Tag Archives: DrDre

Beats Pill Bluetooth speaker spotted at FCC and HMV: take one and call Dr. Dre in the morning

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The Beats by Dr. Dre badge has usually been attached to headphones and the occasional laptop or smartphone. We’ve never really seen it attached to dedicated speakers, however, and that’s where both an FCC filing and a sighting at UK retailer HMV’s on…


Beats increases its share ownership to 75%, lets HTC keep majority stake, ‘commercial exclusivity in mobile’

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Although HTC and Beats are just shy of the one-year anniversary of their 300 million dollar partnership, it looks like the two are again growing apart. In a letter to shareholders today, it’s been announced that the original owners of Beats plan to b…


HTC moves aside CFO who oversaw $300 million Beats Audio deal

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HTC’s CFO Winston Yung has been shunted into a ‘corporate development’ role after barely a year on the job. He orchestrated some pretty controversial deals during his tenure, including the $300 million purchase of the Beats Audio brand from Dr. Dre -…


HTC updates Beats Audio, makes it work with any third-party app

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Let’s just say we were underwhelmed by the first iteration of HTC Beats on the Sensation XE. But now it looks like the technology has been revamped for the latest One handsets, so — once we’ve tasted the pudding — we might just have to revise that o…


Monster and Beats Electronics discontinue partnership, audiophiles rejoice

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Color us surprised, but word on the street is that Monster and Beats By Dr. Dre are soon going to be a thing of the past. After years of pumping out fashion-forward, bass and treble pumping headphones that (debatably) changed the landscape of pers…


HP refreshes the Pavilion dm4 with a subwoofer, unveils requisite Beats Edition

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It’s shaping up to be a wild day for HP: in addition to revamping its Envy laptops and announcing its first Ultrabook, the outfit went and refreshed the mid-range Pavilion dm4. While it has the same metal-heavy design that bowled us over in our re…


HTC Rezound review

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The Motorola RAZR and Samsung Galaxy Nexus seem to be the two Verizon LTE juggernauts enjoying the lion’s share of the spotlight, with the HTC Rezound’s sandwiched smack dab between the two of them. But that doesn’t mean the device has any less to…


HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio review

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We had some hands-on time with HTC’s new European Android flagship a short while back, but it wasn’t nearly enough to answer all our questions about how the 4.3-inch, 1.5GHz dual-core XE compares to the original 1.2GHz Sensation, or whether the impl…