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by Jaime Rivera | December 7, 2012 7:00 PMRead OnWatch today's Pocketnow Daily as we go through the recent news regarding the FCC's request to the FAA to remove the limit on tablet usage during flights. Then we talk about the Galaxy S II and how you can install multi window support on it, just like you can with the Galaxy Note II. Then we go through the Galaxy Camera and the rumors of it reaching Verizon. Then we talk about the Nokia Lumia 820 after our unboxing coverage. We end today's show talking about the HTC Butterfly and how it disappoints. All this and more after the break. Stories - You May Soon Be Able To Use Your Tablet All ...
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by Michael Fisher | December 7, 2012 2:52 PMRead OnNormally, a company launching a variant of an already-released smartphone isn't huge news. Variations on a common theme are business-as-usual in the mobile tech world, not blockbuster paradigm shifts -- especially as mobile offerings grow more and more streamlined across different carriers and markets. Sometimes, though, a handset comes along that deserves special mention. The new Butterfly, quietly unveiled just this morning on HTC's website, is one of those devices. It's a new variant of the design that served as the basis for Japan's Butterfly J and the impressive Droid DNA for ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | December 7, 2012 2:13 AMRead OnThe first phone on the market with a 1080p display was the HTC J Butterfly in Japan. Then the company brought it's awesome screen to the American carrier Verizon Wireless in a device called Droid DNA and now the Taiwanese phone-maker has finally announced (silently, at that) the global variant of the smartphone (as in it just popped up on its Global website). It is called Butterfly (sans the J this time) and its specifications seem to be identical to the Droid DNA. That means you've got the same five-inch Super LCD 3 screen with 1920 x 1080 resolution, quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro ...
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by Michael Fisher | October 30, 2012 6:29 PMRead OnWe say it so often on the Pocketnow Weekly podcast that it's become something of a cliché: we really, really want HTC to succeed. The company has been at the forefront of our technology consciousness for only a few years in its current incarnation, but long before it was "HTC," it built devices as an ODM for other corporations. Devices like the PPC-6700, my first true PocketPC. Devices like the Treo Pro, which helped Palm survive its leap to a new platform (albeit briefly). And since striking out on its own, the company has altered the landscape with game-changing devices like the G1, ...
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by Michael Fisher | October 22, 2012 4:05 PMRead OnFull-1080p HD is coming to your smartphone! So break out the party hats and rent a pony, because the whole world's about to cha-- oh, forget it. As I -and several of my companions- have mentioned more than once on the Pocketnow Weekly podcast, I can't even pretend to be interested in this. Let's start with the facts. This isn't the first time we've talked about full-HD displays, but it's much more relevant today. Formerly the exclusive domain of speculative "someone will be crazy enough to do it someday" conversations, 1080p smartphone displays are now in the spotlight in a very real way. ...
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by Michael Fisher | October 18, 2012 1:50 PMRead On"Once we get a slow news week, we're gonna talk about this in-depth." That's been the go-to fallback phrase for the Pocketnow Weekly for the past few weeks, and as the holiday shopping season approaches, we doubt that's going to change anytime soon. On this installment of the densest podcast in mobile tech, we talk about the LG Optimus G and the Nexus 4, HTC's new Butterfly J, Apple's forthcoming iPad Mini, and the Microsoft Surface pre-orders and pricing. Plus, Brandon Miniman continues last week's riffing regarding pen-based input methods, and special guest Joe Levi the Android Guy, ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | October 17, 2012 2:32 AMRead OnYou couldn't have missed all the rumors and leaks about that certain five-inch phone that was pictured initially with the HTC6435 name. It was later rumored to be called the HTC 'DIX' (as in Droid Incredible X) once it lands on Verizon and expected to pack a five-inch full HD screen. Well, the phone was just announced in Japan and it is called the HTC J Butterfly. It packs a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8064 chip clocking at 1.5GHz, most probably the S4 Pro, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of Internal Storage with microSD card expansion slot, eight-megapixel camera on the back, two-megapixel ...
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by Adam Z. Lein | May 18, 2012 8:14 AMRead OnChris McDermott, Ben Darvill and Russell Hepton created this concept design artwork and video for a product that works with the Windows Phone system as well as Metro-style tablets to easily link devices to a TV, Projector, etc. and then control the remote display with a phone or tablet. The design was nominated for a D&AD digital design award. Of course these images are just design concepts and explorations that aren't really part of any type of product currently in development however it's still an interesting project and it's certainly good to see skilled designers taking a ...
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