Apple is reportedly working on not one but two iPhone models this year, including what sounds like the long-rumored iPhone Mini, according to a report out of Taiwan this week.

The company plans to launch both an iPhone 5S and a low-cost iPhone model in the third quarter of 2013, claims industry sources who talked to the sometimes-reliable DigiTimes.

The cheaper iPhone's specs are said to be comparable to the smaller iPhone 4S model, which syncs up with what we have heard about the iPhone Mini.

While the low-cost smartphone may have a less advanced display and processor, the iPhone 5S is rumored to double its predecessor's pixel count to almost 1.5 million.

'We haven't so far'

This iPhone Mini news comes at the same time Apple CEO Tim Cook said his company decided against releasing multiple smartphones at once.

"We haven't so far," said Cook at the to All Things Digital in response to a question about why there aren't a range of new iPhone models out every year.

"It takes a lot of work, a lot of really detailed work, to do a phone right, when you manage the hardware, software and services around it."

"We've chosen to focus our energy on getting those right. And we've made the choices in order to do that. So we haven't become defocused [by] working on multiple lines."

Cook's "so far" comment leaves the door open to Apple making multiple iPhone models simultaneously in the future, just as the company did with the iPod years ago.

All iPhones on September

The iPhone 5S and rumored iPhone Mini are expected to start mass production in June and be released in September.

Although a low-cost iPhone has been predicted before every smartphone-focused Apple press conference in recent history, 2013 may be the year the rumors actually pan out.

That's because Samsung may come out with a smaller version of its Galaxy S4 smartphone, dubbed the Samsung Galaxy S4 mini, making an iPhone Mini all the more relevant.

• Between now and the new iPhone launch, read our WWDC coverage for more information on Apple's upcoming computer hardware announcements.

Samsung has been using its dominant position in the mobile component business to harm rivals, according to a senior HTC official.

Jack Tong, the president of HTC North Asia, has reportedly said Samsung "strategically declined" to supply his company with the AMOLED displays that had featured in 2010's brilliant HTC Desire handset.

According to the Focus Taiwan report, Tong accused Samsung of using components as a "competitive weapon" to sabotage companies it sees as a threat to its market-leading position in Android devices.

"We found that key component supply can be used as a competitive weapon," he said.

Keeping it local

Tong said that since Samsung's change of heart, HTC and other Taiwanese companies such as Acer and Asus have sought to keep mobile component makers working in the country to ensure a good supply.

He also said those companies are attempting to persuade foreign parts manufacturers to relocate to Taiwan in order to lower manufacturing costs.

The report follows plenty of speculation that Apple is actively looking to move away from Samsung as a content supplier as a result of the pair's endless legal battles.

TechRadar asked HTC for further comment and will update this story if and when a response is forthcoming.

X did mark the spot: Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside announced today that the company's new "hero" handset will be called the Moto X.

Woodside, speaking at the AllThingsD D11 conference, uttered the name of the device, putting to bed all the "Motorola X Phone" name rumors. This will be the first major product to come out of Motorola since Google purchased the company last year.

In fact, the device is already out in the wild...sort of.

"It's in my pocket, but I can't show it to you," Woodside teased. Android head Sundar Pichair has also apparently laid eyes on the device, though Woodside assured the company doesn't use its proximity to Android to gain an unfair advantage.

Halloween haunt

The Moto X will be built the same Texas plant where Nokia handsets used to come to life. Seventy percent of the handset will be built on U.S. soil, making it the first smartphone built in the country, Woodside said. It will be broadly distributed, which isn't the clearest phrase but could very well mean international availability.

The hero phone isn't all: Woodside said that people should expect a "handful" of new Motorola handsets by October.

Besides tempting us to pick his pocket, Woodside revealed that the Moto X will house a number of tightly integrated sensors that will, for example, cause the handset to act differently if a car is traveling 60 miles per hour, allowing for safer user interaction.

The device will also draw little power, Woodside noted, and we expect now that the cat is out of the bag, we'll hear much more on this X phone soon.

Huawei took to Facebook today to confirm that the super slip Ascend P6 Android phone will be officially unveiled on June 18.

"On June 18th, Huawei will unleash an intimate experience to consumers," reads a post on Huawei's official Facebook page with a close-up photo of the Ascend P6.

The June 18 date was previously teased when Huawei Device Chairman Richard Yu posted on the Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo that the Ascend P6 will be revealed during a London event on that day.

This is the first confirmation we've received that the P6 will be present at that event, though.

Bragging rights

Huawei used this opportunity to brag about the Ascend P6's signature feature: its thinness.

"We do everything to the fullest," the Chinese company wrote. "The Huawei Ascend P6 challenges all phones to be the thinnest, smallest, and one of the most compact smart phones with a screen that can rival it's competitors.

"Care to guess how large the screen to body ratio is?" it added.

We've no idea, but the 6.2mm-thin phone will be the slimmest on the market when it debuts.

Its rumored specs include a 4.7-inch HD display, 1.5GHz quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, a 5MP camera and Android Jelly Bean.

Facebook may be one of the most dominant social networks of all time, but the company has struggled to find its footing beyond the confines of the world wide web.

With Facebook Home, Zuckerberg and crew seemed poised to finally make a big splash on smartphones that could expand the network's outreach on mobile devices.

It's strange to think of Facebook Home having 1 million users being a bit of a disappointment, but when you consider more than one billion members comprise Facebook globally, the disparity is hard to ignore.

That doesn't seem to bother the executives at the social network though, as they see the adoption and growth of Facebook Home as a long haul effort.

Homeward bound

Speaking at the D: All Things D conference on Wednesday, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talked a bit about the network's vision for Home.

"I think it will be a long road. [The smartphone is] an incredibly powerful device and social device," Sandberg said.

"We believe that the phone will get reorganized around people — Home is the first iteration of that."

Home hasn't exactly set the world on fire, and even though its available on a myriad of Android devices like the HTC One, Samsung Galaxy S4, and the dismally received (at least at retail) HTC First.

Even those who have been brave enough to make the jump to Home have a fair share of complaints, but Sandberg promised those voices are being heard.

"We consider [Home] a v.1, a very early version," Sandberg said. "We would love if we could put out a v.1 version and get everything right."

Home is supposed to be updated monthly, and time will tell if Sandberg and the rest of the Facebook team are right in believing Home has what it takes to survive amidst the rapidly changing smartphone landscape.