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HTC has so far caused quite a lot of confusion regarding which model of its new flagship, the HTC 10, it intends to launch in India. The company on Thursday provided a statement that intended to clarify the issue, but did little to clear the muddy waters. "We are pleased to announce that global flagship HTC 10 is coming soon to India. Stay tuned for the announcement and the availability date," Faisal Siddiqui, President HTC South Asia. We asked the company what this meant precisely, would the Snapdragon 820 variant of the smartphone launch in India? The company refused to elaborate however, so for now, your guess is as good as ours, and we can all be glad the confusion will be cleared "soon" alongside the smartphone's launch.  To recall, in its launch statement on Tuesday, the company had said it would bring launch the Snapdragon 820-based HTC 10 in some markets, and the Snapdragon 652-based HTC 10 Lifestyle in others. The HTC 10 Lifestyle with Snapdra...

An anonymous developer who goes by the name of LibreVR has managed to develop a compatibility layer that allows you to play Oculus VR games - Lucky's Tale and Oculus Dreamdeck only for now - on the HTC Vive virtual reality headset. Called Revive, it patches over your existing game files to make it work with OpenVR. "It works by reimplementing [sic] functions from the Oculus Runtime and translating them to OpenVR calls," the developer said on the software's GitHub page. "Unfortunately Oculus has implemented a Code Signing check on the Runtime DLLs, therefore the Revive DLLs cannot be used unless the application is patched." The instructions are fairly straightforward to work with, and you shouldn't have a lot of trouble trying it if you want. But this is still an unofficial and unapproved method, considering Oculus' love for a closed system. Where on one hand the Oculus Store doesn't even recognise the HTC Vive when connected, SteamVR is happy...

With the HTC 10, the Taiwanese company is promising to undo the past wrongs in the cameras of its previous flagship phones. The camera has long a weak point in HTC devices. At first, HTC sacrificed image resolution in the M8 and made the size of individual pixels larger to capture more light (what HTC called Ultrapixel). But the resulting 4 megapixel images were often fuzzy, especially when cropped or enlarged. To fix the issue, in its next flagship - the M9 - HTC went with smaller individual pixels in a 20-megapixel camera last year, but it still underperformed in extreme situations, such as indoors and close-ups. In the HTC 10, the company attempts to strike a balance with larger individual pixels (1.55µm), but not as large as before and a 12 megapixel sensor in its camera coupled with a ƒ/1.8 lens. HTC accepts that in the imaging performance in the M9 was not up to the kind of spec of what they really like to see in a flagship. HTC is giving a slight boost to the selfi...

HTC unveiled its latest flagship smartphone - the HTC 10 - that comes with an improved camera and battery. The HTC 10 tries to strike a balance between image resolution and individual pixel size with its 12 megapixel rear camera, which is the same as the latest iPhones and Samsung Galaxy phones. HTC is giving a slight boost to the selfie camera — to 5 megapixels, matching the rival devices. It also joins its rivals in letting the screen serve as a front-facing flash. The HTC 10 phone is expected to be available in late April. The phone comes with 3 GB RAM, 32 GB internal storage, and a 3000mAh battery that is claimed to last up to two days. The company has not announced the pricing. Here's the HTC 10 in photos:

HTC has unveiled its latest flagship phone, the HTC 10 with a number of improvements and fixing past errors. HTC's flagship phones have drawn good reviews in the past, but it's had trouble translating those into sales. HTC doesn't currently rank as one of the top five phone manufacturers worldwide and in recent months, it has branched out to fitness and virtual-reality devices. But it isn't giving up on phones. The company didn't immediately announce pricing for the phone. Here are 10 highlights of the new HTC 10: 1.  HTC is promising a better camera in the HTC 10. Tt has brought down the megapixel count from 20 to 12 but with larger individual pixels (1.55µm). 2.  The front camera also gets a slight boost to 5 megapixels. 3.  The HTC 10 also joins its rivals in letting the screen serve as a front-facing flash. 4.  HTC says its new flagship is the first phone with dual optical image stabilisation (OIS) in both the rear and the front cameras. 5. ...

