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HTC to Deliver Brew MP-Based Phone in Early 2010

Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation, the largest vendor of smartphones running Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system and also the first manufacturer to have launched on the market a device powered by Google's Android platform, is reportedly gearing up for the release of a Brew MP-bas...

17 November 2009
10:00 GMT

Netbooks Still in HTC's Plans, Company CEO Confirms

The popularity of netbook systems continues to grow as new technologies will enable vendors to further diversify their designs and provide customers with a few more options when choosing a new, low-power, ultraportable, Internet-capable device. We have already seen a number of companies joining the race for a better ...

6 November 2009
06:29 GMT

HD2 Won't See Android, HTC Says

Taiwanese handset maker HTC Corporation is reportedly seeking to strengthen its position on the Windows Mobile phone market, remaining faithful to its long-term partner Microsoft. Thus, the company does not intend to come to the market with an Android version of its newly unveiled high-end HTC HD2, which is powered b...

30 October 2009
10:09 GMT

HTC Debuts 'YOU' Global Advertising Campaign

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation has announced today the launch of a global advertising campaign that has been built around the company's new Quietly Brilliant brand positioning. The newly debuted 'YOU' campaign is the first global ad campaign from the company and will be rolled out in arou...

26 October 2009
07:55 GMT

HTC Already Delivers WM 6.5 Updates for Touch Pro2 and Snap

Redmond-based software giant Microsoft launched the latest flavor of its mobile operating system, namely Windows Mobile 6.5, at the beginning of last week, and handset makers all around the world already announced plans to update some of their existing WM-powered devices to it. Among them, HTC, the largest Windows Mo...

14 October 2009
06:15 GMT

HTC Debuts TattooMyHTC Site

Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation announced a while ago the launch of a new Android-powered handset, the HTC Tattoo, which was said to come to the market with a wide range of customization options, including personalized covers. The handset is already available for purchase, and now HTC has also launche...

13 October 2009
04:38 GMT

HTC Updates Windows Phones in Malaysia

Three of the HTC handsets available currently on the market in Malaysia with Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system on board will soon receive an update to the latest flavor of the platform, 6.5, the Taiwanese mobile phone maker announced today. According to the company, the newly purchased HTC Touch Pr...

9 October 2009
18:11 GMT

Sprint Plans a Brew-Powered Handset

Wireless carrier Sprint recently announced its plans to offer customers new mobile phones in the near future, with the mention that some of these handsets would run under Qualcomm’s Brew Mobile Platform (according to the operator, the Brew MP is “a mobile operating system that can support feature phones a...

14 September 2009
06:26 GMT

HTC Touch HD2 to Come with Android

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corporation is reportedly getting ready to come to the market with a new version of its HTC Touch HD handset, only that the sequel should come as a major change when compared to its predecessor. To be more precise, rumor has it that the second HTC Touch HD is set to become available wit...

5 September 2009
06:07 GMT

HTC Touch2 Comes on October 6 with WM 6.5 on Board

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC unveiled today its first mobile phone that will come to the market running under Windows Mobile 6.5 right from the start, the HTC Touch2. The new smartphone, the company says, features integration with the latest services announced by Microsoft, including My Phone and Windows Marketpl...

2 September 2009
07:00 GMT

HTC Leo Photo and Verizon 'Whitestone' Diagrams Surface

Although HTC is the first mobile phone maker to have launched an Android-powered handset on the market, it still remains the vendor with the largest number of phones released under Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system. The HTC Snap, Touch Pro2 and Diamond2 are currently the last in the series, yet it seem...

13 August 2009
09:21 GMT

Dream and Magic Only $49.99 at FutureShop and BestBuy in Canada

Canadian mobile phone users now have the opportunity to purchase one of the available Android-powered mobile phones in the country for a price tag of only $49.99. While Rogers Wireless dropped the cost for the two devices, namely the HTC Dream and HTC Magic, to only $79.99 just a few days ago, now we learn that they ...

13 August 2009
05:52 GMT

HTC Magic Sold in More Than 1 Million Units

While announcing the launch in Taiwan of its third handset running under Google's Android operating system, the HTC Hero, mobile phone maker HTC Corporation also mentioned that the second Android-based device in the world, the HTC Magic, had been sold in more than 1 million units since its launch on the market, ...

