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		<title>HTC One X and EVO 4G LTE blocked by US Customs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite HTC&#8217;s insistence that legal battles with Apple wouldn&#8217;t affect consumers, the Taiwanese company&#8217;s two newest Android smartphones, the HTC One X and EVO 4G LTE, have been blocked from entering the country by US Customs. Apple won a patent suit against HTC back in December, when the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a limited exclusion order against HTC and two of its subsidiaries. The ITC determined that a function allowing users to make calls or send emails simply by tapping a phone number or email address within text was in violation of Apple&#8217;s patents. HTC was ordered to alter the functionality by April 19 of this year. &#34;Many lawsuits nowadays are results of being successful; it&#8217;s part of the business,&#34; HTC CEO Peter Chou said at the time. &#34;We will not bring the company to a dangerous position.&#34; An easy solution HTC reported that they successfully removed the infringing technology from the HTC One X and EVO 4G LTE, so it&#8217;s unknown exactly why these specific phones were blocked at Customs. But an HTC spokesperson issued a statement to TechRadar assuring that the delay comes as no surprise. &#34;The U.S. availability of the HTC One X and HTC EVO 4G LTE has been delayed due to a standard U.S. Customs review of shipments that is required after an ITC exclusion order,&#34; the company said. &#34;We believe we are in compliance with the ruling and HTC is working closely with Customs to secure approval. The HTC One X and HTC EVO 4G LTE have been received enthusiastically by customers and we appreciate their patience as we work to get these products into their hands as soon as possible.&#34; The HTC One X went on sale through AT&#38;T earlier this month, and Sprint was slated to release the EVO 4G LTE on May 18. But the phones could be sent back to the manufacturer if Customs determines that they&#8217;re in violation of the ITC&#8217;s December decision. A chilling effect If these shipments of the HTC One X and EVO 4G LTE are denied entry to the U.S. it could spell big trouble for Android. For years companies like Apple, Samsung, HTC, and Google have thrown legal disputes at one another as if just to see what sticks. But the suits are usually settled and have rarely affected consumers so far in a tangible way. HTC is already paying licensing fees to Microsoft due to a previous suit regarding a different part of Android&#8217;s functionality. But now that two of HTC&#8217;s flagship Android devices have been delayed in getting to market, consumers will begin to feel the chilling effects of these companies&#8217; legal battles. And if Android continues to lose face in the tech industry, manufacturers could decide to jump ship to another OS. Hopefully, HTC&#8217;s confidence is well-founded and the HTC One X and EVO 4G LTE make their way to store shelves soon. Source: http://www.techradar.com/1080683]]></description>
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		<title>4-inch iPhone 5 screen &#8216;confirmed&#8217; by second source</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rumours surrounding a bigger screen on the next generation of iPhone have taken another step towards reality as a source confirms a 4-inch display. We heard yesterday that a Wall Street Journal source claimed that the iPhone 5 would sport a display at least 4-inches in size. News bods Reuters has now waded into the debate, with word from its own sources confirming that the sixth generation iPhone will have a bigger screen, reporting that the display &#34;will measure 4 inches from corner to corner&#34;. 4-inches guaranteed? The source goes on to reveal that production of the new, larger screens has already begun at three suppliers based in Korea and Japan. Production of the iPhone 5 is predicted to start in August, with the three screen manufacturers possibly receiving orders from Apple in June. The talk about production in August sets the iPhone 5 up for a launch somewhere around October, as Apple looks to stick with its annual product cycle, after we saw the iPhone 4S arrive in the same month last year. Find out all the latest on Apple&#8217;s next handset in our iPhone 5 realease date, news and rumours article, or check out our video below.]]></description>
