HTC predicts Q3 will continue trend of sales-decline

After Q2 brought a sliver of hope for HTC, with the company finally turning a profit after a long time, it seems this was only short lived, and according to their Q3 forecast, there is yet to be a light in the end of the tunnel.

The main cause of Q2's profits were the HTC One M8's release and all its by-products and variations, and as the flagship is no longer the new guy on the market, it seems its sales-push is coming to an end.

Without its biggest driving force, HTC will have a hard time making a profit, which is exactly what the company's CFO (Chief Financial Officer) tells us. According to him, as a cause of the sales-decline, the company will be forced to halt most marketing and sales pushes, instead staying quiet and trying to pass Q3 without too much damage. The company will re-evaluate its marketing strategies, but in contradiction to the similarly hard-sales-stricken Microsoft, will not be laying off workers. Here's some of the CFO's statement:

Some of our products, after the initial excitement, have settled at a lower level. But the good thing is it is stabilized," Chialin Chang claimed. "For HTC, to start gaining market share is important. We have gone through a transition period in 2013

Profit is predicted to be around $1.4-1.56 billion, probably closer to 1.4, a steep decline from Q3 2013 which got $1.6. What do you think, is this the end? 

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HTC J Butterfly announced for Japan, waterproof and plastic-made improved M8

HTC One M8 was released on March to mixed reactions- While most praised its compact size, there was an issue with the so-called "Black bar of doom" at the bottom of the device (which eventually proved to be in-significant), but mainly at the 4 MP 'Ultra Pixel' camera, which many expected to feature a little bit more pixels.

Now, it seems HTC has listened to many of the complains, and the result is the HTC J Butterfly. While this is a Japan-exclusive (J=Japan), it is still a worth-noting improvement over the original M8, so let's take a look at what has changed.

First of all, the phone is made of plastic and not aluminium, which makes room for the next feature in the form of a waterproof device. A big improvement is the introduction of the 13 MP back camera, and 5 MP front-shooter, which is in accordance with the recent HTC One Mini 2's setup, and is probably better-suited than the 4 MP 'UltraPixel'.

While this looks like a great device, it will be Japan exclusive so don't expect it to head anywhere else. It will feature the rest of the M8's specs (2 GB RAM, SD 801, KitKat 4.4.2, Dot View support). The original announcement was made by japanese carrier KDDI, so click below for the full details.

Source: KDDI

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HTC One Remix for Verizon is official, released on July 24th

HTC One M8 Remix, which is basically the HTC One Mini 2, which is basically an HTC One M8 Mini under a re-branded name for Verizon. While the phone was rumored and anything-but-official for along time, Verizon has finally taken the wraps off this phone and made it official.

This phone is really identical to the HTC One Mini 2 (except for the huge Verizon branding), and tht means its styled similarly to the HTC One M8, made of the same aluminium materials but with down-sized specs.

It holds a 4.5' 720p display, running Snapdragon 400 and 1GB of RAM. We'll note again, that the 13MP camera is actually more than it's bigger brother's, which marks an interesting choice by HTC. It also features the strong Boom Sound speakers.

Verizon is selling the phone for the same price as its older brother, which makes it only a wise choice for those who really want a compact phone, even with worse specs. It will cost $100 on-contract beginning on July 24th, and is capable of running XLTE network.

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HTC Smart Watch spotted in behind the scenes video

Companies often make behind the scenes video, and the point of them is to show us the faces of the people behind your favorite flagship. But, good-intention behind-the-scenes videos can sometimes yield unwanted (or perhaps secretly desired) consequences.

You might remember I showed you @evleaks' leaked HTC Watch render, which is supposedly identical to the final product (except for the watch face, of course). Now we received more details following a video by HTC itself.

In this HTC video, which was already released 2 weeks ago, sharp-eyes viewers can spot what appears to be an HTC Smart-Watch on the table of a worker. Now, while it looks like another work by Mr. Blurrycam, one thing we do take is a confirmation of the company’s plan to produce a Watch in the near future.

While following Smart-Watches by Sony, LG, Samsung and Motorola, nobody doubted one was in the works over at the Taiwanese company, now that we got real details of it some might be disappointed by the lack of a moto-360-ish round watch face.

That doesn’t necessarily mean we will not get a premium designed watch, and another thing we deter is a watch face similar to Blinkfeed’s Watch widget- however, don’t expect a BlinkFeed experience since Google forbade OEMs to customize the Android Wear OS.

Full video:(check 0:35, 0:43)

You can also see what appears to be the Watch’s design on the computer monitor, but that’s for a very short while so don’t take our word for it. The watch is expected to be in the $200 range, and will probably launch in the upcoming months.

Stay tuned!

Source: HTCSource

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HTC Android Wear Smart Watch leaked by @evleaks

All the major companies have already announced smartwatches, with all except Sony’s sporting Android Wear, and only HTC has been left out of the party. At least, so far.

A newly leaked alleged HTC Android Wear Watch prototype suggests the Taiwanese company has plans to join the watch race, and judging by how final the product looks like, it seems it’ll do it pretty soon.

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HTC Dot view updated

The HTC Dot View case is one of our favorite features for the HTC One M8. Not only does it allow you to protect your device, but it also offers a stylish,

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