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HTC recorded a fifth quarterly loss in calendar Q2, the Taiwanese handset maker confirmed today. For the quarter ended June, sales collapsed to NT$18.9bn ($597.7m/ £448.8m), down from NT$33bn ($1.04bn/ £783m) in the same period a year ago, as gross margin slumped to 11.4 per cent from 19.3 per cent. The company sold off some …

  1. paulf
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    Not even worthy of a main story

    The red ink bleeding at HTC is now so routine the stories have been relegated to El Reg's Mini-News section.

    Are they still working to their time honoured tradition of releasing a plethora of handsets each year (as they're not sure which will stick), riddled with design faults and bugs (that never get fixed), supported for barely a few months after release then ditched when they can't be arsed any more? I wonder how that's working out for them?

    They may have a chance against Samsung (et al) if they created a small number of well designed handsets that receive prompt updates for at least two years with decent support but if they've still not figured that out I don't see things improving for them.

    [Note for down voters - I like Android, it's just HTC and their shitty "support" I don't like]

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