Quietly Brilliant, But HTC Sure Made Some Noise At MWC
Wow. We expected a lot of news out of Mobile World Congress but who knew HTC would have so. freaking. much.
I was having trouble keeping track of it myself, so for the good of the both of us, I thought it might be fitting to bundle all this news up into something a tad more easily digestible.
And off we go...
source: techcrunch.com
27 Feb 2012
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