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HTC Clones Nexus One, Launches 3 New Phones

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

It’s just the beginning of the year and already HTC is on a roll. The company has announced three new smartphones — two of those will run Google’s Android operating system — and a redesigned user interface that aggregates social networking feeds.

The three new HTC phones are HTC Legend, a Nexus One clone called HTC Desire and HTC HD Mini, the only one in the pack to run Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. The phones have been designed by One & Co, the San Francisco-based design firm that HTC acquired in December 2008.

“HTC Legend and HTC Desire take Android to another level in both substance and style,” said HTC President Peter Chou in a statement.

Thanks to its close partnership with Google, HTC has emerged as a powerhouse maker of Android devices. The company designed the first phone to run Android, the T-Mobile G1. In January, HTC’s Nexus One became the first smartphone to be sold by Google.

Last June, HTC introduced Sense, a user interface that allows users to set up profiles for work and play and has widgets that bring in data from different social networking streams such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr.

Since then, the idea of aggregating all those feeds and offering them to customers through a single window has popular among cellphone makers. HTC rival Motorola got a jump on the idea with MotoBlur, an interface that aggregates Facebook and Twitter feeds and debuted on the Cliq.

HTC has tried to mimic that with its HTC Friend Stream that organizes updates from different online sources into a single flow. Friend Stream also lets users organize their contacts into different social circles such as groups of friends, colleagues or even high school friends.

All three of HTC’s phones announced Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona, Spain, will include the updated Sense interface.

HTC Desire Takes On Nexus One

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Yet another Android phone from HTC, the Desire, with its 3.7 inch OLED display, is closest to the Nexus One in terms of its technical prowess and features.

The Desire uses the same Qualcomm 1-GHz Snapdragon processor that we have seen in the Nexus One phone. It has a 3.7-inch display and weighs about 4.7 ounces. It also runs Android 2.1, the latest version of the Android operating system, first seen on the Nexus One.

The Desire, formerly known as HTC Bravo, supports Adobe Flash 10.1. It has a 5-megapixel camera with flash and geotagging capability, digital compass, FM radio, GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity.

The phone has an optical joystick surrounded by a narrow button instead of a trackball in an attempt to ostensibly improve usability.

Desire will initially be available in Europe and Australia before the second half of the year, says HTC.

HTC Legend Builds on the Hero

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HTC Legend ups the ante in terms of design, says the company. The smartphone’s design is an extension of what we have seen with HTC Hero. The difference is in the softer look and the smooth surface milled from a single aluminum block also known as unibody construction.

It includes a 3.2-inch, OLED display and weighs 4.4 ounces (compared to 4.8 ounces for the iPhone 3G S and 4.5 ounces for the Nexus One). The Legend’s 600-MHz processor, though, is slower than the 1-GHz processor seen in the Nexus One.

Otherwise, the Legend mimics the Desire in terms of what it offers: a 5-megapixel camera, flash, geotagging, digital compass, FM radio, GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity.

The Legend will also run Android 2.1 operating system.

The Legend will initially be available in Europe through Vodafone around April, says HTC.

HTC Mini Dials It Down

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The HD Mini is the only device in the batch to be based on Windows Mobile 6.5, a signal that HTC, despite its focus on Android, is not yet entirely abandoning the Microsoft platform. With its 3.2-inch LCD screen and 3.8-ounce weight, the Mini is a compact phone that shares almost all the same characteristics as the Legend. What is missing is a digital compass, flash in the camera and geotagging.

There’s also an unexpected design twist that seems to be of questionable value. Once the battery cover is removed, the inside of the phone is a bright yellow.  The bad news is that the Mini might not support the newly announced Windows Mobile Phone 7 operating system.

The Mini will be initially launched on Vodafone’s network in Europe.


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Google’s Nexus One Event: What to Expect

Monday, January 4th, 2010

We’re less than 24 hours away from Google’s special event on Tuesday morning, when the company is expected to launch a Google-brandedsuperphone, the Nexus One. But according to recent reports, this GSM-based device is just another smartphone that can only boast a few slight improvements over other Android devices already out there such as Motorola’s Droid. It’s important to remember that nothing is official until Google makes its announcement, but here’s what to expect on Tuesday based on reports from around the Web.

The Phone

Over the weekend, Engadget posted a brief overview of what it claims is the Nexus One. The gadget blog’s initial verdict is that the Nexus One, while a nice phone, is not a game changer for the mobile industry. The device’s most prominent feature is believed to be its speed, which is all about the device’s rumored 1Ghz Snapdragon CPU. The next fastest phone, by comparison, is the Palm Pre with a 600Mhz chip. The Nexus One has a tweaked user interface for improved navigation, and other interesting display features like “live” wallpapers that animate in the background.

The Nexus One is also supposed to have a 3.7-inch display, microSD card slot expandable up to 32GB, a 5-megapixel camera with LED Flash, 512MB of ROM, and 512MB of RAM. Google’s handset was built by HTC and is slightly thinner than the iPhone.

The Nexus One is Touchy, But Not Feely

Google has reportedly omitted multitouch capabilities from the Nexus One, even though the device’s operating system, Android 2.1, can support it. This is not the first time an Android device has left off multitouch. Reports surfaced last February claiming that Google didn’t support multitouch on the G1 after arequest from Apple — which, at the time, was believed to be vigorously protecting its patents on multitouch.

But the relationship between Google and Apple haschanged dramatically since then, so it’s a mystery as to why Google would leave out multitouch this time around.

