HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone and tablet manufacturer, has launched a new portal aimed at supporting its development community. HTCdev.comwent live today, and it’s designed as a centralized, online platform to host content while also serving as a tool to help developer engagement and growth. The platform will be the home of tools and resources that are part of HTCOpenSense, which is a framework for all available HTC software development kits (SDK), as well as new features that will be offered in the future....

Acouple of days backwe brought you the news that HTC was considering changing the bootloader restrictions on its Android handsets. Today, the company’s chief executive Peter Chou has delivered the news that the Android developer wanted to hear, HTC will no longer be locking bootloaders on its devices. The good news came via HTC’s social media presences, namelyFacebookand Twitter. The short message thanked customers for their feedback and announced news of the company’s decision:...

At the beginning of May, Taiwan-based mobile vendor HTCwas the fifth biggest smartphone manufacturerin terms of shipments, posting record revenues in the last quarter. The company was one of the first manufacturers to release an Android device, launching the G1 in September 2008, and continues to bet big on Android whilst launching a range of Windows Phone 7 devices. As a result, HTC has earned a loyal following for its solidly-built, reliable and affordable handsets....

Taiwanese smartphone giant HTC has no intention of submitting to Apple in lawsuits brought against the company, insisting that the company is fully prepared to fight the Cupertino-based company with patents of its own,the BBC reveals. HTC CEO Peter Chou, responding to the US International Trade Commission’s ruling that his company had infringed on two of Apple’s iPhone patents, believes the smartphone vendor has “enough patents to make a stand”, effectively warning Apple that it could use newly acquired patents from its purchase of S3 Graphics to use against the iOS device maker....

HTC has outed what looks like an the successor to its Wildfire Android smartphone, showing the new device in new video uploaded to its YouTube account. The video centers on HTC’s innovation, focusing on how customer ideas inspires everything the company does. Just five seconds in, the new device is shown, sporting the same profile and appearance as the existing Wildfire model but the optical trackpad looks to have been removed....