If you’re looking for a cheap smartphone that offers Android 4.0 in a compact package that shares the One X’s design cues, HTC just unveiled one. The HTC Desire C is an entry-level smartphone way down the ladder compared to HTC’s One series, but shares the same styling. Fronted by a 3.5-inch capacitive touch screen with a 320 x 480 resolution, the phone also comes with Android 4.0 out-of-the-box (layered with HTC’s Sense 4.0 I) and Beats Audio processing.
If you were looking for a super-slim Android-based smartphone with a 4.3-inch screen and an extra-long battery life for 200 bucks, then that weirdly specific thing you were looking for just came up. Verizon has just chopped $100 off the price of the Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx, dropping the total price down to a more palatable $199.99 with a two-year contract.
After making a big splash at the Mobile World Congress, it seemed like a huge letdown when Nokia said that the 808 PureView won’t be coming to North America. Mostly because they wanted to scrap bringing Symbian smartphones to the region and they wanted to focus on pushing the Windows-based Lumia line. Well you can forget about looking for a way to import it for now; according to US President Chris Weber (in an interview with PCMag), it’s going to land in North America within “the next couple of months.”
If you somehow thought that picking up the Windows Phone-based Nokia Lumia 900 for a hundred bucks on AT&T was still too expensive, maybe this’ll do: AT&T has posted a page for the Samsung Focus 2, a WP7-based phone that features 4G LTE capability for $50 with a two-year contract.
Verizon has officially pulled the covers off the Droid Incredible 4G LTE, the HTC-built smartphone that they accidentally unveiled last month. Thanks to that ‘sneak peek,’ the announcement doesn’t sound so surprising anymore, but if you were specifically waiting for Verizon to release this phone, well… here it is, pretty much decked with the same spec that we already saw. If you didn’t catch the official page that got unofficially posted, the Droid Incredible 4G LTE looks like a solid (if not downright ‘incredible’) smartphone on paper, fronted by a 4-inch Super LCD qHD (960 x 540) screen, Android 4.0 with HTC’s Sense 4.0 UI, and, of course, 4G LTE connectivity that gives it incredibly fast mobile browsing speeds.
