Though we’d seen this machine in a leaked roadmap pinning it for the first of August of this year, the Verizon HTC One has appeared bumped to the middle of the month instead. What we’re assuming here is that the move has a lot to do with the oncoming push for the Motorola Moto X.
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
It goes without saying that HTC has been focusing on the top-tier phone market recently, with the release of the HTC One and HTC One mini, as well as the DROID DNA late last year. However, the company is wanting to focus more on releasing mid-tier devices, as the market in several countries has grown in that respect.
During the company’s Q2 earnings call, CEO Peter Chou said that HTC’s upcoming plans will “address some of our challenges of mid-tier product competitiveness.” Chou says that the company has suffered recently due to intense competition with flagship devices, but he thinks that focusing more on mid-tier products will get the company back on track.
Essentially, HTC is looking to diversify its lineup of products, and we’ve already seen evidence of that recently, with the unveiling of the Desire 500, which is the company’s newest low-tier smartphone that includes a 4.3-inch 800×480 display, with a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 processor clocked at 1.2GHz and 1GB of RAM on the inside.
Aside from focusing on more mid-tier devices in the future, the company also wants to focus on more partnerships, and Chou notes that he hopes this will help HTC make a big statement in the mobile market once 2014 rolls around. Chou is also hoping to finish out the year on a high note, following what the company is predicting to be a poor third quarter.
HTC is expecting Q3 revenue in the range of $1.7 billion to $2 billion, which would be down from the previous quarter’s revenue of $2.35 billion. This would as much as a 30% drop in revenue. However, the company says that Q4 will be much better, but didn’t mention financial outlooks that far ahead yet.
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SOURCE: HTC
HTC mid-tier devices planned with poor third quarter expected is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The HTC One didn’t get off to a good start. Manufacturing delays meant that the smartphone could not be released when it was supposed to, it also meant that after that delayed release, it had to face direct competition from Samsung’s latest flagship, the Galaxy S4. Nevertheless, the HTC One has received praises from consumers and critics alike, there’s no doubt about the fact that HTC has got a winner on its hands. In a statement released today, the Taiwanese manufacturer said that the One has performed better in the market than any of the flagship smartphones they released last year. However, HTC did not provide specific sales figures for the One.
The company says that with the help of this device they have “regained market share across major markets including China.” There are two HTC One variants being sold in China, the other being the dual-SIM variant. HTC looks to extend this same momentum in the second half of 2013. The company also said that it has plans to launch a “range of innovate and competitive mid-tier products in the coming months.”
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HTC’s unaudited results for Q2 2013 showed a sign of hope, but in today’s call for the Q3 guidance, the Taiwanese company expects next quarter’s revenue to be in the range of $1.67 billion to $2 billion, with an operating profit of anything from $0 down to… well, a margin of -minus 8 percent, which would equate to a horrible loss. This is also a notable drop from last year’s $2.4 billion revenue and $168 million operating profit.
CEO Peter Chou blames this decline on the higher cost structure (bill of materials and operating costs) and the clearance of aged inventory in the channel, but he hopes that Q3 will be the bottom in terms of HTC’s profitability. CFO Chialin Chang added that his team has a few actions in place to help restore the company to profitability very soon.
Summertime is now in full swing, and it’s also a period of transition within the mobile world. With the exception of a brand-new smartphone that wields a 41-megapixel shooter, our buyer’s guide hasn’t changed much since the last installment, but that’s not to suggest the market is stagnant. On the contrary, high-profile smartphones such as the next iPhone, the Moto X and the successor to the Galaxy Note II are in the pipeline, and there are even rumors swirling of a larger BlackBerry. Likewise, two of the world’s premiere smartphones — the HTC One and the Galaxy S 4 — are now available with stock Android directly from Google, which brings the added promise of timely software updates.
Mobile carriers are changing the game too, thanks in large part to the T-Mobile Jump program, which allows customers to upgrade their smartphone every six months. AT&T Next and Verizon Edge will soon provide similar (albeit more expensive) offerings, with upgrade eligibility that comes once per year. Even Sprint is doing its part with Unlimited, My Way, which promises unlimited data for life. Whether you’re looking to purchase a new handset right away, or you’re simply evaluating your options, Engadget’s smartphone buyer’s guide is the definitive resource for finding the very best smartphones on the market today. We’ll be here when you’re ready.
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Close to a fortnight ago, we got word that the HTC One mini has already received approval from the good people over at the FCC, and here we are two weeks down the road with press renders of the AT&T-bound HTC One mini spotted. How do we know that this shrunken version of the flagship HTC One (with some changes in the hardware too, of course, as it is not only cosmetic alterations on the outside) is headed towards AT&T? The answer is simple, really, as the press render leak did show off the AT&T name where the carrier name is normally displayed. The thing is, it remains to be seen just when will the HTC One mini be released for AT&T, so we will have to play the patience card this time around.
Interestingly enough in the press render leak, the Beats Audio logo has shed its normal bright red shade, turning grey in the process. As for the Blink Feed home screen that is depicted in the render, the location is Atlanta instead of London where the international version of the HTC One mini is concerned. Do these have any bearings on the final version? Not likely if you were talking about a huge impact, but at least we do have high hopes that AT&T will eventually make this puppy available.
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Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don’t escape without notice, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery we could find during the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. If you find something available for your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and let us know. Enjoy!
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Can’t decide between HTC One’s native spin on Android and the Google Edition’s vanilla build? Now you don’t have to: MoDaCo.Switch is now officially available for public beta testing. True to its name, this custom firmware allows users to reboot the phone and switch into a different version of Android, making it easy to enjoy both Sense 5 and Google’s stock AOSP Android build independently. It’s more than a simple dual-boot, however, MoDaCo.Switch shares apps and data between both builds, which makes using them together a less jarring experience. The Beta still has some limitations of course; MMS and call log data isn’t shared between ROMS and there seem to be some issues with fast boot. Still, if you’re willing give it a spin, hop over to the adjacent source link to get started.
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Source: MoDaCo
The original HTC One works with HTC’s own “Sense” user interface, while the Google Play edition works with Googles’ – MoDaCo.SWITCH allows you to choose which of the two you like better at any given time. This system is a hack, at heart, requiring that you root your device before you allow yourself the freedom to choose either the HTC Sense or Android Jelly Bean Vanilla iteration at the tap of a button (and a few seconds’ wait). What you get, though, is a completely unique set of controls.
This system is not just coming to the HTC One – currently in Public Beta, at this point, mind you – but the Galaxy S 4 as well. The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is one of two devices – the other being the HTC One – to earn itself the right to be a Google Play edition in addition to being its own Samsung-made self.
What the folks at MoDaCo – just one fellow, that is, ROM developer Paul O’Brien – will be doing is adding an on/off switch to the full ROM of all the little bits and pieces that make up Google’s edition of the software right next to HTC’s version of the software. Whenever you’d like to switch from one to the other, you’ll have to hit the reboot button, but all of your data will be safe and sound flipping back and forth.
Now we’ve only to wait for this same sort of system to appear for any and all smartphones on the market with their own custom UI over Android. Could such a toggle switch be added to Android as a requirement from Google in order to be Google Certified?
Such a thought is quite intriguing, to say the least.
VIA: MoDaCo
HTC One’s MoDaCo.SWITCH coming to Galaxy S 4 as well: change-up! is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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