Financial results from HTC show revenue of NT$60.0 billion (£1.29 billion) and net income of NT$1.0 billion (£21.5 million) for the final quarter of 2012, as anticipated in the company’s preliminary announcement last month.
That’s a drop in profit of more than 90% year-on-year.
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Causing HTC a serious headache
James Rosewell writes:
During December 2012 in the United States the HTC Evo 4G contributed 20% of web traffic from HTC devices. What is remarkable about this figure is that the HTC Evo 4G was first released in June 2010 and is almost three years old.
The HTC One series of devices were released during 2012 and contributed less than 10% of HTC’s web traffic in the same month.
Are HTC devices released pre-2012 too good at browsing the web?
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Actor Brian Blessed is offering to record voicemail messages for the first hundred O2 UK customers who buy an HTC Windows Phone 8 handset this week.
The promotional campaign, which involves each purchaser tweeting @O2 using the hashtag #brianmail, will reward winners with a voicemail greeting recorded by the richly-voiced British actor
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Harder, better, faster, stronger...
Mark Bridge writes:
Oh, how the mobile industry loves a superlative. Much like the work ethic celebrated by Daft Punk (or Kanye West, if you prefer), it’s always looking for a new angle.
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Podcast - 9th January 2013
We have a particularly packed programme this week as we catch up with all the biggest mobile industry news stories since Christmas.
There's opinion on everything from the UK 4G auction to the current CES show and from open-source smartphones to wireless phone charging in cars.
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