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On The Cheap: HTC Will Pay You To Buy The HTC One

Mordechai Osdoby — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:20:56 +0000

HTC was one of the first to join the smartphone party, which makes the company’s current lowest ever earnings even more disappointing. While Samsung and Apple battle for top dog, HTC has been putting out well-reviewed handsets and fighting for scraps. In a shot across everyone else’s bow, HTC is aggressively pursuing owners of existing handsets. This isn’t […]

On The Cheap: Free iPhone 5 With Trade-in At T-Mobile

Mordechai Osdoby — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:31:28 +0000

T-Mobile really, really wants to be your cellphone carrier. First, there was the announcement of the new UnCarrier pricing, where high-end phones like the iPhone 5, Blackberry Z10, Samsung Galaxy S 4, and HTC One are $99 up front with monthly payouts. The iPhone 5 launches on T-Mobile on April 12, 2013 and the deal […]

Facebook Says First With HTC — Details Leaked

Mordechai Osdoby — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:06:05 +0000

The Facebook phone is the rumor that will not die. The closest that rumor came to becoming real was the disappointing HTC Status. Facebook hasn’t given up though, and tomorrow the company will unveil “our new home on Android.” For those unable to make it or unwilling to wait, you can get a sneak peak at 9to5Google. […]

On The Cheap: T-Mobile Announces Pricing And Date For iPhone 5 (And More)

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:42:43 +0000

People were thrilled when it was announced that T-Mobile would finally carry the iPhone. The only downside was that there was no timeline. That has changed, and we now know to expect the iPhone 5 on April 12. We also know pricing. Thanks to T-Mobile’s new UNcarrier plans, the iPhone 5 will be $99 down. […]

New HTC Flagship Has Something For Every One

Mordechai Osdoby — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:57:01 +0000

HTC’s One line first debuted last February at Mobile World Congress. While there were some spec bumps in the form of the One V+ and VX in 2012 and variants in the form of the EVO 4G LTE and the Droid DNA, HTC has managed to wait the year out before introducing the follow up to the […]

Review: Virgin Mobile’s HTC One V Counts In My Book

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:00:39 +0000

Virgin Mobile has been upping the ante a bit on hardware lately. We’ve already checked out the Galaxy S II, and now I want to take a look at another high-end handset, the HTC One V. The One line is HTC’s flagship brand, much as the Galaxy is on Samsung. However, unlike the S II, […]

On The Cheap: Amazon’s Annual Wireless Sale Disappoints

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:18:59 +0000

For the last two years, Amazon Wireless has been the best place to go to score cutting edge cellphones during the big holiday shopping season. A few years ago,the online retailing giant had every single smartphone for a penny, including then-$199 top of the line devices. Amazon has gone live with a “4G phones for […]

What’s With All The Doubting Thomases In The Church Of Steve?

Mordechai Osdoby — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:30:57 +0000

Anyone who’s been following Apple events for a while is familiar with the concept of the “Reality Distortion Field“. For the uninitiated, the term referred to celebrity CEO Steve Jobs’s ability to make you believe what he wanted you to. The phrase has been used to praise Jobs’s charisma and equally used to imply something […]

HTC And Samsung Branding Android Phones Can Burn Users

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:24:43 +0000

From the perspective of a device manufacturer, one of the big pluses of the Android operating system is the adaptability. You can use it as a code base and completely customize the appearance (ie, the Nook Tablet and the Kindle Fire). Samsung and HTC have always been firm believers in this philosophy, dating way back […]