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by Jaime Rivera | June 18, 2013 2:42 AMRead OnThis has been a tough and unique year when it comes to smartphone offerings. Companies like BlackBerry have offered a new competing platform, and still we know this has been a market that's focused only on Samsung and Apple sales for the last couple of trimesters. HTC has been in-between these companies, trying to not fall like we've seen other giants fall in 2012, and to do that they've placed all their bets on the HTC One. The company's future and even the future of their executive team depends on its success, and it seems that even with their shortages in manufacturing, they've still ...
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by Michael Fisher | June 17, 2013 2:52 PMRead OnThe modern world of smartphone audio is perhaps best summed up by country-music singer Loretta Lynn: we've come a long way, baby. For much of the decade or so that smartphones have existed, the devices have been plagued by underwhelming audio performance, a symptom of too-small speakers paired with anemic software drivers, permitted only to suckle the tiniest bit of energy from an already power-strapped system. With very few exceptions, audio has been the afterthought, not the focus, of the smartphone industry. Thankfully, that's started to change in recent years. As smart devices have ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 16, 2013 11:01 AMRead OnIn today's Nokia Lumia 925 vs HTC One video we're taking a close look at the two flagships, side by side. They are very similar from several perspectives: they're both made out of aluminum, polycarbonate, and glass, and they both have fancy camera names: PureView and Ultrapixel. Of course, the similarities stop there. Since one is running Windows Phone and the other one is powered by Android, the specs couldn't be any different. That's not to say that the inferior, on paper, Lumia 925, delivers less. However, each has is pros and cons when compared to the other. So check out our Nokia ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 14, 2013 4:02 AMRead OnThere's an HTC One sale going on today at Amazon. It lasts only for one day so if you always wanted to get an HTC One, now is your time to grab a unit on the cheap. They've got both AT&T and Sprint versions, black and silver color flavors (though the black Sprint version will be in stock on June 18). Phones will set you back $79.99 with a two-year contract (or $99.99 if you are upgrading). In case you need a reminder of the specs, before you take advantage of the HTC One sale, the phone packs a 4.7-inch screen with 1080p resolution. It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 CPU ...
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by Taylor Martin | June 13, 2013 4:28 PMRead OnWhile the Galaxy Mega 6.3 and HTC One have very little in common, both are symbolic of their respective makers' current financial status and recent market performance. HTC is currently struggling and put every ounce of effort and know-how into a single smartphone. And the Galaxy Mega 6.3 is only one of many Samsung smartphones that have few realistic reasons to exist other than the fact that Samsung can afford to experiment to see what sticks. The Galaxy Mega 6.3 towers over pretty much every other smartphone on the market. And the HTC One packs one serious wallop with BoomSound, ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 7, 2013 7:51 PMRead OnWe sure are hearing a lot of nay-saying form analysts lately. This morning we were talking about perceived issues with demand for the Galaxy S 4 and the effect this was having on Samsung's stock price, but now we're going to switch gears and take a look at HTC, with assessments coming in that suggest the best days of the HTC One are already in the company's past. You might remember our coverage of some HTC earnings reports from the other day, which indicated that a recent upswing continued through the month of May and had the company nearly performing as strongly as it had this time last ...
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by Michael Fisher | June 6, 2013 2:27 PMRead OnSometimes you get listener mail that asks how the band got together in the first place. Sometimes that happens the day after you drop some nostalgic sentimentalism all over the internet. Sometimes, simultaneously, there are some sweet, juicy rumors and leaks about a top-of-the-line camera phone with what looks like a moon crater on it. Sometimes you gotta put all that into a podcast with the original cadre of Pocketnow 'casters, and see what comes out. All that, plus the longest outtake reel in the history of Pocketnow, more Nokia EOS rumors than you can shake a stick at, the first-ever ...
