A new report fromDigitimes, citing the Chinese-language outletEconomic Daily News(EDN), suggests that HTC has increased its shipping estimates for the first quarter of 2011, upping its forecast to 9.5 million handsets, an increase of around 500,000 handsets from earlier predictions. The report builds upon suggestions that HTC has already informed its suppliers that they will need to prepare to supply parts and components for as many as60 million handsets in 2011, as the company prepares to introduce new Android and Windows Phone 7 smartphones over the coming year....

HTC’s battle with Apple continues to rage, with the Taiwanese smartphone maker ignoring complaints it is currently under investigation for and issuing its own in the UK courts. On Wednesday,HTC saidthat it filed an “invalidation action” against Apple in a UK court, a method of challenging the validity of a patent if the patent holder didn’t invent the product under investigation, or hasn’t disclosed enough information about what the patent covers or how it has been infringed....

The guys over at247smartphone, along with their Italian partnersSoloPalmari, have managed to get their hands on HTC’s upcoming 7-inch aluminium Android tablet, taking the device through its paces and capturing it all on video. The review focuses on the new HTC Sense user interface and also HTC’s Scribe technology, showing how easy it is to take notes and share them. If you wondered how well the front and back cameras worked on the Flyer, it’s all included in the review video....

HTC will today unveil its new 7-inch tablet device, the HTC Flyer, the first tablet from HTC that will feature the company’s HTC Sense UI, a sleek alumninium body and pen interaction, encouraging users to write down notes instead of jabbing away at a screen. There had been rumours that the HTC Flyer wouldn’t ship with Google’s new Honeycomb operating system; that rumour has been substantiated, to a point, as it looks like HTC will be running a customised flavour of the Android 2....

Whether you feel smartphone and tablet leaks are controlled or not, it’s always good to get some more information on a product from one of the world’s most exciting smartphone manufacturers. HTC hasn’t directly confirmed it is in the process of readying its entry into the tablet market but we are already aware of a new 7-inch tablet known only as theHTC Flyerwhich is said to be in development for a Mobile World Congress launch....