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HTC has responded to Apple’s recent patent-infringement lawsuit against it with one of its own, relating to general hardware and software
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‘I’ll see your tit and raise you a tat’HTC has fought back against Apple’s patent suit with – you guessed it – a patent suit.… Read Full Story…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – HTC Corp said on Wednesday it filed a patent infringement case against Apple Inc and asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to ban U.S. sales of iPhones, iPads and iPods. Read Full Story…
The fight between Apple and HTC, maker of mobile phones using Google’s Android platform, is growing increasingly acrimonious with the Taiwanese firm calling for the regulatory authorities to halt the sale of iPhones, iPads and iPods in the US. HTC, which makes Google’s Nexus one as well as its own-branded HTC Desire, has filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) calling for it to “halt the importation and sale of the iPhone, iPad and iPod in the United States.” The move comes after Apple sued HTC back in March, alleging that it had infringed 20 patents relating to “the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and hardware”. Calling for sales of a rival’s products to be halted is common practice in patent disputes. As part of its legal action against HTC, Apple has also filed a complaint with the ITC, which would see sales of HTC’s products – including the Nexus One – halted. Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer, is also embroiled in a patent fight with Apple alleging the iPhone infringes 10 of its patents. It launched the legal action last October after the collapse of long-running negotiations to agree a deal that would have seen Apple pay a licence fee to use technology Nokia developed, which is fundamental to the way a mobile phone works and is already in the iPhone. Apple hit back in December claiming that Nokia had infringed 13 of its patents, singling out the E71 handset as being particularly egregious. Nokia then took its complaint to the ITC saying the Californian company had infringed seven Nokia patents across its iPhone, iPod, and Mac products. In March a judge in Delaware ordered a suspension to both the original Nokia lawsuit and Apple’s countersuit while the ITC deliberates. Part of the reason for the current fight between HTC and Apple, meanwhile, is believed to be the fact that in February HTC released handsets which use “pinch-to-zoom” functionality which resembles that of the iPhone. The legal spat, which could drag on for years, also comes as devices using Google’s Android platform are starting to have a serious impact on the market for so-called smartphones. Earlier this week market research by the NPD Group said Android devices have outsold the iPhone in the US for the first time, although the figures did not include iPod Touch devices. Android phones now make up the second most popular category of smartphone in the US. The market for phones that can send emails, access the web and download applications is still, however, dominated by the BlackBerry, made by Canada’s Research In Motion. Android sales in the UK, meanwhile, have also started to take off, with sales of mobile phones using the software platform increasing fourfold in March, according to recent figures from retail watcher GfK. Almost one in every five smartphones now sold in the UK is Android. Last month, Microsoft seemed to weigh in to the fight by signing a patent agreement with HTC that provides “broad coverage” under Microsoft’s patent portfolio for HTC devices running Android mobile platform. Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft receives royalties from HTC, which created the first smartphones that ran its Windows Mobile operating system. “As the innovator of the original Windows Mobile PocketPC Phone Edition in 2002 and the first Android smartphone in 2008, HTC believes the industry should be driven by healthy competition and innovation that offer consumers the best, most accessible mobile experiences possible,” said Jason Mackenzie, vice president of North America, HTC Corporation. “We are taking this action against Apple to protect our intellectual property, our industry partners, and most importantly our customers that use HTC phones.” HTC currently sells a dozen smartphones in the US, including the HTC EVO 4G which is sold by Sprint, the DROID Incredible which is being sold by Verizon Wireless and the HTC HD2 which is stocked by T-Mobile.
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HTC Desire now in black – only on OrangePosted by in Mobile News, New Deals, New MobilesNew Mobile & Latest Deal News!
