HTC Flyer goes on sale for a bargain £199

We rather liked HTC’s stylus-toting 7″ Flyer tablet when it was announced in April 2011, although the upmarket price tag made it hard to recommend.

We rather liked HTC’s stylus-toting 7″ Flyer tablet when it was announced in April 2011, although the upmarket price tag made it hard to recommend.

HTC has started sending out updates to its Flyer 32GB WIFI/3G tablet, upgrading the operating system to Android Honeycomb 3.2.
We’ve always been rather keen on HTC’s under-appreciated tablet Flyer, and were very much taken with its solid build, compact size and novel note taking stylus.

HTC has spilled the beans on which of their Android powered phones will be the first to get the eagerly awaited update to the new getting the Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) operating system.

HTC has announced its latest big’n'beefy smartphone, the HTC Rezound, an 4G LTE Android number headed for Verizon Wireless in the States and packing HTC’s Beats Audio technology.

Freshly announced at London’s Roundhouse venue today is the HTC Sensation XL, packing a fearsome 4.7-inch 480 x 800 Gorilla Glass screen, Beats Audio technology and a particularly good camera lens.

The price of smartphone ownership looks set to continuing tumbling with the announcement of the new, Android-powered budget HTC Explorer handset.

HTC has unveiled its new Rhyme Android smartphone, sporting a design apparently designed to appeal to the fairer sex with a metallic plum finish and an optional light-up “charm.”

HTC has officially announced its Sensation XE handset and it looks rather a tasty number, sporting beefed-up specs and onboard Beats Audio for a funkier, phatter sound.

Details of the forthcoming HTC Runnymede handset have been slowly seeping out all over t’internet, with what looks like an official press shot of the pocket-straining handset now being posted online.

The HTC EVO 3D has just had officially launched in Europe, and punters should be able to start soaking up the glasses-free 3D smartphone action from July 2011.

As U-turns go, they don’t get much bigger than this one.
Yesterday, HTC UK posted up to say – rather emphatically – that the HTC Desire was not going to get the Android Gingerbread 2.3 update. Now way, no sir. And to hammer home the point, we made what we thought was an amusing graphic illustrating the situation.

Bad news HTC Desire owners – HTC has announced that it’s already given you enough love and now wants to set you free into the world to fend for yourselves.

With its novel stylus input and smaller physical size, the HTC Flyer offers a real alternative to the all-conquering iPad, and yesterday we thought we’d show some friends what the tablet is capable of.

We recently compared the two hottest up and coming Android handsets – the HTC Sensation and the Samsung Galaxy S II – and for us, the Sensation looked to just nudge the deal.

There’s never been a better time to buy an Android smartphone than now, with a slew of very tasty devices coming to market, with the big hitters including the Motorola Atrix 4G, LG Optimus 2x, HTC Sensation and Samsung Galaxy S II.
Although there’s not a bad phone out of that bunch, we’re finding ourselves drawn to the Samsung and the Sensation smartphones. So how do they shape up in a head to head spec slapdown?
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