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HTC has sold part of its smartphone team to Google as it seeks to turn around its business.
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Friday 30 December 2011
China market: Nokia to face strong competition in Mango segment in 2012
Nokia's plans to launch its Windows Phone 7.5 Mango smartphones in the China market in the first half of 2012 may face challenge from comparable high-end models rolled out by HTC...
Thursday 22 December 2011
Taiwan market: HTC smartphone sales to top one million units in 2011
Sales of HTC smartphones in the Taiwan market will top over one million units in 2011, accounting for 40% of the segment compared to 20% a year earlier, according to Jack Tong, president...
Wednesday 21 December 2011
Wintek to ramp up one-glass touch panel shipments in 2012
Wintek is expected to see the ratio of its shipments of OGS (one glass solution) touch-panel solutions increase to over 20% of its total touch panel shipments in 2012 compared to...
Wednesday 21 December 2011
Joint venture from Motech, GET and Taiwan Polysilicon put on hold
The joint venture between Taiwan-based solar cell maker Motech, solar wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET), and polysilicon supplier Taiwan Polysilicon Corporation has been put...
Tuesday 20 December 2011
Impact of ITC ruling on HTC less than expected
The final decision of the US International Trade Commission (ITC) in favor of Apple in a patent dispute with HTC will have limited impact on HTC as the scope of patent violation and...
Wednesday 7 December 2011
HTC reports 30% sequential revenue decline for November
HTC has posted consolidated revenues of NT$30.94 billion (US$1.02 billion) for November, down 29.86% on month and 19.6% on year, according to a company filing with the Taiwan Stock...
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Commentary: HTC faced with more pressure on product competition than patent litigation
While HTC has been facing a double whammy in patent infringement lawsuits and a dwindling of its product competitiveness, sources in the handset industry believe that the pressure...
Thursday 24 November 2011
HTC lowers 4Q11 target revenues
Smartphone vendor HTC has announced that due to the worsening global economy and increasing market competition, it has lowered its guidance for fourth-quarter consolidated revenues...
Wednesday 23 November 2011
HTC considering Chrome OS for Internet-access devices
Although Chromebooks offered by Acer and Samsung Electronics may see low cumulative sales of 25,000-30,000 units at the end of 2011, HTC is evaluating the feasibility of combining...
Tuesday 22 November 2011
HTC considers to appeal S3 Graphics patent lawsuit against Apple
Judging High Tech Computer's (HTC's) lawsuit against Apple over infringement of S3 Graphics patents, the International Trade Commission (ITC) of the US, on November 21, ruled that...
Tuesday 22 November 2011
HTC to ship 10.8 million smartphones in 1Q12, says paper
HTC is expected to see its smartphone shipments grow only 11% on year to 10.8 million units in the first quarter of 2012 as the smartphone vendor will not be able to launch new LTE-enabled...
Monday 21 November 2011
HTC to focus on quad-core tablet PCs and smartphones in 2012
HTC will focus on the production of quad-core tablet PCs and smartphones in the first half of 2012 competing with comparable devices to be released by rivals including Asustek Computer,...
Wednesday 16 November 2011
Global mobile device sales grow 5.6% in 3Q11; smartphone sales increase 42%, says Gartner
Worldwide sales of mobile devices totaled 440.5 million units in the third quarter of 2011, up 5.6% from the same period last year, according to Gartner. Non-smartphone devices performed...
Monday 14 November 2011
HTC to unveil quad-core tablet PC at MWC, says paper
HTC is likely to unveil a new Android-based tablet PC running on a quad-core CPU from Nvidia along with two new Android smartphones in February at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012,...
Friday 11 November 2011
Taiwan market: HTC to sell 2 million smartphones, says paper
HTC is expected to sell two million smartphones in the Taiwan market in 2011, compared to 800,000-900,000 units sold in 2010, the Chinese-language Commercial Times quoted...