It feels like we’ve been waiting for HTC’s inevitable retirement from the mobile industry for about… a century now, but while LG recently sealed the fate of its perennially money-wasting smartphone division, the Taiwan-based company insists it’s not dead yet.
Although there are no words on the names, specs, features, or prices of the aforementioned “new 5G models” planned for Q2 2021 announcements, these will undoubtedly cater to the same audiences across the same regions. So, no, you probably shouldn’t hold your breath for official US availability of any sort this year.
What’s perhaps even more painful to see is that the company’s microscopic March 2021 revenue result actually marked a 5.2 and 99.7 (!!!) percent improvement from the same figure reported in March 2020 and February 2021 respectively.
Overall, however, HTC started the year with a worse quarterly revenue score than an already modest first three months of 2020. But if you think about it, that actually makes the company’s smartphone industry insistence even more encouraging for those nostalgic about the likes of 2013’s HTC One or 2008’s T-Mobile G1.
Basically, if HTC isn’t throwing in the towel now, it may never do so.
