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HTC top manager confirms: HTC has not given up, working on future flagships

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By Victor Hristov

Updated: Dec 08, 2016, 9:46 AM

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HTC top manager confirms: HTC has not given up, working on future flagships

HTC is in a pretty bad shape: very few people are buying its phones and the HTC 10 that it worked hard on was available on the U.S. market only for a few months until carriers decided to prematurely stop selling it.

The decline in HTC phone sales has continued for years now, so much so that outside observers have been wondering whether the company will even make another flagship phone.

The answer comes loud and clear today from HTC senior PR manager Jeff Gordon: yes, HTC has not given up and it's in fact hard at work on 'future flagships'.

Notice the plural: 'flagships', not 'flagship'.

If you stare hard enough into the windows in this photo, you can see @htc employees working hard on future flagship smartphones and Vives. pic.twitter.com/oPFfmSNEoV
— Jeff Gordon (@urbanstrata) December 8, 2016

Any further details? HTC has been dead-quiet recently, but we have reached out to the company and will keep you up-to-date if we get more details.

So far, we can only rely on sketchy rumors: a device codenamed HTC Ocean is rumored to come as the successor to the HTC 10. The HTC Ocean is expected to have a design similar to that of the HTC 10, but with a few innovative tricks: a touch-sensitive area on the side of the phone that you control by swipes to increase volume and perform other functions. A few new features in the interface, a close integration with the Google Assistant and a dual camera system are in the cards as well.

source: Jeff Gordon on Twitter

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Victor, a seasoned mobile technology expert, has spent over a decade at PhoneArena, exploring the depths of mobile photography and reviewing hundreds of smartphones across Android and iOS ecosystems. His passion for technology, coupled with his extensive knowledge of smartphone cameras and battery life, has positioned him as a leading voice in the mobile tech industry.

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