13 August 2009
03:14 GMT

Rogers Lowers HTC Dream and Magic Price to $79.99

Canadian mobile phone carrier Rogers has operated yet another price cut to the recently released HTC Dream and Magic, the only Android-based handsets in the country. After having the phones available for $99.99 at the beginning of July, a decrease from the $149.99 price tag the devices came to its airwaves with, now ...

11 August 2009
09:01 GMT

HTC Releases Hotfixes for Touch Pro2 and Touch Diamond2

Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation has recently issued a series of hotfixes aimed at its newly launched HTC Touch Pro2 and Touch Diamond2 devices. The new software solutions are meant to address some issues the handsets had either with SMS messaging capabilities or with the security of Bluetooth connecti...

3 August 2009
05:37 GMT

Five New HTC Handsets Get Trademarked

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is reportedly preparing the release of at least five new handsets, as the company has trademarked their names with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The upcoming five phones should come to the market as HTC Vigor, HTC Dawn, HTC Interlude, HTC Imagio and HTC Ta...

27 July 2009
10:05 GMT

HTC Touch Pro2 to Sport 3.5mm Jack in North America

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC announced recently that it planned to include the standard 3.5mm headphone jack in its future handsets, following the release of its latest Android-powered handset, the HTC Hero, yet no one was expecting to learn so quickly that the company put its plan into practice, and that the HTC...

17 July 2009
10:13 GMT

HTC Moves to 3.5mm Headphone Jack

The mobile phone world seems to be moving slowly towards the adoption of the same standards for all the handsets available on the market, as well as for those that will soon come to the shelves. We already learned a while ago that Sony Ericsson was planning on adopting the microSD memory card slot with its future han...

9 July 2009
06:38 GMT

HTC Delivers Snap, Touch Diamond2 and Touch Pro2 to Australia

Taiwan-based company HTC Corporation, a worldwide leading mobile phone maker, announced recently the release of three new handsets in Australia, namely HTC Snap, HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Touch Pro2. All three devices come to the market running under Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system and are expec...

3 July 2009
03:39 GMT

HTC Comes at Tour de France

Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation and High Road Sports, Inc., the owner of Team Columbia-Highroad, announced recently the signing of a three-year sponsorship agreement that would bring the HTC brand at the 2009 Tour de France's starting line on July 4 in Monaco. The team is called Columbia-Highro...

1 July 2009
05:43 GMT

HTC to Bring Sense to Its Existing Phones

Mobile phone maker HTC Corporation recently released into the wild a brand new user interface, designed for its Android-based HTC Hero, the third mobile phone the company brings under Google's operating system. Since the new UI looks more than appealing, those who already own an HTC Android-powered phone have al...

29 June 2009
12:41 GMT

HTC Launches Touch Pro2 in the Middle East

Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation has announced today the launch of its flagship Windows Mobile-powered handset Touch Pro2 in the Middle East. The new device is meant to offer users in the area increased simplicity, a unique style and an intuitive interface, while also providing great balance between cu...

29 June 2009
09:33 GMT

Photos of HTC's New TouchFLO 3D 2.5 Emerge

HTC seems determined to bring a new look to all of its mobile phones, and, besides releasing a brand new user interface for its Android-based handsets, the company also came up with a new UI for the Windows Mobile devices, namely with the new TouchFLO 3D 2.5 (codenamed Manila 2.5). There is no official word on the ne...

29 June 2009
05:28 GMT

HTC Launches Touch Pro2 in Malaysia

HTC Corporation, a worldwide leading developer of mobile phones, announced on Thursday the release of its flagship device, the HTC Touch Pro2, in Malaysia. The new handset comes to mobile phone users in the country with an intuitive interface, while also including high-end technology and a wide range of personalizati...

26 June 2009
10:37 GMT

HTC Plans a 50 Percent Rise in Sales in the US

HTC seems determined to gain a lot of market share on the United States mobile phone market, at least this is what Jason Mackenzie, vice president of sales and marketing for HTC America, has told Reuters recently. According to him, the mobile phone maker expects to register a 50 percent growth in sales during the ong...

