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Let’s be honest, it has been a while since HTC have had a killer phone.

Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play edition phones have started getting an OTA (over-the-air) upgrade to Android 4.3 today evening. ‘ I just got the 4.3 OTA notification on both of my Google-suppled GPe phones. The update is around 150 MB for the SGS4 and 180 MB for the HTC One, and comes as build JWR66V. This comes immediately after both HTC and Samsung released their Android 4.3 kernel [...]

Taiwanese phone maker HTC has announced a revenue and profit warnings for Q3 2013 which says that HTC may make its first ever loss in 16 years – first time since it’s inception. The  company’s profits have been heading south for few quarters now mainly due to fierce competition from dominant smartphone makers Apple and Samsung coupled by saturation of Smartphone demand. Delay in launch [...]

HTC officially unveiled it’s much rumoured Butterfly S smartphone on Wednesday at the expected launch event in Taiwan. HTC Butterfly carries the now almost standard 5-inch 1080p display, which is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad-core processor, the same one which is found in HTC One. It has 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, expandable via microSD. Operating System is the latest [...]

HTC’s First smartphone which was the first flagship Android phone for Facebook Home, now is priced at less than one US  Dollar. US carrier AT&T has discounted the price of the HTC First from $99.99 to $0.99, with a two-year agreement. Facebook has tied up with HTC to launch a midrange smartphone preloaded with Home, the heavily modified Android experience. User reviews for Facebook Home [...]

Surprise, Huawei had the third largest market share in the global smartphone industry in the fourth quarter. While the Chinese manufacturer trailed Samsung and Apple, it did unveil the Huawei Ascend P1 S, which has a 6.68mm thin design to be the thinnest smartphone made. Huawei held a 4.9 percent marketshare based on unit shipments. This is much less than the 29 percent chunk held by Samsung and Apple’s [...]

U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh who ruled in Apple-Samsung case said that while details of pricing and royalty rates for patents from Apple-HTC settlement should be kept under wraps from public view, the same does not hold true for the rest of the agreement. “This Court has repeatedly explained that only the pricing and royalty terms of license agreements may be sealed,” Koh wrote in [...]

Apple went up a position to land at the second spot displacing LG in the U.S. Mobile phones market for the three-month average period ending in October largely due to the record setting launch of its iPhone 5 handset, Samsung ranks as the top handset manufacturer overall with 26.3 percent market share according to data from the comScore MobiLens service. Apple ranked second for the first time on record [...]

A U.S. Court has directed Apple to share full details of the 10-year settlement it struck with HTC recently. Apple had previously provided Samsung with a heavily redacted version of the deal’s terms that removes 33 words from the Apple and HTC settlement on November 10, agreeing a 10-year licensing deal — the terms of which have not been publicly disclosed. The cropped version of the Apple-HTC [...]

Apple may be going with guns blazing at Samsung in the patent war, but, it’s open for a truce when it comes to other competitors, after  reaching a global settlement with HTC  in multiple patent related cases Apple and Motorola  are currently in talks to resolve their several patent disputes.  Bloomberg reported  that both the companies have  exchanged “proposals on using binding arbitration [...]