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Kellen

It’s not often that you get to merge personal passions into a professional life, but that’s what Kellen did when he launched Droid Life in 2009. After working years of unsatisfying jobs in the medical and property management fields, he took a risk to try and create an online community while playing with the coolest gadgets on the planet each day, a risk that has turned out to be incredibly rewarding. Outside of Droid Life, Kellen is your typical Portlander who drinks way too much good beer, complains often about the Trail Blazers, and can be found out on the streets for a run, rain or shine.

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  • This shouldn’t be a shock. Apple and HTC have an agreement to swap info. Look it up. Like Apple can’t sue HTC because of this agreement. HTC is a joke and it’s sad because I use to love them. If they leave the Android market I don’t think a person would be shocked and most wouldn’t even care. The only person they can blame is HTC themselves.

  • Great job HTC at leveraging some of Apples tech to use with their products. Seeing that each can use each others licenses this should just be the beginning of what HTC can offer.

  • Cool news if you happen to have a house filled with Apple devices or disappointing if you don’t have said devices but still have to pay for this license fee (built-in to the cost of the phone — which is already $50 – $100 too much). Sigh…

    • If you have any old android devices laying around, you can turn them into airplay receivers. PC’s too.

  • I hate to jump on the “iPhone clone” bandwagon, but there’s no denying the similarities. Is anyone worried about this given that HTC is supposedly making the next Nexus phones? (Unless I’m misremembering)

  • This is actually very interesting. I’ve obviosuly got Google Cast devices but we have Apple TVs in our offices and conference rooms for meetings so this is very neat. Almost a worthy reason (along with other great specs) to buy one of these.

  • I don’t care if it supports airplay or not, I care if it supports all carriers. Does anybody know if the HTC will sell an unlocked version of the 10 like they did with the A9? Except preferably a version this time that supports both CDMA and GSM carriers?

    • No, actually Apple asked HTC to let them use their design of the Antennas and they have an agreement on using each others hardware designs, that’s probably why Apple let HTC use the licence for the Apple Play.

      • It’s really irrelevant. If you’re going to use Apple suite of featured apps and services you need to use an Apple device. I wouldn’t use either. Apple is more concerned with selling you “the image” than a serviceable product. I mean what the hell you still have to use and connect your phone via a cable to a pc using their provided music/media distribution software to do ANYTHING meaningful as far as really managing the device. Hello, 1998 calling they want their technology back. As far as HTC, they lost all credibility with users, or at least myself, in having such massively intrusive crap filled versions of Android on their devices and being ultra slow or nonexistent on updates.

  • I read in an interview that HTC is all about supporting competitors services like this because they feel it just makes sense overall. They’re even up for supporting multiple payment systems like Samsung Pay. Really, this is a smart move on their part…

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    • I doubt Samsung would license it to other companies, it’s a big draw for people to Samsung

      • I actually have a love, hate relationship with Samsung Pay. I love using it, but i hate that it has basically made every non Samsung device a non starter for me. After 4 years of avoiding HTC the 10 has a lot of features that i like (not as many as my Note 5), I’d ike to try a different OEM but i can’t give up Samsung Pay.

  • Wouldn’t be surprised to see Samsung do this.

    It’s a nice to have. Do we know if it Support APTX HD for Bluetooth?

    • They support already quite a lot with the QuickConnect feature, although it doesn’t include AirPlay yet. It’s in general smart to support as much as possible because people not only stream at home … they might also want to stream content at a friends home who use different hardware. The easier it gets implemented and the more protocols it supports the better it is … it’s something I’ve always missed on Nexus devices. OEMs like HTC, Samsung and other do a much better job on this.

  • My sister has an Apple TV and I was able to cast YouTube videos to it with my Nexus 5. Is this different?

    • Youtube has it’s own cast type method. I’ve done it on LG and Vizio TVs with iPhones and Android.

    • Yes, I guess it works if you have an Apple TV and don’t want an iPhone but want an Android device to do the same as the iPhone would do

    • Yes, AirPlay is a different protocol. It allows audio/video streaming to devices that support it. AirPlay actually works really well, we use it weekly to present video content over a projector.

  • this would be my phone over the s7, if it only had a 5.5 inch screen. Still waiting on a good bigger screen phone.

  • Honestly the more i read about this phone the better it sounds. I don’t see why so many people are saying its bad.

  • If you’ve ever crossed over platforms, this is a pretty nice feature to have. And the apps on the Play Store do not work well. It’ll be interesting to see if it works well on the 10, but I love that they added this.

      • Indeed – it should, in theory, work a lot better than the Play Store options – on par with Apple devices…. in theory.

        • I use air audio. It’s perfect. It needs a rooted phone to be worth using, but it’s amazing.

          • Yeah that’s the story with a lot of them unfortunately (or fortunately I guess). It’s half-baked, at best, if you aren’t rooted.

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