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Android Oreo Beta Program Launched for the International Huawei P10 and P10 Plus By now, quite a few smartphone vendors have launched beta programs for the Android Oreo update for their smartphones. The growing list of vendors include  Samsung , Essential , HMD Global , OnePlus , Xiaomi , LG , and Huawei. Up until now, we have seen Huawei launch the Android 8.0 Oreo beta program for the Mate 9 , Honor 9, and Honor V9 . The company has rolled-out the stable Android Oreo update to the Mate 9 as well as the Huawei P10 and P10 Plus in China, but the international variants of these devices haven’t received the stable updates so far. Now, the international Huawei P10 and P10 Plus are being added to the list of devices which have an Android Oreo beta program. Huawei Mobile Romania has announced that the beta program for both devices (that were launched in February 2017) is now live, and the company is looking for beta testers for the Android Oreo update. The beta program targets the ...

Report: HTC Plans to Limit the Number of New Smartphones in 2018 Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you probably know that HTC’s smartphone business hasn’t been doing all that well lately. Quarter after quarter, the company’s put out earnings reports  that show it’s losing millions of dollars  as a result of poor sales and high overhead. HTC tried to alleviate the issues by selling off some of its handset division to Google, and a new report in DigitTimes  states it’s planning to limit the number of new smartphones it ships this year. The report, citing “industry sources”, claims that HTC will focus on researching, developing, and marketing a limited number of devices in 2018. The cutback’s intended to help reduce the amount of overhead, but also to free up resources for its mid-range and high-end device lineups. According to DigiTimes , the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) will ship at least two smartphones in the coming...

Report: HTC Plans to Limit the Number of New Smartphones in 2018 Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you probably know that HTC’s smartphone business hasn’t been doing all that well lately. Quarter after quarter, the company’s put out earnings reports  that show it’s losing millions of dollars  as a result of poor sales and high overhead. HTC tried to alleviate the issues by selling off some of its handset division to Google, and a new report in DigitTimes  states it’s planning to limit the number of new smartphones it ships this year. The report, citing “industry sources”, claims that HTC will focus on researching, developing, and marketing a limited number of devices in 2018. The cutback’s intended to help reduce the amount of overhead, but also to free up resources for its mid-range and high-end device lineups. According to DigiTimes , the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) will ship at least two smartphones in the coming...

HTC One X10 (Dual SIM) gets Official TWRP Support HTC released the One X10 in July of this year, and since then many enthusiasts have been hoping to receive an official build of TWRP for the device. There had been an unofficial port available for months, but it wasn’t until last week that an official build was released. The unofficial port was version 3.1.1 of TWRP, but this official release brings it up to version 3.2 .1 and simply needs to be flashed via the fastboot flash recovery command. If you already have this unofficial version of TWRP installed, then you can simply update it from within this older version. You’ll find the download page for this TWRP build here while the source code has been made public here . Check out this release of TWRP in our HTC One X10 forum tags : android auto, android wear, android device manager, android 1, android phone, android messages, android studio, android tablet, android emulator, android tv, android p, android 17, android tv bo...

HTC One X10 (Dual SIM) gets Official TWRP Support HTC released the One X10 in July of this year, and since then many enthusiasts have been hoping to receive an official build of TWRP for the device. There had been an unofficial port available for months, but it wasn’t until last week that an official build was released. The unofficial port was version 3.1.1 of TWRP, but this official release brings it up to version 3.2 .1 and simply needs to be flashed via the fastboot flash recovery command. If you already have this unofficial version of TWRP installed, then you can simply update it from within this older version. You’ll find the download page for this TWRP build here while the source code has been made public here . Check out this release of TWRP in our HTC One X10 forum tags : android auto, android wear, android device manager, android 1, android phone, android messages, android studio, android tablet, android emulator, android tv, android p, android 17, android tv bo...