week is slated for the start of the Windows Phone Mango rollout, and while Microsoft talk about a worldwide deployment, WindowsPhoneNZ is reporting an update that seems somehow to be a test of sorts. Seems that Microsoft is sending out a small pre mango update, testing in New Zealand, one that fixes any of…
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HTC Runnymede/Bass Gets It’s Screen test!
Well whatever we call it the Runnymede, or the Bass, we know this is going to be a big device with a 4.7’” screen, 1.5 GHz processor and SRS sound powered by Beats technology. As it gets closer to the rumoured October 6 release, it’s plausible that carriers already have the device for testing. SO…
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HTC Vigor? Is it or is it not a Droid?
We have heard a lot about the HTC Vigor in it’s codenamed state, but it gets more and more misleading. The Vigor was thought to be part of the Droid Incredible family. Droid is a fairly US centric for a series of smartphones from HTC. Motorola also had some devices with the Droid branding. Mostly…
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Modular phones could be in HTC’s future thanks to new Microsoft patent
A slide-out QWERTY keyboard, speaker or gamepad isn’t anything new when you look at today’s smartphones, but what if you could swap out that keyboard or speaker for a larger battery or a dedicated gamepad? A new patent labeled “Mobile Communication Device Having Multiple, Interchangeable Second Devices” has surfaced which would allow handset owners to…
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Video: Windows 8 pulls the HTC Shift out of the grave
It’s been nearly four years since HTC introduced their first and last UMPC – the HTC Shift. For those of you who don’t remember, the UMPC was Microsoft’s first attempt to bring full-fledged mobile computing to market. The idea was that you could deliver a full OS (Windows Vista) in a small package which would…
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HTC Titan and Radar get their public video debut – again
The Titan and Radar are HTC’s initial second generation Windows Phones, second gen because they will come loaded with Windows Phone “Mango”, which is the first major update for Windows phone from Microsoft. Yesterday we had confirmation that existing handsets would receive the update over the air via the Zune desktop software, this week or…
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HTC and Drop Box partnership delivers an extra 3 GB of storage to Sense 3.5 phones
HTC has announced that users with phones running on HTC Sense 3.5 will be given an extra 3 GB of storage through Drop Box. The new partnership between HTC and Drop Box increases the standard 2 GB of free storage up to 5 GB. As of now, the only phone that’s been announced which features…