CNET went to check to see how sales were going on debut day for the Windows 7 Phone from HTC, the HD7, and well, things were not flying off the shelves. AT&T and T-Mobile were both selling the phones, but there were not lineups. Their informal survey of two stores in their Bay Area revealed [...]

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As we discussed back in February, Microsoft has been working on their Windows 7 Phone version. Well, today, they announced the first 6 phones that will be running the new operating system, and they are an interesting mix. HTC, everyone’s favorite smart phone company it seems, announced 3 phones: HTC Surround for AT&T, the HTC [...]

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I found this story over at Reuters about the company ISuppli that has looked into the tablet market, and has decided (somehow) that no matter what happens, Apple will continue to dominate the tablet marketplace. The most telling quote from the story is that they firm doubts that anyone will match the “overall performance experience” [...]

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The marketplace on smart phones continues to evolve rapidly, often growing faster than the infrastructure. Taiwan based HTC has been a leader, a company that has gone from almost no market share outside of it’s home market to a market leader in a very short period of time. It is one of the reasons that [...]

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4G technology on the phone side is running full speed ahead with companies like Sprint pushing the HTC 4G phone and pushing the promise of 4G networking. The Sony Epic 4G phone is another example of a hot new phone for this expanding market. However, there are problems, and most of it has to do [...]

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Google has made it official, the last batch of Nexus One phones are being sold, and then the entire brand is dead. Basically, the HTC made phone never really got traction in the market place, shipping only about 135,000 units. Google’s choice to go with direct sales pretty much seems to be the culprit, keeping [...]

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HTC is continuing to expand it’s markets, and is always looking for something new. The burgeoning tablet market is likely one of their next steps. They see not only a market for tablets, but they have women specifically as their target market. At the Open Mobile Summit held in London, HTC’s vice president Europe Dr [...]

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Is HTC planning an OS to rival Apple? Are the planning to buy out Palm, which most seem to think of as the lame duck of the smart portable device market right now? “We continue to assess, but that requires a few conditions to justify” having our own system, Cheng Hui-ming, chief financial officer of [...]

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In what some see as a stunning admission of being crowded out of many of the smart phone markets, and perhaps as a preemptive strike against the upcoming Google Nexus 1, Apple and NeXT have filed suit against Asian smart phone maker HTC, alleging all sorts of patent infringement and the like. Public opinion on [...]

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Fast growing cell phone manufacture HTC is hedging their bets and making sure they don’t miss either side of the phone markets. To that end, they announced that they will be a supporter of the new Microsoft Windows 7 Mobile, while continuing to build and sell many Google Android phones. I would appear to be [...]

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