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Our hands-on impressions of the HTC One V, live from the CTIA 2012 trade show floor. Pictures and video included.
We managed to spend some time with the HTC One V earlier today at the HTC booth here at CTIA. The phone originally debuted at Mobile World Congress earlier this year, but HTC didn’t have a working model of it to show. The One V is the smaller brother of the One S and One X. Design-wise, it doesn’t share many characteristics, and instead seems to borrow most of its inspirations from older HTC phones, which used to have the familiar protruding chin that’s on the One V. We kind of like the retro design, which goes well with the low-end single-core processor, 512MB of RAM, and smaller 3.7-inch screen.
Surprisingly, HTC seems to have been able to cram Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and HTC Sense 4.0 UI into a very low-end device. Other phones we’ve seen haven’t even attempted this feat, instead opting for vanilla versions of Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and other old UI. The One V somehow manages to run the new software quite fast and without too many sacrifices for what will undoubtedly be a sub $100 phone. The only major difference we noticed between this device and other HTC One phones was the multitasking menu, which looks more like the default Android 4.0 menu than HTC’s fancy side-scrolling version. It doesn’t look quite as slick, but still gets the job done just fine.
The rear camera has gotten a slight downgrade to 5-megapixel, but its performance still seems reasonable. It’s not as fast at shooting burst shots as its brothers (or doesn’t seem to be, at least), but it does have a dedicated ImageSense chip, meaning its already a step ahead of the Droid Incredible 4G LTE.
Overall, I liked the phone. This is obviously for those who don’t want to, or can’t afford to, step it up and get one of the higher-end HTC devices, but it’s one of the nicest lower-end phones we’ve seen.
No release dates or prices are known, but HTC says the One V is coming to the US in the summer. US Cellular has already picked it up, and it will likely hit many other smaller wireless operators around the country. A big-carrier release wasn’t ruled out, but doesn’t seem to be a focus for HTC, which now has the One S on T-Mobile, One X on AT&T, and Droid Incredible 4G LTE on Verizon.

Apple to debut $800 MacBook Air this year:Rumor

Rumor has it that Apple will release a $799 MacBook Air in the second half of this year. Great! But does it really need to?
If you’re thinking about picking up a new laptop, you might want to wait a little while longer. According to Taiwan-based DigiTimes — a notoriously spotty source of unverified Apple news — Apple plans to release a MacBook Air for $799, which is $200 less expensive than the cheapest new model currently available. The relatively inexpensive MacBook Air is expected to debut sometime in the second half of this year.
This report is entirely unconfirmed, of course. And we are guessing that this information came from a market analyst, rather than someone who actually knows what Apple has in the pipeline. (DigiTimes says their info comes from “sources from the upstream supply chain,” as if that means anything.) Why? Because the report has an analyst’s logic that makes it ring true — but no evidence to back it up.
That is to say, it makes complete sense, business-wise, for Apple to release a less expensive MacBook Air this year. After all, Intel is aggressively pushing out its Ultrabook brand of super-thin, portable laptops from a variety of companies. Ultrabooks were the biggest thing to hit this year’s CES, and are sure to make waves in the PC market, with some Ultrabooks expected to cost as little as $699 in the US. To achieve such a light price tag, however, PC makers (like Acer) have had to build their Ultrabooks with cheap materials, and make various other corner-cutting measures. Because of this, Apple is perfectly positioned to offer a slightly more expensive option that has far better built quality — not to mention OS X and the Apple name.
Makes sense, right? Unfortunately for those of us wishing for an $800 MacBook Air, it doesn’t necessarily make sense for Apple. The Giant of Cupertino rarely reacts to the market — it defines the market. And it has already done so with its Air line of MacBooks, which is years ahead of competitors. In other words: Apple doesn’t need to release a less expensive MacBook Air to stay competitive; it is the competition.
Now, that’s not to say that Apple won’t release an $800 MacBook Air. It would surely sell a staggering number if it did. But something tells us Apple will take the iPad/iPhone route if it does: release the new, improved model at the $999 price point, and drop the price of the current low-end model down to $799.
That’s our guess — and that’s all it is, a guess. What do you think? Will Apple cut the price of its entry-level MacBook Air to $800? And would you buy if it did?


