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28 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Is HTC commencing its Froyo rollout?

HTC’s European representative, Mark Moons, let it slip through a tweet that there’s a chance Froyo will begin rollout to their many devices starting with HTC Desires in the Netherlands as soon as tomorrow. A Dutch tech news s…

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27 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Screen wars! AMOLED vs. S-LCD vs. LCD vs. Super AMOLED

HTC recently announced it was going to start outfitting certain handsets with SLCD screens rather than AMOLED, due to short supply of the latter. The SLCD screens may be easier more plentiful, but do they look as nice? The people over at Howard Forums …

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26 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

HTC adds SLCD displays to its Desire, Nexus One lines

HTC has announced it will introduce SLCD screens to its manufacturing of the Nexus One and Desire later this summer.The Desire and Nexus One originally have been manufactured with AMOLED screens, which have been in short supply of late, leading to…

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08 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

HTC Desire with AT&T (and Rogers, Telus, and Bell) 3G bands at the FCC

 Just seen at the FCC: the HTC Desire is sporting AT&T and Canadian operators Rogers, Telus, and Bell 3G bands. While this is far from an announcement, for our readers in the frozen North it means that you may be seeing the incredible&nbs…

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07 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Froyo and HTC Sense hacked on the HTC Desire, long before Christmas

BAM!  this is what we’ve all been waiting for since we first saw Froyo and Sense 2.2 running on the HTC Desire.  Android wizard udk over at xda-developers has released the first version of a Froyo-based HTC Sense ROM.  Before Evo and Inc…

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05 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Samsung Galaxy S vs HTC Desire running Quake 2 [video]

We’ve already seen the Galaxy S can run 3D games rather well, but how about a side by side comparing the Galaxy S Hummingbird/Power VR combo against the Snapdragon and Adreno chip in the latest HTC handsets?  Android Central forum member ConceptVB…

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05 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Android 2.2 and HTC Sense seen on a Desire

The flamers and skeptics are out in force on this one, but what you see above reportedly is an official build of Android 2.2 officially teamed up with the HTC Sense user interface, all official-like, on the HTC Desire. And the details match …

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03 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Could this be the Froyo (Android 2.2) version of HTC Sense?

With 160,000 activations a day, there’s a huge number of people waiting for the HTC Sense UI version of Froyo to show up.  I know all of us here sure are. Usually, we have to pass on the random screenshot tip that rolls in, but in this case they a…

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30 June 2010 ~ Comments Off

CyanogenMod 6 (Froyo) status update

If you use a custom ROM on your Android phone, you should know about CyanogenMod.  If you don’t, go hit Google now, then come right back.  (pretty freakin’ sweet, huh?) With the drop of the Froyo (Android 2.2) source code everyone is patientl…

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29 June 2010 ~ Comments Off

HTC Says Q3 is the quarter for Froyo for the Desire, Legend and Wildfire

With the official Froyo update now available to Nexus One users, it begs us to ask the question, “when will Froyo be available for my _______?” Well, HTC has answered so be jealous no longer of the sons of privilege (Nexus One users). HTC h…

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