HTC One E8 hands on (Video)

“If you’re looking for the best flagship smartphone experience, but want to stand out from the crowd, this phone’s for you.”HTC CEO Peter Chou’s words, taken from the press release announcing the company’s One E8 early last month, elegantly sum up the eye-catching device. When our review unit arrived in the office yesterday morning for its unceremonious off-camera unboxing, we took a few beats longer than usual just to stare at the “Electric Crimson” paint job of its polycarbonate unibody construction. The phone bears a thick glossy ...

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HTC One E8, Desire 616 launched in India

Some of the biggest smartphone markets today are over in Asia, with both China and India becoming hotspots for OEM advertising as of late. To that end, it doesn’t surprise us in the least to see the HTC One E8 Indian launch, along with the same for the Desire 616.The One E8 is the higher-end of the two, coming in with premium specs quite similar to what can be found on the One M8. It has a 5-inch 1080p display (with 441 pixels per inch), 2.5 GHz Qualcomm ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 099: Amazon smartphone, iOS 8, & GSM Nation’s CEO on the future of unlocked phones

iOS 8 is here –in Beta form, at least– and (surprise, surprise) we’ve got some opinions. For the last Weekly podcast to begin with a “0,” we bring in the big guns to discuss Apple’s new platform: a four-man team that includes our resident iOS experts, one of whom joins in from the blazing heat of a car baking in the North Carolina sun just to tell us his take on the iPhone 6 and how it will/won’t/might end up being a phablet.Of course we don’t stop with Apple: a panoply of mobile devices, from the LG G3 to the Galaxy S5 Active to the Motorola X+1, ...

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HTC announces the plastic-bodied One E8

Last Thursday, we saw HTC seemingly confirm a smartphone we’d been keeping an eye on for the past several weeks, the model we’ve been talking about as the M8 Ace. HTC China hosted some pages related to a contest for the phone, but we didn’t see any corresponding launch announcement. Had someone jumped the gun? And were we ever going to learn of a more formal name for this phone than the One “Vogue” or “Fashion Edition,” not really sure if ...

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