HTC’s history is full of lessons to be learned

HTC made headlines last week with the introduction of a new phone. Well, sorta a new phone. I mean, it’s new, but it ain’t exactly new, ya know? The HTC One A9 is an iPhone clone which looks almost exactly like an iPhone. Some have claimed this to be a brilliant move – if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em after all. Others have called this the latest mistake in a long history of missteps for HTC, which has led them to the point where it needs to copy the iPhone to try and be successful. I for one wanted to take a look at some of those missteps and see how things went really wrong. ...

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Cat S40 review: Fort Knox guarding fool’s gold

There is a class of people out there for whom a phone does not need to be pretty, or svelte, or dainty. Things like small bezels, brushed aluminum, sleek exteriors give way to other traits like durability and good old fashioned rubberized toughness. This is the class to which the Cat S40 appeals. This is a class of users who work for a living, who are out on the job from dawn until dusk, and who are going to sweat, work, and sweat some more.These users want a phone that can take a beating and still perform. They want a phone that can fall from a height onto a concrete floor covered with ...

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Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Review

Surface Pro 4 is undeniably Microsoft's best Surface tablet yet that can replace your laptop. It's faster, the screen is a third of an inch bigger and it runs at a higher resolution. Windows 10 brings further improved display scaling and (finally!) Adobe CC programs play nicely with these high resolution beauties. Pricing remains the same as with the ...
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Motorola DROID Turbo 2 review: shatterproof power for big spenders

Why buy a Droid?Six years ago, when Motorola and Verizon Wireless introduced the very first Droid as the alternative to the AT&T-exclusive iPhone, the answer was obvious. With near-stock Google software running on an aggressively angular chassis and backed up by an even more aggressive marketing campaign, the original Droid was a carefully crafted “anti-iPhone.” It was positioned as the more-powerful, more-capable answer to Apple’s offering, and it sold

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Report: if you’re not secured, you should be scared (but really, don’t be)

Halloween approaches. You’re meeting up with friends at the bar, all dressed up for some disorienting fun. So disorienting, you might drop your phone off somewhere strange. If some swiper is so inclined, he or she will have a better-than-half chance of cracking into your phone and compromising your data. Statistically, at least.Mobile security firm Skycure is out with its Q3 threat survey. We can’t say that surveyors didn’t threaten anyone in order for them to take the survey, ...

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HTC apps prepped for Android Marshmallow

HTC was one of the first of its kind to splay its native apps like Calendar, Scribble and Car (Mode) to the Google Play Store. This allowed for HTC to push out updates to individual apps to users instead of having to wait for a software update to do so. Given attitudes towards software updates and the tedious process of pushing one through carriers, you could say

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Apple Watch gets a $50 off with any iPhone purchase in select stores

The Apple Watch is famous for a lot of reasons, and then infamous for almost the same amount of cons. The price tag of the Apple Watch is definitely one of them, and given the fact that it only works with select iPhones, the investment on the watch is not just about the watch if you’ve lagged behind. Apple seems to have noticed that, and has decided to give you a minor discount if you’re doing a full upgrade.As of today and until November 15, those of you who buy any new iPhone at select Apple Stores will also get a $50 discount on an Apple Watch or Apple Watch Sport. The ...

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Any way to charge the Apple Pencil will be a nightmare

Apple is known for extremely logical and practical design with some of its products, and then the complete opposite for others in the sake of beauty. An example is the Apple Watch with the awkward play between the digital crown and the display since pressing the button leads home, or the old MacBook Pros with two USB ports you couldn’t use together. Such is the case of the Apple Pencil which already made some negative headlines for the way you have to charge it, but that was only part of the story.If you remember, Apple’s demo of how you charge the Apple Pencil by drawing power ...

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OnePlus crosses over into a photo app called “Reflexion”

That OnePlus X we’ve been waiting for is here. Coinciding with it, we have a new X-themed app from OnePlus. No, not X-rated, X-themed. It has a pretty rockin’ video with soundtrack by Urban Core and just from those 45 seconds alone, you wouldn’t be able to tell that it’s a OnePlus app. Okay, well, ...

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Apple silently made $1.7B with the Apple Watch if you do the math

We still can’t understand Apple’s reluctance to share Apple Watch sales figures, but knowing the way Cupertino behaves, this is most likely due to the product not reaching expectations. Apple has decided to make the Apple Watch part of the “other” category, even if some variants of the watch are Cupertino’s most expensive products. Today we learn that Apple hasn’t really sold that little with the Apple Watch, even though you need to dig for the number.Apple’s quarterly 10-Q filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has Apple claiming ...

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Microsoft Surface Book issues, Apple Watch supremacy & more – Pocketnow Daily

Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we discuss Apple Watch sales estimates, and how it overshadows the competition. Then we talk about the Microsoft Surface Book and some of the issues that early adopters are suffering. Then we continue with Microsoft, and the company’s offering of the Display Dock for free in certain countries with a Lumia 950 XL. We then focus on the Moto X Force, and how it differs from the Droid Turbo 2 from Verizon. We end today’s show with a very interesting infographic from Motorola that shows us how much people value a shatter-less screen.All this ...

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Falling back and jailbreaking iOS 9.0.2 just got tougher

Jailbreaking iOS is made simple by a great community of hackers, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t have to figure out a ton of steps in order to make it that simple. Every new version of iOS brings added challenges as you not only have to wait for the Jailbreak community to support it, but you also have to be careful about not updating by accident. There is a safety time in most scenarios in case you did, but in the case of iOS 9, that window just closed.Those of you that updated to iOS 9.1 by accident will be sad to know that now you’re stuck. In the past you still ...

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The Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 Pro’s metal back gets a clear photo leak

Wish Xiaomi branded its phones consistently? Maybe some of us in the United States do. After a poor showing in the Chinese startup’s domestic shipment tallies, we saw the manufacturer make an American pivot with the FCC showing off its Redmi 2S. That’s not the Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 Pro, which we’re talking about here.Beyond the fact that we see the metal shell of the back, what we should be ...

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Google Keep now gains some drawing functionality

Google may not be famous for all of its applications and services, but one thing we’ve gotta hand to the folks at Mountain View, is their ability to continue improving them. Google Keep is one of those services that has sadly not gained the popularity that many other note taking applications have received on the mobile space. We could say that the reason for that is its lack of features, and Google has decided to fix that.As of today Google has just pushed an update that adds drawing features to Google Keep. You’ll be able to take photos, make color-coded lists, add voice ...

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