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HTC And Valve Partner To Make A VR Gaming Headset Called Vive
HTC has just dropped another tidbit of news here in Barcelona, on the eve of the Mobile World Congress trade show. Namely that it’s gearing up to compete in the gaming wearable space, announcing a partnership with games publisher Valve to bring a virtual reality headset to market, called the HTC Vive — to compete with the likes of the Oculus Rift. Read More
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HTC America Just Did This… Take A Bow Peter Chou
Being the plucky mobile underdog in the fiery caldera of the smartphone market means HTC absolutely has to do things differently to grab some attention. So that means bringing “the ruckus” to its marketing messages, as it puts it. HTC Reports Slender $14.7M Profit, Revenue Growth In Q4 2014
HTC has released unaudited results for its Q4 2014 and the Taiwanese mobile maker is reporting a slim net profit, of $14.7 million (NT$0.47 billion), following the slender $19.7 million (NT$0.6 billion) profit it reported for its Q3 back in October. LTE Nexus 9 Available Now At T-Mobile For $600, Coming To Google Play Soon
T-Mobile is the first in the world to offer an HTC Nexus 9 with LTE, with the tablet up for sale today via T-Mobile’s online store. It’ll cost you $24.99 or over 24 months, with $0 up front, or $599.76 all told – Just $120 more than the 32 GB Wi-Fi only version. Nexus 9 Keyboard Folio Review
The HTC Nexus 9 is Google’s latest tablet running pure, unadulterated Android, and it’s a very capable piece of hardware, made better because it’s running Lollipop, which is a big step up for Android overall. Google has just begun shipping Nexus 9 Keyboard Folio accessories, too, which give the tablet a magnetic cover with a built-in keyboard, complete with mechanical keys… Read More
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Windows Phone 8.1 Finally Breaks The 50% Market Share Threshold
Windows Phone 8.1 accounted for more than 50 percent of all Windows Phone usage in November. It closed October with 46.7 percent of the market. Windows Phone 8, its predecessor, still controls 33.5 percent of the Windows Phone base. That amount will decline as more carriers update phones that were initially sold with an earlier version of the Windows Phone platform. Here’s the chart… Read More
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HTC Offering A $299 Unlocked HTC One M8 For Its ‘Hot Deal’ This Week
Ordinarily, I am left cold by deal or sale pitches, but HTC’s new ‘Hot Deal‘ program, whereby it offers bargain basement pricing on items from its stable of devices every week during a limited window, has proven interesting. This week’s deal for the HTC One M8 at just $299 outright for an unlocked device (or a carrier-locked version of your choosing, if you’re… Read More
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HTC Reports Slim $19.7M Profit For Q3 2014 As Its Rebuilding Efforts Continue
Things are better for HTC these days, after the Taiwanese phone company eked out a slim $19.6 million (NT$0.6 billion) profit for the third quarter of 2014. That figure represents a drop on the previous quarter’s $75 million profit, but is a big improvement on October 2013: when it suffered a $102 million loss, its first negative quarter as a public company. Read More
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Google Debuts The HTC-Made Nexus 9 Android Tablet
Google has a new Nexus tablet, and it’s a 9-inch slate, built by HTC — a company that’s an unusual choice, given the ample field of OEMs available. The Taiwanese gadget-maker got out of the tablet game a few years ago, but now it’s back with a 9-inch Nexus special that looks kind of like an oversized Nexus 5, albeit with an brushed-metal aluminum rim in place of the… Read More
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HTC’s Desire Eye Puts Selfie And Back Cameras On Equal Footing
HTC’s new Desire Eye is a brand new camera that includes two 13 megapixel cameras, with the same capabilities front and back. Each has a dual color LED flash, similar to that found on the iPhone, and they come in two-color plastic unibody designs. It has IPX67 waterproofing, (which is the same as that found in the Samsung Galaxy S5) and is good for quick submersion in shallow water,… Read More
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