One of the world’s Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer, HTC, is now in poor condition. And the speculation about this company began to emerge. Some time ago, had appeared the news about the partnership between HTC and Amazon to produce Android smartphones. And now, HTC is reported to have shut down one of their factories.

This was revealed by Reuters as saying that one of the factories owned by HTC in a tightly closed. And the Wall Street Journal said that HTC is also considering to use the services of third parties in the production of their smartphone. Some parties mentioned include Foxconn, Wistron and others.

But the HTC argued that they did not intend to close or sell their factory. They say that they do move production adapted to the conditions in the market. If demand in a low condition, then they do not use all of their facilities. Conversely, if demand is high, then they will use throughout the company’s facilities. This, says HTC, performed to optimize the price incurred.

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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC has just released the unaudited financial results in October 2012, the monthly revenue decreased by 60% compared to the same period last year. HTC’s October revenues of $ 588 million, year-on-year to $ 1.5 billion.

So far this year, HTC reported a total loose revenue of NT $ 246.2 billion yuan ($ 8.4 billion). HTC has announced its third-quarter earnings, HTC’s earnings situation is still not optimistic. The total revenue for the third quarter was $ 2.4 billion, earnings of $ 37 million. This number dropped by about 50% compared with the previous quarter (on a quarterly profit of $ 200 million to 50 million).

Earlier, HTC has announced its third quarter earnings, total revenue for the third quarter was $ 2.4 billion, earnings of $ 37 million. This number dropped by about 50% compared with the previous quarter (on a quarterly profit of $ 200 million to 50 million).

HTC will soon release a lot of new equipment, such as HTC One X + Windows Phone 8X and Droid DNA the 8S and just leak out, the hope to restore the decline.

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DigiTimes reports that HTC has changed their suplier of a CMOS camera components to OmniVision and Sony, while the AMOLED panel display components ordered from Taiwan AU Optronics. It seems HTC is learning from Apple, using  lots of supply chain to eliminate their dependence of Samsung gradually turn to other more diversified suppliers.

Now, Apple and HTC are clearly revealed their effort to move out using one OEM supplier to variety of suplplier. Samsung is a key supplier of the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturers and mobile phone electronic components. It is said that the HTC take AMOLED screen component from AU Optronics based on Taiwan, so the other part of the screen device is still sourced from Samsung.

Last month, Apple is said to have removing Samsung components from iPhone 5’s NAND flash supplier list. And iFixit has been teardown on iPhone5 to explain the fact, and iFixIt found chip flash particles from Elpida rather than Samsung. But so far Apple still is one of the most important customer of Samsung, Samsung had already pointed out the purposes of the special protection measures will be cooperation between the Apple in August. Samsung mobile phone manufacturing operations and component production has always been independent.

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