HTC / Phone Business & Stocks / Phones
by Phones Review · Published 09/27/2013 · Last modified 09/28/2013
HTC and Beats Electronics will take separate roads. The end of the relationship between both companies has been a subject of speculations and discussions in the mobile world for some time now. HTC owned half of Beats Electronics, but according to a recent report the company has sold its remaining stake – nearly 25% for $265 million. This is more...
Samsung has recently begun a policy for locking its Android devices to work only in the regions where they are bought from. The usage of the phones and the phablets will depend on the continent where the SIM-card is issued and activated. For example, if you buy and activate a Samsung Galaxy S3 from a European retailer, you will only...
Owners of HTC One Developer Edition have a reason to smile – their device is getting updated with the Android 4.3 Jelly Bean version of the platform. It is rolling out to the smartphones in US, not only for the carriers-branded versions but also for the unlocked flagships. The size of the update is 564MB, named 3.22.1540.1. The goodies that...
Many expect that the technology for fingerprint scanning as a security feature in high-end devices will be the next hot thing in the mobile world. However this might not be the case for all manufacturers. The latest news on this topic comes from Samsung. Apparently the company will not compete on this field for now. The source of the information...
T-Mobile has announced that it not stock on BlackBerry devices in its stores in the near future, because of low demands from customers. This does not mean that the carrier will not sell the BlackBerry phones. It will just focus on offering the devices only online and will ship the phones to their owners. The news was announced by the...
A brand new product has been announced for the Chinese market – the Samsung Galaxy Trend 3. This will be a dual SIM device that looks like the Samsung latest’s flagship handset – the Galaxy S4. But it only looks like. Although it looks like a flagship, it will be low- end device according to the 2013 standards. The Galaxy...
ZTE is preparing a new entry level Firefox OS based phone for the next year, the Chinese manufacturer has revealed. The new smartphone will be a direct successor to the ZTE Open – a budget friendly device released in 2013. He Shiyou, company’s vice president has revealed in a recent interview that the sales of the first model the ZTE...
The Galaxy Note 3 was introduced earlier in September but according to new information, there will be another version of the device this time with a flexible display. The future version of the Galaxy Note 3 will arrive under a different name. Sources close to Samsung claim the new smartphone will be named Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Active. The name...
BlackBerry is having one of the hardest and toughest years in the history of the company. Not long ago, the Canadian manufacturer announced that it is considering partial or total selling of the company. Back then there were no clues about who will be interested in buying the mobile giant. The price of BlackBerry was also a mystery. Now we...
There are clear indications showing that Samsung could use aluminum to build the new Galaxy S5 smartphone. Samsung has been criticized in the past because of their plastic designs and is now looking to complete a deal with Catcher Technology, a company that is going to build new aluminum back cases for the Samsung Galaxy S5. Catcher Technology is not...
