While the iPhone’s Retina display may no longer be king when it comes to pixel count, it’s one of the fastest smartphone displays on the market, easily outpacing all of its rivals.
According to a TouchMark test carried out by Agawi, the Retina display responds more than twice as fast as any of its rivals — including the Galaxy S4 and other high-end Android devices — even on the three-year-old iPhone 4.
Verizon has started pushing out an over-the-air (OTA) update for its branded edition of HTC’s flagship One. This upgrade brings a handful of new features and stability improvements, and although it doesn’t bring any major software improvements, i.e. Android 4.3, it’s still quite a significant update that we would advise all users to download.
Last week we saw a report that revealed Samsung’s Android 4.3 release plans for the Galaxy S4, the Galaxy S III, and the Galaxy Note II — and now those plans appear to have been confirmed by French carrier SFR. There’s good news if you’re an HTC One owner, too.
Beats Electronics has brought its partnership with HTC to a close by buying back the 24.84% stake that the Taiwanese smartphone maker held in the company for $265 million. The two-year partnership saw Beats Audio technology integrated into HTC handsets, but Beats itself never really got anything out of it.
The One max, HTC’s answer to the Galaxy Note 3, is expected to get its official unveiling on October 15. The device has already been pictured a number of times in a whole host of leaks, and from what we know about it so far, it’s well worth getting excited about.
