Friday, April 5, 2013

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HTC One Pre Orders in U.S. has Increased Dramatically

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Since 2 years ago, HTC was so difficult to penetrate the U.S. market which is touted as the heart of the world's greatest smartphone circulation. But for this time, it seems HTC has find the light with their latest products, the HTC One. After the HTC one release, this smartphone has received a lot of positive response from the United States consumers.

Since it opened the HTC One pre orders a few days ago, HTC successfully obtained hundreds thousands subscribers. This is a rare situation for HTC which is usually after they opened the pre-order, they seems difficult to get tens or hundreds thousands subscribers.

HTC one itself was still opened the pre-order in the United States. HTC laso revealed that in the coming days, HTC One will be available to be purchased and the buyer in the pre-orders list will have the first chance to get this 4.7 inch smartphone.

It's very reasonable that HTC hanging his hopes on this smartphone to get big sales. As this smartphone will have the highest specifications ever made ​​by HTC. HTC One has its own advantages with the design and material that used in its body. Besides the screen with highest pixel depth, 469 ppi, HTC One also has the most powerful Snapdragon 600 processor. Although there are some camera issues that had said on this phone. But still, this HTC One is very worthy to be a choice besides Xperia Z and Samsung Galaxy S4. HTC is also likely to make HTC One dual sim version which will be marketed in China.
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HTC One Dual SIM Version Will Be Available In China

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Many people have thought that smartphone sales will increase in the next few years. China is a good market for some of the world's smartphone manufacturers. An effort that being explored by HTC to get more consumers in China is releasing the HTC dual sim smartphone with micro SD slot.

The HTC One dual sim with micro sd slot existence is now strengthened by the photograph that shows the HTC One with an opened back cover and there looks 2 sim card slot and micro SD slot. Although the back cover can be opened, but still the HTC battery cover is closed. So, by opening the back cover we can just replace the sim card and inserting the micro SD card.

The HTC One dual sim version will be marketed by one of the largest operators in China, China Unicom. China Unicom will do the bundling strategy with this new smartphone to be able to suppress the price and make the consumer interested in purchasing it.

With the presence of this new HTC dual sim version, didn't stop the market of the original HTC One(single sim and without micro SD card slot). But, of course the original HTC one sales won't be so high compared to the sales of HTC dual sim version. It seems that HTC one dual sim version won't be marketed in Southeast Asia soon, it's because of the original HTC one has just entered the market in southeast Asia.

Saturday, March 30, 2013

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Leaked Photos and Preview of HTC Desire Q & Desire P

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After rumored about the release of their affordable price smartphone, HTC finally deliver their leaked promotional photos of HTC Desire P and HTC Desire Q. It's said that both Smartphones will be released in a few days in Taiwan and China. Although it's still unclear about the specification details, but from the quick preview, the Desire P and Desire Q Android smartphone are being prepared for medium class smartphone. Both are also confirmed to be using the 4.1 Jelly Bean Android version.

Starting with Desire P, HTC is pinning 4.3 inch screen. It's possible the screen still has a resolution of 400 x 800 pixels. With that semi big screen, HTC tried to magnetize the medium class users by presenting the Desire P. As the processor, Desire P rumored to be using a dual core 1 GHz processor. The possibility of the processor used inside is the Qualcomm processor with 1 GB RAM and GPU Adreno 220 or Adreno 225.

Then the camera used Desire P is an 8 mega pixel camera. There is also a front camera that can be used for video call activity. It wasn't clear about the size of the front camera on this upcoming HTC smartphone.

While the HTC Desire Q has confirmed using a 4 inch screen size, smaller screen than the Desire P. Although it has different size, Desire Q will has the same specs as Desire P.

For the price, HTC Desire P will be priced about US$365. While Desire Q will be priced at US$235. That's some leaked information about the preview of the new HTC Smartphone.

Sunday, December 2, 2012

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Not Only Nexus 4, Nexus 7 3G and Nexus 10 Has Been Sold Out Too

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Best-Selling Products, Nexus 7 3G and Nexus 10

Nexus smartphone and tablet sales at the end seems extraordinary. Quoted from PhoneArena and android central, a number of consumers in North America and some European region is having a trouble to order the Nexus 7 3G and Nexus 10 tablet via online. It prompted that this new gadgets booked and sold out in the Google Play Store.

The cheap price maybe the major factor that make the Nexus 7 3G and Nexus 10 to be the best-selling products. Nexus 7 3G with 32 GB internal memory which valued US$299 were sold on Thursday. While the Nexus 10 Wi-Fi 32 GB version tablet has been first run in conjunction with the Nexus 7 3G. And on this day, Nexus 10Wi-Fi 16 GB version tablet which depleted booked.

