Smartphones have not yet penetrated far into China, but HTC is looking to change that in 2013 by offering its cheapest phones yet in the emerging market.

HTC Chief Financial Officer Chang Chia-Lin said in a conference call on Monday that the Taiwanese company will soon begin offering smartphones for under $320 (UK£203, AU$306), the current lowest tier of HTC phone available in China.

Chang told investors that HTC will focus more on emerging markets in general in 2013. It started with Myanmar last month, and it looks like China is up next.

He said the smartphone maker wants to make prices lower, but not too low - they're shooting for between 1,000 and 2,000 yuan, or $160 (UK£101, AU$153) and $320 (UK£203, AU$306).

Falling fortunes

Reuters reported on Monday that HTC predicts revenue in Q1 could drop as much as 17 percent from the past three months.

The Taiwanese company predicted first-quarter revenue of T$50 billion to T$60 billion (US$1.69-2.03 billion, UK£1.07-1.28 billion, AU$1.61-1.94 billion), compared to T$60 billion in Q4 2012 and T$65.75 billion (US$2.22 billion, UK£1.41 billion, AU$2.13 billion) one year prior.

Profit margins will remain flat at best, according to the company.

Hopefully HTC's M7, the company's next Android flagship, thought to be launching Feb. 19 with a release date March 8, can help straighten things out.

Chang also hinted at other new products that have yet to be announced, according to Reuters.

Blame Apple and Samsung

Unsurprisingly, Apple and Samsung's increasing global dominance are likely to blame for HTC's falling fortunes.

Apple's revenue in Greater China in December was up 60 percent year-over-year, to $7.3 billion. Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to continue focusing more on the region in the near future, according to Reuters.

Samsung, for its part, scored a record profit of $8.3 billion in Q4, an 89 percent increase, according to Reuters.

The Korean company recently invested $58.9 million (UK£37 million, AU$56.4 million) in Wacom, a stylus company.

AMD has announced a new game bundle for those who purchase a Radeon HD 7800 or Radeon 7900 series graphics card. The promotion, aptly named Never Settle: Reloaded, is a follow-up to last year’s Never Settle bundle that offers a variety of titles depending on which card and how many you buy.

Those picking up a new HD 7800 series card will receive a free download code for BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider and Far Cry 3. This promotion is only available for residents of North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Australia, New Zealand and Korea.

Gamers worldwide that purchase a single HD 7900 series card will receive a download code for Crysis 3 and BioShock Infinite. In the event that you buy two HD 7900 series cards (or a dual GPU card like the ASUS ROG Ares II) or a single HD 7990 GPU, you’ll receive codes for Crysis 3, BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Sleeping Dogs, HitMan: Absolute and Far Cry 3 – granted you reside in North America or EMEA.

AMD points out that there are a few substitutions and restrictions to be aware of. For example, those living in the Asia Pacific region will receive the new Devil May Cry game instead of Tomb Raider. Apparently that series is more popular than Tomb Raider among the locals.

Furthermore, if you live in the UK and pick up the aforementioned ROG Ares II card, you’ll get the following eight games instead of the six listed above: Crysis 3, BioShock Infinite, DiRT Showdown, Far Cry 3, Hitman: Absolution, Sleeping Dogs, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Nexuiz.

For the games that aren’t available yet, the graphics card retailer will provide you with a coupon code to use when they become available. Simply head over to the Never Settle: Reloaded landing page to redeem your coupon codes.

Though jailbreaks for the iPhone 5 were previously readily availableto developers, the public at large didn't have any options for cracking Apple's restrictive iOS 6.

There had been plenty of instances of prior iPhone jailbreaks happening, but to this point, the iPhone 5 had proven particularly challenging for hackers.

However, that all changed Monday when a group known as the Evad3rs team finally released an untethered jailbreak for iOS 6 devices, including the iPhone 5, downloadable by anyone with a computer.

The Evasi0n jailbreak allows users to run and download apps not approved by Apple right alongside the regular and certified downloads already on the device.

Flood gates opened

With so many users eagerly anticipating a way to jailbreak their iPhones and iPads, Evad3r's servers were pushed to the limits as soon as Evasi0n went live.

While the number of visitors currently on the group's website wasn't necessarily indicative of the number of downloads, according to one of Evasi0n's developers, some 270,000 users were active when the download went live.

Shortly after, another of the Evad3r devs tweeted downloaders had burned through 1TB of data on a hosting server in just ten minutes.

Based on the file size of Evasi0n, the dev estimated the file had been downloaded more than 100,000 times in that time frame.

A few hours later, that same developer revealed the downloads had surpassed 4.2TB on the same server, which put the number of downloads close to 500,000.

Five feet high and rising

With more and more users downloading the jailbreak, and others getting temporarily shut out due to the immense amount of downloads, there's no telling where the number will peak at the end of Evasi0n's first day.

The current pace of 500,000 downloads every two hours is pretty astronomical, and isn't likely sustainable for long duration.

That said, according to alternative app store Cydia, where many of Evasi0n's new users will flock for unregulated apps, there are nearly 23 million devices currently hooked into the store.

Now that devices like the iPhone 5, iPad 4, and iPhone 4S can access Cydia, that ecosystem is likely to grow quite a bit in the coming days.