Mobile World Congress Day One Highlights

Samsung unveils the Galaxy S5

The wait is over. No more rumors, just facts. This is Samsung's much anticipated superphone freshly unveiled at Mobile World Congress.   Read More 

HTC brings style to the mid-range segment with the Desire 816 (hands-on)

The new Desire 816 is the company's flagship for a new mid-tier lineup and sports a design based on the One series of devices.   Read More

Nokia Asha 230 shows off teeny-tiny touchscreen

It's incredibly basic, but the minuscule Asha 230 has an adorable design, and will set you back very little cash.   Read More

The Nvidia Tegra Note 7 adds LTE

Nvidia's updatd Tegra Note 7 keeps its Tegra 4 processor and adds a i500 modem, coming soon for $299.    Read More

First Ubuntu phones revealed (pictures)

Take an exclusive first look at the first Ubuntu phones, the Meizu MX3 and BQ Aquaris, in our hands-on photos.    Read More

Mobile World Congress in Video: Sony updates its Xperia lineup

We've told you about the changes Sony's introducing to its Xperia smartphones and tablets. Now see the new Xperia Z2 phone for yourself in this video report.    Read More

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HTC One X+ review: Its gargantuan storage space is hard to beat

 

CNET Editors' Rating

4.0 stars - Excellent

$139.99 to $199.99 

The good: The HTC One X+ has a quad-core processor, 64GB of storage, and Android Jelly Bean, plus a great camera, all for $199.99.

The bad: The HTC One X+'s battery life is short. The phone also lacks an SD card slot, and its battery can't be removed.

The bottom line: Although it does have some flaws, the $199.99 HTC One X+ is currently the best Android buy on AT&T.

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Hands-on with the new $199 HTC Droid DNA

HTC jumps into phablets with Droid DNA (hands-on)

Design

On the surface, the slab-shaped HTC Droid DNA looks like just about every other Android smartphone on the market. The only touch of flair are signature Verizon-red highlights which circle the 8-megapixel megapixel camera lens and form a thin line above the screen. Frankly it gives the handset a classic Droid Incredible flavor similar to the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE That said I really like the long red stripes which run along both the left and right edges of the phone. HTC says it was inspired by Lamborghini supercars when crafting them. As for me, I just think the stripes, which are metallic and perferated by tiny holes, look futuristic and striking.

On back, the phone’s soft-touch surface cut from premium polycarbonate reminds me more of the HTC One X and One X+’s design language though. You’ll need that soft-touch coating too since its rubber feel provides a sure grip. The device is large, yet thin. Its 0.16-inch profile makes it thinner than the Samsung Galaxy S III. Picking up both handsets and placing them side-by-side, however, they seem to be of equal thickness, or shall I say thiness. This phone is razor-sharp, there's no doubt about that and its metal buttons and trim give it a much more premium feel than the Galaxy S III's plastic parts.


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Meet the newest Droid Incredible

CNET - True to the Droid Incredible franchise, the new $149.99 HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE packs a solid amount of smartphone features in an attractive yet compact size. On board is Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and access to Verizon's 4G LTE network. 

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Verizon announces HTC Incredible with 4G LTE and ICS

Verizon Wireless subscribers will soon be able to get their hands on one of HTC's newest Android 4.0 devices, the Droid Incredible 4G LTE.

Verizon Wireless will soon be selling the Droid Incredible 4G LTE from HTC.

(Credit: HTC)

 

CNET - NEW ORLEANS, La. -- HTC announced a 4G LTE updated Droid Incredible for Verizon Wireless, which looks very similar to the HTC One S offered on T-Mobile USA.

The new Droid Incredible 4G LTE for Verizon is a variation of the HTC One S that HTC is already selling on T-Mobile USA. But there is one notable difference. This HTC device supports 4G LTE on Verizon's extensive network.

The device also comes with an advanced camera with an 8 megapixel resolution that can take up to three shots per second. It also has Beats Audio integration for improved sound quality. It runs Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as well as HTC's own Sense 4 software. It has a 4-inch Super LCD qHD screen and a dual-core Snapdragon S4. It also has a 1,7000mAh battery and an expansion memory slot for up to a 32 GB microSD card.

Pricing hasn't been announced yet for the new Droid Incredible 4G LTE, nor is there an exact launch date.

The press release says it will be available in "coming weeks." Some rumors suggested the phone could cost consumers $299. But that sounds a bit high considering the T-Mobile One S, which is very similar to this device, is priced at $199 with a two year contract.            More

Unboxing the HTC One S for T-Mobile

PCMag.Com - The HTC One S has landed on T-Mobile. We heard a lot about it back at Mobile World Congress, so we could barely wait long enough to take some unboxing photos before firing it up and putting it through its paces.