At that moment, Google Nexus 4 smartphone also depleted booked. In the UK, Nexus 4 only took 30 minutes to get Sold Out. That's amazing. Nexus smartphone and tablet sales may reach its peak at the end of this year and early next year. It had been expected by the end of the year by considering the winter break and Christmas.

Altough it's release time was in conjunction with the release of the iPad Mini and iPad 4 by Apple, at the end of the year, no doubt the consumers will buy android tablet devices as the platforms developed by Google is now much better than in previous years.

With the support of more stable android Jelly Bean version os and better accommodate of the tablet devices is also a plus itself. So naturally when starting the third quartal of this year, the android tablets sales will grow more than iPad sales.
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Samsung Galaxy S4 rumored to Wear 13 MP Camera and Quad Core A15

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Not even 1 year since Samsung Galaxy S3 released to the market, now comes the latest rumor about the spec of Samsung Galaxy S4. This rumors are about the camera and the processor that will be used on the Galaxy S4. It's likely to use a 13 mega pixels camera and a quad core A15 processor.

I don't know when will Samsung release Galaxy S4, but reportedly Samsung will introduce to the public the successor of the Galaxy S3 at CES annual event to be held in Las Vegas, USA. But many also said that Samsung will release it in February.

Regardless of whether or not the news, of course, consumers are expecting Samsung to make a significant change in the Galaxy S4. One that stands out is the material used by Galaxy S4 can be better than a plastic material that is identical to the Galaxy S, Galaxy S2, S3 or Galaxy.

5-inch smartphone trend is also going to be more crowded if Samsung install the 5-inch screen size on Samsung Galaxy S4. And it's possible Samsung will pinning its 5 inch screen display with full HD 1080 p resolution. With the faster release of Galaxy S4, Samsung is seems to try to block the rate strategy of iPhone 5 with the iPhone 5S that will be released Apple in 2013.

Worth waiting, will the Samsung Galaxy S4 revolutionized into a new trend in the smartphone segment, or it just be a complement to the features that already exist in the Galaxy Note 2 or the Galaxy S3.
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Ascend D2, 5 Inch Quad Core Android Smartphone From Huawei

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Huawei Ascend D2 Android Smartphone

Huawei set up a new strategy before the year 2013 arrives. Huawei will certainly release an android smartphone with quad-core processors and uses 5-inch widescreen called Ascend D2. Although not yet confirmed the date, Huawei has confirmed that they will hold a launch event of Ascend D2 in January, early next year.

The 5-inch screen on D2 Ascend will support up to 1080p screen resolution. While the quad-core processor it's not using the Nvidia Tegra 3 or the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro, but it used the K3V2 processor chip designed by Huawei. Some other specifications that have been confirmed for D2 Ascend is a camera with a resolution of 13 mega pixels. While on the battery will be supported by a battery capacity of 3000 mAh. The Android version to be used in this upcoming phone is Jelly Bean android version 4.1 and will get an update to android 4.2.

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With the entry of Huawei in the 5-inch smartphone segment of course it will be more brisk competition with the other smartphone manufacturers that already released a 5-inch sized smartphone before, like HTC, ZTE, or Samsung Galaxy Grand which will release early next year.

If last year's market segmentation is still struggling in the 4 inch, 4.3 inch or 4.7 inch smartphone segment, then this year seems likely to be shifted to the size of 4.8 inch and 5 inch. We can see most of the quad-core smartphone are using 4.7 or 4.8 inch screen.
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Windows Phone 7.8 Update Coming in January 2013

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Windows Phone 7.8 update, awaited by the user

Microsoft seems want to treat the Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7.5 users disappointment that will not getting an update to Windows Phone 8. In the upcoming January, Microsoft will release Windows Phone update version 7.8 for some Windows Phone devices.

This word is obtained from Microsoft's official statement a few moments ago. The official updates release that will come in January is also expected for some Windows Phone devices running Windows Phone 7.5. Some Windows Phone 7.5 devices that will get the update to Windows Phone 7.8 including the Nokia Lumia 900, Lumia 800, Lumia 710, Lumia 510 and several others.

Many users of Windows Phone 7.5 that actually has been disappointed with the attitude that Microsoft decided not to include the old Windows phone device to obtain Windows Phone 8 update. This corresponds to Microsoft stated that the reason is Windows Phone 8 requires higher hardware specs.

If on Windows Phone 7 and 7.5 it doesn't support the use of multi-core processors, but in Windows Phone 8 it can use it perfectly. Look at the row of Smartphones that adopt Windows Phone 8 like Lumia 920, Lumia 820, HTC 8X or Samsung Ativ S.

Windows 7.8 update definitely will provide some better changes than the Windows Phone Mango 7.5. Some of them are, there will be a new user interface on the Lock Screen menu, new theme, and the most important is Microsoft will bring some popular applications to be used on Windows Phone 7.8.