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		<title>BlackBerry Curve 9320</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A BB for beginners? There hasn&#8217;t been a huge amount of change in the world of BlackBerry in recent years. A design tweak here and nip and tuck to the user interface there, but that&#8217;s about it. While the top-level devices have seen a little more change &#8211; integration of touch operation, for example &#8211; down at the bottom end of the Curve line things are little different. The BlackBerry Curve 9320 is very much the baby of the BlackBerry family, both physically and in terms of specs. Fortunately, that also means that entry-level Curve models can be had for very little cash, but provide you with a range of smartphone features that take you beyond your typical feature phone. But has the BB Curve had its day? With rising choices in affordable Android smartphones, does the lure of a glossy touchscreen make the future of RIM&#8217;s cheap Qwerty communicator questionable? Design and keyboard With diminutive dimensions, the BlackBerry Curve 9320 does little to differentiate itself from previous devices of the same family. It replaces the popular 9300, advancing the body detailing slightly to make this a more attractive device.? Of course the Curve 9320 isn&#8217;t the only Curve in the 93xx family. It doesn&#8217;t hit the high points of the Curve 9360, which remains the slimmer and sexier device, while walking away with better headline specs. The Curve 9320 measures 109 x 60 x 12.7mm which makes it relatively fat in modern terms, with many devices slipping in under 10mm thick. In reality, it makes little difference, because this size of device is easily pocketable. The curved back nestles down nicely in your hand and, at this size, using one or two thumbs to work the keyboard is possible. The keyboard is naturally smaller than the Bold family, but we didn&#8217;t have a problem rampantly bashing out BBM messages, even with man-sized hands.? And that says something for RIM&#8217;s keyboard design. We prefer the Bold&#8217;s flat keyboard with flush keys, but find that the Curve&#8217;s keyboard is good enough. It is a clicky keyboard though, so hardcore messagers will have to get used to the constant clickety-click of the button presses. One downside of this keyboard design is that debris and finger grease will collect between the keys over time, so cleaning with a cotton wool bud and a dab of alcohol might be in order to keep things clean. The back of the Curve, unlike the 9300, is now glossy. It attracts fingerprints to some extent, although they&#8217;re easily removed with a wipe on your jeans. Despite the smooth finish, we didn&#8217;t find it slippery like some phones: the size makes it easy to grip. In terms of controls the waistband across the middle of the phone sees a central navi-key, as you&#8217;ll find on all other BlackBerry models. This is flanked by the common arrangement of calling keys, menu and back. Unlike other models, on the Curve 9320 these are physical buttons although in practice that makes...]]></description>
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		<title>HTC Ville C specs leaked: Cheaper alternative to the HTC One S?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another ICS money saver HTC looks to be working on another &#8220;affordable&#8221; Android Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone, after specs for an HTC Ville C were leaked on the net. Described as being an &#8220;ultra-slim PDA phone&#8221;, sources are proclaiming the HTC Ville C to be a cheaper alternative to the HTC One S, which itself was called the HTC Ville in pre-production. Whether it will have quite the same venom in terms of speed as the One S we will have to wait and see, but with regard to processing power we&#8217;re looking at a Qualcomm MSM8260 dual-core 1.7GHz chipset. Something that is worth noting is that the leaked document also suggests the phone will run on HTC Sense 4.5. No word on what this upgrade might bring, but we were rather taken with 4.0 so a tweak here or there could make for an even better UI experience. Slap bang in the middle of the handset is a 4.3-inch qHD AMOLED touchscreen and 16 million LCD display. HTC looks set to kit the phone out with an eight-megapixel camera with the same BSI sensor as found in the One S, as well as a 1080p HD video recording and a VGA front-facing camera for video calls. In terms of memory, the specs state there will be 16GB of onboard storage and 1GB RAM. There&#8217;s no mention of whether this can be topped up via a microSD card.? HTC&#8217;s insistence that consumers would rather a slim phone than one with a long battery life looks set to continue with the Ville C fitted with a lower-end 1,650mAH capacity battery.? Yet overall there&#8217;s enough here to get us hoping this rumoured handset becomes a reality. One cheaper alternative to the Ice Cream Sandwich experience that will definitely be arriving on these shores is the HTC Desire C. Source: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/45692/htc-ville-c-specs-leaked]]></description>
