http://tech.peekbase.com Peek technology in one base Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:40:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://tech.peekbase.com/htc-legend-review http://tech.peekbase.com/htc-legend-review#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:40:06 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/htc-legend-review March 10th, 2010 After four three flavors of the HTC Hero, the Taiwanese mobile giant has finally brought back the chin with the additional lick of aluminum and a similarly quirky name — the Legend. If this alone isn’t of much interest to you yet, just bear in mind that this is HTC’s first Android ... 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