HTC Desire 19+ Launching In Germany From €329

HTC Desire 19+ Launching In Germany From €329

After being launched in Taiwan back in June 2019, HTC are now gearing up to launch their HTC Desire 19+ smartphone in Germany within the next couple of weeks. When it arrives the Desire 19+ smartphone will be priced at €329 Sim free and unlocked.

Specifications of the HTC Desire 19+ include a 6.2 inch LCD touchscreen display offering users a resolution of 720 x 1520 pixels, powered by a MediaTek Helio P35 SoC supported by 4GB of RAM, 64GB of expandable storage.

Cameras on the HTC Desire 19+ smartphone take the form of a 13 megapixel wide-angle, eight megapixel ultra wide-angle and a five megapixel depth sensor offering a rear triple camera set up together with a front facing 16 megapixel selfie camera.

The HTC Desire 19+ comes running Google’s Android9 Pie operating system and is equipped with a rechargeable 3,850 mAh battery. HTC offers the HTC Desire 19+ into different colours white and blue but unfortunately it seems that only the blue will be available. Once the smartphone arrives in Germany expected to roll out to other countries throughout Europe soon afterwards.

Source: WinFuture : GSM Arena

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HTC Phones Pulled From The UK Due To Patent Dispute

HTC’s smartphones are already having problems selling on their own, the last thing the company needs is have them pulled from a major market. It’s not the US, admittedly, but having all HTC phones suddenly become unavailable in the UK is now small matter. Especially if the Taiwanese company has been discovered to have disregarded a supposed change that would work around a patent it may have infringed.

Patent lawsuits are nothing new but you don’t hear companies pulling out their products everyday because of them. Some countries, however, take intellectual property very seriously and a ruling against HTC over a crucial patent could cost the company a lot more than just legal fees.

For quite some time now, HTC has been battling Munich-based company Ipcom over technologies used in car phones. Ipcom may have the upper hand as HTC supposedly only sold units that implemented workarounds to avoid hitting that intellectual property. All seemed well and settled as HTC has continued selling its smartphones in the UK with no problems. Other than actually making sales, of course.

Unfortunately, Ipcom claims that just isn’t the case. It says it had sampled those non-infringing phones and found that no workaround has actually been implemented. It now accuses HTC of disregarding UK law and for not playing by the rules.

For its part, HTC insists that it takes intellectual property very seriously, positioning itself as an innovator that understands such concerns. The company says it’s investigating the claims over a single phone model. That said, all HTC phones have been pulled off shelves from all UK retailers. HTC phones can still be purchased from Amazon in the UK.

HTC continues to struggle in most markets, whether it involves its flagship models or even budget ones. For years, the company’s downfall has been expected though the company still keeps on churning out phones. It still has to launch a new premium phone, however, raising doubts about its viability yet again.

HTC Stops UK Smartphone Sales

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC reportedly halted sales of its smartphones in the UK from its official channel, due to an ongoing IP dispute with research and development company IPCom.

BBC News reported the vendor had listed all of its in models the UK as out of stock on its website, although the news outlet said its phones are still available in other markets. They are also available on Amazon’s UK site.

A long-running dispute between HTC and IPCom relating to wireless technology for carphones has hurt HTC’s business in the UK. HTC said it would implement a workaround so it could continue to sell its phones.

However, following tests, IPCom found that a workaround was not in place and said HTC had showed a “disregard for the law by contravening a UK court ruling”.

HTC responded by stating it takes “intellectual property issues very seriously”.

“We are proactively investigating an infringement claim by a third party with respect to a single handset model,” said a representative.

HTC has notably struggled in the smartphone market in recent times, largely due to increased competition from low-cost Chinese players. In 2018, it sold part of its smartphone division to Google.

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