Unlocked HTC One, including Developer Edition, available for order from HTC

The HTC One unlocked models – the 32 GB model and 64 GB Developer Edition – are now available to buy from HTC’s online store, giving us hope that HTC has solved the availability issues it was facing.

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Puzzles with Matches 1.5.4

Fixed performance issue on start
Overview:
Real classic in the world of puzzles.
Good old matchstick puzzles. Already hundreds of years occupied the minds. The rules are simple: you have a figure from a few matches on the screen, but it’s not perfect. Move, remove, or add some matches and … Voila! The picture is complete. (But don’t leave unused matches)

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Facebook Home hits 500,000 downloads on the Play Store

A week after launch, Facebook Home has hit 500,000 downloads on the Google Play Store. The app has hardly hit any new heights, with the Facebook app garnering over 100 million downloads. Facebook’s other application on Android, Instagram, also has over 100 million installations and gained a million downloads in 24 hours, when it was brought to Android last year.

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Stealth Black HTC One spotted on AT&T and Sprint, not available for sale yet

The Stealth Black HTC One has been already spotted online on AT&T’s and Sprint’s websites, but neither carrier is selling the model at this time.
AT&T’s page says that “the device you’ve selected is not available in your area,” while the Sprint product page says the handset is out of stock, but that it’s “coming soon.”

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Eric Schmidt’s secret interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

What happens when two of the biggest names in world of privacy come together to break bread and discuss just what exactly makes the world go round? You’d like to be a fly on the wall in that room, wouldn’t you? Luckily the beans have been spilled on the extraordinary meeting between Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange and Executive Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt.

Schmidt met with Assange in 2011, while Assange was under house arrest no less, to discuss a number of issues for his book ‘The New Digital Age,’ which is being released on Tuesday.  Co-writer Jared Cohen was also in attendance in the five hour long interview  which was copious in detail of exactly how Wikileaks has grown into the largest whistleblower organizations in the world.

Schmidt was clearly very interested in exactly how Wikileaks operates and more specifically how it manages to keep data transfers and whistleblowers’ information and identities secure. Assange also referenced his keen interest in creating a distributed publishing network just as Bitcoin is a distributed currency.

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Telekinesis, ‘The Next Big Thing’ in mobile for Samsung?

Nobody in mobile technology seems to want you to touch your mobile device anymore. Apple would rather you speak to your phone, Samsung wants you to use your eyes, as well as hovering your fingers above the screen and, as for Google, it doesn’t even want the mobile phone to be in your hands because that’s “too emasculating” (says the guy with a screen in front of his eyeball).

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Galaxy Mega 6.3 with AT&T HSPA+ bands spotted at the FCC

The recently unveiled Galaxy Mega 6.3 has been already spotted at the FCC, featuring AT&T HSPA+ bands (850MHz and 1900MHz).
However, model GT-I9200 is only the HSPA+ version of the handset, which means it won’t have any LTE powers like its GT-I9205 brother.
While being a handset announced only a few weeks ago, the Galaxy Mega 6.3 is not a new flagship Samsung smartphone, but more of a mid-ranger. With a 6.3-inch display, the handset can be a great device for those people looking to replace their tablet and smartphone with a single device capable of offering a bigger display but also regular phone features.

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Mid-range HTC M4 with alloy chassis and Ultrapixel camera rumored for June release

While HTC has outed its latest flagship HTC One, this leaves the mid-range market open to competitors, such as the rumored Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini. But HTC still has an ace up its sleeve, with a mid-ranger reportedly going out this June.
DigiTimes reports that upstream suppliers say HTC will be producing the midrange HTC M4 handset, which will be using metal alloy chassis from Catcher Technology. This will be to the tune of 700,000 units, targeted for an initial release by June 2013 and a wider release by third quarter of the year.
According to reports, HTC has elected to source its chassis supply solely from Catcher, in order to prevent supply shortages that have previously plagued the Taiwanese company’s production. The specs of the HTC M4 will reportedly include the following: 1.2 GHz Snapdragon 400 processor, 4.3-inch 720p display, 1 GB RAM and Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 running Sense 5.

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Delayed Telus Galaxy S4 shipping gets selected buyers $50 credit, as device is ‘so popular’

Telus Galaxy S4 pre-orders seem to be going well, as the carrier is ready to offer some early buyers a $50 bill credit if they agree to wait “up to two weeks to receive” their purchased handset.
The Galaxy S4 is described as “so popular” by the carrier, which is trying to manage its “restricted supply” on launch date by offering selected customers this particular deal.
The Galaxy S4 is available with Telus for $199 with new three-year contracts, or $700 outright, and it’s now available for pre-order. The pre-orders should be delivered on April 27, while in-store purchases will be available starting with May 3. However, should customers accept Telus’ limited offer, they’ll get their pre-ordered units by May 10. Here’s the full e-mail notification some Telus Galaxy S4 buyers received:

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Apkudo wants to address fragmentation by becoming the gold standard of smartphone hardware and software testing

Ever wonder why not all carriers release their mobile devices at the same time? Or how about Android updates? While Google is now at version 4.2.2, some smartphones are still getting updates older than this one. It all boils down to carrier testing and certification. Carriers that have the resources would require testing whether devices meet their specifications — in terms of performance and compliance with their specific needs. This is also the reason why manufacturers have to release separate updates for each carrier.

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