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$35 million investment in Magnet Systems brings HTC closer to mobile enterprise customers
HTC’s investment in OnLive didn’t really pan out, but that’s not keeping the company from investing in other ventures. On the sale day that HTC announced it would be writing off its $40 million OnLive investment; the company released a short statement regarding a $35 million investment in U.S.-based Magnet Systems. The investment in Magnet…
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HTC forced to take $40 million write-off as OnLive service falters
HTC has had a hard enough time keeping its finances in check on its own, so it never helps when your $40 million investment in another company has to be written off as a loss only a year and a half later. If you follow technology news, you may have heard that OnLive was sold…
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HTC Desire HD Android 4.0.4 port now available thanks to development community
The official Android 4.0 update for the HTC Desire HD may have been cancelled, but that doesn’t mean that your handset has to live out its remaining days on Android 2.3. The development community has come through, creating a port of the latest Android 4.0 update with HTC Sense 3.6 from the HTC Incredible S…
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HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE source code now available
The Droid Incredible 4G LTE community can do a little celebrating after today. It looks like HTC has released the source code (kernel: 3.08, Android version: 4.0) for this device on the HTCDev download page. Those savvy programmers on XDA-Developers will surely grab the 97.1 MB file and begin to make changes that may persuade you to root and override…
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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…