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T-Mobile: iPhone-ready in 2012, 4G LTE in 2013

T-Mobile says that it will be able to offer full 3G speeds for unlocked iPhones by this fall, with its 4G LTE network coming in 2013
T-Mobile’s network will finally be ready to offer full-speed 3G wireless connectivity to Apple iPhone users later this year, the company announced today. The wireless carrier also said that it plans to launch its “nationwide” LTE network in 2013.
More than a million people already use unlocked iPhones on T-Mobile’s network. Unfortunately for them, iPhones are currently limited to 2G EDGE speeds. To allow for full 3G access, T-Mobile says that it will reorganize its wireless spectrum to allow unlocked AT&T 3G and some 4G-compatible handsets (including the iPhone) to work with its fast HSPA+ 42 network. Moreover, T-Mobile says that the “reframing” of its network will boost the current average download speed of 8Mbps by 33 percent, and allow for stronger signal inside buildings.
For the moment, however, T-Mobile will still not sell the iPhone simply because it has not yet struck a deal with Apple to do so. It is possible that this could change once the network overhaul is complete — though that is only speculative, but is surely what T-Mobile has in mind.
While the ability to offer iPhone owners full-speed 3G access is a step up, T-Mobile would still remain woefully behind its bigger, more advanced siblings — AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint — which offer, or (in Sprint’s case) will soon offer, 4G LTE wireless access. To fill this void, T-Mobile has tapped Ericsson and Nokia Siemens to build-out its 4G LTE network. T-Mobile says it hopes to offer LTE in 75 percent of its 25 largest markets by sometime next year.
T-Mobile had originally announced its network upgrade plans, which will cost an estimated $4 billion, in late February. At that time, T-Mobile Chief Technology Officer Neville Ray said in a conference call that the company would offer 10 LTE-enabled devices in 2013, as well as “4G” support for the iPhone. He did not clarify at the time whether he was referring to HSPA+ 42 “4G” or LTE “4G” (neither of which are true 4G, we must add) for the iPhone, though we are guessing he meant the latter, given today’s announcement.


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Free PlayStation 3 games and Call of Duty Elite for PS Plus members suggests survey

A new customer survey hints at savory new perks for PlayStation Plus subscribers, including access to Call of Duty Elite.
PlayStation Plus is an unusual service. Free downloadable games; free PlayStation 1 and 2 classics; access to PlayStation 3 retail game demos that are actually the full games with time-limited access; deep discounts on certain titles; early demo access. It’s a tempting package, but hardly an essential one. Sony is committed to changing PlayStation Plus into something that many people want to pay for rather than a niche crowd. To find out what that is, the company has gone to the source, issuing surveys that hint at what PlayStation Plus may offer in the future. The package may be a whole lot more tempting in the future.
A PlayStation Plus survey sent to customers last week and reprinted at IGN detailed significant new perks that could be coming to the service in the near future. Rather than the current PlayStation Plus which is identical for all users and costs $49.99 per year or $17.99 for three months, the survey suggests that Sony will offer tiered subscription plans of varying costs. These tiers include new monthly payment plans, or even an annual commitment plan that has you pay in monthly installments rather than a single lump sum for the whole year you’re contracted for.
What about those sweet new perks though? The first is access to free full PlayStation 3 games, which is to say digital releases of games also released on Blu-ray discs at retail. PlayStation Plus subscriptions give access to free classic titles and Playstation Network games as well as the aforementioned PlayStation 3 full game demos, but not full PS3 games.
The second new perk is free access to Call of Duty Elite, Activision Blizzard’s own premium subscription service for the popular shooter series. This would be a powerful lure for Sony, pulling in both PlayStation 3 users reticent to spend on PlayStation Plus as well as Call of Duty players interested in getting more perks for their dollar.
Microsoft has more than 25 million Xbox Live Gold subscribers, which breaks down to an estimated $1.5 billion in revenue every year. That’s a rough number, given that so many Gold subscribers pay promotional rates rather than the $60 per year standard, but rest assured, Microsoft pulls in enough cold hard cash from its premium online service that Sony would have been crazy to not offer a somewhat similar product. Since Sony couldn’t rightly start asking people to pay for online multiplayer after offering it for free for years, they had to come up with something and so the oddity that is PlayStation Plus was born. The company’s struggled to make PlayStation Plus a must have to date, but this survey suggests Sony’s taking strides to change that for good without having to charge for online play.
Both Sony and Activision Blizzard have declined to comment on the survey, saying only that they have no specific announcements at this time.


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Microsoft’s $300 million Nook investment: An Android power grab?

Microsoft has added Barnes & Noble to its list of Android patent licensees by shelling out $300 million to help the company's line of Nook products. Did Microsoft pay out so it could avoid going to court?

It has happened. After more than a year of arguing and fighting in and out of court, Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have struck up an agreement over Android. The new deal seems to help both parties. Microsoft will invest $300 million to take a 17.6 percent share in a new subsidiary of B&N that will merge its Nook business and college divisions. In return, Barnes & Noble has agreed to “license” Microsoft’s Android patents and develop a Nook app that will be bundled with Windows 8.