HTC is no stranger to product details being leaked out before scheduled launches. Its next flagship - the HTC 10 - is no exception either. The phone is set for a release today and there is little left to anticipate about the new handset, thanks to the series of image and specification leaks that have been doing the rounds of the internet from weeks. Here's a list of features the new HTC 10 is expected to come powered with: 1. The HTC 10 is in line with last year's much talked about iPhone-lookalike A9 with its overall clean metal design. The new phone, however, comes with chamfered edges, a camera bump in the rear along with the familiar HTC logo. 2. A promotional video of the smartphone, leaked just a day ahead of launch, shows off volume rockers on the right along with a power button and a physical home button. 3. Earlier leaks have hinted at the HTC 10 having a 5.15-inch QHD display offering 2560 X 1440 pixels resolution. 4. The latest flagship is likely to come wi...

2016 as a watershed year for virtual reality? The HTC Vive follows hot on the heels of Oculus's Rift with an April 5 release, while PC and console gamers anticipate launches for "Dirt Rally," "Dark Souls III" and "Quantum Break." HTC Vive For: Windows PC Available: April 5 At $799 and representing the high end of the spectrum in home VR, following the $599 Oculus Rift launching in March and $399 PlayStation VR set for October, HTC's partnership with PC gaming giant Valve has yielded the tricked-out  Vive , which uses discrete Lighthouse cubes to track movement around a room -- hence its reputation as the most mobility-friendly of the three VR headsets -- embeds an outward-facing camera in its visor so users can see what's going on in virtual reality as well as in the space around them, and packs in the custom SteamVR controllers as well. Needs a hefty PC to power it. Dirt Rally For: PlayStation 4, Xbox One Available: April 5 Having la...

HTC has started pushing out Android 6.0 Marshmallow updates for its Desire Eye, One (E8), and One (M8 Eye) smartphones. The HTC Desire Eye users (via HTC Blog Italia) in Europe as well as users on AT&T will start receiving the over-the-air (OTA) update next week. The HTC One (E8) is currently only receiving the OTA Marshmallow update in China. The HTC One (M8 Eye) users in Europe and China are reporting about the new update for the handset. Unfortunately, there is no official changelog for the new Marshmallow updates for the HTC Desire Eye, HTC One (E8), and HTC One (M8 Eye) smartphones. For now, the update is available to limited regions but we can expect it to be available to wider users in coming weeks. Users can manually check for the update via Settings> About Phone> System Update. The Marshmallow update will bump the software as well as bring the new Sense 7 UI. To refresh, Android 6.0 Marshmallow (previously just Android M) br...

After launching the HTC Desire 828 Dual SIM and HTC One A9 in India last month,  HTC  on Friday launched the Desire 728 Dual SIM in India - priced at Rs. 17,990. The smartphone will be made available via major offline retailers in the country from next week in White Luxury and Purple Myst. To recall, the  HTC Desire 728 Dual SIM  was  launched in China in September  last year. It runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop with HTC Sense and features a 5.5-inch HD (720x1280 pixels) IPS display like the Desire 820G+ Dual SIM, which was launched in July. It packs the same 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, but a 5-megapixel secondary front-facing camera instead of an 8-megapixel one. Also, the handset is powered by a slightly less powerful octa-core MediaTek MT6753 SoC (clocked at 1.3GHz) and 2GB of RAM. The 16GB inbuilt storage on the Desire 728 Dual SIM is expandable via microSD card (up to 2TB). Connectivity options on the handset include Wi-Fi, FM radio, Blueto...

HTC has finally taken the wraps off its latest smartphone, called the HTC One A9. On design front, it features metallic unibody design with 7.26mm thickness. The phone also comes with a multi-directional fingerprint scanner. Under the hood, it is powered by a 64-bit octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 processor paired with Adreno 405 GPU. Based on storage and RAM, it comes in two variants- one with 16GB internal memory and 2GB of RAM while other variant comes with 32GB inbuilt storage and 3GB of RAM. The One A9 features a 5-inch full HD display with 1920×1080 pixels resolutions and 2.5D Gorilla Glass 4 protection. On camera front, it sports a 13 mega pixel rear camera with LED flash, PDAF and OIS while there is also an Ultrapixel front facing camera. Backed up by a 2150mAh battery, it supports Quick Charge 3.0 technology. The smartphone also comes with support for the optional HTC Rapid Charger 2.0 for up to 75% faster charging. It is the first smartphone from the company running A...