Can HTC avoid past mistakes in its latest incarnation?

Before HTC was the aspirational brand fronted by Robert Downey Jr., which it presents itself as today, it was a humble white-label manufacturer of mobile devices for other more established companies in the consumer electronics space

Far from today's producer of handsets with a distinctive (and controversial) branded ""chin," this HTC eschewed the limelight, content with establishing a name for itself in the background alone.

My own first exposure to the Taiwanese company was through PalmOS- and Windows Mobile-powered devices which it assembled for the likes of Handspring and Audiovox — they were some of the most well-built, technologically-advanced products I'd ever owned. Read more...