HTC Launches Rhyme Exclusive on Verizon Network

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HTC has taken the wrap off it’s latest smartphone named Rhyme. The Android powered phone was reviled today at an event in San Francisco along with Verizon Wireless. With the Rhyme, HTC has taken a new approach, taking their traditional smartphone and adding stylish and colorful accessories like a wired headset, docking station, bluetooth earpiece and an interesting charm. As a [...]

How to Disable HTC’s Sense on Android Based Devices

I’ve posted about how to turn off HTC Sense on Windows Mobile devices in the past, this time I’m going to share the steps to turn off HTC Sense on your Android device. It’s a little more involved than on Windows Mobile devices, but still not too hard. HTC Sense brings a lot of nice [...]

HTC Updates the Power of Sense

Along with the new handset announcements from HTC, they also announced a new Sense experience. The changes are not just on the phone, but also on your desktop. The Desire Z and Desire HD will ship with this new version of HTC Sense taking the experience to a whole new level for HTC customers. As [...]

HTC Releases Android Powered Desire HD Smartphone

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In much the same fashion as the Desire Z, the Desire HD is based upon the popular Desire smartphone. The new HD version adds a number of improvements to an already great device. The most notable change is that 3.7 inch screen has been replaced with a 4.3 inch beauty! Other changes include a bump [...]

New HTC Desire Z Android Based Smartphone

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HTC has announced an update to the popular Android based Desire smartphone. The new Desire Z offers improvements pretty much across the board when compared to the Desire. The internal storage has gone from just 512MB, to 1.5GB. The camera is still a 5 megapixel camera with auto focus and face detection, the they’ve added [...]

HTC Sense on HD2 will not Allow Birthdates Prior to 1941

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Fellow MVP Jack Cook asked me to look into a problem he was seeing reported in the Windows Phone forums about the HTC HD2 birthday field. Basically, HTC’s Sense will not allow you to create a new contact or edit an existing contact’s birthday and set the year to anything before 1941. At first, I [...]

How to Turn off HTC’s Sense on the HD2

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This may seem like a pretty straight forward tip to some, while others will find it extremely valuable. For me, I was playing with HTC’s Hero device running Android prior to picking up the HTC HD2. On the Hero, the Sense interface can not be disabled. So the thought never crossed my mind when I [...]