GPS Phones

With the holidays quickly approaching many consumers are sure to be looking towards a new smartphone to call their own. If you’ve had your eye on AT&T’s 4G LTE enabled version of the Galaxy S II, appropriately dubbed the Galaxy S II Skyrocket, you may want to hold off for a bit. The reason I say this is because it’s just been announced that AT&T will soon be getting the device in white.

Other than the smartphone’s paint job everything will remain the same so you will still be getting a high end smartphone complete with a 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus display touting a 800 x 480 resolution, 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage alongside a microSD/SDHC slot, 8 megapixel rear facing camera with 1080p video recording, 2 megapixel front facing camera, 1850mAh battery and Android ‘Gingerbread’ 2.3.6. On that note, holding off may not be the most necessary thing but let’s be honest, the device in white looks a lot sleeker.

No word on a price point or release date but as soon as it’s made known we’ll push it your way.

HTC said it will launch a number of new and competitive smartphone models, including a fresh batch of LTE devices in the United States, to help it end its fourth quarter slump. The company recently revised its outlook for the fourth quarter and said revenue would be flat, a move that came as a surprise to investors used to a company that had previously seen six consecutive months of record revenue leading up to October.

HTC was the first company to launch an Android smartphone in the United States, the first to launch a WiMAX smartphone on Sprint and the first to sell a 4G LTE device on Verizon Wireless. “We will focus on the product next year, better and more competitive,” HTC’s chief financial officer Winston Yung told Reuters, noting that the situation isn’t that serious. “Other than new LTE phones for the U.S. market, we also have phones for the global market. We will launch some worldwide flagship products. We’re confident in them. We have six quarters of improvement, the most conservative guidance is 45 million units of shipments this year, a lot higher than 25 million last year.”

Citigroup blamed the weak fourth quarter sales on “inferior products” that weren’t able to keep up with Samsung’s Galaxy S II and Apple’s iPhone family. Additionally, investors aren’t so sure that HTC can maintain the innovation that has made its past phones so attractive. “More foreign investors are still selling HTC as the company doesn’t have many bets in hand,” Masterlink Investment Advisory vice president Tom Tang told Reuters. ”And unlike last time [the company was in this position], HTC didn’t make a share buyback plan this time.”

HTC’s ongoing lawsuits will not help the situation, either. The company recently said that it will not appeal a 2009 ruling that gave IPCom the winning hand in a patent lawsuit. The decision could result in a German injunction against sales of HTC’s smartphones, which could hurt sales during the holiday season.

BGR recently reported exclusive details surrounding two upcoming HTC smartphones — the HTC Ville and HTC Edge — both of which are expected to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain in February.

If you were bummed that you’d have to pick up some new coding skills when Adobe announced that Flash for mobile was finito, cheer up friends. Harken back to the summer months when Google unveiled its Swiffy conversion tool that turns those aging SWF files into browser friendly HTML5 animations.

Now the folks in Mountain View have created an extension for the Flash desktop app that allows you to export your working files to something a little more up to date with a single click — or a combination of keystrokes for you pros. So if you’re worried you’d have to brush up on your coding wizardry, it seems you’re safe… for now. If you’re sporting Flash CS4 or newer, hit that source link to download the goods.

Just yesterday, ASUS announced the first-ever quad-core tablet, packing NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 SoC, and now the chipmaker is making an announcement of its own. It may be a slightly less exciting reveal, but NVIDIA’s just taken the wraps off of its Q3 earnings, and it appears things are looking up — revenue is up 4.9 percent over last quarter to $1.07 billion from $1.02 billion and up 26.3 percent from last year.

The company also reported an increase in net income, raking in $178.3 million for Q3 2011, up from $151.6 million last quarter and $84.9 million last year. The company’s CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, unsurprisingly attributed the growth to the mobile market as well as the outfit’s GPU business, and continued to boast of future good times, riding the quad-core wave. For more details, check the full PR after the break.

For many a year now, Apple and also HTC have been fighting it out to get top spot when it comes to who may have the very best smart-phone. HTC made the decision that peppering the market industry with almost all they have would have been a far better approach compared to Apple’s concept of simply focussing on the one particular smart-phone, giving it all of their Apple power and seeing exactly where it got them. Well, so far so good for Apple as they have perched at the very top of the tree for a time now, untouchable by all around them.

Well maybe now they might start stressing a little bit about their rivals. HTC now have armed the fortress and are really rallying their own troops in this fight in an attempt to oust Apple from the top of the tree and they are getting quite close with some of their newer handsets. The likes of the HTC HD7 and the Desire HD are definitely pressing Apple’s buttons.

Everyone knows that HTC have got the ability of developing an iPhone beating smart-phone of their own although I think they’d rather just spend their funds on a couple of good devices and one or two excellent handsets instead of spending all their cash on just one awesome smart-phone. You can see their reasons behind this yet after Apple’s results with the iPhone you can only wonder if they ever thought about concentrating all their work on one unholy, unearthly great handset to blow apart the iPhone, and Steve Job’s huge mouth as well!

Whether they will do this, as of yet continues to be unknown however any kind of hardened HTC fan would perhaps live in the hope that they would do this. However the chances of them really doing it is quite slim. So we shouldn’t blabber on too much and get peoples hopes up. It simply isn’t fair; they must be able to make do using what is already available on the market at the moment.

The truth is, would be that the marketplace is constantly transforming and there are fresh mobile phones being released each month, so you might think that the Apple iPhone would struggle with new handsets being released but that isn’t the case as they tend to be so precise in the way they market their own handsets and the one, key thing is the quantity of apps that are available for you to download from the App store. This my buddy is what keeps the Apple customers happy and it is also where HTC are lacking, the majority of the HTC handsets working on Google Android and also the amount and the quality of apps that are available. If you would like one of these handsets then why don’t you have a glance around and who knows you may find some very good HTC HD7 deals.