{"id":14050,"date":"2012-05-30T10:22:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T08:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=14050"},"modified":"2012-05-30T13:20:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T11:20:14","slug":"htc-smartphones-cleared-for-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/14050\/htc-smartphones-cleared-for-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"HTC smartphones cleared for U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

Smartphone maker HTC<\/a> said on Wednesday its latest smartphones have passed a U.S. customs review, clearing the way for it to ramp up sales in the United States as it looks to turn around a decline in what was once its largest market.<\/p>\n

Earlier in May HTC had said that U.S. sales of two new smartphones, the HTC One X and HTC EVO 4G LTE, would be delayed due to a requirement for customs inspections after the Taiwanese company lost a patent dispute with Apple Inc.<\/p>\n

That news sent its shares tumbling on concerns over its ability to win back share in the U.S. market. HTC said at the time that its new phones contained a workaround to avoid the technology covered in the patent case, but that inspections were still required.<\/p>\n

HTC has struggled to compete with Apple’s<\/a> iPhones and Samsung’s Galaxy range, and faces a further threat after Samsung launched its latest S3 model in Europe on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In April, HTC Chief Executive Peter Chou said HTC would not return to the days when more than 50 percent of its revenue came from the United States.<\/p>\n

The company said in a brief statement on Wednesday that its phones “met International Trade Commission standards and imports to the U.S. would proceed according to normal processes.”<\/p>\n

HTC launched the One series of models in February to lead its fight back against Apple and Samsung<\/a>, giving the phones fast graphic chips and advanced music and photography functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Smartphone maker HTC said on Wednesday its latest smartphones have passed a U.S. customs review, clearing the way for it to ramp up sales in the United States as it looks to turn around a decline in what was once its largest market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,245,117,845],"class_list":["post-14050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-htc","tag-smartphones","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14071,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050\/revisions\/14071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}