At yesterday’s HTC/Sprint event, I wasn’t too surprised to hear Sprint lavish the EVO line with praise. As they pointed out, Sprint introduced the EVO 4G two years ago and the 3D last year. Now, the company is giving us the third generation of the EVO franchise, and while at first glance it just seemed like a […]
Some of us are still waiting for Sprint’s “any day now” Galaxy Nexus. The current Google reference phone is more than a neat bit of hardware — it represents Sprint’s first shift from a high-speed WiMax network to one based on LTE. While Wimax continues to work for those who picked up earlier 4G Sprint […]
There’s plenty of buzz going on about the reported Sprint/HTC event happening in two weeks. On April 4, the big bosses of the two companies will present… something. Smart money is it being one of the recently announced HTC One models. Whatever it is, Sprint needs it. While competing network Verizon has added the Droid […]
Earlier this week, Verizon Wireless announced a list of handsets that would be upgrade to Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. Without providing specific dates, Verizon goes on to outline by manufacturer which smartphones will receive the update. HTC: HTC ThunderBolt DROID Incredible 2 by HTC HTC Rhyme HTC Rezound Motorola: Motorola XOOM DROID BIONIC DROID […]
Phone manufacturer HTC announced their new One series of phones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. HTC says the three phones in the series, the X, S and V, will have a higher quality of audio and camera capabilities. Apart from a few key features, the phones are drastically different in both design and internal […]
LG is the latest in a string of Android phone manufacturers to strike a patent deal with Microsoft over portions of the Chrome and Android OS. With this agreement in place, Microsoft now profits from 70 percent of all Google-based smartphones sold in the United States. Other manufacturers paying Microsoft for their Android phone sales […]
Day one of CES 2012 sure kicked off to a great start, especially with a bevy of new smartphones announced. Many of the major original equipment manufacturers, even Nokia, have come out with big announcements, though some of them seem a bit odd. Nevertheless, here is a breakdown of some of the more important announcements […]
The International Trade Commission issued its ruling this past Monday, finding that HTC technology infringed on two claims in Apple’s iPhone patent. The claims are related to the data tapping feature that marks telephone numbers and email addresses within a document that converts them into actionable links. ITC’s ruling bans HTC phones with this feature […]
More and more people are opting for contract-free cell providers like Boost, MetroPCS, Cricket, and Virgin Mobile. Time was that making such a choice meant settling for an out-of-date Blackberry if you wanted any kind of smartphone at all. Those times have changed, with all the name brands you can think of producing phones for […]
Techcitement knows that holiday gift buying can be a stressful thing for many people, so we’re going to help out this year by providing buying guides for a range of tech items. The holidays are a time when many are looking for an upgrade on their contracts to get a brand spanking new smartphone. Whether […]
