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Being, perhaps, the most anticipated virtual reality game to date, Valve’s Half-Life: Alyx is expected to greatly increase interests towards VR gaming and VR hardware. In a bid to attract attention to their latest hardware, HTC and Valve are both bundling the game with some versions of their headsets. For a limited time (while supplies last, to be more specific), HTC’s Vive Cosmos Elite bundle for $899/€999 will come with a free digital copy of Valve’s Half-Life: Alyx. Meanwhile, Valve itself will bundle the title with its Index VR headset (which costs $499, or $749 with controllers, or $999 with controllers and additional base stations), or almost any of its additional components, according to The Verge. Valve’s Half-Life: Alyx is a game that exclusively works with...
Best Tablets: Holiday 2014
With the holidays approaching, it's time for our annual recommendations for devices in various product categories. Today we're taking a look at what tablets provide the best value and...
87 by Brandon Chester on 11/28/2014HTC Offers The HTC One M8 For $299 In The Latest HTC Hot Deal
Last week HTC launched their new HTC Hot Deals website which offers deals on HTC products every Tuesday. The first deal was an offer that put their newly released...
15 by Brandon Chester on 11/11/2014Google Nexus 9: Preliminary Findings
For a few years now, Google has had a generally consistent tablet strategy. Instead of chasing after the ~10 inch tablet segment and focusing upon the high end, we’ve...
146 by Joshua Ho on 11/3/2014HTC Silently Adds HTC One (M8 EYE) To Chinese Store
At HTC's Double Exposure event in New York we saw the launch of the Desire EYE, a smartphone with a serious focus on the camera. HTC has silently put...
9 by Brandon Chester on 10/9/2014HTC Announces the Desire EYE
Today at their Double Exposure event in New York, HTC has announced the Desire EYE. The major feature on the Desire EYE is its 13MP front facing camera which...
17 by Brandon Chester & Joshua Ho on 10/8/2014HTC Announces RE, an Action Camera: Hands On
Today is HTC's camera-centric Double Exposure event in New York. In addition to announcing the new Desire EYE, HTC is announcing a new device that occupies it's own space...
9 by Brandon Chester & Joshua Ho on 10/8/2014HTC Announces the Desire 820
According to HTC, the Desire 816 proved to be a popular device in the mid-range smartphone market. Now, only a bit longer than six months after its release, the...
13 by Brandon Chester on 9/4/2014HTC Announces Desire 510: First 64-bit Android Phone
While normally one might expect high end phones to get the latest and greatest features first, this time we see a bit of a surprising reversal. The Desire 510...
47 by Joshua Ho on 8/27/2014HTC Announces the HTC One (M8) for Windows
It's been a while since we've seen a high-end device running Windows Phone 8 launch from a company other than Nokia. Despite Nokia's dominance, HTC has certainly not given...
61 by Brandon Chester on 8/19/2014HTC Launches Zoe Beta: Hands On and First Impressions
Today, HTC is finally launching their Zoe application. Normally, such an announcement is rolled into a smartphone launch, but the launch of this application is one of the first...
14 by Joshua Ho on 8/14/2014HTC Brings the Desire 816 to the US
HTC is expanding their lineup of devices in the United States with the official launch of the Desire 816 on Virgin Mobile USA. We talked about the Desire 816...
5 by Brandon Chester on 8/11/2014Filling the Gap: AMOLED and LCD from 2010 to 2012
For a while now, I’ve realized that there is a massive gap in the continuity of smartphone display history. Until the last few months of 2011 and early 2012...
72 by Joshua Ho on 7/26/2014AT&T Launching HTC Desire 610 On July 25
Today AT&T and HTC announced that the HTC Desire 610 is coming to AT&T. The Desire 610 was announced back in February and so it has taken quite some...
9 by Brandon Chester on 7/15/2014HTC Commits to Android L For One (M7) and (M8)
In a rather surprising move, HTC is the first OEM to promise an update to Android L. HTC has stated that this policy is part of their HTC Advantage...
11 by Joshua Ho on 6/25/2014HTC Hits a Lower Price with the One (E8)
Today, HTC announced the HTC One (E8), a phone that is effectively aimed at providing the One (M8) spec at a lower price point. While the phone doesn’t keep...
20 by Joshua Ho on 6/3/2014HTC One mini 2 Review
Last year around this time, HTC had yet to release a mini version of their flagship phones. As OEMs continued to push bigger and bigger displays into bigger phones...
76 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Joshua Ho on 5/26/2014HTC One mini 2 Announcement
Today, HTC is launching the HTC One mini 2, a phone that is supposed to be a smaller version of the HTC One (M8), both in price and size...
56 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Joshua Ho on 5/15/2014HTC Adds Sense 6 Progress to Software Update Page
HTC has updated their software update status page with a section that displays the current status of the HTC Sense 6.0 upgrade. The page indicates that they intend to...
7 by Brandon Chester on 4/21/2014The HTC One (M8) Review
HTC remains one of few Android OEMs insanely focused on design. Even dating back to the origins of the One brand in 2012 with the One X and One...
222 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Joshua Ho on 3/26/2014HTC launches the One (M8)
HTC’s struggle in the smartphone OEM space has almost become a constant in the past few years, with a dramatic fall from the top of sales and market share...
72 by Joshua Ho on 3/25/2014