I can’t decide if this is a win or a disaster in the making: Telstra will be selling the HTC EVO 3D Android phone from September, and Vodafone is also going to sell the phone “soon”. On the plus side, it’s a high-powered Android Gingerbread phone with a 4.3 inch screen and an excellent camera. On the minus side, it sports a 3D effect which Gizmodo’s reviewer described as so bad he wanted to look away.
HTC’s flagship phone for 2011, the Sensation, officially goes on sale as a Telstra exclusive from today. You can buy it for $792 outright, or get it for $79 a month on a 24-month contract.
If you’ve recently purchased an HTC Android phone and are planning to migrate data from a BlackBerry to it, you might want to hold off a while. HTC has acknowledged a bug which means SMS messages transferred to the new phone get sent again to their original recipients.
HTC’s two latest entry-level Android phones, the Salsa and ChaCha, go on sale through Vodafone from July 6. With both phones being available on contract with no additional handset fees on Vodafone’s entry-level 24-month cap plans (the $45 Infinite plan and the $29 standard cap), they are two of the cheaper Gingerbread-running phones out there right now.
The HTC Sensation is already on sale in many parts of the world, but we won’t be seeing it officially in Australia until July. Telstra has got the local exclusive on the ultra-thin dual core Gingerbread phone.
HTC’s Sense interface has some nice things going for it, including some great navigational features in its Messaging, Mail and Gallery apps. Here’s how to configure them to your liking.
If you’ve ever owned an HTC Android smartphone, you’ll know that HTC is pretty tight-fisted when it comes to internal storage, especially when compared with similarly-specced phones from manufacturers such as Motorola and Samsung. What gives?
After a bunch of user feedback, smartphone maker HTC has announced that it will be unlocking the bootloader on its Android phones, meaning they’ll be much easier to root.
The Gingerbread version of Android has lots of neat features, so it’s good to see the ranks of phones shipping with it expand. Optus will begin selling the HTC Incredible S in stores from this weekend, and will offer it online from May 6.
Telstra has been selling the HTC Wildfire since August last year, but has only just gotten around to offering an over-the-air upgrade to Froyo for the device. Still, better sometime than never. [Telstra Exchange]
