HTC breaks its own sales and profit records, keeps riding the smartphone wave to success

Another quarter, another spectacular set of financial results for HTC. The once-small Taiwanese phone maker reports its net income for the first quarter of 2011 nearly tripled earnings in the same period of 2010, now totaling an impressive $513 million. Overall quarterly revenue was in the vicinity of $3.6 billion and the causes cited were, rather predictably, demand for Android smartphones and higher-speed internet connectivity (as provided by the likes of the EVO 4G and Thunderbolt). Guess now we know why the stock markets are loving HTC so much -- the company just can't stop growing!

REVIEW : HTC SALSA AND CHACHA - ANDROID FACEBOOK PHONES

IntoMobile takes a look at the brand new HTC Facebook phones. They run Android and have a dedicated Facebook button that glows when you’re doing something that can be posted to Facebook -- like listening to music, browsing the web, taking a picture, or just checking-in to a location.Video after the break...

UNBOXING THE HTC THUNDERBOLT

Hers on of the first unboxing videos of the HTC Thunderbolt. The HTC ThunderBolt brings LTE connectivity, a 4.3-inch touch screen packed in aluminum body and features a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 8MP camera with dual-LED flash and 720p video recording and 802.11n WiFi also on board.Video after the break....

HTC's newest Android flagship phone revealed

Why bother waiting for its official Mobile World Congress reveal in February when you can view the newest HTC flagship today? The touchscreen slate prototype (notice the serial number stamped along the bottom of the handset's face) you're looking at above matches the leaked Pocketnow render exactly including the arcing earpiece and isolated front-facing camera with chrome ring. It was just spotted by an eagle-eyed tipster while waiting for a Taipei metro system. Sorry Windows Phone 7 fans, this baby is Android through and through. And seeing it in the wild lends credence to all of the HTC devices pictured in that leak. A couple more snaps after the break....

PICTURES - HTC INSPIRE 4G

The guys at Engadget has published a few pictures of the HTC Inspire 4G. The HTC Inspire 4G is one of the bigger smartphones, with 4.3″ screen and a line of capacitive keys below it. We guess it will be very similar to what Europe has in the face of the HTC Desire HD, but with AT&T’s 3G bands. It packs the latest version of HTC’s Sense user interface (Android).Pictures after the break....

HTC EVO 4G REVIEW

HTC Evo Shift 4G Review -- The new HTC Evo Shift promises to carry on the excellence begun by the HTC Evo 4G. Is the Evo Shift a worthy relative to the highly regarded Evo 4G? It turns out that the Evo Shift has solid hardware and first-class performance… and includes a nicely designed physical keyboard. Wirefly’s review of the HTC Evo Shift explores the phone’s capabilities and demonstrates what it can do.Video & more after the break.......

HTC 7 MOZART REVIEW

The HTC 7 Mozart is a phone which uses the Windows Phone 7 operating system. It is a sleek handset made from a single piece of brushed aluminium. It has a 3.7 inch glossy Super LCD touchscreen with an accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, and SRS Surround Sound. There is an 8 megapixel camera with autofocus, Xenon flash, face detection and HD video recording. It has voice dialing and a built-in speakerphone. This Quad band phone weighs 136 grams and has a battery which allows up to 5 hours of talktime or 18 days on standby.Videos after the break.....