HTC today released its first-quarter financials, revealing profits that almost tripled from a year earlier, helped by strong demand for its smartphone handsets running the Android operating system. The smartphone maker posted profits of NT$14.83 billion up from NT$5.00 billion a year previous, amassing NT$104.16 billion from NT$37.95 billion – exceeding forecasts – although the company has not commented on its performance. Overtaking Nokia in terms of market capitalization, HTC saw share prices rise 5....

HTC has just announced the launch of HTC Wildfire S, an affordable Android device in India. Pitted to be the successor for HTC Wildfire, this handset was firstannouncedin Mobile World Congress earlier this year along with HTC Desire S and HTC Incredible S. Specs-wise, it runs on Android Gingerbread with HTC Sense UI, featuring a 600MHz Qualcomm processor, 3.2-inch TFT display, 512MB ROM and 5 megapixel camera with autofocus. The 💜 of EU tech...

Let the great Mango handset deluge begin. On September 1st, HTC will unveil its first two WP7 handsets running the latest edition of the operating system, Mango, to the world. Microsoft confirmed what the market was saying today, partially, bynoting on its Facebook wallthat the coming HTC event would be worth attending. As the function is in London, the Windows Phone UK team was the group that confirmed Microsoft’s involvement....

HTChas respondedto claims by Apple that it had infringed on a number of patents linked to the iPhone and iPad by saying it is “disappointed at Apple’s constant attempts at litigations”, stating that it vows to protect its intellectual property rights. On Monday, Apple filed a second patent infringement complaint with the ITC against HTC, looking for an import ban on a number of the vendor’s mobile devices. Focusing on Portable Electronic Devices and Related Software, the suit named 17 HTC smartphones and tablets....

Despite facing increase legal pressure from Apple in the US and other countries over claims it has infringed on iPhone and iPad patents, HTC’s North Asia President Jack Tong says there is “no question that HTC will definitely win” and is confident the USITC will return a decision in their favour. According tothe Korea Times, the HTC executive’s remarks are the first time HTC has made remarks about its current patent fight with Apple, which has most recently seen the Taiwanese smartphone company sue Apple in a federal court in Delaware using patents it acquired from Google....