Speaking with Bloomberg, HTC chief financial officer Cheng Hui-ming states that under the right conditions, his company could run its own operating system for its smartphones. Throughout HTC’s history, it has relied on Windows Mobile and Google Android. Were HTC to use a proprietary OS, there are many significant factors to consider. More »

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Pictured is the HTC HD2 next to the Samsung Galaxy S. Mobile Review has a brief video and a deep written review of the forthcoming smartphone, which is slated for a June Russian launch at 30,000 Rubles ($1,000 USD), a king’s ransom, but Europeans usually get gouged on high-tech gear, so the North American versions should be much cheaper. More »

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Making the rounds today allover the internet is a supposed snapshot of Verizon’s inventory page, which lists 156,709 HTC Incredible units on order, meaning that the smartphone could be making its way to store shelves by the end of April. More »

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From Ziggytek: Today, Apple filed a massive copyright infringement lawsuit against rival smartphone manufacturer HTC and has requested that all HTC phones be pulled from sale in America. In its suit, Apple has cited almost every model that HTC makes. More »

Mozilla’s mobile port of my favorite web browser is quickly progressing. This week, the developers uploaded a few pictures of Fennec running on a Motorola Droid and a Nexus One. Programmer Mark Finkle also has a slide-show presentation about FireFox for mobile devices. More »

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Adobe’s MWC appearance revealed something big: only smartphones with ARM Cortex-A8 or faster processors will run Flash 10.1 properly. Also, 50Mb of free RAM is required, but all current Android devices have this covered; unfortunately, in North America, only the Nexus One and Motorola Droid have the CPU requirements, so this means that the HTC Magic (myTouch), Dream (G1), Hero, Motorola CLIQ, and other top selling Android phones will not be supported. More »

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AdMob has published some interesting statistics. While females comprise roughly 42-46% of Palm and iPhone users, they make up only 26% of Android operators… More »

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Fresh rumors have AT&T landing the coveted HTC Desire, and Sprint getting the Legend, which would be rebadged as the Hero 2. More »

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From Ziggytek: DisplayMate president Dr. Raymond M. Soneira has conducted a scientific experiment in which he claims that Apple’s iPhone 3G-S LCD is better than the much touted AMOLED display on Google’s Nexus One. OLED is inherently a far superior technology than LCD, but execution is crucial. Just because one form of technology is more advanced, it does not mean that everything that uses it will exceed the performance of an inferior approach. For example, not every rear-wheel-drive car will out-handle every front-wheel-drive auto. More »

Google has finally released Google Earth for Android 2.1 phones, of which there is only one at the moment. The 22Mb application runs very smoothly on the Nexus One and looks nearly as good as its computer counterpart. More »

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