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HTC and Android in general emerged as the winners in a patent dispute in Germany, which was launched by Nokia against the company The court in Mannheim ruled that HTC did not violate Nokia's two disputed patents, marked EP0812120, which describes a technology called “Method for using services offered by a telecommunication network and telecommunication system, and a terminal for it”, and EP1312974 entitled “An electronic display Device and method of lighting control themselves.”

If you believe the sources close to HTC, the launch of their most advanced smartphone yet, model named One, could be postponed. Sources suggest there will be fewer devices produced than it was planned, and that should cause delay in deliveries to certain smaller markets, while in developed markets One will be much harder to obtain.

HTC has released the results of operations for February which showed that company is in serious trouble, or will be very soon if they continue this pace of decline. Specifically, its revenues in February were as much as 44% worse compared to the same period last year.

HTC is believed to be preparing to introduce a new smartphone that will be placed at the top of company's offerings as well as in general even before the Mobile World Congress. The device codenamed M7 will reportedly be sold under the name HTC One.

The web portal Gizchina have released a few interesting pictures that are supposed to be from a Foxconn factory (probably in China). These photos allegedly show some mobile devices that could possibly be an iPhone 5S. It looks pretty much the same as the iPhone 5 which is expected and furthers the rumors that it will be just a slight improvement regarding hardware specs.

If you believe the rumors going around the internet, HTC is working on the development of the tablet device with Windows RT; at least according to sources close to HTC. After they released their WP8 devices, named 8S and 8X it looks like they will indulge even deeper into collaboration with Microsoft. HTC decided earlier this month to give up on increasing the screen size of their WP8 smartphones and now they are turning to tablets.

HTC prepared for the Windows Phone 8 platform with their 8X and 8S models. The 8X, a higher end device, which is already sold in the U.S. HTC has now said that the more affordable model 8S won’t be arriving in the U.S. market, at least to the telecom operators. HTC has not given any explanation for this.

For a long time there have been rumors flowing around the internet about who would make the first smartphone with a screen capable of FullHD resolution. Some of the rumored manufacturers were Sony, HTC and LG, which are among the first to release a 5-inch FullHD panel but not the device. From all this you could only find a variety of different tests and pictures showing some HTC devices. Now it is finally official, HTC has announced its 5-inch FullHD device in Japan.

In San Francisco, a little after 10 o'clock local time, Microsoft began formally presenting Windows Phone 8. This is Microsoft’s new operating system for mobile devices which is a direct successor of Windows Phone 7, but also the link between Windows 8, Windows RT computers, and handheld devices. Although for now only three device manufacturers have reaffirmed their support for the new mobile OS (Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820, HTC Windows Phone 8x and 8S and Samsung Galaxy S Ativ), for Microsoft this is the most important event of the year after they launched Windows 8 and their Surface RT tablets. In addition to the big three mentioned earlier, it is expected that Huawei will launch smartphones with WP8, presumably the Ascend W1 model, designed for the lower segment of the smartphone market. ZTE also plans to release their model next year.

Don’t you just hate it when you hear a song on the radio or in a mall and you would like to listen to it later but you don’t know what it's called? Well Shazam is the most popular smartphone app that helps you with that, having approximately 250 million people that use it. But they have some decent competition in SoundHound. The SoundHound team decided to respond to Shazam’s bragging about the numbers and revealed that they have over 100 million users that have download their app. Even though Shazam is in the lead by more than 2 times, this is still a respectable number. Shazam is currently on around 30% of the devices, including both Android and iOS.