Taiwan braces for shut down of 3G network on December 31
Tens of thousands of 3G-only customers need to be moved over before the network shuts down at the end of the year. They’re getting toilet paper as a gift.
One Apple supplier is down on blockchain, up on iPhone again
The largest contract semiconductors company in the world lost out on cryptocurrency mining chips and will rely on selling iPhone chips to make up for it.
HTC records dismal May, though there’s reason for hope
While it’s a sequential gain, the year-on slide is horrid. That said, much hangs in the balance on a momentous June with sales of a new flagship starting.
LG’s yearly attempt at making an Android phone with a stylus in tow may come with a sensical name in 2018. But we’ve yet to confirm even basic details about it.
HTC U12+ carelessly revealed on official website just ahead of formal announcement
Technically, the HTC U12+ is still not official yet, but maybe someone should tell the Taiwanese company that, reminding it of tomorrow’s formal launch event.
Taiwan regulators bottleneck MediaTek and other suppliers’ shipments to ZTE
After the US Commerce Department placed a 7-year ban on ZTE sourcing any products from the country, Taiwan is taking a more skeptical tone to the mainland China entity.
Relatively speaking, HTC has done nothing in smartphones to make waves so far this year. But it has been able to eke out a little good in a sea of bad news.
