Deep-dive review: The HTC 10 -- not flashy, just really good
HTC's new Android smartphone, the HTC 10, offers a fine design, great performance, a good camera and impressive audio. But is it worth the $699 price?
HTC's new Android smartphone, the HTC 10, offers a fine design, great performance, a good camera and impressive audio. But is it worth the $699 price?
HTC's latest Android smartphone, the HTC 10, could be a real contender: It features a high-end feel and high-quality audio. Here is a first look; we will follow up with a full review.
Despite being available around the world for many weeks already, LG's G5 has finally been announced in Australia. This is actually an improvement as some of its predecessors arrived so late as to be End of Life (globally) when they got here. But is it worth the wait? And how does it fare in a market with a still-impressive iPhone, Samsung S7, Nexus 6P and imminent HTC 10?
Samsung's latest flagship Android smartphones - the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge - are waterproof, well designed and have an interesting UI. But there are no unlocked versions in sight.
The LG G5, Samsung Galaxy 7 and HP Elite x3 premiered at the Mobile World Congress on Sunday, and they offer three very different views of the world.
This plus-sized phone is does not rate as premium and its Android overlay will annoy some users, but the Honor 5X is a solid low-cost device.
HTC's new flagship phone, the One A9, may look a lot like an iPhone, but its features and UI are strictly Android. And it's definitely worth checking out.
The latest surprise release of Outlook for Mac 15.3 is largely what you'd hope to get in an Outlook refresh: At long last, a version that looks and works almost identically to the Windows version. This is great news if you live exclusively in an Exchange environment, but you may want to mute your celebration if you also deal with other calendars and contact lists created elsewhere.
It's not fair, really. The Samsung Stratosphere is a better-than-adequate smartphone that hit the market at the same time that people were first getting a look at the <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220918/Hands_on_iPhone_4S_meets_every_expectation_and_then_some_">iPhone 4S</a>, the <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220973/First_look_Motorola_Droid_Razr_is_razr_sharp">Droid Razr</a>
Motorola Mobility, once king of the cellphone business, is apparently tired of being treated as an also-ran. First impressions of the new <a href="http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and-Services/Mobile-Phones/DROID-RAZR-BY-MOTOROLA-US-EN">Droid Razr</a> smartphone, <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220961/Motorola_compares_new_Droid_Razr_to_iPhone_4S">introduced Tuesday</a> and available next month from Verizon in the U.S., are pretty sweet.
Even by the new standards of cell phone advertising, the run-up to the HTC ThunderBolt -- Verizon's first 4G LTE smartphone -- was elaborate and expensive. Gatefold ads in mass-market magazines and high-profile TV spots on the Oscars, NASCAR and college basketball all proclaimed that there was a new 4G phone coming from Verizon, but not much else. Inquiries made of HTC and Verizon were met with official shrugs. The company spent many millions of dollars advertising a phone and didn't tell anyone when it would be on the shelves.
Because of the way the U.S. mobile phone market is structured, it's next to impossible to find an unlocked phone that isn't loaded with bloatware. For those who want a carrier-independent smartphone, an enticing option is the Nexus S, a very nice successor to Google's Nexus One, which did so much to popularize the Android operating system.
Good writers borrow, great writers steal, or so the saying goes. Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 (WP7) operating system borrows heavily from Apple's iOS and Google's Android but then takes the interface and navigation in an intriguing new direction, offering a user experience that at least equals and in some ways surpasses them.
Starting Wednesday, September 1, if all goes according to plan, you will be able to order one of the first in what will surely be an avalanche of Android -based tablet computers. That's the day the eLocity A7 , running Android 2.2 and based on the Nvidia Tegra 2 chip, will be available for pre-orders at Amazon.com.
Ever more computers are carrying ever more confidential data -- trade secrets, personal information of clients and constituents, and national security information. Encrypted hard disks requiring hardware keys or passwords are supposedly the way to keep that information safe.