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Gartner lists HTC in 8th place in global cellphone sale race
According to the latest numbers from Gartner, HTC is now ranked as the 8th largest global phone manufacturer having sold 9.3 million mobile phones for a 2.2 percent market share. The good news is that HTC showed an increase in sales during Q2, up from 7.7 million units (1.8 percent market share). Unfortunately, the launch…
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HTC’s Peter Chou: “We are coming back”
HTC has been struggling to keep up with Samsung and Apple, but its CEO, Peter Chou, is fired up and looking to motivate his employees to cut through any internal bureaucracy to make sure that the company can regain its position in the smartphone sector. A company-wide email titled “We are coming back” from Peter Chou was leaked…
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Will your HTC handset be updated to Android 4.1? Here’s what we think
Update 11.13.12: HTC has announced that phone running on 512 megs of RAM or less will not be updated to Android 4.1. HTC specifically named the HTC Desire C and HTC one V, but other handsets from 2011 will most likely be effected as well. Last fall we wrote a detailed article, highlighting which HTC…
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Security Updates for the HTC G2 and HTC myTouch 3G Slide
We have some good news and bad news for owners of the HTC G2 or HTC myTouch 3G Slide. HTC is offering a new update for these models, and the contents may or not mean much to you. So let’s get the bad news out of the way so we can focus on the good news longer. The bad: At…
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HTC Rezound for Verizon goes global OTA update on its way
It appears that Verizon has an update for HTC Rezound users to download that will enable global roaming for the Android-based smartphone. Our source listed below caught wind that XDA-Developers member, MicroMod had extracted the 104 MB download from a leaked ROM and began a thread to see if other users had installed the patch and how it was working out. As time went…
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HTC sees 130% increase in sales in China in Q2 – plans to be China’s #2 smartphone maker by 2015
When news broke that HTC was pulling out of Brazil and South Korea, many thought that the company was on the retreat. But things are completely different in China. With new handsets like the HTC X720d and HTC Wind designed specifically for China, HTC has managed to grow its market share from 2.6% in Q1 to 6% in…
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HTC One V to be replaced by HTC Proto featuring a dual-core S4 chip and a 4-inch display?
The mid-range HTC One V may be getting a spec bump this fall. According to the latest rumors, a device known as the HTC Proto is making the rounds with a 4-inch WVGA display, 1GHz dual-core Qualcomm S4 processor, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage and a 5MP camera. The only differences between the…