No phone left behind: Marshmallow rolls out to Sprint’s ancient HTC One E8

Not as much timeworn as ill-fated straight off the bat, the summer 2014-released HTC One E8 likely didn’t find many patrons either internationally or on the only US carrier willing to subsidize it.Basically a low-quality, plastic-clad clone of the One M8 with a more traditional single 13MP rear-facing camera setup replacing the ...

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HTC One A9 dummy unit pics further highlight iPhone similarities

It’s most likely called One A9 after being codenamed Aero, it’s definitely breaking cover on October 20, and it eerily resembles an Apple iPhone 6 or 6s. In a nutshell, that’s everything we know for sure about HTC’s next “hero” device.Hero, mind you, is the way the Taiwanese manufacturer referred to the phone when ...

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HTC One A9 pictured from every angle, purportedly benchmarked with average specs

Two vastly different theories have been making the rounds of late with regard to HTC’s flagship-sounding One A9, aka Aero, that the Taiwanese company will reportedly unveil soon. According to a fair share of semi-believable tipsters, this should adhere to the high-end creed of the One family, adopting a ten-core MediaTek Helio X20 SoC, ...

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HTC One M7 Lollipop update confirmed for tomorrow (and in the US, no less)

Well this is an unexpected treat: late last week, HTC fessed-up to missing its own 90-day promise on getting Lollipop updates out for the HTC One M7 and M8. We had already seen solid progress on bringing Lollipop to the One M8 in nations around the world, but the US was still waiting. For the One M7, the situation looked far worse, with little outward evidence of progress towards a public release. So while we were optimistic that the One M8 might complete its Lollipop roll-out soon, we were resigned to ...

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HTC insists One GPe Lollipop updates really, truly, nearly here

It all sounded so simple at first: Android 5.0 Lollipop had just emerged as updates hitting Google’s Nexus series of devices (as well as a few other early birds). HTC wanted to get in on this Lollipop update publicity, too, and took to Twitter to proclaim that updates for the Google Play edition One M7 and One M8 would be arriving early the next week – that would have been two weeks ago. Not only did

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Get a OnePlus One without invite right now, for Black Friday

Black Friday is upon us, and, if you are still wondering about what to get, you can always check out our Black Friday Deals round-up. Maybe you find something that catches your eye, or, maybe you already know what you want, but you were only waiting for the right price.If a OnePlus One is what you were looking for, then here’s your chance. Maybe you thought it was too expensive, maybe you didn’t get an invite, ...

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HTC misses second GPe Lollipop release target

The only thing better than getting timely updates for your Android smartphone is also having a manufacturer that’s very open about its own progress towards those updates; sure, we could just keep ourselves in the dark and learn about the updates once they’re ready, but we’re the sort of users who crave information, and we want to know about testing, ETAs, and all the steps on the road to release. HTC’s been doing a great job about sharing its Lollipop update plans for the Google ...

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HTC Google Play edition Android Lollipop updates delayed, still coming this week

Android 5.0 Lollipop updates started arriving for Nexus phones right around the middle of last week. We saw factory images, OTAs, and everything we needed to start using the latest Android system software on our favorite Nexus models. With that hurdle out of the way, our attention starts turning to Google Play edition models, which while they aren’t privy to quite the same super-fast updates as Nexus devices (even if some other companies did give Google a run for its money this time around), are ...

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Google Play edition Lollipop updates should start landing early next week

Android Lollipop update momentum has hit a (temporary) lull. After those heady early hours of distribution for Nexus devices (to say nothing of efforts by Motorola or LG), the feverish pace at which update news arrived has slowed to a trickle; while last night brought us hope that the Nexus 4′s update would be arriving at any moment, as of now it’s still yet to surface. But even as we wait for that release to drop, ...

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HTC confirms One M8 Lollipop update timeframe as official Google code drops

If you can remember it from the torrent of news that was Google I/O 2014, HTC announced that its 2013 and 2014 flagships would be seeing prompt updates to the latest version of Android after the availability of final code in the fall. Well, fall’s here (and with it, the day we’ve all been waiting for), and HTC has finally confirmed to the masses that final Lollipop code is in its hands, and the 90-day timer ...

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