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HTC made 34 million in profit last quarter.

…that is the same HTC that said in September of 2011:

Apple is innovating. Samsung is innovating. We are innovating. Everybody is innovating. And everybody is doing different things for the end consumers. I brought my daughter back to college — she’s down in Portland at Reed — and I talked to a few of the kids on her floor. And none of them has an iPhone because they told me: ‘My dad has an iPhone.’ There’s an interesting thing that’s going on in the market. The iPhone becomes a little less cool than it was. They were carrying HTCs. They were carrying Samsungs. They were even carrying some Chinese manufacture’s devices. If you look at a college campus, Mac Book Airs are cool. iPhones are not that cool anymore. We here are using iPhones, but our kids don’t find them that cool anymore.

Apple’s Q4 profits you ask?

8.2 billion.

A first look at the HTC Apple license agreement

Even though it’s heavily redacted, there’s still lots to be learned from it.

Mainly:

- Apple isn’t paying HTC anything. HTC is doing all the paying, which is probably going to hurt the feelings of many on the internet who claimed otherwise.

- None of Apple’s design patents are included in the settlement, which is really bad news for Samsung who wanted to see the license in the first place to show that those patents were covered by the deal too.

Apple and HTC settle all patent litigation

Apple has announced that it has settled all patent litigation with HTC. All lawsuits will be dropped, and the licensing deal is for 10 years, covering all current and all future patents by the two companies.

The terms remain confidential – but I’m sure they’ll leak eventually, at least in part.

So, it seems pretty much everybody but Google, Motorola, and Samsung have settled with Microsoft, and now Apple.

Samsung blew it – according to Vlad Savov (@vladsavov) of the Verge.

Vlad Savov for The Verge:

How Samsung broke my heart.

Talking about the Galaxy SIII:

So what did we get? The Siri-imitating S Voice, a quad-core SoC that’s already been announced for the Meizu MX, a suite of camera enhancements that rips off HTC’s ImageSense wholesale, and a signature animated lock screen that emulates interaction with water, something that’s been a live wallpaper option on Android phones since 2010. Oh, and industrial design and build quality that you’ll find on any anonymous South Korean MP3 player…

We’re told not to be sheep, yet Samsung itself is just falling in line with the herd. The company seems oblivious to the sense of betrayal this has engendered in the informed consumer.

Ouch.

HTC thinks we need less battery life, and thinner phones.

Chris Ziegler for The Verge: HTC: Customers prefer thinner phones to better battery life

At an event today, HTC’s vice president of product strategy Bjorn Kilburn noted that the company had conducted research last year to find out whether customers preferred thin smartphones to those which compromised thickness for better battery life. The answer, interestingly, was that they generally preferred thinness, at which point its plans for 3,000mAh-plus devices were removed from the roadmap.

This sounds an awful lot like the research they did on iPhones not being “hip” anymore.

I’m not saying that consumers do not want thinner phones, but definitely not at the expense of battery life. I think the current iPhone is just about perfect. Maybe shaving one or two millimeters off would be even better, but not if that meant I would have to recharge the battery more often.