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One of the Most Prolific VR Headset Makers (Not Meta) Now Has Smart Glasses (Not Ray-Bans)

If you like the idea of smart glasses but hate using Meta's apps, HTC may have what you're looking for.

I Really Hope HTC Doesn’t Go Out Like This

After years of declining sales, unloading $1 billion worth of patents and personnel to Google, and just recently slashing 25 percent of its global workforce, when it comes to HTC, I got one big question: So what’s left? Sure, HTC may have been able insulate its promising Vive VR business by spinning that department off…

HTC’s New Midrange Phone Proves the Company Isn’t Dead Yet

Even though Google recently purchased a billion dollars of personnel and intellectual property from HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone maker isn’t dead yet. In fact, today HTC announced two new phones: the new U11 Plus and the U11 Life. Unfortunately, folks here in the States are only going to have access to the latter, as the…

HTC One A9 Is Like an Android-Powered iPhone, At Almost Half the Price

You’ve already heard the jokes about HTC shamelessly ripping off Apple with the design of its newest phone. The truth is, it’s even funnier to hold the new HTC One A9 in one hand and an iPhone 6 in the other. They’re hilariously similar—and that’s not a bad thing at all. There’s more to HTC’s…

Today isn’t just the day you can pre-order an Apple Watch or MacBook — it’s also the day three new flagship Android smartphones are going on sale. Read our reviews of the Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge and HTC One M9. Then weep for your wallet.

HTC One M9 Review: A Great Phone That Can’t Keep Up

Everyone loves an underdog. They’re new, exciting, and upset expectations. In 2013, the HTC One M7 brought that incredible disruptive energy to smartphones, and the following year’s M8 ran neck and neck with the best you could buy. Today, the HTC M9 goes on sale, and it’s no longer an underdog—but it’s not exactly leading…

Leaked Demo Videos Show HTC’s New Flagship Phone Up Close and In Action

We already had a pretty good idea what HTC’s next flagship smartphone is going to look like (Spoiler alert: a lot like it’s last flagship). But now, demo videos have leaked, on top of everything else. You can bet this is the real thing. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-renders-show-htcs-new-flagship-phone-from-all-an-1687300643 There’s are three videos in all. One (oddly vertical) clip…

Leaked Renders Show HTC’s New Flagship Phone From All Angles

HTC’s flagship phone, the One M9, is due to be announced a little over a week from now at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. You don’t have to wait to see it though, a new leak from Mobile Geeks looks to be preeeeetty on the money. The new images came from a few early online…

HTC One M9 Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know

The HTC One has a horrible name, but it’s also a fitting one. It’s HTC’s One saving grace, the One thing that almost single-handedly gave an injection of adrenaline to its dying corpse. It’s also the One Android phone that changed how Android handsets were made—metal beats plastic. And now a new One is coming,…

I Ditched My iPhone and Spent the Summer With Android

For five straight years, I spent an inordinate amount of time staring at the screen of an iPhone. I’m not alone in that, but I am usually quick to buy new models and even quicker to download new operating system updates. Perhaps I’m a little too quick, because earlier this year, my enthusiasm got the…

HTC’s New One M8 Is Actually Coming To Verizon and AT&T

Earlier today we got a hands on with the new HTC One M8 For Windows, which we said was launching exclusively on Verizon. Now AT&T is announcing that it will also add the new One M8 to its Windows Phone offerings, although that’s pretty much all we know at this point—no price or date announced…

Hands On: HTC’s Best Android Phone Is Now Verizon’s Best Windows Phone

If you were in the market for a premium Android smartphone six months ago, you might have picked a new Samsung handset, a Moto X, or maybe a Nexus 5. But HTC’s One M8 crashed the party in March with improvements on its stunning premium design. And now it’s coming to Windows Phone. Now that…

Report: A Windows Phone HTC One Is Headed for Verizon

Windows Phone fans may well be in for a treat. WP Central claims that a Windows-powered version of the wonderful 2014 HTC One is headed for Verizon this August. https://gizmodo.com/htc-one-2014-review-faster-stronger-better-1550841872 The report claims that a “One (M8) for Windows”—snappy name, that—will be available from the carrier as of August 21st. Verge claimed at the weekend…

The HTC One (E8): A Plastic Alternative to HTC’s Flagship Phone

HTC has announced a budget version of the One (M8), called the One (E8). It drops the premium metal build of the M8 in favour of a range of brightly coloured plastic casings—but otherwise its specs are surprisingly strong. There’s a 5-inch 1080p display up front, a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 backed by 2GB of…

HTC One (M8) Google Play Edition Review: Great But For that Camera

Android purists have a common refrain they like to bust out every time a beautiful new piece of hardware comes out: “If only it ran pure Android!” in F-sharp. There’s a pervasive belief that unpasteurized Android—and only unpasteurized Android—directly from the great teat in Mountain View is all that’s needed to transform a good phone…

HTC’s new-for-2014 One is a bold and beautiful smartphone, and for 24 hours tomorrow it’s a killer deal: just $100 through HTC’s online store. The deal starts at midnight tonight and ends at midnight on May 8th, with a two-year contract on AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint.

The New HTC One Has a High Performance Mode Just For Benchmarks

HTC has confessed that its new HTC One is able to detect benchmark testing tools and throw more resources at them, although rather than fudge the issue as Samsung did when it was rumbled pulling the same trick, HTC says this “High Performance Mode” is actually a feature. And to prove it, users of the…

Now Available: 2014 HTC One

HTC’s newly-revamped One is a flagship phone with some nice updates to its already sleek design. It’s also a brainy barnstormer with some crazy cool camera tech that could be the future of mobile photography. It’s available now for $200 on-contract from AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon (sorry T-Mobile, yours won’t arrive til April). Or you…

New HTC One Teardown: This Is Why the Warranty Is So Good

The HTC One M8 may well be HTC’s best-ever smartphone, but you’d better keep it cocooned in bubble wrap — the latest teardown from the iFixit team shows that the new flagship Android device will be incredibly difficult to carry out DIY repairs on. Breaking down the handset into its component parts, it’ll be a…

You Can Buy the New HTC One on Google Play Right Now

Following the launch of the all-new HTC One yesterday, you can already buy one from the Google Play Store, stripped of its HTC guff. https://gizmodo.com/htc-one-2014-review-faster-stronger-better-1550841872 The phone on offer via Google runs a version of stock Android very similar to Google’s Nexus range, which means you don’t get any of HTC’s Sense software or apps.…