The HTC Desire has a fantastic 3.7 inch widescreen, AMOLED display, delivering 720×480 pixels resolution. Arguably crisper and clearer than any other display on the market, it delivers touchscreen responsiveness definitely in the ballpark of the iPhone and, moreover, it is fast. The combination of Android 2.1 sitting above a Snapdragon CPU clocked at 1GHz with 512Mb of RAM and ROM really does enable you to zap through opening up applications and then moving between them. Its multimedia credentials, are quietly competent rather than superb – such as the 5 megapixel, autofocus camera with LED flash and its 32GB memory card capacity. Where the Nexus One really impresses, though, is in what could be called its charisma, if it could walk into a crowded room, heads would most definitely turn. Its Teflon-coated back and sides are simultaneously rubbery and tough yet soft and almost sensuous, a strangely compelling tactile experience. Compare all HTC Desire black dealsTags: 12, 3, all, android, card, compare, comparemobiles.com, deal, Deals, HTC, iphone, latest, latest deal, mobile, mobiles, new, new mobile, orange, phone, room, sim, sol, test, Touch
Safety guarantee too late for HTCTech companies are playing hardball on smart phones, yet Linux could gain the upper hand with Intel and Nokia going on the defensive with MeeGo.…
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Google and Apple will face new competition from a group of mobile networks based in London London is to become the centre of a fightback by the world’s biggest mobile phone networks, which together serve more than four billion customers, against the growing power of Apple and Google. The capital will be the location for the headquarters of a new business that will create a single global market for downloadable mobile phone applications, allowing the mobile phone companies to cash in on the growing craze for “apps”. By the end of the year, the mobile phone companies could be in a position to present application developers with a single standard that will operate across everything from BlackBerry devices to mass market Samsung and LG handsets. Mobile phone apps have proved a huge hit with consumers, with more than 3bn downloaded by iPhone users in just 18 months. But while they are creating a dramatic increase in traffic for mobile phone networks, they are not bringing any significant increase in revenues. Apple splits revenues from paid-for apps with the programme’s developer, not the network. The situation is likely to get worse as Apple updates the iPhone in the summer so that more than one app can run at a time, further increasing its appetite for network capacity. While the iPhone is likely to remain an expensive gadget aimed at high-end users, making it a niche product – albeit a very lucrative one for Apple – there is the potentially much larger threat from the growing adoption of Google’s Android platform. Later this year handsets from the likes of HTC and ZTE, which use the Google software and are aimed at the mass market, will start appearing. Already in the UK, according to recent research, almost one in every five smartphones now sold uses Android and some carriers reckon there will be more Android devices than iPhones within a year. Google has made it plain it wants to co-operate with the networks on Android but while it is understood to be sharing a portion of mobile advertising revenues generated through the phones with mobile operators, Google does not share revenue generated by apps. The mobile phone companies were galvanised into action by the appearance of Google’s own-branded mobile phone, the Nexus One, at the start of the year. It is the first in what the search engine giant hopes will be a portfolio of mobile phones over which it has complete control. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February a group of more than a dozen mobile phone companies including O2, Vodafone and Orange announced their intention to form the Wholesale Applications Community, which would work on a single platform for downloadable apps that would work across all their networks and across a wide range of phones. Since then, WAC has attracted 40 members and this week the operators will announce that it is to be based in London, where it will merge with another industry body called the Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP). Backed by nine operators including AT&T, Orange and Telecom Italia, Nokia and Ericsson, OMTP developed the nascent Bondi open apps standard, which is used in the recently announced Samsung Wave handset.A chairman is currently being sought for WAC, whose interim chief executive is head of the OMTP Tim Raby, and the first board meeting of the new organisation is expected in July. Its first task will be to pick a technology platform from the numerous competing open standards, including Bondi. It is understood to have chosen to use the open platform currently under construction by the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) partnership between Vodafone, Verizon Wireless of the US, Softbank in Japan and China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile phone network. It is also supported by LG, Samsung, Sharp and most crucially Research In Motion, maker of the Blackberry email device and bitter rival of both Apple and Android. Also involved in the process is the LiMo Foundation, which has been creating an open source mobile phone operating system based on Linux with the backing of partners including Motorola, NEC and NTT DoCoMo. Its software is inside Samsung’s H1 and M1 handsets which Vodafone has used as the flagship devices for its 360 suite of social networking services. There is speculation that Vodafone 360 could be rolled into the wider WAC effort.
