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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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Monday 9 July 2012
Nokia, RIM and HTC to see smartphone shipments continue sliding in 2H12, say sources
Nokia, RIM and HTC are expected to see their smartphone shipments, as well as market share, continue declining in the third and fourth quarters of 2012 due to a lag in migration to...
Friday 6 July 2012
HTC posts flat revenues for June
HTC has posted consolidated revenues of NT$30 billion (US$1 billion) for June, which were on par with May, according to a company filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE). The...
Thursday 5 July 2012
Competition of quad-core smartphones to heat up in 4Q12, say sources
Competition for quad-core smartphones will heat up in the fourth quarter of 2012, triggering by the roll-out of much speculated new iPhone and models built based on Qualcomm's quad-core...
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Samsung to begin shipping memory products to HTC directly from October
Samsung Electronics will begin to ship its memory products to HTC directly from October 2012, while taking back the distribution rights from its sales agent CoAsia Microelectronics,...
Wednesday 4 July 2012
China market: HTC, Sony Mobile launch dual-SIM smartphones
HTC and Sony Mobile Communications have both enhanced their strengths in the dual-SIM smartphone segment in China with the launch of the HTC Desire VC and Xperia Tipo Dual, respectively,...
Tuesday 26 June 2012
HTC denies laying off R&D personnel, says paper
HTC has denied market speculation indicating that it plans to lay off as much as of 16% of its R&D personnel aiming to optimize its corporate structure for cost savings, according...
Thursday 21 June 2012
Branded handset vendors cutting orders to component suppliers, say sources
A number of branded handset vendors, including Nokia, Motorola Mobility, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Sony Mobile Communications, RIM, HTC, Huawei Device and ZTE, have reduced...
Wednesday 20 June 2012
Spreadtrum supplies TD-SCDMA IC for Samsung Galaxy S3
Spreadtrum Communications has announced that its TD-SCDMA baseband modem, the SC8803G, and RF transceiver, the SR3200, are shipping in Samsung's latest TD-SCDMA smartphone offering...
Tuesday 19 June 2012
Handset and component makers facing mounting pressure on shortened product life cycle
Handset ODMs and makers of handset parts and components have experienced increasing pressure recently due to a shortening product life cycle of smartphones resulting from keen market...
Tuesday 19 June 2012
Microsoft, Intel expect Windows 8 to help energize the netbook market
As Microsoft is aggressively preparing its Windows 8 and Windows RT for launch in October to compete against Apple, sources from notebook players pointed out that Microsoft and Intel...
Wednesday 13 June 2012
HTC chairperson confident of improving operations
HTC will strengthen its deployment in retail channels globally so as to tide over its operating constrains it encountered recently, including increasing market competition, the temporarily...
Thursday 7 June 2012
HTC May revenues lower than expected; reduces 2Q12 sales guidance
HTC has reported lower than expected revenues of NT$30 billion (US$1 billion) for May, which represented a decline of 3.2% on month and 26.1% on year. HTC also lowered its sales guidance...
Wednesday 6 June 2012
HTC adjusts strategy for North Asia, shifting focus to Japan
HTC plans to adjust its marketing strategy for North Asia and will shift its resources to focus on the fast growing smartphone market in Japan, while maintaining a basic operating...
Friday 1 June 2012
HTC to continue focusing on One series smartphones in 2H12
HTC has received good market response to its HTC One series smartphones since their launch in early May, and will continue to focus marketing on the series in the global market in...
Thursday 31 May 2012
Asustek, HTC back off from new Chromebook
Although Google recently unveiled its second-generation Chromebook device, jointly developed with Samsung Electronics, Asustek Computer and High Tech Computer (HTC), seeing Acer and...