A couple of days ago we informed you about the fact that some HTC Magic handsets sold by Vodafone Spain were bundled with memory cards filled with malware. The infection was pretty serious, since we're talking about the Mariposa botnet, that was responsible for messing up 12,000,000 individual computers last ...
Assuming that you have a fetish of buying handsets with malware, we've got the deal of the month for you: buy a HTC Magic from Vodafone Spain and you'll get the Android phone with the Mariposa botnet malware. The bots were implemented by a hacker known as "tnls".
Vodafone claims that ...
If you thought that HTC Magic was dead, guess again, since Rogers and T-Mobile have found a way to prolong the life of this cool handset. The first carrier did so by launching the wooden Fender edition of the phone, while Rogers added the Sense UI to it and called ...
Just hours after finding out that Rogers will be the first NA carrier to sell the XPERIA X10 smartphone, here's another piece of info related to the Canadian carrier: they'll be updating HTC Magic to Android 2.1. Meanwhile, the good old Dream G1 stays at the 1.5 version.
HTC Magic will ...
If you're among the people who went out and bought a HTC Magic handset, instead of waiting a few more months for the Hero to surface, you've got something cool coming. It turns out that the Magic will be getting ROM upgrades that'll bring Sense UI to its sweet touchscreen ...
The Phones Show, episode 88 has just surfaced and this time we've got a pretty interesting topic covered: the duel between touch and button-based phones. Also, the show includes mini reviews of HTC Magic and LG KS360:
Since you can watch the show above for yourself, let's have a little debate ...
HTC's latest Android phones, Magic and Hero aren't that different, if you come to think about it. The main differences are the Sense UI, the 5 megapixel camera and a couple of little design tweaks, but the gap could be made even smaller by the presence of Sense on HTC ...
Canadian carrier Rogers has just started selling the first two Android phones that hit the market, Dream G1 and Magic (myTouch 3G) for a mere $79.99 with 3 year contracts. T-Mobile should pay attention to this offer and mimic it, if they want to keep their appeal, specially since they ...
Unlike what we were claiming a couple of hours ago, citing some sources, HTC won't use the Sense UI on Google branded phone. At least not on T-Mobile USA's G1 and myTouch 3G, because of licensing terms. These are the same ones that didn't allow Microsoft Exchange clients to reach ...
Just as T-Mobile USA confirmed that they'll be announcing a new Android smartphone new week, we learn that Huawei U8230 is also going to be launched by T-Mobile, this time in Europe, late in Q3 2009. Huawei U8230 is an Android smartphone as well, packing a 3.5 inch touchscreen display, ...
