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Cost-cutting and better-than-expected mobile shipments helped Samsung Electronics and HTC trash analysts' profit forecasts, according to both firms' unaudited Q1 data. Results from the Korean chaebol took a turn for the worse in 2014 as demand for its smartphones and tabs crashed, causing an inventory pile-up that proved …

  1. chasil

    low end

    IMHO, HTC should have continued to build the Incredible line as a stable, low-end small-form-factor phone.

    I'm still on an Incredible 2 because I use a Verizon MVNO, and I miss the Incredible's vivid OLED. As I consider [finally] upgrading to an M7 One, I'll have to leave my sdcard behind and use a non-standard unlock/S-OFF method due to the carrier (instead of htcdev).

    I'd love a CDMA, Cyanogenmod phone, easily unlocked to S-OFF, perhaps with Sense as a theme, with an accessible battery, that I can use with Page Plus or BYOWireless. Difficulty in moving phones to these carriers is money that HTC is leaving on the table (mosty, for Motorola).

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