The brother of HTC Hero, the Legend, has been announced by HTC. The Legend comes with similar look and specs like HTC Hero.  However, it is now packed with a faster processor, 600Mhz CPU, and an aluminium cover.  It is more durable than the Hero.  During the presentation of the phone by HTC, the phone was smashed to a wall and it was still functioning after that (I am sure I won’t do that to [...]

Waiting for HTC Bravo’s announcement?  Wait no more, HTC has just announced the Desire, the Bravo we knew previously.  It will be available in Europe in April and Asia will follow.  So most likely we will get the Desire (Bravo) in Singapore in May. It is like a Google Nexus One packed with Sense from HTC.  It has almost everything from Google Nexus One. The Desire looks and feels very similar to Google’s Nexus with [...]

We knew that the new HTC Sense on Android 2.1 will include a pinch-to-zoom feature on the Home Screens (from my previous post).  When you do a pinch-to-zoom on the HTC Sense home scree, the thumbnails of the 7 home screens will appear and it will allow you to touch and go the the particular home screen directly.  And now we have a clearer video for this feature on a new HTC Desire.

You might be wondering what are the new features that the new HTC Sense on Android 2.1 may get.  And here we have a nice video showing a good implementation of multitouch – pinch-to-zoom on the home screen and you will get all the home panel screen arranged in a 2-3-2 pattern.  And you just tab on anyone of them to go straight to the panel.  It looks like a nicer implementation of Nexus One’s [...]

I believe many of you are waiting anxiously for the Android 2.1 update for HTC Hero.  And we have a more concrete news now that the update will be released in March. HTC’s Benelux team reports that the Hero will get the update in March.  And not only the Hero will get the Android 2.1 update, the Sense UI will get quite a number of improvements as well.  The update will include a new Friend [...]

We are seeing more details of the upcoming HTC Legend now. According to a tipster of AndroidCommunity, the specs of Legend will be: 3.2-inch capacitive HVGA AMOLED display 5-megapixel camera with LED flash WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, microSD card slot and GPS/AGPS 1300mAh battery Quad-band GSM and dual-band UMTS/HSDPA Digital compass, G-Sensor, 3.5mm Audio jacket, microUSB port It uses a 600MHz Qualcomm MSM 7227 processor If you like HTC Hero, this is something you will like [...]

Looks familiar?  This picture sent in by a tipster of Engadget shows the HTC Legend is pretty closed to be released to market. According to rumours, this phone will carry about the same specs and design as the HTC Hero.  And it is regarded as the successor of HTC Here.  The Legend shown in the picture is spotted to have aluminium case and optical joystick.  This is still a preproduction unit and the final product [...]

Pocketnow has just got some leaked photos of the upcoming Verizon HTC Incredible. According to them, the device is running on Android 2.1 with HTC Sense, with a Snapdragon CPU with 256MB of RAM, and has a 3.5-3.7″ WVGA screen. The tipster describes the device is really fast (because of the Snapdrogan) and the screen as being “very vibrant” and thinks that it may be AMOLED. The Incredible comes with an optical mouse pointer at [...]

HTC has just released the kernel source code of Droid Eris.  If you are interested, you can get the code from HTC’s developer site here. By releasing the kernel code, it allows programmers, kernel hackers,and  moders to improve and extend the code.  And there will be enhancements, extensions and even custom ROMs for the Droid Eris.  And sometimes bugs can be fixed by the community faster than the official party, HTC. Well, hackers, what are [...]

Have you got a HTC Touch Pro and keen to run Android on it but still want to use Windows Mobile?  There is a solution. Developer at XDA-Developer has used the Gen. Y Dualboot utility to create a dualboot ROM for Touch Pro that allows you to choose what OS to boot on your Touc Pro: This is a Touch Pro version of my Gen.Y PX-D ROM for the Diamond. It’s an all-in-one, dual-boot rom [...]