26 June 2009
08:39 GMT

HTC Touch Pro 2 Available with Vodafone Business

The high-end Windows Mobile-powered mobile phone HTC Touch Pro2 is already available for purchase in the UK on Vodafone's Business website, after leaking out to some of the carrier's luckiest subscribers. While until a few days ago the HTC Touch Pro 2 (as Vodafone has it) could be seen on the website with t...

19 June 2009
09:33 GMT

HTC Touch Diamond2 Goes to India

HTC Corporation, a leading mobile phone maker, announced on Wednesday that its flagship device, HTC Touch Diamond2, would become available for purchase for mobile phone users in India. The new Windows Mobile-powered handset comes with an intuitive interface and can offer the necessary functionality to leverage the mo...

11 June 2009
04:54 GMT

HTC Preps Something for June 24

HTC is teasing with the preparation of an event in London on June 24, which is reported to celebrate a global announcement about the future of HTC design. There are no exact details on what the company plans to do on that date, but rumors on the Web suggest that it might be something connected to the recently spotted...

3 June 2009
03:39 GMT

Vodafone UK Shows HTC Touch Pro 2 on Its Website

The Windows Mobile-powered HTC Touch Pro 2 is one of the Taiwanese-based phone maker's flagship models for 2009, and comes along with the HTC Touch Diamond 2, also powered by Microsoft's operating system. Both handsets come to the market with touchscreen capabilities and are eligible for upgrade to the Wind...

18 May 2009
04:35 GMT

HTC Willow in Live Photos, HTC Magic Available in Taiwan

The HTC Willow has been spotted quite a few times before wandering in the wild, and now it is time for some more photos of it to surface, showing it in action. The handset is the Sprint-branded CDMA version of Snap, or the S511 that has already been rumored to come to the market. What the HTC Willow for Sprint brin...

14 May 2009
04:06 GMT

T-Mobile to Launch Visual Voicemail, HTC Android Netbook

It seems that the rumors concerning T-Mobile's future plans for the ongoing year continue today as well, this time with leaked info on Visual Voicemail that will come towards the carrier's subscribers as soon as July. While agreeing that the feature will surely make a lot of the company's users very ha...

6 May 2009
10:00 GMT

HTC's Q1 Revenues Down 3.40% YOY

HTC Corporation announced on Monday the financial results for the first quarter of the ongoing year and posted total revenues of NT$31,590 million (around US$955 million) for the time frame, translated into a 3.40 percent drop compared to the same period a year ago. In addition, the company also announced that its re...

5 May 2009
05:46 GMT

Touch Pro2 Available in June, HTC Says

HTC Corporation, a worldwide leading developer of mobile phones, announced today the availability of two of its flagship handsets, the HTC Touch Pro2 and the Touch Diamond2, which are expected to come to the market at the end of June 2009 and in mid-May, respectively, at all authorized resellers. In addition, the com...

16 April 2009
06:51 GMT

HTC Announces Availability of Touch Diamond2

HTC Corporation, a worldwide leading mobile phone maker, has announced today that its flagship device Touch Diamond2 will soon become available in Hong Kong via CSL Limited, which has been appointed the exclusive distributor and operator partner of the handset in the area. The new phone, which runs under the Windows ...

15 April 2009
06:49 GMT

HTC Updates Touch Diamond, Gets HTC Fiesta to Bluetooth SIG

Sprint subscribers who own an HTC Touch Diamond mobile phone are now offered a new ROM update for their devices, the 2.00.651.7, which comes with a series of improvements over the previous version, while also including some bug fixes meant to enhance the user experience. Among the improvements available with the ne...

13 April 2009
09:22 GMT

T-Mobile Launches HTC Sapphire 1.0 as G2 on April 21

T-Mobile sent out invites to a press event held on April 21 in New York City, and everyone jumped on the news, expecting the mobile phone operator to unveil at that date its second handset powered by the Google Android operating system, though there was no hard evidence on the carrier's exact plans. It seems t...

13 April 2009
06:20 GMT

HTC Touch Diamond2 Comes to Taiwan in April

HTC announced recently that the Touch Diamond2 mobile phone would become available in Taiwan later this month, and that it would feature a price tag of NT$21,900 with an 8G memory card included in the package. At the same time, the device would sport HTC's latest TouchFLO 3D user interface, while running under t...

