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Saturday, 10. July 2010
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Saturday, 10. July 2010
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HTC Aria (AT&T) – Full Review
Saturday, 10. July 2010
Tiny, powerful, but hamstrung by a weak battery and the closed walls of its carrier: The HTC Aria for AT&T, reviewed by Noah. Forums: forums.phonedog.com Win Free Phones www.phonedog.com More Videos: www.phonedog.com
Will Htc Abandon Windows?
Saturday, 10. July 2010
The mobile community knows the Taiwan-based HTC to be the leader in smartphones running the Windows Mobile operating system. But the last 18 months saw the High Tech Computer Corporation slowly but surely releasing more handsets in the Android platform starting with the HTC Dream it has provided T-Mobile and rebranded as the G1, the world’s first Android smartphone.
Since then, HTC has once again taken hold of the smartphone market as the leading smartphone maker using Android. It has recently OEM’ed for Google its first mobile phone in the Nexus One running its own Android. Its mobile phone line-up for 2010 unveiled at the recent CeBIT in Hanover and the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona revealed HTC’s newfound product mix strategy that no has some new remarkable Android handsets notably the HTC Desire together with the HTC Legend and a solitary BREW mobile HTC Smart as well as a rumoured HTC Incredible still on the drawing board.
Where Goes Windows
But the Windows Mobile platform still has a year or so of life remaining and will run upcoming HTC handsets like the HTC HD Mini, the HTC Touch Pro2 (Tilt2 for AT&T), the HTC Touch Diamond 2 and the rumored HTC Trophy in the works. HTC may not be faithfully monogamous with the Windows Mobile OS that has catapulted it to become the world’s largest smartphone maker after Nokia but the realities behind the impending demise of the Windows Mobile has not escaped HTC planners.
HTC has focused on mobile devices running on Windows ever since the company’s inception in 1997 and has been the favored OEM for companies like Palm, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, Sharp, i-mate and HO/Compaq rebranding and distributing Windows-based HTC products as their own as well as making Windows handsets for mobile phone carriers Orange T-Mobile, O2, Vodafone, Cingular and NTT DoCoMo.
But since 2004 when the platform saw its best year with 23% share of the smartphone market, Windows Mobiles has been loosing market shares every year ending up at 14% in 2008 before getting halved in just one year alone to a mere 7.9% by the 3rd quarter of 2009, according to Gartner Research. This has been mostly attributable to the rise of the new smartphone darling – the Android, in 2009.
Microsoft is now clinging on straws to survive. It has entered a deal with the third largest mobile phone maker LG to license 50 new Window handsets for 20010 but that is lost as major Windows smartphone makers like Samsung has announced last November it will be abandoning the OS in favor of its Bada in 2010 as well as Acer shifting its new mobile phone business to Android this year. Palm, Inc has likewise thrown its support entirely to Android.
The Coast is Clear
It looks like Android is the way to go for many smartphone makers while HTC remains hedging it bets on it as it could be hoping the new Windows Phone 7 can give an upgrade path to its latest breed of Windows Mobile 6.5 handsets. But even that is big question mark as Microsoft already made clear its new WinPho7 is a clean slate.
There may be problems for Android as well in terms of upgradeability of existing versions but the coast is clear for smartphone makers to latch on Android as the rising star for the smartphone business at least for 2010.
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A New Market Era For Htc
Saturday, 10. July 2010
With a mission to be an original equipment maker or OEM to mobile device makers running the Windows Mobile platform, the Taiwan-based High Tech Computer Corporation or better known in the markets as HTC, has become the world’s largest Windows-based smartphone maker for both its OEM clients and direct consumers. It is estimated that it has a clear 80% commanding hold on all Windows gadgets ever built.
That includes PDAs, PocketPCs and Mobile phones. It has outstanding OEM deals with brands like Palm, Sharp, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens and HP/Compaq as well as with mobile telecoms carriers like Vodafone, Orange, O2, Cingular, NTT DoCoMo and T-Mobile. But the brand also found its way in the hands of the larger smartphone consumers with starting in 2004 with the likes of HTC Touch, HTC Magic and HTC Hero just to mention a few.