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Google’s Android is the operating system of choice for almost 20% of all smartphones sold in the UK, according to new figures Google’s Android mobile phone platform seems to be taking off in the UK, with sales of mobile phones using the software platform increasing fourfold in the past month, according to new figures from retail watcher GfK. Almost one in every five smartphones now sold in the UK is Android. The increase in sales is due to a slew of new Android devices which have hit the market in recent months, not least the HTC Desire – which, over the past few weeks, has been added to the range of most major mobile operators and been well received by critics. Vodafone, meanwhile, started selling the HTC Legend at the start of April, adding it to a list of Android devices available in the UK which includes the HTC Hero and Xperia X10 from Sony Ericsson. GfK, whose pronouncements about the retail industry are pored over by City analysts, said that Android handsets accounted for 12.3% of all phones sold to customers signing up for a long-term mobile phone contract in week 15 of 2010 – the week ending on April 18 – compared with just 3% of the market in week 12, the last week of March. In terms of the total market, Android’s share grew from 1.6% to 6.7% during the period. As for smartphone devices – which GfK defines as the market for phones that can download applications from third party providers, so it includes the iPhone – they now account for 37.6% of the total mobile handset market and 63.9% of the contract market. GfK said the figure has remained relatively stable so Android is gaining market share from rival platforms, rather than merely benefitting from an overall increase in smartphone uptake. GfK refused to give details of the market share of other operating systems. “It’s not down to one particular handset,” said a spokesman for GfK. “More and more of the major handset manufacturers are viewing Android as a useful solution and using it in their smartphones”. More Android devices will become available in the UK over the coming weeks. Google’s Nexus One, for instance, went on sale through Vodafone’s stores and website today, a new Android phone from LG – the Optimus GT540 – is due out next month, while Samsung is due to add the Galaxy S to the current Galaxy Portal (i5700) which is already available in the UK. Vodafone, meanwhile, will next month launch an Android phone designed for the mass-market as part of a “refresh” of its portfolio of own-branded devices. Vodafone has turned to Chinese manufacturers Huawei, ZTE and TCL as the mobile phone network looks to push smartphones into the mass market. The company announced nine new handsets in its own-brand range on Wednesday. Alongside some basic feature phones aimed at developing countries – including one called the Vodafone 247, which has a built-in solar panel that could find its way to the UK as an “eco-phone” – Vodafone announced new smartphones including the Vodafone 845. The 2.8in touchscreen device is the first Vodafone branded phone that uses Google’s Android operating system and has been manufactured by Huawei, which until recently was best known in the mobile phone industry as the maker of 3G mobile broadband dongles. The Vodafone 845 runs on Éclair, the latest version of the Android platform and as well as being able to access thousands of applications it come pre-loaded with the Vodafone 360 service. Fellow Chinese dongle manufacturer ZTE, meanwhile, is responsible for another smartphone in the new Vodafone range. The 546 has a qwerty keyboard and is aimed at developing countries which have not yet installed 3G networks. ZTE also produced the 247 for Vodafone. Another Chinese manufacturer, TCL – which has a mobile phone joint venture with Alcatel – has produced a new touchscreen device for Vodafone called the 543, which is also aimed at the mass market.
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How to make enemies and influence peopleTalk about dissonance. On the day Microsoft crowed that it was letting its employees contribute code to an open-source project – Joolma it fired another shot at Linux.… Read Full Story…
After a short period on the block, the smartphone maker is sold Hewlett-Packard is buying Palm for nearly $1bn in cash, ending a brief period when it had looked as though the troubled smartphone maker might be bought by rival phone makers HTC or the Chinese computer maker Lenovo. The $5.70 per share price represents a 23% premium over the price yesterday. Accounting for debt, which HP is also taking on, the transaction has a value of $1.2bn. It is expected to close by the end of July. Last year Palm stock traded at up to $18 – though that is a far cry from its 2000 high of $552. The deal means that HP can move aggressively into the mobile phone market using Palm’s WebOS operating system, and also attack the market for “slate” computers like Apple’s iPad, a niche for which sales are expected to grow rapidly this year. The transaction also means that the uncertainty that has been hanging over Palm – which attempted to break the three-way stranglehold on the smartphone market by Nokia, BlackBerry maker RIM and Apple – is over. In the official statement, HP says the deal has been agreed by both boards. “Palm’s innovative operating system provides an ideal platform to expand HP’s mobility strategy and create a unique HP experience spanning multiple mobile connected devices,” said Todd Bradley, executive vice president, Personal Systems Group, HP. “And, Palm possesses significant IP assets and has a highly skilled team. The smartphone market is large, profitable and rapidly growing, and companies that can provide an integrated device and experience command a higher share. Advances in mobility are offering significant opportunities, and HP intends to be a leader in this market.” The statement notes that Jon Rubenstein, the former Apple executive who was brought in as chief executive at Palm after joining it in October 2007, is expected to remain with the company. HP has not previously been seen as a player in the mobile phone market. But it has the heft to be able to cut deals with the big phone networks: Palm struggled to get good prices for its Palm Pre and Pixi products, despite enthusiastic reviews. It is reckoned that about 500,000 Pre handsets were sold in the US after its release in 2009. A key feature that Palm will bring to HP is the WebOS operating system for mobile phones, putting HP into contention with Nokia’s Symbian, Google’s Android, RIM’s BlackBerry, Apple’s OSX and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and upcoming Windows Phone. Palm has been losing share in the smartphone market to Apple and, now, Android. Elevation Partners, the company which provided repeated investments that in effect kept Palm from going bust, should realise a small profit on the deal. Dan Primack of PEHub, which follows private equity transactions, noted: “Back of envelope math shows Elevation would get $485m from HP/Palm deal. Compared to $460m in. “ Engadget has details of a phone call with HP executives: the suggestion is that HP adds the global reach, while Palm brings the intellectual property. In a related post, Engadget says that
