Nextbit, a mobile technology company founded by former Google executives Tom Moss and Mike Chan, today announced that Scott Croyle has joined as Vice President of Design and Product. Croyle, who was most recently Senior Vice President of Design and User Experience at HTC, will also join the company’s board of directors alongside Rich Wong from Accel Partners and Rich Miner from Google Ventures.
HTC may be getting ready to give its flagship One M8 a supersized makeover.
Recent rumors have suggested that the Taiwanese handset maker was developing a larger, faster version of the One M8, a smartphone purportedly dubbed One M8 Prime. An animation posted by @eveleaks Tuesday allegedly shows a 360-degree view of the successor to the One M8, which was just released in March.
Samsung will be privy to some details of a confidential settlement agreement between Apple and HTC, a California judge ruled today.
Samsung's lawyers were given the go-ahead to view confidential details of the agreement that made peace between Apple and HTC earlier this month, following an impromptu hearing ordered by Magistrate Judge Singh Grewal this morning.
Hackers rejoice … HTC has released the source code for the wildly popular One X. Yesterday, we wrote how MoDaCo noticed that the AT&T version of the HTC One X ships with a locked bootloader that isn’t unlocked by HTC’s bootloader unlock tool, a revelation that was later confirmed to The Verge by HTC. The Death Star strikes again!
Research in Motion may be getting shopped around to other tech companies including Samsung or looking to license its OS, according to recent reports. Citing its "trusted sources," Boy Genius Report says that RIM may be looking to sell either some of its divisions or the whole company, though it may be overvaluing what it has to offer.
AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega, HTC CEO Peter Chou, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer together launched the first Windows Phone handset with LTE support, the HTC Titan II, at AT&T's developer summit today. Like the first HTC Titan, the Titan II sports a 4.7" screen, 1.5 GHz processor, and front-facing camera. Improving on its predecessor, the phone supports LTE and HSPA+, and replaces the Titan's 8 megapixel camera with a new 16 megapixel device.
The new phone will be released exclusively on AT&T in the US in the coming months.
HTC has reportedly already engineered a workaround to sidestep a U.S. agency ruling that HTC infringed on one of Apple's patents.
The move became necessary after the International Trade Commission, a federal agency with the power to enforce bans on products shipping to the U.S., ruled yesterday that HTC infringed on Apple's patent for data detection. The process allows a mobile device to recognize things like e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and addresses in text and automatically move them to a calendar, dialer, or mapping application.
The ease and ability of Android licensees to modify the software they install on their smartphones has opened vast security holes that enable rogue apps to record calls, monitor users' locations and access sensitive data without permission, researchers say, noting that while Google and Motorola acknowledge the issues, HTC and Samsung have ignored their findings.
