Kim Jong Un's Smartphone of Choice
Based on this new picture, people, including a South Korean intelligence agency, have concluded that North Korea's supreme leader uses an HTC smartphone.
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Based on this new picture, people, including a South Korean intelligence agency, have concluded that North Korea's supreme leader uses an HTC smartphone.
As Android widens its lead in the smartphone and tablet marketplace, Apple is starting to look a little frightened.
In the increasingly fierce smartphone patent wars, HTC is an underdog, and now that Apple's successfully won a ban on several HTC phones beginning on April 12, 2012, some wonder if the South Korean company can survive another fight.
An Android developer recently discovered a clandestine application called Carrier IQ built into most smartphones that doesn't just track your location; it secretly records your keystrokes, and there's nothing you can do about it.
HTC and Samsung are both making moves to operate outside the Google ecosystem
But they're being sneaky about it by transferring rights to their partners
Apple's competitors seem like they're tired of getting picked on
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