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by Jaime Rivera | June 5, 2013 7:00 PMRead OnWatch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the announcement of the BlackBerry Q10 for AT&T, along with the rumors of a flagship BlackBerry A10 for the fall. Microsoft has also announced Outlook RT for Windows RT, but there's a lot that's lame about the timing. Nokia is next as they've just leaked photos of their EOS smartphone emerge, some good, some fake. HTC takes the spotlight again today as we've got some leaked photos of an HTC One Mini, which looks like an interesting alternative to the One. We end today's show talking about Samsung's announcement of the Galaxy S 4 Active, ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 5, 2013 1:00 AMRead OnBlack and silver are the two HTC One colors that are available today, as announced. After the event though, a red flavor of the One popped up in form of a report, and it just wouldn't go away. Joining the red HTC One will allegedly be a certain blue flavor, as more recent reports indicate. With just two options available at the moment it is rather easy to choose between them. But what if HTC learned from Apple's mistakes, with only two iPhone flavors, and made several options available, just like Nokia and their Lumia line-up? Which one would you choose? Which one suits your personality ...
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by Jaime Rivera | June 4, 2013 7:00 PMRead OnWatch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Toshiba's new line-up of tablets and why these don't really move the dot for the company in their mobile endeavors. Then we talk about Intel as the company has landed two new mobile processors and has even won Samsung as a customer with the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1. We look at the smartphone market share statistics and notice the supremacy of Android, the growth of iOS and Windows Phone and the decline of BlackBerry. HTC is next as we talk about their dramatic increase in revenue for May and also the price increase of the HTC One. We end today's show ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 4, 2013 5:03 PMRead OnIt's tough to think about the HTC One without considering the impact it has on the company's financial outlook. After all, it's been a while since HTC's had a really high-profile flagship like this, and the way its sales have been going, it could really use a hit to start bringing in the cash. About a month ago, we took a look at some HTC sales figures, and while they showed promise, we wanted to see if the trend they suggested would end up continuing. Now we have the latest data from the company, and the news looks pretty darn good. As you might remember, moving from March into April, HTC ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 4, 2013 2:46 PMRead OnSmartphones see price cuts all the time. New models arrive with all the latest bells and whistles, making what was the hot phone of just a few months ago a little bit less attractive. In response, retailers throw sales, carriers ramp-up their subsidies until we're looking at free-on-contract hardware, and over the course of a phone's lifetime, prices fall. At least, that's what we're used to see happen, so it's just a bit jarring to learn that HTC has decided to raise the cost of the One. So, there's this new Google Edition of the One on the way – we've been hearing rumors for a couple ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 4, 2013 2:01 AMRead OnWith the "Google Edition" announced, and expected to land on June 26, the Taiwanese manufacturer is looking to deliver the HTC One Android 4.2.2 update. According to HTC Russia's Andrey Kormiltsev, the HTC One Android 4.2.2 update will arrive over-the-air. It is scheduled for mid-June, which is just a couple of weeks away. It will most probably land just in time for the "Google Edition" One's availability. As far as the update itself is concerned, according to recent leaks, we should expect the new version of Android alongside some tweaks to Sense 5. Reports talk about battery ...
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by Jaime Rivera | June 3, 2013 7:00 PMRead OnWatch today's Pocketnow Daily as we go through all the ARM, Samsung, Asus and Acer product announcements; the list is quite big. Then we go through Verizon's launch of the HTC One, which sadly won't happen yet. Then we talk about the Samsung Galaxy Note III and some details that were leaked. Nokia is next as Stephen Elop teases more Nokia Lumia devices for the rest of 2013. We end today's show talking about Apple, iRadio, and some photos of iOS 7 leaked. All this and more after the break. Product releases: - Samsung GALAXY Tab 3 Series Unveiled: GALAXY Tab 3 8-inch, GALAXY Tab 3 10.1-inch ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 3, 2013 1:08 PMRead OnHTC One news sure has been active lately; we just saw the phone confirmed as the second not-quite-Nexus model announced as a "Google Edition" handset running stock Android, and some separate rumors looked to the possibility of some new color options for the One. Today, however, we're revisiting one of the One's longer-standing rumors, concerning just when Verizon might get around to picking the HTC flagship up for its own network. Just last week, some new evidence seemed to point at the carrier preparing for the One, and now today it's gone ahead and made things official, tweeting the ...
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