This news is particularly good for Microsoft, which is now collecting a royalty fee for almost every Android device that is sold, despite the fact that Android is a free operating system made by Google and Microsoft has no stake in it. We’ve compared its tactics to that of the mob in past articles, but its tactics have been effective. HTC, LG, Amazon, Samsung, Acer, Barnes & Noble, Viewsonic, Wistrom, General Dynamics, Itronics, Velocity Micro, Onkyo, Compol, and Quanta have all signed Android patent agreements with Microsoft. In Oct. 2011, Microsoft claimed that it had pressured more than 50 percent of Android manufacturers to sign deals with it. Until today, however, it had a staunch enemy in Barnes & Noble.

B&N to Microsoft: You’re a patent bully

One year ago, Barnes & Noble accused Microsoft of patent bullying after the Redmond tech giant filed a patent infringement suit against the book retailer, which uses Android in its Nook Color, Nook Tablet, and Nook Simple Touch readers. (Motorola is also fighting Microsoft in court.)

“Microsoft has asserted patents that extend only to arbitrary, outmoded, or non-essential design features,” Barnes & Noble wrote in its filing. “Microsoft is misusing these patents as part of a scheme to try to eliminate or marginalize the competition to its own Windows Phone 7 mobile device operating system posed by the open source Android operating system and other open-source operating systems.”

At the time, Microsoft had some harsh words as well. According to Microsoft’s corporate VP and deputy general counsel Horacio Gutierrez, “the Android platform infringes a number of Microsoft’s patents, and companies manufacturing and shipping Android devices must respect our intellectual property right.” The statement went on to say that the patents are specifically “essential to the user experience, including: Natural ways of interacting with devices by tabbing through various screens [to find information]; surfing the web more quickly; and interacting with documents and e-books.”

We have never found out precisely which patents Microsoft is using to attack Android manufacturers, but the company has always claimed that Linux (which Android is based on) violates a number of Microsoft patents. The software maker never attacked Linux though, likely due to its relatively small size in the market and Microsoft’s many legal problems in the 1990s in regard to perceived anti-competitive behavior and monopoly. After the failure of Windows Mobile and the ensuing dominance of Android, Microsoft seems to have decided that even if its own OS (Windows Phone) doesn’t make a dent in the market, it could still collect money from all Android makers through patent litigation.

Bringing the DoJ into the case

In Nov. 2011, Barnes & Noble kicked things up a notch, and asked the Department of Justice to step in because of Microsoft’s tactics.

“Microsoft is embarking on a campaign of asserting trivial and outmoded patents against manufacturers of Android devices,” wrote Barnes & Noble, in a letter to Gene Kimmelman, the DoJ’s chief counsel for corporate competition policy. “Microsoft is attempting to raise its rivals’ costs in order to drive out competition and to deter innovation in mobile devices.”

Microsoft, naturally, disagreed with B&N.

“All modern operating systems include many patented technologies,” said Microsoft in response to Barnes & Noble’s claims. “Microsoft has taken licenses to patents for Windows and we make our patents available on reasonable terms for other operating systems, like Android. We would be pleased to extend a license to Barnes & Noble.”

Reaching a final agreement wasn’t easy, it appears. In February, Microsoft narrowed its patent battle with B&N to streamline its patent case against the retailer, leaving three patents remaining.

Longtime Digital Trends contributor Geoff Duncan tackled the Microsoft vs B&N case in detail this past December. His article has info on pricing, how much Microsoft may be seeking in royalties, the patents in question, and just about everything else you might need to know about the battle, which has now ended.

Microsoft buys a friend, plans next attack

As best we can tell, Microsoft took a financial hit to end this lawsuit. It paid $300 million to get B&N to agree to “license” its patents, at least on paper. We don’t know if Barnes & Noble is paying Microsoft anything at all. In all honesty, we doubt it. Like a good mob boss, Microsoft has recognized a threat and lended a hand to B&N where it was hurting, financially. B&N has been struggling to compete against Amazon’s successful Kindle e-book devices for several years, and its retail stores are, like all book stores, not doing great. This $300 million cash infusion should buy it some time, and out of the deal Microsoft will get a Nook app for Windows 8, making the new OS all the more attractive to new buyers.

Was Microsoft afraid of the potential repercussions if the battle was to go to trial? Did it decide to buyout Barnes & Noble’s morality and anger so it could add another big manufacturer to its list of Android “licensees”? It certainly appears that this may be the case. Microsoft already has a broad patent deal with Amazon, and could have likely asked it to create a Windows 8 Kindle app.

Microsoft might be more interested in the appearance of a license than the money itself. Instead of having a big company challenge the validity of its patents in court (which could void them), it can now add one more major Android manufacturer to its list of licensees. Even if Barnes & Noble never pays Microsoft a dime, when the software maker attacks its next Android manufacturer, it can say that even Barnes & Noble gave in and is now legally licensed. This could all be about validating the value of Microsoft’s patents. So the real question is: Who’s next?



(Update: A Microsoft rep has told ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley that B&N will pay a royalty per device, but we don’t know how much. It could be 1 penny or $10 or $100 — we don’t know)

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