TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan's HTC Corp. remained the second-largest smartphone seller on its home turf last year, despite its falling share in the cutthroat marketplace, tech-tracking firm International Data Corp. (IDC) said in a report released Tuesday.
Taiwan's smartphone shipments totaled 7.55 million units in 2013, up 26 percent from 6 million units shipped in 2012, the report said.
However, the all new HTC One will be unveiled officially on March 25th, rumor has it that it will be the first phone to feature two cameras on its back. We have actually already seen smartphones with dual rear cameras, but their goal was 3D photography, while the cameras on HTC's new big thing are said to contribute to improving traditional 2D photography rather than 3D.
Last but not least, under the hood, the new HTC One is expected to ship with a quad-core Snapdragon 801 system chip (likely, the MSM8974-AB version of it) with 2GB RAM. This is the same chip that powers devices like the Samsung Galaxy S5 and the Sony Xperia Z2, (the Z2 has slightly more RAM - 3GB) so it should be more or less on par with the top performers.
