The HTC Radar 4G is a great little Windows Phone smartphone. It features solid construction and good looks, both of which are mated to the very user-friendly Windows Phone 7.5 OS, with its gorgeous live tiles and Microsoft Metro user interface look.There’s really very little wrong with the phone at all, and for people that don’t want one of the new breed of monstrously large smartphones, the Radar and its 3.8-inch display and commensurate size are going to please. The only real problem is that it feels just like any other Windows Phone device, and some of those (like ...
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Motorola Atrix 2 set for UK bow
Motorola is set to launch a mysterious new product next week, with TechRadar being invited down to check it out.Motorola predictably wouldn’t give anything away over what the launch, set for 3 November, was for, but we’re anticipating that it will likely be the UK launch of the Motorola Atrix 2.Given we’ve already seen the Motorola Razr in Berlin earlier this month, and the Atrix 2 was launched to US fanfare but saw zero mention in the UK, it makes sense the company’s flagship phone of 2011 should get a British reboot.As we found in our hands on: Motorola Atrix 2 ...
HTC sold 13.2 million smartphones in last quarter
HTC sold a whopping 13.2 million smartphones in Q3 2011 – 93 per cent more than it did in the same quarter last year and nine per cent more than the previous three months. HTC will be looking to handsets like the HTC Titan and the HTC Sensation XL to perform in the coming months.The Taiwan giant has worked wonders in converting itself from a largely white-label manufacturer to a powerful tech brand in its own right. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Samsung Focus Windows Phones Coming To AT&T Nov. 6
Both the Samsung Focus S and Focus Flash will arrive at AT&T on November 6th. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Motorola to Cut 800 Jobs Ahead of Google Acquisition
Motorola indicated via a legal filing that it is eliminating 800 jobs and closing at least one facility in ahead of its pending acquisition by Google. The charges associated with the job cuts and facility closing will cost Motorola 427 million and $4 million, respectively. Google announced in August its intent to purchase Motorola for $12.5 billion, in part for its smartphone business and in part for its wireless technology patents. Tweet Vote on HN ...
HTC Vivid Boasts LTE for AT&T
AT&T and HTC today announced the Vivid, HTC’s first Long Term Evolution 4G smartphone for AT&T’s growing LTE network. The Vivid will run Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread with HTC’s Sense software. It features a 4.5-inch qHD display (540×960 pixels); 1.2GHz dual-core processor; 8-megapixel camera with f2.2 28mm wide angle lens for low light photos, 1080p HD video capture at 60 frames per second; and 16GB of built-in storage and support for microSD cards up to 32GB. The HTC Vivid will arrive in AT&T retail stores and online November 6 for $199.99 with a new ...
HTC Amaze 4G
The HTC Amaze 4G is the one of the latest batch of super high-performance Android smartphones to hit T-Mobile USA. It features a large, qHD resolution touchscreen display, a dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S3 processor, and an 8 megapixel, 1080p HD video capable camera with a back-side illuminated sensor. It even boasts some of the fastest HSPA+ download speeds ever seen on a T-Mobile device. Those are all lust-worthy features.But the phone has more to it than just beefy internals. It’s also beefy on the outside, sporting a solid construction that also happens to be good looking.HTC is up ...
Apple awarded unlock screen gesture patent
Earlier this week the United States Patent & Trademark office awarded a patent to Apple. That’s not unusual, as the company, like its competitors, is issued patents on a fairly regular basis. What makes this patent special, however, is that it covers the use of the now ubiquitous “slide to unlock” feature seen on most smartphone platforms. Apple applied for the patent in December 2005 and gives it the following description:“A device with a touch-sensitive display may be unlocked via gestures performed on the touch-sensitive display. The device is unlocked if ...
News Motorola ships 11.6 million phones in Q3 2011, posts smaller loss
Yesterday Motorola Mobility announced its financial and business performance results for Q3 of 2011. In the report, the company stated that it had revenues of $3.3 billion, which is up 11 percent from Q3 in 2010. The revenue came mostly from the sale of its mobile devices, of which it shipped 11.6 million units. 4.8 million of those devices shipped were smartphones, and 100,000 of them were XOOM tablets. In Q3 of 2010, Motorola shipped only 9.1 million total devices and 3.8 million smartphones.These figures show that Motorola has failed to increase the mix of its more profitable smartphones ...
Samsung: Australian Tab ban should be lifted
Samsung has appealed for the Australian ban on its Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets to be overturned.Citing errors of law, Samsung’s legal team has insisted that the ban over alleged patent infringement is wrongful, despite a judge agreeing that Apple’s intellectual property had been infringed. Tweet Vote on HN ...