News

• HTC sells 5 million One smartphones

  HTC has shipped five million units of its flagship One smartphone globally.

• Nokia files cases against HTC One in the US

  Nokia is targeting HTC's latest slate of smartphones, including the HTC One, with new legal action in the U.S. that demands the Taiwanese company cease the alleged patent infringement.

• The iPhone's big lead in customer satisfaction is gone

  Apple's dominance in smartphone customer satisfaction faded last year, with rivals like Samsung and Motorola dramatically closing the gap, a national survey said today.

• Space shots: Android phones beam back Earth pix

  NASA released photos taken by three smartphones as they orbited Earth.

• For first time, smartphone sales top other mobile phones in first quarter

  Six years after the sale of the first iPhone and 14 years after the first BlackBerry email pager was unveiled, smartphone shipments have outnumbered sales of other types of mobile phones.

• NASA launches new nanosatellites: Android smartphones

  NASA has launched three Google-HTC Nexus One smartphones into space in what scientists hope will be the lowest-cost satellites ever tested.

• Nokia wins injunction blocking sales of microphones for HTC One

  Nokia has accused supplier STMicroelectronics of selling microphones Nokia says it developed to rival HTC, and on Monday won an injunction in the Amsterdam District Court preventing their sale.

• Samsung fights dirty with misleading claims against HTC – who may have replied in kind

  Embarrassed Samsung officials were forced to apologize to rival HTC for a sneaky PR campaign that involved paying off Taiwanese students to write negative reviews of the latter company's products. In related news, I'm looking for a Korean and Mandarin translation of the word "astroturf."

• Taiwan's FTC investigating Samsung for defaming HTC on local online forums

  Fabricated Internet posts praising Samsung at the expense of HTC products has landed the South Korean company in hot water with Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission.

• Rackspace challenges lawsuit-happy patent holder

  Cloud hosting provider Rackspace Hosting is striking back against patent holder Rotatable Technologies, a Texas company that has filed patent infringement cases against more than a dozen companies in the past year.

• Facebook Home goes live in Google Play

  Facebook Home, which doesnt replace the Android OS but sits on top of it, includes a family of Facebook-focused apps and also works with the apps a user already has on her phone.

• Is Samsung's Galaxy Mega Android smartphone lineup just too big?

  While the issue of size creep in Android phones hasn't exactly been ignored, big devices have become so commonplace that the discussion is largely academic at this point -- the vast majority of high-end Android phones are simply big. Deal with it, as a certain former Microsoft employee might say.

• HTC's Q1 profit sinks to record low

  Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC reported a major decline in its first quarter profit, after the company was forced to push back the launch of its newest flagship phone to April.

• Will Android users feel welcome in Facebook's Home?

  Unless you're a huge Facebook fanatic, will this really be something you use every day? Time will tell.

• No plans for First launch Down Under: HTC

  HTC has no plans to release First smartphone in Australia, it revealed today.