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HTC reportedly making a Tizen phone too.

   Since Nokia chose to depart from their ex-partner Intel, the pair’s love child, Meego, was expected to become a somewhat neglected entity. But, it wasn’t long before Samsung, amongst many others, picked up the buck and started building Tizen and it seems they haven’t looked back yet. …

HTC acknowledge tweaked multitasking for Sense

HTC’s One series phones have beeen pretty much universally praised since their release last month. There’s no denying that they represent a true return to form for the company after it’s struggles last year. That said, there have been some complaints relating to the way that the One …

HTC Desire C available to buy .. soon

The HTC Desire C went official just yesterday and now Clove have added prices to their site. Priced up at 189.99, it’s set to arrive in the Clove warehouse on May 24th. The Desire C packs a 5 megapixel camera, 600MHz CPU, 320×480 pixel 3.5″ screen, Bluetooth 4.0, …

HTC Desire C Pricing Confirmed For T-Mobile & Orange

Both T-Mobile and Orange have confirmed that they will carry the newly confirmed HTC Desire C on contract and Pay Monthly tariffs. Available on Orange from £20.50 per month and at £169.99 on PAYG and T-Mobile from £15.50 per month and at £169.99 on PAYG. As revealed here, …

HTC Desire C – Official

The HTC Golf made an early official-ish appearance yesterday, but now HTC have sent us the announcement we were expecting. There was no big launch event but it will be available on every UK network from “early June” and you can choose between red, white or black. Powered …

HTC Desire C appears in rendered form

We previously knew it as the HTC Golf, but now the HTC Desire C has appeared in the Vodafone Portugal catalogue with suitably mid-range specs. There’s a 600Mhz CPU (probably the same one we saw in the HTC Explorer), a 3.5″ 320×480 pixel screen, 4GB of internal memory …

Win yourself a HTC Mozart, these people have!

We’ve been giving away HTC Mozart handsets every week now. The winners so far are as follows, and apologies for not posting about this earlier – you’ve probably seen me go a little quiet recently as I move the site to another provider. Dominic Williams from Doncaster John …

HTC 5p Films Weekend

HTC Watch, the online video service,  are offering another 5p films weekend. With 30 days to start downloading after purchasing then 48 hours to watch your film, the list is a long one containing some great titles. Adventures of Tintin Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Happy Feet Two Happy …

OpenDesign team aim to add lots of features to Cyanogenmod 9

You may have come across Cyanogenmod in the past. It is one of the most popular custom roms for Android phones around. The latest version CM9 gives a lot of people access to Ice Cream Sandwich that would otherwise not be getting it. The orginal Samsung Galaxy S, …

HTC Radar only £99 in store at Orange

We’ve just been alerted to a pretty cracking deal that Orange are currently running for the HTC Radar. They’ve currently got it on sale in store for the bargain price of £99 when you top up £10. For your one hundred notes you’ll get a second gen Windows …

HTC One V Review

The bottom of the range is never a good place to be. Not if we’re honest. If your budget will “only go” as far as the One V then you might think that you’re losing out. Sure, when it comes to specs this isn’t as F1-fast as the …

New Facebook HTC phone on the way? Like?!

“Sources” talking to Digitimes say that another Facebook phone is on the way. This time it looks like HTC and Facebook will be woven more tightly together too. HTC has already released phones with Facebook integration and dedicated buttons, such as the ChaCha, but it looks like this …

HTC One X Review 2

As promised, along with Dan’s initial HTC One X review, here’s another and more detailed look at the flagship One handset. It aims to turn around the perhaps “disrupted” image of the brand recently. Many thanks to Handtec for providing us with an additional review unit. The HTC …

Virgin Media Now Stocking HTC Sensation XE And HTC One V

In a press release today, Virgin Media revealed that they are now offering the HTC Sensation XE and the HTC One V from free on contract. Virgin Mobile is a virtual operator in the UK, using the networks of  T-Mobile and Orange ensuring maximum possible coverage. If you …

HTC One V Overview

Look what’s just arrived here in Coolsmartphone HQ. It’s the HTC One V, complete with chin. We couldn’t wait to show you this, so I packed it into the car and went for a drive in the country. You might have seen the results of my one-handed camera …

Camera fight – HTC One S vs. Samsung Galaxy SII

So, HTC unveiled their HTC One Series handsets a few weeks back now. We’ve already reviewed the HTC One X and the HTC One S but I wanted to show you more on the camera technology and how it compares to my usual phone-of-choice – the Samsung Galaxy …

HTC One S Review

The HTC One S is the slimmer, ever-so-slightly-less-powerful brother of the HTC One X. It’s got a 4.3″ screen with 960×540 pixel screen. I say “slightly less powerful” but heck, a dual-core 1.5GHz CPU is still ruddy good. Powered by Android 4.0 with HTC Sense 4.0, it uses …

HTC shares down, first quarter profit drops by 70%

HTC are more than aware how quicky the mobile industry changes. In Barcelona we saw how eager Fujitsu, ZTE and Huawei were to take bigger bites of the mobile market. HTC have realised that their previous “carpet bombing” technique, introducing handsets for almost every segment and user, wasn’t …

Sony Xperia S vs HTC One X camera shoot-out

Two recently released high-end smartphones from Sony and HTC, namely the Xperia S and One X are both touted as top-class camera phones. Imaging specs are pretty impressive – the Sony Xperia S sports 12-megapixel “Exmor R” sensor, while the HTC One X has 8-megapixel shooter backed by …

