Tag: htc

The Killer ‘5 Day’ for Virtual Reality

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Because what VR really needs is Fruit Ninja: “After the latest VR technology was released, we felt that there was no better game suited to VR than Fruit Ninja,” Halfbrick’s Adam Wood, product manager for Fruit Ninja VR, told IGN earlier today. “The simplicity of Fruit Ninja with the total immersion of VR creates an experience like no other.” Simplicity and VR get along very, very well. That’s because with something like the Vive’s hyper-accurate motion tracking, your hands and arms quickly transform into whatever weapon or other implement is in the game world. Nailing targets with a bow &

How does the HTC First compare to other mid-range HTC devices?

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In all the talk about the low sales of the HTC First (the so-called Facebook phone), there’s one bit of information, and one question, I’ve not seen answered How do the sales numbers of a mid-range Android device on a US network that runs the Facebook overlay compare to sales of a mid-range Android device on a US network that runs HTC’s own UI layer? Perhaps the HTC First sold in the same rough range as other mid tier Android devices targeted at regular consumers?

Catch up on the Windows Phone news with the AAWP Insight Podcast

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It’s been a busy week in the Windows Phone world, what with CES, new models, and some great app announcements. What better way to catch up on all the news and make sense of it with the All About Windows Phone Team and our weekly podcast? In this episode… we bring you all the Windows Phone related news from CES. There’s discussion of the Microsoft keynote, upcoming Xbox Live titles and the first Windows Phone LTE devices, the HTC TITAN 2 and the Nokia Lumia 900, both of which will be available through US operator AT&T. We finish, as usual, with

Nudge-nudge, wink-wink, the real reason that HTC’s profits are dropping

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There are going to be a lot of people telling HTC why they have had their profit drop, and I suspect that the advice will match the affiliations and personal wish list of the commentators. So expect a lot of geeks to suggest the major reason for this drop is the lack of an open boot loader on their Android handsets; high-end tech blogs to just know it’s because they insist on using Sense UI and not the stock Android UI; fashion blogs will say it’s because nobody buys black any more; while the BBC will point to HTC’s appearance on

What if Android just went away?

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David Gilson (moonlighting at Blottr instead of the All About family), talks about the current state of play in the Android world with the linkbaiting headline of “Is Android Doomed?” Google has to walk a fine line of not being seen to give preferential treatment to Motorola Mobility, in order to stop the likes of HTC and Samsung quitting Android. So far it’s been doing a good job, by means of helping them to fight its proxy patent war against Apple. An interesting read…

Follow the patent, follow the money, find some madness from HTC

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U.S. Patent No. 6,473,006 on a “method and apparatus for zoomed display of characters entered from a telephone keypad”; originally filed by Phone-com, which assigned it to Openwave, then sold to a French company named Purple Labs, which sold it on to Myriad’s French subsidiary, sold by Myriad to Google last year and by Google to HTC on August 29, 2011 (recorded on September 1). And now HTC use it to sue Apple for infringing on their IP. Madness, I tell you. Madness!