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HTC Sense Home update brings new theme customization options and subtle UI tweaks
If you own a phone that’s currently running HTC Sense Home, you likely woke up today to find that the app received an update over night. The launched itself looks identical to the last version, but HTC did tweak one minor detail in the app drawer. Rather than displaying a subtle scrolling line when you…
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Verizon HTC One M9 Android 5.1, Stagefright update available today
More than two months after Sprint released the Android 5.1 update for its version of the HTC One M9, the new software update is finally rolling out to the Verizon HTC One M9. While Verizon’s One M9 owners have had to wait an inexplicably long time for the new software, the extra time allowed HTC…
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Rumor: HTC M10 may ditch One branding, could feature Snapdragon 820 SoC
The successor to this year’s HTC One M9 isn’t expected to be unveiled until early 2016, but rumors of HTC’s next flagship smartphone are already making the rounds. New details claim that the HTC One M10 will feature the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 SoC which Qualcomm has been teasing lately. Qualcomm hasn’t revealed full details…
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What to do while waiting for the Stagefright patch?
The Stagefright bug is a big deal to just about every Android owner out there. There’s an estimated 95% of Android powered devices that qualify as susceptible to such an exploit through the Stagefright module in Android. And the scary part is that the older your Android phone or tablet is, the less secure and…
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Will your HTC phone receive a patch for the Stagefright vulnerability?
At a recent convention, a huge vulnerability with MMS on the Android platform was announced publicly. Joshua Drake, from the security company Zimperiem discovered the loophole and reported it to Google in July. The exploit targets an area of Android called Stagefright giving anyone with your phone number the ability to send a multimedia message with a…
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HTC Desire 526 now available from Verizon, Desire 626 coming soon
Starting today, the HTC Desire 526 can now be purchased from Verizon. The phone sports a 4.7-inch qHD display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 clocked at 1.1 GHz, 1.5GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage, microSD card slot with support for 2TB cards, 8 megapixel main camera, 2 megapixel front-facing camera and a 2,000 mAh battery.…
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Was anyone really annoyed by HTC’s Fantastic Four theme notification?
I’d like to start things off by saying that I’m not a big fan of ads. They typically get in the way of the content I’m trying to consume. That being said, I run a technology blog that relied of ads to generate revenue to pay my bills and the other writers who contribute to…