10 April 2009
13:01 GMT

HTC Touch Pro2 to Come on June 5

The HTC Touch Pro2 and HTC Touch Diamond2 are two of the devices that the Taiwanese mobile phone maker is highly expected to release on the market during the ongoing year. Both handsets were unveiled in February, during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, yet no information on the availability and price th...

10 April 2009
09:55 GMT

HTC's Q1 Was Less Impressive than Expected

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC projected a while ago that it would be able to see a double-digit growth during the ongoing year, despite the economic slowdown that affected the mobile phone market. However, it seems that the financial turmoil has taken its toll on the company's results for the first quarter of...

7 April 2009
10:50 GMT

Verizon to Launch Touch Diamond on April 10

It seems that Verizon is getting ready to release the Touch Diamond for all B2B, web and telesales customers as soon as April 10, which is this Friday. One thing that needs to be mentioned is that the full retail channel release date for the device hasn't been set yet, so we should only be able to see the Verizo...

6 April 2009
02:45 GMT

HTC Announces New HTC Snap at CTIA

HTC Corporation announced at the CTIA Wireless 2009 trade show in Las Vegas a new QWERTY smartphone, dubbed HTC Snap. The new mobile phone has been packed with features that are meant to offer users all the functionality they need, allowing them to easily stay connected to their friends. The new Inner Circle feature ...

2 April 2009
03:53 GMT

T-Mobile USA to Soon Offer Touch Pro2

HTC unveiled its new Touch Pro2 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month, and, while already rumored to make its way to the US market, it seems that the handset is expected to come to the lineup of T-Mobile. In addition, it seems that the mobile phone operator will have the device ready for release someti...

26 March 2009
05:52 GMT

nVidia-Based Handset Spotted in HTC's Roadmap

HTC's plans for the ongoing year have made it to the headlines quite a few times before, and now it is time for some more info to go down the pipe. The latest leak regarding the company's roadmap for 2009 shows a little more pieces of information than previous ones did, while also confirming some of the dev...

21 March 2009
05:09 GMT

HTC Will Launch 'At Least Three' Android Handsets in 2009

It seems that the newly unveiled HTC Magic, or G2, is not the only Android-based mobile phone that High Tech Computer plans to release to the market during the ongoing year. According to the latest news on the Web, the company actually plans to develop at least three smartphones that would run under the Google operat...

17 March 2009
09:53 GMT

New HTC XV6175 Spotted at GCF

It seems that HTC's future plans include a new device that should be added to Verizon's lineup. The fresh handset has been spotted at the GCF (Global Certification Forum), which approved the mobile phone from HTC. Dubbed XV6175, the device should be heading to Verizon, as the XV code in its name suggests. ...

14 March 2009
03:21 GMT

HTC Releases Updated ROM for Touch Diamond

Mobile phone maker HTC has recently come up with a software update for its Touch Diamond users. The new update is said to work with the English (Pan Europe and UK), Italian, Dutch, German, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian, and Finnish ROM versions. According to the company, the new update comes with ...

2 March 2009
02:38 GMT

HTC Touch Diamond2 Available for Pre-Order

It seems that more and more nice mobile phones that have been unveiled at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain have started to surface on the Web listed for pre-order on various sites. While we learned yesterday that some of the Nokia handsets are already available this way, today we hear that the new...

26 February 2009
09:56 GMT

HTC Releases New ROM for Touch Pro

Last week, HTC made the headlines mainly due to the launch of two new mobile phones, the HTC Touch Pro2 and HTC Touch Diamond2, which were unveiled at the Mobile World congress in Barcelona along with a new G phone, the HTC Magic. While displaying the new handsets at the mobile show, the phone maker also released a s...

24 February 2009
04:05 GMT

HTC Touch Pro2 Will Be Available All Around the World

HTC announced that it planned to make its new HTC Touch Pro2 mobile phone available all around the world. The handset has gained a lot of attention last week when it was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and the company seems determined to allow virtually anyone to get hands on the device. The com...

23 February 2009
02:38 GMT

80% WinMo Devices Are Made by HTC

It seems that around 80 percent of the mobile phones running Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system sold until now were made by the Taiwan-based cell phone manufacturer HTC. According to Andy Lees, an executive of Microsoft’s mobile business, 50 million Windows Mobile-based devices have been sold aro...

21 February 2009
04:16 GMT


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