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		<title>HTC Desire C pictures and hands-on</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could sell like er, wildfire The HTC Desire C is the newest addition to HTC&#8217;s 2012 line-up of Android devices, joining the HTC One series and seeing a diversion from what we thought was going to be a clean and simple approach to naming. We can&#8217;t quite see the logic behind dragging the Desire name, once synonymous with HTC&#8217;s flagship devices, down to the entry level. But what can you do, eh? Perhaps we should be calling this the HTC Wildfire C or X, or something. But let&#8217;s not let this brief moment of etymological confusion get in the way of our quick play with HTC&#8217;s latest smartphone. The HTC Desire C is compact in the hand, measuring 107.2 x 60.6 x 11.95mm. It isn&#8217;t the skinniest of phones around, but it&#8217;s unlikely to offend anyone either. It nestles nicely into the palm of your hand and, thanks to the tactile finish, feels secure there too. The layout of controls is totally conventional, with three touch buttons across the bottom of the display offering your standard Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich navigation: that&#8217;s back, home and recent apps. The display measures 3.5-inches on the diagonal, so even though this is a diminutive device, there is actually a fair amount of room to play. The resolution of 320 x 480 is a little on the low side, so that will impact on some of the wow factor, but colours seem vibrant enough. Launching on Android 4 and Sense 4, this phone is at least up to date, so you won&#8217;t be waiting for updates as soon as you take it out of the box. It is, however, very much about entry-level specs, with a 600MHz processor sitting under the hood. The devices we played didn&#8217;t come with final build software, so we can&#8217;t determine exactly what the user experience will be like. It&#8217;s a low-power phone, with only 512MB RAM sitting in there with that processor, so we&#8217;ll have to examine this in our HTC Desire C review when we get the phone in our labs. There is 4GB of internal memory, but you do get a slot for expansion, so you can bung in your own microSD card. Harking back to the HTC HD Mini, slip off the back cover and you&#8217;ll find it finished in red, including a red 1230mAh battery. Okay, it&#8217;s a small detail, but such things appeal to us and we like the way the red coloured innards encircle the Micro-USB port on the left-hand side, hinting at that gory core. Perhaps surprisingly, the HTC Desire C is equipped with a 5-megapixel camera, although video is limited to 640 x 480 capture. The devices we snapped are also NFC equipped, so you&#8217;re ready to roll with contactless payments and whatever else NFC finds its way into. On the media front this is a Beats Audio device, so you&#8217;ll be able to enjoy your wubwub with meaty bass. We&#8217;re looking forward to giving the HTC Desire C...]]></description>
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		<title>HTC Evo 4G LTE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pro Evo? The HTC Evo 4G LTE is the new flagship device for the USA&#8217;s Sprint network. It&#8217;s an Android Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone with, as its name suggests, the capability to hop aboard Sprint&#8217;s ultra-fast LTE data network. Unfortunately, as we write this the LTE network is yet to be rolled out, so we weren&#8217;t able to test out the phone&#8217;s 4G capabilities. We should also note that its Google Wallet NFC abilities were not activated as we were reviewing it, but bear in mind that these things should be operational soon &#8211; LTE has been announced as coming to several US cities in &#8220;mid-2012&#8243;. Build quality and design What we can assess is the Evo 4G LTE&#8217;s hardware, and very impressive it is. The phone sports a huge 4.7-inch screen, yet is just under 9mm in depth and weighs a feathery 134g. From the front it looks like many other HTC smartphones: the screen dominates and there are three touch buttons at the bottom for back, home and multi-tasking; there&#8217;s also a 1.3MP front camera. A sliver of brushed aluminium runs around the edge of the phone, which looks good and more