Brian Bennett

Camera phone shootout: HTC Titan II versus Nokia Lumia 900

The $199.99 HTC Titan II (AT&T) is the first smartphone sold by a U.S. carrier to boast a 16-megapixel image sensor. It also has a host of scene modes and granular manual settings that offer plenty of fine-tuned control. That said, the less-expensive $99.99 Nokia Lumia 900 (AT&T) is no camera slouch, either. It packs …

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Top secret AT&T HTC One X surfaces, sold on eBay

Sprint certainly made waves when it unveiled its own version of HTC’s coveted One X Android superphone, theHTC Evo 4G LTE. Amid the new Evo’s hype, you may have forgotten that the One X is slated to hit AT&T too. A sharp-eyed member of the XDA Developers forum didn’t, and nabbed what looks like a prototype of the handset in …

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Meet U.S. Cellular’s first 4G LTE phone: Samsung Galaxy S Aviator

Sprint and AT&T aren’t the only ones with big LTE plans. U.S. Cellular is taking bold steps to build out 4G LTE wireless data access, too. In February, the carrier announced the Samsung Galaxy S Aviator, its first smartphone to link to the provider’s swift new infrastructure, and just last week it revealed its first 4G tablet. Today U.S. Cellular …

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HTC Evo 4G LTE hands

Now playing: Watch this: HTC Evo 4G LTE 1:35 Sprint is the latest U.S. carrier to jump on the HTC One X bandwagon. The cellular provider will offer its own version of HTC’s flagship device rebranded as the HTC Evo 4G LTE. I managed to spend some time with the phone and can say it’s simply gorgeous and a worthy …

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CNET UK says HTC One S is slim, fast, and ICS is tasty

The second most powerful Android smartphone in HTC’s new lineup, the international HTC One S, boasts a 1.5GHz dual-core chip, an 8-megapixel camera, Ice Cream Sandwich, and the company’s freshest version of its Sense UI (4.0). According CNET UK, it all adds up to one delectable device. Even though the HTC One S doesn’t flaunt a full-blown Tegra 3 quad-core …

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Nokia Lumia 900 4G LTE speed test (hands

By the time you can finally buy the eye-popping Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone on AT&T on Sunday, it will be one of the first two Windows Phones, ever, to surf 4G LTE. (The HTC Titan II, also a Windows Phone, will be the other.) It’s one thing to claim lightning-fast data speeds and another to actually produce them, so …

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HTC One X quad

Now playing: Watch this: HTC One X 2:41 Craving to know exactly how HTC’s latest, baddest, Android smartphone on the block really fares against the competition? Not to worry because our friends at CNET UK have completed putting the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich quad-core fire breather to the test. The result is sadly as I’d thought it would be. …

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Sprint poised to unveil HTC Evo One?

At the time, HTC’s Evo 4G blew most other Android phones out of the water. It had a fast 1GHz CPU, massive 4.3-inch screen, not one but two cameras, and a connection to Sprint’s 4G WiMax data network. Heck, HTC even threw in an HDMI port for good measure. All this made the Evo 4G one of the greatest Android …

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Camera shootout: HTC One X versus iPhone 4S

Our pals at CNET Asia managed to get hold of HTC’s new flagship handset, the HTC One X. It packs an 8-megapixel camera loaded with a backside-illuminated (BSI) sensor, and HTC claims it built its camera to run rings around the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, plus any comers. HTC One X and iPhone 4S cameras face off (photos) +5 more See …

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HTC One series smartphones headed to Germany April 2

According to phone tech site The Unwired, all three of HTC’s new One series handsets are slated to arrive in central Europe in just a few short days. The coveted HTC One X, the company’s first quad-core CPU powered smartphone (1.5GHz nVidia Tegra 3) will cost a steep 599 euro ($795). The HTC One S, running a dual-core Qualcomm S4 …

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