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If this hypotehtical stock Android HTC phone is offered through a carrier, the updates will still have to be OK’d by both HTC and the carrier, just as they are now. The difference with the Nexus line is that they are sold unlocked and Google is directly involved in testing the hardware when it comes to issuing updates. A stock HTC phone without Google input won’t change anything.

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A few million units would be a stretch for both HTC and Windows Phone in general. HTC struggles to hit its own manufacturing targets for the One due to component shortages and general supply chain issues, and the One isn’t exactly settings the charts alight anyway. On the WP side, Nokia shipped ~6 million Lumias, and that’s split across the 920, 820, 620, 520 etc, not to mention the multiple WP7 models that are still on sale in overseas markets. The Surface Phone is one single flagship model that would sell at a premium price..it can expect to sell maybe as well as the Surface tablet. Maybe…Samsung is far more popular in the smartphone market than in tablets.

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I think all of Lenovo’s tablet have this. I have their 9 inch Tegra 3 A2109 tab and is has what you described, a symmetrical (wouldn’t say sharp) edge on one side and a curved edge on the other. it doesn’t bother me, as I hold the symmetrical edge in my left hand and use my right to navigate on the screen.

1 day ago on So what did I receive in my Inbox this morning from Lenovo?

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Mantano Reader and Moon+ reader are pretty good. I prefer Mantano because I read a lot of PDF magazines as well and Mantano has a nicer “bookshelf” system and renders PDFs very, very fast, more so than Adobe Reader or Documents to Go.

2 days ago on Is there such a thing as a truly great epub reader for Android?

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Let me know when you can get every model that you listed at your local electronics/phone store. If you can’t, it’s not spamming. It’s something called ‘market segmentation’.

2 days ago on Why Is Samsung Spamming "S4" ?

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They could have dedicated a few seconds of the ad to apps and games.

4 days ago on Microsoft's new commercial finally sells the benefits of Surface RT

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Yup, noticed this too. Shame,as the extra vertical space in landscape mode in 3:2 would be fantastic for Office use.

4 days ago on Microsoft's new commercial finally sells the benefits of Surface RT

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Yep, I am on Windows 7 (don’t intend to upgrade for a while) and wanted to try out XBM when it came out. Saw on the website that it was intended for W8/RT/WP8 and chose to stick with RDio, which like every single streaming service out there, has a web client or is cross-platform.

After reading yesterday’s thread, I now understand that I can access it through the Zune desktop client, but that is so stupid and unintuitive. The service is called Xbox Music, so if I’m on the most popular desktop operating system in history, I have to use a deprecated desktop client for a discontinued product line no one bought?

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the more brand name apps, the better. The next gen of RT tabs might actually have a chance in the market.

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$0.99 contract price suggests they’re clearing inventory at this point. Normally only Amazon prices newish phones like that, AT&T price drops tend to come a lot later.

5 days ago on HTC First discontinued on AT&T

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I agree that the 900 million number is pretty irrelevant when we’re talking about the size of the actual Android market for streaming music. But leaving that aside, there are 60 million Galaxy S3s running 4.1+ out there, not to mention 15 million Notes and 24 million S2s, again, all running 4.1+. It is ridiculously short sighted of MS to not make XBox music available to these users.

5 days ago on MS should probably just give up in the consumer space 1 reply

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That won’t happen. If anything, BB will sell their hardware business if things get worse and transition to managing mobile devices only. Of course, that kind of niche business won’t require thousands of employees so there will be big layoffs, but the company will survive, in a severely shrunken form.

5 days ago on Why Microsoft needs to buy Blackberry (and it needs to do it quick).

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What does Blackberry bring to the table? BB10 sales are unproven so far and the majority of their install base is on ancient low—margin BBOS 6 and 7 devices. Microsoft isn’t even willing to spend $2 billion in directly marketing Windows Phone and yet $12 billion to buy Blackberry is some kind of bargain? Pass.

5 days ago on Why Microsoft needs to buy Blackberry (and it needs to do it quick). 1 reply

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Not everyone can afford multiple consoles. Without EA games, Nintendo will lose people who might have been trying to choose between the Wii U and Xbox/PS3. They’ll also lose the licensing fees EA would pay them when publishing games for their console. This is what happened to Sega in 1998 with the Dreamcast. The reason they’re a software-only firm now is because it doesn’t make sense to build hardware when you can’t earn license fees from it and consumers really only care about the first-party games anyway.

6 days ago on Electronic Arts is no longer developing games for Nintendo's Wii U