The first thing you notice when taking the HTC One S out of the box is just how thin and light it is. At just 0.35 inches thick, it’s the thinnest 4G smartphone on T-Mobile. But there’s plenty of power hidden beneath that slim form factor. The One S is powered by a next-generation, dual-core, 1.5-GHz Qualcomm MSM8260A Snapdragon S4 processor, which should allow for breakneck performance. And this is among the few phones available to sport the latest version of Android, 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). You wouldn’t know that immediately, though, because HTC has skinned the OS to look a heck of a lot like it does on just about every other HTC phone. 

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HTC Titan Review: I Want To Hate You, Giant Phone, But I Love You

Gizmodo gives this Windows phone a high rating…

A four-point-se-ven-inch smartphone. It sounds grotesque. It sounds like a distended, bloated mess of plastic and pixels, the Tsar Bomba of the bigger-is-better smartphone era. But the HTC Titan is wonderful.

Why It Matters

 

Windows Phone has been an outstanding mobile OS, obscured by a glossy black parade of lame, uninspiring hardware. So. Many. Generic. Black. Rectangles. The Titan, alongside Nokia’s offerings, is perhaps the first Windows Phone handset worth running your eyes over (and over and over). People will notice your phone, and want to touch your phone, and care about your phone. You’ll care about your phone, most importantly.

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Windows Phone was born for the big screen—it looks absolutely gorgeous inside a giant frame. If you inflate Android to these measurements, it’s a cluttered mess. You’re just making room for more widgets. Ditto for iOS—all you’re adding are more rows of apps. But WP is unlike anything else—it doesn’t just expand, it luxuriates inside a big display.

It’s an inherently rectangular OS—an interface of vivid, superflat gliding tiles, not various clocks and bars and bubbles and weather balloons. It’s regimented, spartan, and visually delicious. And when you take those tiles and transpose them onto a larger surface, there’s only more to love—and this is the way it was meant to be. Windows Phone is an OS of hugeness—giant photos, grids of everyone you know, giant, fabulously legible text. All of these things look splendid on the Titan’s crisp, vivid screen. Yes! It looks crisp, even with the pixels of that Windows-mandated resolution puffed up.               More

HTC Rhyme (Verizon Wireless)

CNET Editors’ rating

4.0 stars Excellent

The good: The HTC Rhyme boasts a beautiful, compact design. The Android Gingerbread smartphone comes bundled with a number of accessories, including a handy desktop dock.

The bad: The Rhyme’s purple color and cell phone charm won’t be for everyone. Camera quality could be better.

The bottom line: Though certain aspects of the phone limit its appeal to a larger audience, the HTC Rhyme is a solid and stylish midrange Android device that comes with some nice accessories.

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New T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide

CNET - Today, T-Mobile finally put the rumors to rest and officially unveiled the T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide. Expected in July for $199.99 with contract, it's the latest addition to the carrier's line of consumer-friendly Android smartphones, and it's more than just the next-gen version of the MyTouch 3G Slide; T-Mobile is touting the MyTouch 4G Slide as having the most advanced camera of any smartphone out there.

Designed in collaboration with HTC, the smartphone has an 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash and 1080p HD video capture, which isn't out of the ordinary. What is special, however, are some of the new premium features. This includes a wide aperture lens and a backside-illuminated sensor (BSI). The latter technology is also present on the iPhone 4, and as CNET digital imaging editor Josh Goldman explains here, BSI improves speed and dynamic range and enables better picture quality in low-light conditions. Low-light performance has always been a trouble spot for most camera phones, so we appreciate any kind of help in this area.

T-Mobile also boasts that the MyTouch 4G Slide has zero shutter lag and comes with a dedicated camera button that can activate the camera even when the phone is locked. The camera's software offers an array of editing options and shooting modes, including SweepShot for panoramic pictures, BurstShot for capturing a sequence of photos, and ClearShot HDR.

HDR, which stands for high dynamic range, is a tool that helps capture a more detailed and accurate picture in challenging lighting conditions. With HDR, the camera takes multiple shots of a scene--one overexposed, one underexposed, and one with normal exposure--and combines them into a single image to bring out details that would otherwise be lost in the dark shadows or bright light. Though HDR isn't new and there are multiple third-party apps and post-production software programs available to achieve the same effect, the beauty of it on the MyTouch 4G Slide is that HDR is integrated into the camera app.

Of course, the camera is just one aspect of the smartphone, and it has plenty more to offer. The MyTouch 4G Slide will ship running Android 2.3 Gingerbread with the new HTC Sense 3.0 user experience, though we're told some aspects of Sense will be toned down. It will come preloaded with a few extra apps and services, including the Netflix Android app and the Qik client, so you can make video calls using the front-facing VGA camera.   More