The sun isn't even up yet, so there's not any new information this early on the status, but there is one HTC update from overnight:
Taiwan Economics Minister offers assistance, if needed, to resolve current customs issues dealing with the Apple patent.
Taipei, May 17 (CNA) Minister of Economic Affairs Shih Yen-shiang said Thursday his ministry will provide smartphone vendor HTC Corp. with assistance, if necessary, to deal with the ongoing litigation on patent infringement brought against the Taiwanese firm by rival Apple Inc.
Shih told lawmakers at a legislative session that the ministry has kept in close touch with HTC to keep informed of the progress of the particular litigation.
Also, a question from the inbox overnight, asked by about 100 people...
Where is the sprint warehouse?/Do you have any info on the Sprint warehouse?
Those not in the industry may find this odd - but Sprint actually doesn't have a warehouse. At least not in the traditional sense. Our primary 'warehouse' is actually outsourced (as with almost everything in the enterprise) to UPS. It's UPS employees that run the operation, answer the phones, process the return kits, ship out your new phones, and yes they even do the basic phone repairs(Level 1-3). And it's almost entirely automated, in a 500,000 sq/ft space in Louisville, KY. And yes, there is a bonded customs area (foreign trade zone) within the complex as well, for international shipments(hint: think HTC). While I've never been there in person, I was able to find a couple of older articles about it, one of them cited "a highly automated UPS fulfillment system utilizing four pick modules which are three layers high and over 200 feet long. Capacity is available to handle 65,000 orders a day". I'll try to dig around internally today and see what other info I can find on it, but as it's outsourced, I'm not sure just how munch info we have on the actual day to day operations, other than processes.
*UPDATE* Thanks to a tip from reader Dan - here's a video that gives a rare glimpse into the Sprint warehouse:
http://pressroom.ups.com/Video/UPS+Delivers+for+Sprint
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