It hasn’t been a great year for HTC. As its most recent financial results demonstrate, it’s being squeezed not just by Apple but by its rival Samsung, which usurped it as king of the Android smartphones, and year on year revenues are down 48% with profits down 79%

If we’ve learned one thing it’s that you should never, ever copy Apple: Samsung allegedly did, and when a US court found in Apple’s favour the court handed down a $1.05 billion fine

10 Tablet devices we think are worthwhile considering this Christmas, including Apple’s iPad, Sony S, Asus Eee Pad, Blackberry Playbook and for children, the Vtech InnoTab

Rumour sites reckon they’ve got the inside scoop on HTC’s quad-core tablet, which is codenamed the HTC Quattro. The tablet, which we’re expecting to see in February 2012′s Mobile World Congress before a springtime release, will be the company’s first quad-core tablet

It’s official: the tablet previously known as the HTC Puccini has broken cover. The good news? The HTC Jetstream looks pretty nifty

Dr Dre – who, like Dr Fox, isn’t a real doctor – seems to have a new role: iPad killer. He’s not doing it personally, though: he’s doing it via his hardware business. Dre’s Beats Audio systems are already a familiar sight in laptops from HP, and now the technology’s coming to smartphones and tablets.

Earlier this year, we predicted that HTC’s secret Puccini tablet would be a ten-inch Honeycomb job with a dual-core processor. The rumoured June release date has been and gone, but it looks like the rest of our predictions were correct: details of the Puccini have leaked, and it looks pretty interesting.

HTC’s seven-inch Android tablet looks good on paper and supplements finger input with an optional stylus. So what does the tech press make of it?

HTC’s new Flyer tablet has something a bit different: digital ink. The optional (£47.99) Scribe add-on, which HTC calls a “magic pen”, is a pressure-sensitive stylus that’s designed to supplement the Flyer’s touch screen. The idea is that the Scribe offers something you can’t get from other tablets: precision.

While HTC is busily promoting its seven-inch HTC Flyer Android tablet, details of a bigger, better bit of kit are starting to emerge. According to internet rumour sites a new tablet, codenamed the HTC Puccini, will launch later this year.

The official first look video of the HTC Flyer provided by HTC, followed by hands on demos from the recent MWC, courtesy of PhoneArena and Mobile Burn.

HTC makes some of the world’s most popular Android smartphones, so the news that it’s making the HTC Flyer tablet is going to make lots of people happy. With the iPad 2 imminent, is it too late to the party?