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Microsoft and HTC have signed a patent agreement that could help HTC fight off Apple’s iPhone patent case, but will certainly enable Microsoft to profit from sales of Googlephones Microsoft and HTC “have signed a patent agreement that provides broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio for HTC’s mobile phones running the Android mobile platform. Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will receive royalties from HTC.” Since the patents are not listed, it’s hard to know what’s going on here. TechCrunch’s first speculation was that this was Microsoft helping HTC, because HTC is being sued by Apple for infringing its iPhone patents. An alternative speculation is that Microsoft is collecting rent by licensing the unspecified patents it claims are infringed by Linux, on which Google’s Android operating system is based. The latter idea has been floated by Ina Fried at CNet, who reported:
Fried has good contacts inside Microsoft, but “those close to the company” remains somewhat short of an official endorsement. It’s a long way from a court case. HTC built its entire business on PDAs and then mobile phones running variants of Microsoft Windows CE, including Pocket PC and Windows Mobile, but has recently become a leading supplier of phones running Android. It can therefore expect help from both Microsoft and Google against Apple, their common enemy, but that won’t stop Microsoft and Google from being enemies as well. Will anybody actually benefit from this latest round of patent spats? Of course. It’s great for the lawyers involved, and some of the courts in America’s cowboy country could get incidental benefits. Users? The vast majority will be worse off. Microsoft will make at least a bit of money from its licensing agreement with HTC, though maybe not enough to cover the reduction in licensing fees from HTC as it shifts emphasis from Windows Mobile to Android. And I suspect it will be a very long way from enough to cover Microsoft’s horrendous losses in previous patent cases, where it has generally had a noticeable lack of success.
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Creamy Éclair offeringNot content with offering the Android-based HTC phones Legend and Desire, Sony Ericsson’s X10, and Google’s own Nexus One, Vodafone today announced an own-brand smartphone running the much-promoted OS.… Read Full Story…
The operator has announced pricing and introduction date for the Android smartphone, which comes with a higher data limit than the similar HTC Desire Read Full Story…
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Vodafone to start selling Google Nexus One mobile – but prices disappointPosted by in Mobile News
The competitor to Apple’s iPhone will be on sale from 30 April, though prices do not significantly undercut it Vodafone is making Google’s Nexus One mobile phone free for any customer willing to sign up to a two-year contract at £35 a month. The mobile phone company will start selling the phone on 30 April, but customers can pre-order the device on its website from today. Vodafone is the first European operator to offer the Google phone, which has been available in the US since the start of the year, and it has taken longer than executives had expected to get hold of the device. But Vodafone’s price plan is unlikely to set Nexus One sales alight in the UK. It pitches the phone in direct competition with the iPhone, which Vodafone also started selling earlier this year. The Nexus One may be a faster phone than the iPhone, but it there are far fewer downloadable applications available for Android devices – giving the Apple phone has the upper hand. When it launched in the US, Google sold the phone solely through its website and sold it unlocked, so that customers could put their existing SIM card into it. European customers could buy it from the website and have it shipped over. But customers who experienced problems with the device were forced to rely upon email for technical assistance, sometimes waiting days for a reply. Eventually, Google introduced a freephone customer support line in the US, but the support problems experienced there gave the company reason to pause over the phone’s launch elsewhere, to make sure it has its customer service operations in place. As a result, the UK launch has come later than Vodafone expected although Google has always maintained that it intended to launch in the UK “in the spring”. Google has since optimised the device for some American networks – such as AT&T – to reduce customer’s problems. It has also struck a deal with Verizon Wireless which will see the phone subsidised for new users. Analysts have described sales of the phone – the first phone using Google’s Android software over which the search engine company has had full control – as disappointing, although Google has denied that the launch has been a flop. Last month, Goldman Sachs slashed its estimate for Nexus One sales this year from 3.5m units to just 1m worldwide. The Nexus One also faces competition from another Android handset, the HTC Desire, which is very similar and has been better received by critics. The HTC Desire is available from several UK networks. The Nexus One will be available on cheaper contracts for customers who are willing to pay some of the cost of the device, which in the US retails for $529 (£342). For customers who only want to sign up for 18 months, the phone will cost £99 on a £30 a month contract, or £59 for £35 a month. It is free on an 18 month contract at £40 a month. On a two-year contract, the phone will cost £99 for £25 a month, or £59 for £30 a month. Vodafone UK customers with the Nexus One can use up to 1GB of mobile data as part of their price plan as well as take advantage of unlimited access to Wi-Fi in the home and free, publicly available services throughout the country. Customers using Wi-Fi can also use an additional 1GB of data at premium BT Openzone hotspots throughout the UK.
