HTC Aria for AT&T hands-on

We just took delivery of AT&T’s brand new Aria from HTC, and we have to say, we’re kind of tickled — with the hardware, anyway. It’s hard not to smile at the HD Mini -esque design elements, including the faux screws on back, the wild yellow interior, and…

HTC Hero (GSM) Android 2.1 update finally arrives… in Taiwan

In its day, the HTC Hero with its brand new Sense UI and browser with Flash Lite was a breakthrough, multitouch Android handset. As such, it quickly became a big seller for HTC and the carriers that sold it

HTC EVO 4G review

As a mobile platform, the EVO 4G’s Android foundation is still an infant — well, okay, perhaps it’s a tweener — but in its two-odd years in the public spotlight, the list of truly revolutionary devices to use it has been a significant one: the G1 for being the first to market; the Nexus One for ushering in a new ( and subsequently killed ) retail model; perhaps the CLIQ for introducing Motorola to the platform or the Droid for bringing the company some desperately needed, long overdue success. For the moment, anyway, a whopping fraction of the world’s most important phones are running Google’s little experiment. Needless to say, Sprint, HTC, and quite frankly, many of us have come to expect the EVO 4G to join that short list for some obvious reasons.

HTC Wildfire hands-on

Some eager beavers went ahead and busted through the embargo dam this morning, so you should already be up to speed on the Wildfire’s specs and vital statistics. For the latecomers, this is an Android 2.1 device with the same processor as HTC’s fabled Hero , a 3.2-inch capacitive QVGA display, and an ambition to sate the market for an affordable, socially connected Android smartphone. It’s slated for a release in Europe and Asia early in the third quarter of this year, and you can see all four of its tasteful color options in the exhaustive gallery of intimate photography below.

T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide official: Android 2.1, QWERTY, coming in June (we go hands-on)

Hey, CLIQ , better check that rear-view mirror, because you’ve got an interesting competitor coming right up on your tail. T-Mobile is launching another midrange Android QWERTY slider — some might argue the G1’s true successor — christened the myTouch 3G Slide (not quite the “myTouch Slide” we’ve been hearing for a few months) with a 3.4-inch HVGA display, 5 megapixel camera, and a pretty heavily-customized skin based on Android 2.1

Droid Incredible review

At this point, the HTC Incredible should seem like pretty familiar territory to our readers.

Verizon’s HTC Incredible gets a user’s manual

You can’t buy an Incredible from Verizon just yet, but we’re getting awfully close — and in the meantime, you’ve got some exciting new reading material to pore over. It looks like the full, unabridged, seemingly final version of the phone’s user’s manual has just leaked over on Android Forums , and while there aren’t any blockbuster revelations in here as far as we can tell, it confirms what we’ve long suspected: this is basically a CDMA Desire with an 8 megapixel camera. You’ve got the full Sense UI experience atop Android 2.1, a 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED display, 1GHz Snapdragon , and an optical joystick — a new trend out of HTC that looks destined to completely supplant the trackball, much as it has already done for RIM.

HTC Desire review

Following the Legend , HTC continues its Android 2.1 lineup with the Desire — a gorgeous cousin of the renowned Nexus One . We can trace our drool all the way back to the Desire’s leak in December , but there have been some changes since then that made it slightly less desirable — DivX support and 720p video capture never made it to the final build, but it’s not like the company laid down any official promise on them, right? Anyhow, there’s still plenty to be loved here, namely the speedy 1GHz Snapdragon, the large AMOLED screen, and HTC’s latest revision of Sense UI that we’ve already seen on the Legend.

Sense UI ROM available for Droid; is nothing sacred?

It seems that man’s mad quest to unite Sense UI and Droid continue at breakneck speed.

Sprint to announce ‘groundbreaking new device’ (HTC Supersonic?) tomorrow

Sprint Premier customers are being treated to a rather tantalizing account alert tonight: “Visit us tomorrow for an exciting announcement about a groundbreaking new device.” No other details provided, but if we had to make an educated guess, we’d say all signs are pointing towards HTC’s Supersonic, the long-rumored WiMAX smartphone with a 4.3-inch screen and Android 2.1 with Sense UI . A 4G device would certainly fit the billing as “groundbreaking,” and we’ve already heard of plans to unveil the phone at CTIA , which officially kicks off tomorrow.

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