HTC Ville C specs leaked: Cheaper alternative to the HTC One S?
Another ICS money saver
HTC looks to be working on another “affordable” Android Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone, after specs for an HTC Ville C were leaked on the net.
Described as being an “ultra-slim PDA phone”, sources are proclaiming the HTC Ville C to be a cheaper alternative to the HTC One S, which itself was called [...]
Sony Xperia GX and Xperia SX announced for Japan, could take on Samsung and HTC over here?
13-megapixel camera
Sony Mobile Communications has announced two new smartphones for Japan, the first to carry just the Sony branding. The Sony Xperia GX and Xperia SX handsets are both LTE enabled, come with dual core 1.5GHz processors, Reality Displays powered by the Sony Bravia engine, and the Sony Exmor R sensor for picture taking and [...]
2007’s Pre-M3 Version of Android: The Google Sooner
Steven Troughton-Smith:
When Google first showed off Android, they showed it running on a
device very similar to Blackberries or Nokia E-class devices of
the time. This device was the Google Sooner – an OMAP850 device
built by HTC, with no touchscreen or WiFi. This was the Android
reference device, the device they originally built the OS on.
Recently, I got [...]
APP OF THE DAY: MX Player (Android)
Effortless video
One of the great things about Android, is that it has a flexibility – especially with regard to the file system – that you don’t get on iOS. It is, for example, perfectly possible to drag and drop video and music files over USB on to the SD card or internal storage of [...]
Profit Share
Horace Dediu on the just-completed quarter:
Apple captured 73% of phone industry profits and Samsung captured
26%. HTC took 1%. Everybody else lost money.
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Gingerbread still most popular version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich still playing catch-up
ICS only has 4.4 per cent share
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich?share has grown to 4.4 per cent in Google’s latest platform versions report showing that the newest version of Android is growing, but by no means the most popular version of the mobile OS.
That crown goes to Android 2.3 Gingerbread, which is the most popular [...]
Pocket-lint Podcast #82 – Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC and Google Drive
Plus, Virgin Media’s Cycle Slam
The launch of the Samsung Galaxy S3 ebbs ever closer, so the Pocket-lint team looks at some of the latest information coming from Korea and jumps to a startling conclusion… Remember, you heard it here first!
Plus, our intrepid reporter returns from a week with HTC in the US, looking at the [...]
HTC Posts 70 Percent Profit Drop
The AP:
Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp. reported a 70 percent drop in
first quarter profit as it faces keener competition from Apple
Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. HTC said Tuesday that profit
amounted to 4.5 billion New Taiwan dollars ($152 million) from
revenue of NT$68 billion in the three months through March.
Revenue was down 35 percent from a year [...]
Horace Dediu on Apple’s iPhone Profit Margins
Horace Dediu:
The question should be: How is this possible? What does this
product have that gives it such a pricing advantage? Note the the
ratio was preserved through the three years shown and has
persisted for nearly five years.
And in a separate piece:
However, a casual observer would be stumped by a comparison with
competitors which cannot come near the [...]
Samsung confirms Windows Phone 8 Apollo handset
Could be here by October
A Samsung Windows Phone 8 Apollo handset could be with us before the end of the year.
In a move that suggests Samsung isn’t throwing all its eggs into the Android basket, Taiwan Samsung confirmed the news.
As Windows Phone 8 Apollo won’t actually be rolled out until October of this year, this [...]