importantly provides stability &#8211; despite its size, it&#8217;s a very solid, non-creaky phone. Elsewhere around the sides you&#8217;ll find a USB port, camera button, volume rocker, 3.5mm headphone socket and power button. We&#8217;re not huge fans of the back of the Evo 4G LTE, which is shiny at the top and rubbery at the bottom. It just looks a bit odd to us &#8211; we&#8217;d rather they go with one or the other. Dividing these two sections is a red metal strip that can be prised out to provide a handy kickstand (this works in both portrait and landscape mode). There&#8217;s also the 8-megapixel main camera and an LED flash. The Gorilla Glass-fronted 4.7-inch Super LCD screen is vibrant, bright and wonderfully sharp, boasting a 1280 x 720 resolution (so it&#8217;s ideal for watching 720p HD videos). That&#8217;s a pixel density of 312ppi, almost as high as the iPhone 4&#8217;s 326ppi screen. Camera and storage The camera is a beast, boasting 8-megapixels and an F2, 28mm equivalent lens. The dedicated button brings it up instantly if you don&#8217;t fancy tapping the icon, and can be used to trigger the shutter too. Stills are lovely, demonstrating good clarity even in gloomy conditions, and HD video (in up to 1080p) is as impressive as anything we&#8217;ve seen from a phone. The camera&#8217;s also blindingly fast, booting up and autofocusing swiftly, and uploads shots automatically to a Dropbox account &#8211; up to 25GB of them! There&#8217;s 16GB of storage inside, plus a microSD slot allowing you to add another 32GB. Both the SIM and 2000mAh battery are embedded and non-removeable, which, let&#8217;s face it, isn&#8217;t ideal if you plan on doing anything with the phone other than use it on Sprint. Speaking of the battery, it&#8217;s got a decent bit of stamina considering the amount of power-sapping stuff going...]]></description>
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		<title>Updated: 60 best free iPhone apps 2012</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Best free iPhone apps 1 &#8211; 20 There are now hundreds of thousands of apps available for your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, and, surprisingly, many of the best are free. The following list showcases our pick of the 60 best free iPhone apps, and includes iPhone applications for social networking, travel, news, photography, productivity and more. Most of these apps are also suitable for the iPod touch. If your top free iPhone apps aren&#8217;t covered, tell us all about them in the comments. And don&#8217;t forget to check out our iPhone 5 release date, news and rumours article for the latest on the next iPhone. You can also take a look through the top 10 free iPhone apps with our nifty video. brightcove : 9684411730011. Facebook The world&#8217;s biggest social network brings a tightly honed experience to the iPhone and iPod touch, but nonetheless still enables you to access your contacts, feeds and other important information. This sense of focus makes it in many ways superior to using Facebook in a desktop browser. 20 Facebook privacy settings tips 2. PhotoSynth We did a bit of a double-take on seeing Microsoft&#8217;s name attached to this, not least given the lack of a price-tag. But PhotoSynth is a really great panorama app; it&#8217;s user-friendly and fun to use, especially when watching your panoramas take shape while you capture them. 3. RunKeeper The prospect of Nike+ but better and for free might sound unlikely, but that&#8217;s what RunKeeper provides. Previously split into &#8216;pro&#8217; and &#8216;free&#8217; versions, the developer now generously includes all the features in one free app. That means you can spend no money, yet use your iPhone&#8217;s GPS capabilities to track your jogging and cycling routes, and examine mapping and details of your pace and calories burned. Activities can be shared online, and treadmill runs and other exercise details can be entered manually. If you like this then make sure you read 10 best iPhone and iPad apps for keeping fit and 5 sports headphones for iPhone and iPod touch. 4. Pulse RSS has a reputation for being a rather dry technology, feeding you dull lists of headlines. Pulse flips RSS on its head, providing streams of feeds that grab your eye with photographs. It&#8217;s perhaps not for the hardcore RSS crowd, but if you follow a small number of feeds, it&#8217;s a great choice. 5. Dropbox Plenty of apps exist for transferring content between your computer and your device, but Dropbox is free and easier to use than most of its contemporaries. Dump files you want to sync in a folder on your computer and Dropbox for your device will enable you to access them, download them for offline viewing, and, in many cases, view them. Love Dropbox? Then check out our article Essential tips for every Dropbox user. 6. thetrainline For anyone commuting by train, thetrainline is the free app to beat all others. Journey planning, offline results, timetables and a location-aware &#8216;next train home&#8217; option are available...]]></description>
