HTC has announced a partnership with Beats Electronics which'll see the company incorporate the Dr Dre audio tech into its range of mobile products.

Beats Electronics - which currently includes its tech in HP computers [1] as well as the HP TouchPad [2] - now has a mobile-phone platform to show off its "high-performance" sound.

HTC has the exclusive rights to market the tech to phones too, after it acquired a $300m majority stake [3] in the company, AllThingsD reports.

It's all spend at HTC then, following last week's $18.5m takeover of US web-based application developer Dashwire [4].

The first HTC phones with Beats [5] on board will launch later this year, although further details are as yet unknown.

The phone manufacturer has announced up to eight new handsets for Q3 [6] this year, though, so we'll keep our eyes peeled for that prevalent "b" icon and let you know when these 'ringers with attitude' start to appear. ®

Links

1. http://www.reghardware.com/2011/01/04/hp_new_range/
2. http://www.reghardware.com/2011/07/18/review_tablets_hp_touchpad/
3. http://allthingsd.com/20110810/seeking-street-cred-htc-investing-300-million-in-beats-electronics/
4. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/05/htc_buys_dashwire/
5. http://www.htc.com/europe/press.aspx?id=173356&lang=1033
6. http://cens.com/cens/html/en/news/news_inner_37181.html

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