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by Alex Dobie
May 23, 2013
'Huge honor' for the Google Now team, says Matias Duarte
Google Now -- Google's card-based predictive search tool -- has been awarded the grand prize for "best everyday utility&...
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by Alex Dobie
Apr 29, 2013
Samsung designers tell how they brought the Galaxy S4 to life
In the latest installment of its "design story" series, Samsung cracks open the Galaxy S4 design process for all to see...
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by Alex Dobie
Apr 11, 2013
Virtual tours of design events Milan, New York and Hong Kong
HTC has released a new virtual tour app for Android in partnership with design magazine Wallpaper*. The app launches today with...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 28, 2013
Small nubs now lift the back of the phone up off a table; camera lens gets a slight redesign
Android Central has confirmed that the Nexus 4 has undergone a little bit of a design tweak. As first...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 19, 2013
HTC posted a great blog entry about their thinking behind the construction and design of their shiny new HTC One. Designer Thomas Chien gushed openly about how good the One feels in the hand, but al...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 07, 2013
Stitcher Radio, one of the most popular news, radio and podcast apps on Android recently underwent a complete redesign. Lead Android developer at Stitcher, Tyler Pearson, was kind enough to take som...
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by Simon Sage
Oct 02, 2012
Now that the One X+ is good and official, HTC has posted a short walk-through of some of their thinking behind the design of their latest smartphone. There's not much said that isn't told th...
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by Alex Dobie
Sep 19, 2012
Interface design guru and shirt connoisseur Matias Duarte has been responsible for many of the design decisions we've seen in Android since Gingerbread. Recently the Android design boss was recogn...
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by Alex Dobie
Aug 30, 2012
We take a look at the design language of Sony's new Arc family
At its IFA press conference, Sony Mobile launched four new Xperia smartphones -- Xperia T, Xperia TX, Xperia J and Xperia V. Th...
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by Simon Sage
May 25, 2012
Canadian design firm Teknision recently announced Chameleon, which promises to be an interesting twist on Android tablet home screens. Besides having streamlined, resizeable widgets that span a...
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by Android Central
Apr 12, 2012
One of the hottest threads in our EVO 4G LTE forum is Starfleet Captain's open letter to HTC regarding design choices on the E4GLTE. As you'll recall, it went a little something like this:
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by Anndrew Vacca
Mar 23, 2012
In a recent interview with news outlet Reuters, Samsung Mobile's vice president of design, Lee Minhyouk, shed some light on the Korean manufacturer's recent rise to the top of the smartphone...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 21, 2012
Following the recent announcents of the Optimus Vu and Optimus LTE Tag, LG has taken the wraps off three more Android smartphones ahead of next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Opt...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 16, 2012
Samsung has launched yet another 7-inch tablet, and this time it's a redesigned version of the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus for the German market. Similar to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 N, the Tab 7.0 Plus N is ...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 14, 2012
Sony Ericsson's ruggedized Xperia Active smartphone has walked away with a top honor at this year's iF (International Forum) design awards in Munich, and there were also nods for some other ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 07, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewingHere's a nice little promo video from HTC showing a brief glimpse into the way it goes about design. "It just makes sense," ya know?Source: Facebook...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 18, 2011
ZOMG, Gameloft says the HTC EVO Design 4G is official! Well, it's at least gone as far as to put it in a drop-down menu of phones that it can support, which either means it's really rea...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 09, 2011
Earlier we told you about Donn Koh and his former employer, the San Francisco-based One & Co, and how HTC purchased the firm after they fell in love with the design of the HTC Diamond. Koh,...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 09, 2011
If you had to pick one of the most influential smartphones of the past year or so, there's little doubt the HTC EVO 4G would be high up on the list, if not atop it. It was the first 4.3-inch...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 05, 2011
AutoCAD WS has just celebrated its 2-million-registered-users milestone, with a cool million of those being for the Android platform. Launching for iOS back in September 2010, the huge influx of...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 13, 2010
If you really want to get into the nuts and bolts of the Android Market's redesign -- coming soon to a smartphone near you -- check out Kirill Grouchnikov's "Pushing Pixels" blog. In today'...
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by Casey Chan
May 10, 2010
Keeping with its trend of weird and awkward form factors, Motorola is pumping out the Motorola Flipout. The Flipout is a completely square Android device that twists open to reveal a surprisingly dece...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 05, 2010
There's no denying that the Nexus One is a sexy piece of hardware (check out our review) that both Google and manufacturer HTC are proud of. (You should see them talk about it in person. It's evident...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 03, 2010
The oh so lucky guys at the Nexus One Blog got their hands on the Nexus One and one-upped the other hands-on that came out today with a full review. They go through the Nexus One in full detail ...
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by Casey Chan
Oct 13, 2009
The HTC Tattoo, HTC's other Android device that runs HTC Sense, is now available across the pond. Vodafone UK customers are now able to purchase this highly customizable, highly affordable Android dev...
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by Casey Chan
Sep 01, 2009
Now this was unexpected. Word on the street (aka 8080.net) is that the phone pictured above is actually Sprint's version of the HTC Hero. It's not that sharp edged, big chin version of the Hero ...
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by Casey Chan
Jul 07, 2009
Before you get excited, the Google G0 isn't a real Android phone. It's not coming out anytime soon and heck, it'll probably never be built. But boy is it one sexy device.Taiwanese designer Tryi ...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 06, 2009
Engadget dug up some more pictures of the Black HTC Magic and it's getting a whole lot sexier under the bright lights. We're still big fans of the white version but the black version definitely hold...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 05, 2009
If you've been wondering what the HTC Magic looks like in black, take a look at the picture up top. It definitely looks much glossier than the matte finish on the G1 and certainly a lot more luxuri...
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by Casey Chan
Oct 27, 2008
Android, to put it nicely, seems to lack a certain amount of UI consistency in its current form. We were a bit confused on the different white text on black or black text on white decisions but we'...
