{"id":660578,"date":"2013-05-28T15:50:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=616362"},"modified":"2013-05-28T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T19:50:08","slug":"htc-rumored-to-debut-liquidmetal-smartphone-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/660578","title":{"rendered":"HTC rumored to debut \u2018Liquidmetal\u2019 smartphone this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/28\/htc-liquidmetal-smartphone-release-date-rumor\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/bgr-htc-one-review-3.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"HTC Liquidmetal Smartphone\" title=\"HTC Liquidmetal Smartphone\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>A new report suggests that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/htc\">HTC<\/a> may be looking to get a jump on <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> by offering a &#8220;Liquidmetal&#8221; smartphone later this year. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/news\/a20130527PD213.html\">According to <em>Digitimes<\/em><\/a>, HTC is considering adopting\u00a0amorphous metal alloys for a new smartphones that would debut in the second half of 2013. The company will reportedly partner with Taiwanese chassis maker Jabon International to help manufacture the device. Apple has <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2010\/08\/09\/apple-licenses-liquid-metal-technologies-amorphous-metals-coming-to-idevices\/\">long been rumored<\/a> to be interested in using Liquidmetal alloys in future iPhones. The company has reportedly begun hiring chassis manufacturing experts to help incorporate the technology into future products, and last year <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/06\/20\/apple-liquidmetal-technologies-ip-agreement-2014\/\">extended its partnership with Liquidmetal Technologies<\/a> for an additional two years. Sources speaking to <em>Digitimes<\/em> note, however, that market demand for aluminum smartphones such as <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/23\/htc-one-sales-2013\/\">the HTC One remains strong<\/a> and &#8220;full adoption of Liquidmetal is unlikely to occur in the short-term.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/TG94ZnpVB8c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report suggests that HTC may be looking to get a jump on Apple by offering a &#8220;Liquidmetal&#8221; smartphone later this year. According to Digitimes, HTC is considering adopting\u00a0amorphous metal alloys for a new smartphones that would debut in the second half of 2013. The company will reportedly partner with Taiwanese chassis maker Jabon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}