HTC has confirmed that its smartphone shipments for March and April have not been affected by the earthquake that devastated Japan a few days ago. HTC CEO Peter Chou made the statement during a conference earlier today.
While HTC may be unaffected in the short term, it may be a different story for other manufacturers or over the longer term. Shipments of components such as touchscreen panels, flexible PCBs, memory and Li-ion batteries could all be affected going forward as some source materials come from Japan.