HTC Watch rentals discounted over Easter

Got a HTC phone? Used the Watch service? It’s definitely worth a try this weekend, because they’ve reduced the rental price on a whole splodge of new movies down to just 5p. Once you’ve rented you have 30 days to watch it, so don’t worry if you don’t …

HTC One – Free fall photo shoot filmed for latest ad

HTC have kicked off a rather massive campaign for their HTC One series. You’ll be seeing TV adverts featuring a guy jumping out of a plane with one and filming everything on a HTC One handset. Actually, it’s a little more than that… the advert features pictures and …

Ice Cream Sandwich being delivered to HTC Sensation owners

Ant has sent us a shot of his rather nice HTC Sensation getting an Ice Cream Sandwich delivery. He’s on Three and this is an unlocked, unbranded and unmolested unit. We know already that the Vodafone branded model was getting the update, but now it looks like other …

Is the HTC One X the Android you’re looking for?

So, the HTC One X has officially exploded into the Android world. This post isn’t an in depth review of it, Dan has posted an excellent one here. It’s my view of what really matters now that it’s here. After months of speculation, leaked photos, doctored spec sheets …

HTC One X Review 1

The HTC One series was announced at Mobile World Congress in February and with so much to see I really didn’t get much time at all with the One X.  Add to that all the rushing around and not being 100%, I came away from Barcelona not really …

HTC One X and S heading to Orange

After hearing last week that Three had announced the HTC One X and S would hit their stores on Thursday, earlier today we heard that one half of Everything Everywhere were planning to launch the phones on the same day. It only seems right then that the other half …

HTC One X and One S on T-Mobile from Thursday

A fairly brief but self-explanatory email has just popped in from T-Mobile. They’ll be retailing the excellent HTC One X and the slim One S from this Thursday, so if you’re reaching the end of your contract or you’re looking to switch, check their site to get your …

HTC One X in stock, but…

Well James. We used to like you. You were our friend once, but now you’re dangling the HTC One X in front of us but, due to an embargo, we can’t get it until April 4th. If you’ve ordered one (for £497.98) then you only have to wait …

HTC Sensation gets ICS on Vodafone

If you’re a HTC Sensation user and you got your handset from Vodafone, listen up. They’ve just finished testing the Ice Cream Sandwich update and should be available now. A post on their blog states that.. Great news. The testing of the ICS update for HTC Sensation is …

Dropbox 23GB storage loophole fixed?

A few days ago we spotted a rather “naughty” APK which fooled the good folks at Dropbox into thinking that you’d just bought yourself a brand new HTC One device. That then gave you 23GB of space, or extra space, in your Dropbox account. Now, we’ve had a …

Three Publish One X and S Pricing

UK network Three has published the pricing for the new HTC One S and X handsets with an expected delivery  date of the 5th April and online orders start from the 4th April Here is all the information below so you can take a pick of which plan is best …

Vodafone prep the HTC One X and S

Old news this really, but people have seen it elsewhere and have nudged us about it. We heard that Voda were to take the HTC One X and One S back in February and they’ve now appeared on the Vodafone website. The One X looks to be coming …

HTC Vivid receiving Android 4.0

Over in America, HTC have just announced that the HTC Vivid will be one of the first handsets to get Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and the updated HTC Sense. HTC tell us… Consumers (will be) able to begin upgrading their devices via download today. One of the …

HTC buys MOG? Spotify beware!

HTC clearly have a thing for audio at the moment, best shown buy their $300 million purchase of Dr Dre’s Beats Audio, and the subsequent highly rated integration into their new products. So that’s the sound taken care of, but what about content? Well looks like HTC have …

O2 to offer up the HTC One X on April 5th

O2 have confirmed via Twitter that they will be offering up the HTC One X from April 5th – just 4 weeks from today. There’s no news on pricing or plans just yet though. We do, however, have some HTC One X deals on O2 if you’re interested. …

HTC Radar, now down to just £199

We seem to be finding a good selection of cheap Windows Phones lately. Now it’s the turn of the HTC Radar, which has been reduced to £199 on eBuyer. The Radar has 8GB of storage on board, a 3.8″ screen, 5 megapixel camera and 1GHz CPU. Link – …

HTC Ice Cream Sandwich updates begin!

HTC have posted on their blog that they have begun to roll out their Ice Cream Sandwich update to Sensation and Sensation XE devices. This is the start of the roll out to all HTC devices that are getting the update (see list below), and will happen country …

HTC Evo 3D now even cheaper

Just a short while back Andrew found the HTC Evo 3D in Asda for just £249.99. Since then it’s got even cheaper, and they’re now off-loading it at a remarkable £207. If you’re up for some 3D action, why not pop down there. This is an unlocked handset …

HTC One Series example camera shots

So, we saw the whizzy camera technology in the HTC One Series devices. You probably had a look at it in one of our videos, then saw some very similar rapid-fire camera technology in the Sony Xperia range and the Orange Intel phone. The new HTC phones have …

Impressions from MWC 2012

Although I’m a self-proclaimed mobile gadgets maniac, somehow I don’t usually follow major events in the industry as closely as perhaps I should. However, since I’m looking to replace my current HTC Desire Z sometime soon’ish, I was keeping an extra eye on the recent happenings at Mobile …