Although HTC has said time and time again of late it’s looking to streamline its flagging smartphone lineup, reducing brand dilution, diversity and user confusion, the mid-end Desire family is alive and well, with several new models brought to light recently, and a couple of older ones brought up to date software-wise.
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Among the full dozen HTC devices already confirmed to get Marshmallow goodies down the line, a fairly popular mid-end phone was oddly still stuck on Android’s ancient 4.4 KitKat iteration, making us wonder if maybe it would skip both the 5.0 and 5.1 rollouts on its way to 6.0.But that doesn’t seem to be the case after all, and at long last, the Desire 820 gets with the Lollipop program. Only in India and Taiwan for now, apparently, though the ...
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Just like last year, when it over-promised on the heels of Lollipop’s formal debut and ended up under-delivering on the Android 5.0 upgrade front, HTC follows up Google’s 6.0 Marshmallow announcement with a hefty inventory of Ones, Desires and Butterflies soon to get the extreme software makeover.As you’d expect, the company’s latest two flagship devices shall kick the festivities into gear by the end of 2015. Of course, you shouldn’t hold your breath for global One M9 and M8 promotions from OS build 5.1 to 6.0 this ...
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Marshmallow is bouncing toward our Android phones left, right and center. It all begins with the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P that we are expecting to be introduced during the Google event in San Francisco tomorrow. HTC is also coming out with an early debutante to the fluff. But the
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Marshmallow is bouncing toward our Android phones left, right and center. It all begins with the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P that we are expecting to be introduced during the Google event in San Francisco tomorrow. HTC is also coming out with an early debutante to the fluff. But the
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Now that we’ve got the One M8 update out of the way – at least for unlocked models, that is – it’s time to look over the rest of HTC’s smartphone portfolio and check out when the juicy goodness of Android 5.0 will grace the models in question. A source out of Vietnam has posted what looks to be a legitimate look at the various HTC Lollipop update plans for a variety of the company’s models, including the ...
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Update: The Weekly 119 is now available in super-HQ audio form – your ears will thank you if you download or stream from one of the links below. See you next week!As one brand gets a supersized juice-up, another goes a little quicker to the retirement home – and the rest undulate in uncertain undertakings from the sensational to the soporific.So it goes in mobile as in any other field, and we’re here to cover it in the brief lull between reviews at Pocketnow’s Boston offices! In between talk of the Lollipop-flavored new Nexii and the sandblasting of Nokia logos from ...
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HTC has been on a launch streak lately, and even though we don’t know how well that has played for the company in specifics, we do know that it is making some profit. We’ve seen the company trying hard to re-invent the mid-tier smartphone sector with compelling specs and design at a more ...
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It was not too long ago that we saw the HTC Desire 820 go official and rounded up its specs, and now it’s hands-on time. We’ve checked out the 64-bit processor, the 5.5-inch HD screen, the BoomSound speakers, the powerful 8MP selfie cam, and the everything else. And it’s ...
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HTC has just gone official with the Desire 820, so it’s time to look inside what claims to be the heir to the Desire 816‘s throne. Can it stack up on paper? We’ve laid the full list of specs out for you down below in a complete HTC Desire 820 specs list.The Desire 820 has seen bumps up in what look to be all the right places, but we can’t give you the ...
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The Desire 816 was quite successful as a midranger for HTC, racking up plenty of sales overseas and earning praise in our full review of it – we called it a “mid-tier phone with flagship DNA,” so a successor naturally has us intrigued. The HTC Desire 820 has gone official today as a 64-bit Android, and it’s looking to set “a new benchmark for mid-range smartphones.”With an 8MP front-facing camera in tow, the ...
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Last week, HTC cut though a lot of the uncertainty surrounding its own plans for IFA 2014, dropping a teaser that pretty unambiguously referred to the rumored Desire 820. While on its own, another Desire mid-ranger might not be the most exciting news in the world, the 820′s been holding out attention by way of the SoC expected to power the phone, one of Qualcomm’s new 64-bit Snapdragons. With just a week to go before the expo, that connection is really starting to firm up, and HTC just published ...
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Will HTC make a big showing at IFA this year? This week’s launch of the One M8 for Windows (not to mention the Butterfly 2), with IFA so nearby, might be seen as HTC subtly rejecting the idea of using the expo as a venue for introducing new hardware, but we wouldn’t be so sure. At least, the Verizon launch exclusivity puts a US focus on the phone that might not fly so well at ...
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