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Deal Alert: HTC’s Vive gets discounted to $500

5 months

The $800 HTC Vive has now taken a $300 price cut off its original price, available for $500 ($499 to be precise) at Amazon.com and Vive, among others. Here’s what you get for $500 as per Amazon: FREE CONTENT WITH PURCHASE &...

HTC’s flagship Head Mounted Display Vive Pro now available for pre-order

by Pradeep

5 months

HTC today announced that their flagship Head Mounted Display (HMD) Vive Pro is now available for pre-order globally at a price of $799. HTC also announced a $100 price reduction for the current Vive full kit, bringing the price do...

HTC re-absorbs VR division, lays off 100 employees

by Surur

6 months

There was a time when HTC’s Vive VR division appeared to be the most viable part of the company, and there was serious talk about the company selling or spinning off the division. While HTC’s phone division has not bee...

Google completes its billion dollar purchase of HTC’s mobile division

by Michael Allison

7 months

Google earlier announced that it would be purchasing the embattled smartphone manufacturer, HTC, and has now closed the deal. “I’m delighted that we’ve officially closed our deal with HTC, and are welcoming an incredibl...

Google’s latest flagship Pixel smartphones hit by another issue

by Mehedi Hassan

10 months

Google introduced their much-awaited successors to its original Pixel smartphones earlier this month. The search engine giant launched the Pixel 2 XL with a “bezel-less” display made by LG, while the smaller Pixel 2, b...

HTC now giving away Fallout 4 VR for free with new Vive purchases

by Sean Chan

11 months

HTC cut the price of its Vive virtual reality headset by $200 in August, bringing the price of the headset down to only $599. The company is now offering further discounts to attract more sales of the headset. Today, the company a...

Google’s Nokia move with HTC made official, but at a knock-down price

by Surur

11 months

As has been rumoured, Google has made official their purchase of HTC’s handset division. The deal would transfer phone development staff from HTC to Google and give Google a non-exclusive licence to HTC’s intellectual ...

Google reportedly getting ready to buy HTC

by Surur

11 months

HTC is not having the best of times at present. The smartphone pioneer, who launched one of the world’s first full touch screen smartphones with the O2 XDA PocketPC Phone 15 years ago in 2002, has seen its monthly revenue hi...

HTC Vive gets a price cut to become accessible to the mass market

by Sean Chan

12 months

HTC is lowering the price of its Vive virtual reality headset. The hardware maker is cutting the price of the headset by a whopping $200 in order to make it more accessible to the mass market. HTC Vive now costs $599 with the pric...

HTC is showing literal ads on its flagship Android smartphones

by Sean Chan

1 year

HTC has recently started showing ads on top of the default keyboard on some of its Android flagship smartphones. Users are seeing ads for third-party services, possibly pulled from Google’s AdSense service, on top of the ke...

HTC considering bringing its Viveport VR Subscription Service to other VR platforms

by Greg Jordan

1 year

Viveport President Rikard Steiber told Variety that HTC is considering bringing its Viveport subscription service for virtual reality content to other VR platforms sometime in the near future. “We are looking to how we can bring...

HTC invests in AR company with superior micro-display technology

by Surur

2 years

Veteran Augmented Reality company Lumus has announced $30 million in new funding by HTC and Quanta to help it push its display technology further into the market. Lumus, which has been around since 2000, specializes in near-eye mi...