Posts Tagged ‘HTC’
HTC Sensation XL review
If you love the idea of an iPad but wish you could cram it into your pockets you can either get bigger pockets, start wearing one of these or invest in HTC’s new Sensation XL. Three were kind enough to send me a smartphone-cum-tablet to test for a week or two. As you might have inferred from my opening remarks, this is a big phone, much like that other whopper…
HTC Sensation XE: Beats Audio on your smartphone
HTC have recently just announced the arrival of the Sensation XE into the market, and for HTC fans that demand a big more bang from their portable music player it looks like being just the ticket. HTC’s much publicised buyout of Beats Audio, the audio equipment company headed up by Dr Dre, was backed up by the promise of future integration of Beats Audio software into HTC hardware, with the…
The HTC Titan and HTC Radar – Taking multi-tasking smartphones to new heights
HTC has announced two new models to its collection of smartphones – the HTC Titan and the HTC Radar, which have been marketed at various technology events around Europe simultaneously. Despite sporting a huge 4.7” touch LCD screen – HTC’s largest thus far -, the HTC Titan is just 9.9mm thick, leading HTC to boldly pronounce its new handset is being ‘unlike anything you’ve ever held before’. Whilst the slightly…
Mobile World Congress (MWC) preview
With the Mobile World Congress MWC upon us we thought we’d give you the low-down on what is thought to be unveiled at the world’s largest mobile phone trade show. Sony Ericsson PSP Phone One of the phones that it thought to be unveiled will be Sony’s PSP phone – now the amount of leaks recently would suggest that Sony is ready to show the world the future of mobile…
HTC Wildfire review: Slow and unsteady loses the smartphone race
I entered my HTC Wildfire experience with an open mind. Android is a noble warrior. It’s battled against the iPhone monopoly, offering perhaps the only other fully-featured smartphone operating system. On a high-end phone, like the HTC Desire, the powerful internal specifications make Android fly. Unfortunately, that’s not true of the Wildfire. It’s sluggish, everywhere. FriendStream is slow. Scrolling is clunky. Multi-touch sometimes feels random. Of course, this should come…
HTC HD7 Windows 7 phone review: Surprisingly pretty
HTC called earlier this week: they thought we might like a HD7 smartphone. We scoffed. They sent us one anyway. After about ten seconds, we realised we’d been fools. If you’ll forgive our past indiscretion, we’d like to tell you why the HD7 and Windows Phone 7 are the most exciting mobile innovations in a long time. The first thing you’ll notice is the huge screen – it’s massive. 4.3-inches…
Not long to wait now – Windows Phone 7 handsets roundup
It’s eight months since Microsoft first revealed its Windows Phone 7 OS, and now the wait is nearly over for you to get your hands on it. October 21 is the UK launch date for several WP7 smartphones from the likes of HTC, Dell, LG and Samsung. “Glance and Go” is Microsoft’s catchphrase for the new operating system, claiming that you’ll be able to carry out your everyday tasks faster,…
HTC Desire HD and Z Android review roundup
With a lifetimes worth of bells and whistles, HTC launched two new smartphones onto the market on the 15th, as taking another punt at levelling out the playing field and giving Apple some serious competition. According to Patrick Chomet, global director of terminals at Vodafone and speaking at the HTC launch, smartphones now take up 30% of the global mobile phone network, with the (not unreasonable) expectation that this will…
HTC & LG to be first to ship WM7 phones
Many of us had written off Microsoft in the mobile phone market, but last week Microsoft unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, a new operating system and a fresh approach to the mobile platform that could — for the first time in a very long time — give Apple and Google something to worry about. Gone is the infuriating menu system, the uninspiring design, the endless bugs; the…
HTC Smart – a wallet friendly smartphone
A few years ago the “boom” sector of the mobile phone industry was touted as the low-end market. Companies such as Nokia poured development and marketing resources into cheap, simple handsets for markets such as India and Africa. “Less” was going to be the next big growth opportunity. The launch of iPhone changed all that. Not the first smartphone, or even necessarily the best (especially in its original incarnation) the…