Terms of Sale

Nexus One has two price tag options, according to recent document leaks, and you will buy the phone directly from Google. Your first option is to buy the phone under a two-year contract with T-Mobile for $180, and you’ll only have one phone plan option that will run you about $80 for talk, text, and data.

The second option is to buy an unlocked version of the phone for $530, and choose any phone plan you want. Some industry experts doubt a high-priced, no-contract phone will be a winner for Google, but it’s worth noting that the most popular cell phone sold on Amazon over the holidays was an unlocked version of the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music handset. However, Nokia’s phone sold for $270, well below the Nexus One’s unlocked price tag of $530.

Engadget is reporting that the Nexus One will not work on AT&T’s 3G network, the only other GSM carrier in the U.S. So unless you’re happy with AT&T’s more sluggish EDGE network for your mobile data connection, you’re pretty much stuck with T-Mobile.

Questions Remain

The Nexus One sounds like it could be a very respectable smartphone, but why does Google feel the need to launch a device that is only a slight improvement over the Motorola Droid? If Google were doing something radical — like offering a free, ad-supported device — the Nexus One would make more sense. But offering a seemingly typical smartphone that can only boast speed as its best attribute? That doesn’t sound to me like a good reason for the search giant to launch a Google-branded device. I guess we’ll have to wait until Tuesday to see whether Google has any tricks up its sleeve to make the Nexus One more compelling.

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Google’s Nexus One compared to Apple’s iPhone, Motorola Droid

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

New photos and a hands-on description have compared Google’s custom-built Nexus One handset, rumored to be for sale to the public next month, with Apple’s iPhone [updated with hardware specs].

Jason Chen of Gizmodo received some hands-on time with the hardware thanks to an anonymous source. He called the long-rumored, supposed Google Phone a “Droid killer” — ironic, because Motorola attempted to position its Droid, which launched in November, as an “iPhone killer.”

Chen said the Nexus one is slightly thinner and lighter than the iPhone 3GS. The back is somewhat rubbery, and feels less “cheap,” he said, than the iPhone’s plastic back.

“You can call the design the antithesis of the Droid: smooth, curved, and light, instead of hard, square and pointy,” he said. “It feels long and silky and natural in your hand — even more so than the iPhone 3GS.”

Loading a Web page over Wi-Fi, the Nexus One was found to be the fastest of the three phones. The iPhone 3GS reportedly loaded a page “a few seconds later,” while the Droid came in third. Chen said the results were consistent with a number of Web sites.

The Nexus One and iPhone 3GS reportedly had similar results with a Javascript benchmark test, though Mobile Safari on the iPhone scored better. The Droid came short of both handsets, with a score level at about 60 percent of its competitors.

The Nexus One screen was described as superior, with “vibrant” colors and darker blacks than its competitors. It was also said to be brighter. In comparison, Chen said the Droid and iPhone screens seemed “washed out.”

“This is probably the best screen we’ve seen on a smartphone so far,” he said. “Probably.”

The Nexus One’s 5-megapixel camera includes flash, though the picture quality was said to be unspectacular. The camera has autofocus, but does not have the tap-to-focus feature seen on the iPhone 3GS.

Google’s handset also lacks multi-touch, was said to have mediocre music playback over it speakers, and call quality was not tested.

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Google Android Has All The Momentum In The Mobile OS Market

Friday, October 9th, 2009

In the race for a bigger piece of the market for smartphone operating systems, all the momentum seems to be with Google Android.

A Gartner report that leaked out this week predicts that Google (NSDQ:GOOG)Android will hold a 14.5 percent share of the mobile OS market (522 million unit sales) by the fourth quarter of 2012. That will put it second behind the Symbian system and its projected 39.0 percent share and ahead of Apple(NSDQ:AAPL)’s iPhone OS, the current No. 2 mobile operating system.

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The projected sales growth of Google Android is a reasonably safe guess given the increasing numbers of handset manufacturers and wireless service companies supporting the OS.

This week Verizon (NYSE:VZ) and Google struck a deal to develop and market two Android-powered mobile phones for the Verizon Wireless network. Those handsets are expected to be available in as little as a few weeks.

Also this week, Motorola (NYSE:MOT) was showing its upcoming Android-based Cliq handset at the CTIA show. Sprint (NYSE:S) will begin selling its second Android-based smartphone, the Samsung Moment, starting Nov. 1. And rumors persist that AT&T (NYSE:T) – despite its tight relationship with Apple and its iPhone — is preparing to debut an Android-based smartphone.

The Gartner report, which is expected to be released at the market research company’s Symposium ITxpo the week of Oct. 18, predicts Android will gain 12.9 points of market share by the end of 2012, up from its current tiny 1.6 percent share. Android’s rise will put it ahead of the iPhone’s projected 13.7 percent market share (up from 10.8 percent today), according to a report on AppleInsider, which obtained a copy of the Gartner report.

This week Apple released the iPhone OS 3.1.2, an update to the popular iPhone’s operating system that fixed several bugs, including one that occasionally kept the iPhone from waking up from sleep mode.

While the Symbian mobile operating system is expected to remain the dominant mobile OS with its 39.0 percent market share, that’s down from its current 49.3 percent share.

Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)’s Windows Mobile OS is expected to hold onto fourth place with 12.8 percent market share, up 2.5 points from today. This week Microsoft formally launched Windows Mobile 6.5, as well as a new online marketplace for applications that run with the operating system.

The big loser by 2012 will be the Research In Motion (NSDQ:RIMM) OS, which is expected to drop 7.4 points of market share to close 2012 with 12.5 percent of the market.

Source:http://www.crn.com/mobile/220600091

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