Tag: taiwan
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Samsung admits its employees anonymously slated HTC phones online
Korean manufacturer found to be using underhand playground tactics against its rival
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HTC Desire P and Q Budget Android Handsets Go Official in China
A pair of HTC Desire handsets have been announced in China as part of a new budget range of Android smartphones.
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HTC Desire P and Desire Q Android Smartphones Mentioned in Official Documents
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With HTC having announced this year’s flagship the HTC One – focus moves onto the affordable HTC Desire range with a pair of handsets set to arrive.
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Diablo III Gamer Dies in Taiwan After 40 Hour Session – Second Death Due to Excessive Play
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An 18 year old man from Taiwan has become the second gamer to die from excessive play time since the start of 2012. The game of choice this time was fantasy role-player Diablo III and just like the death of a 23-year old in February this unfortunate fellow, who was known only as Chuang, had…
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HTC Velocity Speeding into Germany on Super Fast 4G Network Soon
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Germany will get its first 4G connected smartphone in the form of the Taiwanese made HTC Velocity which is set to speed onto the country’s mobile market later this year. As well as bringing a super-fast internet data connection through the currently in trial 4G communications standard the HTC Velocity will mirror the US-based AT&T…
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Only in Taiwan! Fake Steve Jobs Sells Android “Action Pad” Tablet in Advert
While the Japanese have been channelling the late great tech pioneer and Apple CEO Steve Jobs through supernatural methods, southerly neighbour Taiwan meanwhile has been using a winged and haloed Steve Jobs-a-like to advertise a cheap rival Android tablet called the Action Pad. In the promo clip Taiwanese comedian Ah-Ken portrays a mock-Steve who appears…
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Nokia Lumia 710 Shipping Begins – But United Kingdom Still Missing Out
Nokia’s second Windows Phone is on its way – Well, at least on its way to some lucky countries today as the Finnish mobile tech co. has just revealed that shipping has begun for the Lumia 710, lightweight sibling to the recently released Lumia 800. Mobile buyers in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, India and Russia…
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Apple iPhone / iPad screen to size up / down in 2012?
Recently it was suggested by an ‘inside source’ (as always) that the Apple range of products will receive a full reboot in 2012, with iPad 3 screens shipping from Taiwanese suppliers as soon as December. Today more hushed tones have been heard which could suggest that the talk of a refresh of the popular gadgets…
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Sync software brings iTunes to HTC Rhyme and Sensation XL
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“Quietly Brilliant” HTC have quietly sneaked out a new software feature that benefits the music loving mobile owner and brings all of our favourite iTune tracks over to smartphone. Yes – that means Google’s Android OS supporting Apple’s music store! The software is called HTC Sync and it’s available for download starting on lady-pleaser the…
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HTC Ville coming with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich – First to include 1.5GHz Qualcomm S4 chip
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It’s become tradition that gadgets made by Taiwanese co. HTC hit the rumour mill or are leaked prematurely through the all-seeing internet. The latest addition to the range, the HTC Ville – suggested to be the first smartphone to feature Qualcomm’s newest dual-core S4 CPU – is no exception, with a leaked concept image and…
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Source claims Apple supply chain ships iPad 3 parts this December – also full inventory reboot in 2012?
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Here’s another Apple tease from the Taiwanese – a ‘source close to’ the company’s supply chain claims that 2012 will see the completion of an inventory wide refresh which began with the recent reboot of the iPhone 4. According to the speculator, we’ll be seeing a new MacBook Air and iMac, as well as…
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HTC ‘Rezound’ gets DLNA certification – But what is it?
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A new HTC ‘media player’ gadget has the tech world wondering today, after its DLNA certification was leaked online ahead of any announcement by the ‘shirts and ties’ of the Taiwanese communications co. Certified as “REG30480418”, the HTC Rezound made it way on to the web, in a fashion, in a document mentioning some of the…