Thanks to the current dominance of first-party launchers like Pixel, One UI, and Hello UI, it's easy to overlook that Android ...

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A US judge has ruled that Google illegally monopolised digital advertising markets, paving the way for a break up of the ...

The first Android phone sold directly by Google to consumers. This high-spec phone sports a 5-megapixel auto-focus camera, high-resolution 3.7-inch touch OLED display, Wi-Fi, HSPA 3G data ...

The first WiMAX smartphone for the US. This high-end Android 2.1 phone sports HTC's Sense interface, a huge touch display, and 8-megapixel camera. Advanced features include Qik video recording and ...

HTC camera phones are up to the task. Founded in 1997 as a laptop manufacturer, Taiwan-based HTC soon began making smartphones based on Windows Mobile and Brew. It released the first commercial ...

These phones strike an excellent balance between affordability ... making smartphones based on Windows Mobile and Brew. It released the first commercial Android smartphone, the HTC Dream, in 2008, and ...

More importantly, it introduced MIUI — Xiaomi’s Android ... build a premium phone with the polish and power to rival Samsung and HTC. For many users, the Mi 3 was their first glimpse of ...

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But in 1999 Microsoft swooped in to buy Bungie just in time to lock down Halo as an exclusive launch game for its first game ... design language to phones from the likes of HTC and LG.