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		<title>Samsung Omnia M price revealed online</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Samsung Omnia M has had its first price leak online and the new Windows Phone handset looks to be dearer than expected. We were a little bit puzzled when we saw Samsung unveiled the Omnia M on Monday, with it sporting similar specs to its predecessor the Omnia 7. The Samsung Omnia M offers up a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, 4GB of internal memory, 5MP rear camera, a single-core 1GHz processor and 384MB of RAM, which runs Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. How much!? Italian retailer ePrice has revealed the Omnia M on its website, flaunting a price tag of â¬294 â equating to around Â£235/$374. Considering the Huawei Ascend G300 is just Â£100 on PAYG and the Nokia Lumia 710 can be picked up for about Â£175 ($250), the Omnia M feels overpriced, as it fails to offer anything extra over these two devices. That being said, there&#8217;s been no official word from Samsung yet on pricing, so we could well see the cost of the Omnia M tumble before it hit shelves later this year. Source: http://www.techradar.com/1080759]]></description>
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		<title>TalkTalk to launch own mobile phone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UK broadband and home phone provider TalkTalk is about to take a massive step in the mobile market as it prepares to launch its first handset. TalkTalk already offers a handful of low-cost sim-only deals, using the Vodafone network, but the company now has its sights set on the big time. &#34;We plan to launch a handset proposition later this year in addition to our existing SIM only and data products&#34;, TalkTalk said in its preliminary sales figures statement. Who&#8217;s going to make it? Unfortunately TalkTalk doesn&#8217;t expand on its plans, but we expect it will employ an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) to produce the handset and then stick their own branding on it, much like the Orange San Francisco 2. There&#8217;s no hint of who the OEM could be, but we reckon the likes of ZTE and Huawei are in with a shout, as the minnows look to gain more of a share in the crowded mobile market. We contacted TalkTalk, but it was unable to provide any more information at this time. Source: http://www.techradar.com/1080777]]></description>
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		<title>HTC Ville C leaked as cheaper One S clone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HTC said it was going to cut down the number of handsets it produced in 2012 as it looked to save money, but after a recent &#8216;leak&#8217;, we&#8217;re not so sure. The HTC Ville C is the latest phone rumoured to be appearing from the maker of the One range of handsets, and this is after we saw the Desire C officially break cover earlier this week. The details of the handset were uncovered by a Brief Mobile source, who claimed that the Ville C will be a cheaper version of the HTC One S. Why bother? However a brief look through the reported specs and we&#8217;re struggling to see why HTC would even bother with the Ville C. It&#8217;s set to pack a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 4.3-inch qHD display, 1GB RAM, 16GB of internal memory, Android Ice Cream Sandwich with Sense 4.5, 8MP camera with LED flash and 1080p video recording and a 1650mAh battery. All sounding awfully familiar? Well it should, as the only spec which differs from the One S is the processor, which has been downgraded from the 1.5GHz dual-core chip. Oh, and we guess the name counts as a change too. To be fair there&#8217;s no mention of Beats Audio technology, but seeing as this is including in the lower-end One V and Desire C, we can only assume it will make its way on the Ville C as well. In short, we really hope this leak fails to follow through to an actual product, otherwise HTC has just filled a hole between the One V and One S which wasn&#8217;t even there. Source: http://www.techradar.com/1080559]]></description>
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