Samsung Galaxy Nexus sales ban lifted by temporary stay on the handset injunction

In an unexpected turn of events, Samsung has been granted a temporary stay on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus injunction which allows the device to be sold until July 12th. Judge Lucy Koh issued the temporary stay  as the courts awaits to hear “Apple’s response.” If you’re a bit confused, you’re not the only one. Details [...]]]>

Sony ST21i "Tapioca" fled-ICS on a budget handset

It was just an few weeks ago we had our first glimpse of non-blurrycam ST21i Sony "Tapioca", carrying a next ICS- combined budget of the Japanese manufacturer. Today, it ' s cropped again, in an another practical overview unauthorized, this time from the Russian site Mobile-Review. It ' s not much here we haven ' t seen before, but the preview takes looking at Tapioca ' software s - a similar package that we ' ve been seen on other phones from Sony 2012 - as well as give confirmation of certain specifications of rumours.

The details of a leak today correspond to what we ' ve heard before – sport Tapioca screen HVGA of 3.2 inches, a single-core 800 MHz processor and 512 MB of RAM. He ' s no Multimedia Central, but there should be enough computational grunt he in ICS, and Sony power ' s assortment of multimedia improvements. More photos on the link of the source. According to a Sony roadmap leak, Tapioca can appear as early as the month of June, around the point of price of €150.

Source: mobile-review;

HTC One S handset seized by French authorities as HTC-Hub is sued by HTC France

It’s a sad night for HTC fans in France and across the globe as HTC France has taken legal action against HTC-Hub (currently the largest HTC blog on the web) for releasing an unboxing video of the HTC One S. The handset, which Bruno obtained through a confidential source, has also been seized by French authorities.

At this point, we’re not sure what legal charges have been brought against HTC-Hub, but it looks like everything has stemmed from a lack of communication from Hopscotch, HTC’s PR agency in France. Bruno approached Hopscotch a few weeks after Mobile World Congress to inquire about HTC One demo units. While HTC typically sends out demo units to members of the press several days before the actual launch with an embargo agreement (an agreement to not publish any information about the phone before a specific date or time), Hopscotch informed Bruno that demo units would not be available in France until the launch of the HTC One next week.

Members of HTC-Hub decided to take the matter into their own hands and were able to secure the HTC One S without help from HTC or its PR company, meaning there were no legal restrictions as to when they could share images, videos or information about the device. We know that quite a few bloggers in Europe have been using the HTC One S and HTC One X for a few days already, but no major site has given any hands-on account of the devices due to the embargo which they all agreed to.

We don’t know how things will progress with Bruno and the rest of his team at HTC-Hub. From the personal communication we have had with Bruno, it’s obvious that this whole situation could have been resolved without legal action. We don’t want to point fingers at HTC and say that they are in the wrong since we are not directly involved and may be missing some key details, but we’ll be monitoring the situation and let you know if there are any interesting updates.

What are your thoughts on the situation? If HTC-Hub managed to obtain a demo unit of the HTC One S from a different source should they be legally required to abide by an embargo that they never agreed to?

Official HTC Android 4.0 handset update list – March

HTC’s Android 4.0 update is finally here! Recently, HTC has started pushing out Ice Cream Sandwich to several 2011 devices and we’re expecting the update to hit quite a few more handsets in the weeks to come. So far, HTC has the most extensive list of devices which are expected to be updated to Android 4.0 and we do expect that list to grow a little more.

Jump to the bottom of this page to see if your phone is on the official HTC Android 4.0 update list.

Since we don’t work for HTC, we can’t give you an exact answer, but we can make educated assumptions based on the announcements HTC has made. HTC’s first wave of Android updates will bring Ice Cream Sandwich to its phones powered by dual-core Qualcomm S3 processors. The overwhelming majority of HTC’s phones running on this chip are already on the update list, and we expect the remaining stragglers to be added shortly.

HTC has also announced that the Incredible S, Desire S and Desire HD would also be receiving  the update. Since most of the other HTC phones powered by S2 chips feature most of the same components, we expect other US-specific devices to be added to the update list, as well. HTC phones powered by Qualcomm S1 chips should not expect Android 4.0. HTC has not given us any details about these phones yet, but the fact that Google has chosen to let the Nexus One live out its remaining days on Gingerbread should be all the evidence we need. The HTC EVO 4G, Desire and DROID Incredible all share the same basic configuration and do not have enough memory or processing power to run Android 4.0 as smoothly as HTC would like them to.

Official HTC Android 4.0 handset update list

HTC Sensation – MarchHTC Sensation 4G – MarchHTC Sensation XE – MarchHTC VelocityHTC Sensation XLHTC RezoundHTC VividHTC Amaze 4GHTC EVO 3DHTC EVO Design 4GHTC FlyerHTC Desire SHTC Incredible SDROID Incredible 2HTC ThunderboltHTC RhymeHTC Desire HDHTC Explorer

HTC handsets expected to receive the Android 4.0 update

HTC Desire ZT-Mobile G2HTC Inspire 4GmyTouch 4GmyTouch 4G SlideHTC Hero SHTC MergeHTC EVO Shift 4G