Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the NVIDIA Shield, its price and release date. We later talk about the BlackBerry Q5 along with the news that BBM is now coming to iOS and Android soon. Later we go through the Verizon Droid DNA, which is now free after a two-year contract pointing to a probable HTC One reaching the carrier soon. Nokia is next as the company has just unveiled their new Lumia 925 along with other features. We end today's show talking about our Google I/O predictions and obviously your Google I/O predictions as well. All this and more after the break. Stories: - ...

Those of you who have been following the arrival of the HTC One have no doubt heard of the messy situation posed by the possibility of the phone coming to Verizon. First we heard that Verizon would pass on the One initially, in hopes to prolong sales of the Droid DNA. Then it was looking like maybe Verizon was going to get the One in the some general timeframe as everyone else, with evidence pointing to its availability later this month. Now we're once again talking about a Verizon without the One, thanks to a recent tweet from HTC. HTC's US branch responded to a question on Twitter by ...

The Droid DNA puts Verizon in a tricky situation. With the One arriving, the carrier seemed hesitant to outright replace the DNA, which itself is still a relatively new phone, and when it didn't announce plans to carry the One at all, it seemed that it might let things cool off for a while before trying to integrate it with its lineup. More recently, though, we've been seeing signs suggesting Verizon could be throwing caution to the wind and preparing to sell the One, first as we saw what looked like the Verizon One get its Bluetooth certification, and more recently as we heard from a ...

The HTC One, as we mentioned in yesterday's unboxing and hardware tour, is a crucial device for the Taiwanese smartphone maker. The company's brand has suffered a steady decline since its heyday of the last decade, and HTC is -for the second year in a row- banking on a device titled the "One" to save it from the increasing pressure of the competition. The One of 2013 is similar to last year's One X in several respects, not least of which is the focus HTC has chosen to put on its camera. Last year, the company's marketing materials drilled home the message that the One X included an ...

Around here, we're no strangers to wrist-worn smart devices. From bare-bones Bluetooth sport watches to full-on smartphones condensed to wearable size, we've seen them all. Problem is, we haven't been all that impressed by what we've seen. Whether by halfhearted design or a misguided quest for all-encompassing functionality, most of the intelligent watches we've strapped on have very quickly found themselves retired to the novelty drawer. Last year, a company named Pebble -formerly Allerta- burst onto the scene with aspirations to change all that. Pebble's halo product: an e-paper-based ...

Last week, all the rumors I'd been hearing about HTC's M7 really started to crystallize, and between HTC sending out its save-the-dates for its February 19 press event (which, were I a betting man, I'd be placing some serious wagers on it serving as the M7's public announcement) and Peter Chou's impassioned cheerleading for the M7 at the HTC year-end party, the M7 really started moving from the realm of rumors to becoming something so much more tangible. As I thought about the rumors that the phone would be following in the footsteps of models like Samsung's Galaxy S III and coming to all ...

In a mobile world that runs on rumor and speculation, the HTC device codenamed the "M7" is this season's belle of the ball. The smartphone broke cover courtesy of an analyst leak back on December 5th, and it's been generating all manner of excitement ever since. That's not just because the M7 is purported to be an Android flagship device (though that's scintillating enough on its own). The M7 is especially intriguing because its parent company has, for over a year, been trying to claw itself out of a hole it fell into back in 2011. If it were a less remarkable corporation, that wouldn't ...

Let more of the rumors we want to read begin. Just when you were wondering what HTC's strategy for 2013 would be, we got an early glimpse at a more aggressive company during the year, and now some more leaks confirm the rumors. If each of the following lines stands for a specific smartphone or variant, we're looking at a 2013 with as many as 35 devices. Again, we don't expect HTC to launch five different M7 models for example, but they'll definitely launch the M7 in different variants that make it compatible with specific LTE carriers, sine we already know that LTE is still a nightmare. ...