A New Ballgame Under Its Control
It’s no secret that Microsoft’s Windows Mobile has been instrumental in making HTC what it is today, but as they say, life must go on. And in the business world, that means latching your products to a rising star and letting go one that is fading. In this case, the Windows Mobile is sure to go the way of the dinosaurs soon enough if Gartner Research and the opinions of pundits are any indication.
From its peak of 24% market share in 2004 as the third most widely used smartphone OS, Windows Mobile has been losing ground year after year ending up at 14% in 2008 with more than half of that decimated in one year alone. It now commands a mere 7.9% share in 5th place after the Android and iPhone OS overtook it in 3rd and 4th place, respectively, after Nokia at number one and Blackberry second.
That is why its rivals in the smartphone business have all but given up on the Widows OS. Acer and Samsung will no longer make smartphones running Windows in favor of Android. So will Motorola who will throw its support exclusively to Android. HTC’s main competitor after Blackberry, Palm has likewise abandoned Windows in favor of Android
But HTC is not about to abandon Windows. It may have launched the world’s first Android smartphone with the HTC Dream OEM’ed to T-Mobile and rebranded as G1 and lately given Google the hardware muscle to brand its first mobile phone as the Nexus One, but HTC has been playing it safe releasing handsets in both platforms.
Apart from its initial Android offering in the HTC Hero, Dream and Magic, it is releasing two new Android handsets for 2010. It is clearly adopting a more prudent product mix strategy supporting both and possibly other smartphone OS like the BREW it uses for its upcoming HTC Smart. The recent CeBIT and Mobile World Congress unveiled new HTC smartphones in both platforms to be released in the first half of 2010. You have Android smartphones like the HTC Desire and HT Legend as well as Windows Mobile smartphones in the HTC Touch Pro 2 (Tilt2 in AT&T) and the HTC Touch Diamond 2.
Pundits are quick to point that HTC is taking the safest marketing route, playing for both a sunset and a sunrise OS. 2010 is looking like a new ball game for HTC.
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Saturday, 10. July 2010
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Saturday, 10. July 2010
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Htc & O2 Release The Htc Legend
Saturday, 10. July 2010
The new HTC Legend is the latest HTC phone to feature the Android 2.1 operating system, this upgrade to the HTC Hero has now been launched on O2 after first being released on Vodafone and Orange as well as being offered as a SIM Free phone.
This new Android phone takes the features of the previous Hero handset and further improves on them, the HTC Legend still offers a 5.0 mega pixel camera but with improved optics plus some new feature enhancements from the manufacturer.
One big enhancement relates to the main navigation function which was via a trackball system in the previous Hero phone, the HTC Legend switches this for the new optical track pad which is operated by sliding your finger across as opposed to having to physically move the original trackball.
This negates the wear and tear associated with the rubberised trackball system which many previous users complained about through extended use of the Hero handset.
Running the HTC Sense user interface over the top of the Android OS the Legend is slick and smooth in its navigation, a new addition to the phones applications is Friend Stream, this organises activities such as social network updates, emails and text messages from the contacts database and displays them in one stream of information of one of the handsets home screens keeping the user comprehensively up to date with all of their friends online activity.
The HTC Legend has also been joined by two new handsets from the manufacturer, the new HTC Desire is a larger phone that incorporates a 3.7 inch AMOLED touch screen display as opposed to the smaller 3.2 inches of the Legend.
The most recent release is the new HTC HD Mini which is a slimmed down version of the previous HD2 model, the HD Mini shrinks the main touch screen down from a massive 4.3 inches to a more reasonable and manageable 3.2 inches whilst still packing in the features of the original phone.
The HTC Legend is one of many new Android phones to be released of late, competition somes from the Motorola Milestone, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, Samsung Galaxy Portal, LG GW620 InTouch Max and new LG GT540 Swift.
The Legend does have a unique design aspect carried over from the HTC Hero which is commonly referred to as the phones ‘chin’, this relates to the bottom of the phone which is angled inwards which not only improves on voice clarity during conversation but also protects the handsets touch screen when placed face down by slightly lifting it above the surface.
There are further network launches planned for this latest Android phone over the coming weeks as well as a Pay As You Go release very soon.
The HTC Legend has been joined by the new HTC HD Mini in this yers line up from the manufacturer.