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Not as a cheap as HTC DesireVodafone will put Google’s Nexus One smartphone on sale on Friday, 30 April, the cellco said today.… Read Full Story…
HTC has three new Android-based smartphones on the market – but which of them is the most Desirable? I’ve just spent 20 minutes on a conference call, using the HTC Legend and I think my ear is bleeding. To explain, I’d had my O2 Sim card in the phone off and on for a week or so and had been enjoying surfing the web and emailing and texting and Tweeting (yes I am one of those twats, sorry) and it was all going well. It was only a second or so into the call that I realised I had not, as yet, used the latest in HTC’s roster of Android devices as an actual telephone. I waxed lyrical about the design of the HTC Legend when it was announced at Mobile World Congress and it is beautiful. Made from a single milled piece of aluminium it is a brilliant piece of engineering (and the fact that it is made from one piece of metal means you can drop it without it breaking in half) and lovely to look at and use to access the internet. The phones I’ve been using myself for the past month are HTC’s two other new Android devices, the Nexus One – otherwise known as the Google phone – and the HTC Desire. The innards of the two phones are essentially identical and the difference on the outside is minimal. The big difference is in the user interface: the Nexus One is the device over which Google has had complete control, while the HTC Desire has HTC Sense layered over the top of it. The HTC Legend, meanwhile, has been available for a couple of weeks in the UK and is exclusive to Vodafone. Vodafone is also supposed to be stocking the Nexus One soon-ish, but it keeps being delayed because the search engine company has realised that selling a mobile phone takes a bit more customer service than just lobbing the device into the market. Anyway, the thing that has most surprised me about the Nexus One is that it is actually quite a nice phone to use as a phone. The iPhone has always made me feel like I am standing in a portaloo while calling someone. It is all echoes and feedback. The Nexus One, in contrast, feels, and most importantly sounds, like a phone. The HTC Legend, however, is cutting edge and not just in its design. It literally has a cutting edge. When it arrived in the UK, the Palm Pre came in for some criticism because when the keyboard was slid out, the plastic edge was sharp enough to slice cheese (which lead to the inevitable YouTube clips). Well the HTC Legend goes one better, that lovely milled aluminium case will slice your ear off when you hold the phone up to it and apply any pressure whatsoever. Why am I getting so het up about the device as a phone? Well firstly too many of the recent crop of smartphones have been rubbish AS PHONES. And secondly, form factor is one of the biggest differences between the Nexus One and HTC Legend. Both run the latest version of Android – Éclair – and can multitask and while the processor is faster on the Nexus One, I did not notice any major difference in performance compared with the HTC Legend, except in the area of battery life. The Nexus One’s battery life is dire, comparable with the first batch of serious 3G phones, such as the SonyEricsson V800. Initially I had it checking and alerting me to everything from my office email to Twitter every five minutes. With a little bit of emailing and perhaps a quick game of Robo Defense, a game to which I have become tragically addicted, the battery was gone in a few hours. A few basic energy saving tips, such as stopping the trackball from flashing when new emails arrived, using vibrating alerts solely for texts and turning down the screen brightness and the battery would just about get through a working day. Just. The battery life of the HTC Desire seemed slightly better to me, but as there is no difference in the batteries or processors of the two devices I would put that down to HTC Sense’s better power management. I did not worry half as much when I realised that I had left the charger for the HTC Legend at home. The third point of differentiation between the three phones is the most obvious: that while the Nexus One has Google’s unadulterated version of Android, HTC put its HTC Sense “skin” on top of it for the Desire and Legend. HTC Sense is hit and miss. For the Legend, it’s a miss, for the Desire, it’s a hit. HTC Sense leaves the Legend looking very cramped. It lends itself much more readily to the larger screen on the Desire. It integrates some basic functions such as Facebook and Twitter – through the pre-installed Peep