31st
AUG

Engadget is soon to announce two new entrants

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Please note that this story is based upon rumor and/or speculation.
Mobiles.co.uk, a British smartphone retailer has dropped a bombshell that HTC devices, Engadget is soon to announce two new entrants into the market. The two phones named in the post are the HTC Desire HD and the HTC Desire Z. The former is rumored to have a 4.3-inch screen, a 1GHz processor, and the Android 2.2 OS while the latter sports a 3.7-inch display and a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard. But be careful and we do not confirm it as it is only a rumor.

19th
AUG

Google to close down web store and stop sales of Nexus

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Internet giant, Google, said that it has received the last batch of Nexus one smartphones and after selling them online Google will close down its web store and the selling of Nexus too. Google’s Nexus one launch early January was expected by many to compete with Apple’s iphone. However, the company’s decision to sell the product through its online store and start a direct to consumer sales was not supported by operators or at very high rates. Google in may said it would go through normal channels but ended up shutting the product down completely.



12th
AUG

Customer growth returns despite Sprint’s loss

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The high-speed Evo from HTC has added fuel to fire killing Sprint’s subscribers in the latest quarter. The company has said that it added 111,000 customers in April-June quarter, compared to a loss of 257,000 in the same period last year, but lost 228,000 more lucrative post-paid subscribers. Since buying out Nextel five years ago, Sprint has not been able to do well to it and Nextel business is still doing poorly. Sprint posted a second-quarter loss of $760 million from a $384 million loss a year ago. Revenue fell 1.4 percent to $8.0 billion.



5th
AUG

HTC’s plan to enter China and Challenge iphone

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Because of the increasing competition from Apple, HTC has said that it will for the first time enter China under its own name to bring in fresh customers. HTC hopes to grow into the largest cellular market in the world by entering a new deal with China mobile which has over half billion subscribers. Earlier HTC sold its products with shanghai based Dopod. The company said that four new smartphones including two touch screen phones will hit Chinese market in late august or early September.