client – but serious social networking junkies will probably prefer to set themselves up with multiple downloadable clients. The HTC Sense keyboard, meanwhile, is dire on both devices, containing all the normal qwerty keys plus a huge number of extra keys that have been grey-scaled over the top to make it nice and confusing. The Nexus One opts for the traditional qwerty keyboard but neither keyboard is as elegant or responsive as the iPhone. The Nexus One, meanwhile, integrates search much better across the device – as you would hope – than either HTC device, partly though the use of the “search” function key on the phone. Those search keys are part of the physical difference between the devices: the Nexus One opts for a trackball while the HTC Legend and HTC Desire have an optical trackpad. To be honest, they are both pointless. A properly working touchscreen interface and they would be utterly redundant. The HTC Desire and Legend also have four hard function keys at the bottom of the screen: a home button; a menu button that brings up relevant menus depending upon which application you are using; a back button, which cleverly works across apps so if you move from say, email to a Twitter client, pressing back will take you back to email; and that search function. The Nexus One has the same buttons – though the search button seems to work better across any application on the Google device – but they are part of the touchscreen. As a result, many is the time I thought I was pressing the space bar when composing an email on the Nexus One and instead sent myself back to the home screen. All three can, of course, download a host of applications from the Android Marketplace – which, unfortunately, is where Android still falls down. The sooner Google – or perhaps one of the mobile phone operators – realises that a third party arbiter of applications really is needed, the better. Having to hunt through countless pages of reviews (which divide neatly into obvious fan boy who probably had a hand in writing the app, creator of rival app slagging it off and plugging their product, and nutter out on day release who just wandered into a cyber cafe) in order to judge whether an app is useful or might actually be malware designed to steal all your information, is only going to appeal to a small minority of users. Android’s marketplace is based on Darwinian evolutionary principles coupled with the wisdom of crowds, which is great if you only ever want early adopters to use your devices, but Google wants Android to challenge Apple’s dominance in apps. It will never manage that unless the Marketplace becomes as “professional” as iTunes. Like the fact that you need customer service staff when you start selling hardware, Google has to realise that when you start offering goods through a central marketplace, someone has to carry the can for their quality. The “crowd” won’t do. Back to the devices. And finally, as befits a device that has Google’s logo on the back of it, the Nexus One is elegant when accessing the internet. So are the Desire and Legend. Pages are crisp and responsive (pinch and zoom perhaps a bit too responsive). Both devices make the web look sharp while the iPhone often rounds the corners off the web. In fact, that’s the HTC Legend’s problem writ large: it’s just a bit too sharp, so for me it’s a choice between the Nexus One and HTC Desire and it’s going to be the latter. During a few weeks of use I had to reboot the Nexus One several times a week to deal with various functions that just seemed to die-off from time to time, especially email synchronisation. The HTC Desire did not require any rebooting. Finally, the volume button on the side of the Nexus One seized up after a few weeks. While that’s not a problem for setting the level of media, ringtone and alarm volume – as all can be set through the phone’s settings – there is no work around for in-call volume, meaning that anyone who called me also deafened me. For the sake of my ears, I relied on the HTC Desire. HTC LegendPros: Stylish design, good battery life for an Android device. Cons: That sleek design comes at a potentially painful price. Nexus OnePros: Screen makes the web come alive; integrates messaging, maps and search very well. Cons: Poor battery life and Marketplace apps can sometimes crash without warning. It’s a phone you will find yourself rebooting occasionally. HTC DesirePros: All the benefits of the Nexus One without the crashes Cons: You have to struggle your way through the Android Marketplace looking for apps while iPhone users jeer at you for the lack of choice you have.
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