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HTC experienced tremendous growth this past year as Android completely exploded and Windows Phone 7 was introduced. In 2010, 20 million smartphones were shipped globally and HTC continued to smash sales expectations. Now, they’re getting a bit more ambitious as they’re looking to ship three times that amount – 60 million. We’re not sure if they expect that many to sell in actual retail channels – and I’m even having a hard time believing they can. But that’s why I’m not part of one of the fastest growing phone manufacturers in the latter half of this decade. [via DigiTimes]
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My last three phones were HTC (G1, N1, & G2). Some people complain about HTC but I’ve found the build quality to be really good, and each of those phones were great looking as far as style goes. Good for HTC to be increasing production.
The only problem I see with this; if they make so many phones that they become to spread out to keep up with the updates. So far I have only owned the G1/N1/G2, so updates have been great so far…still need to see on the G2. I just can’t imagine being stuck in android 1.6, while you know in 2.1/2.2/2.3 there is so much more functionality free for your use. My son has the Vibrant, still waiting on 2.2 to come in and now 2.3 is out, with Samsung not coming out strong saying they will support 2.3 for the Galaxy S series…not good!
theres a billion people in china
and another billion in india
between these there are probably *50 million* MILLIONAIRES
shipping 60 million units? yeah, i think they can.
Great, maybe they can start with the HTC Merge.
The problem with manufacturing more phones is that the phone Hardware and Software quality will drop, because they’ll manufacture some phones in China (contrary to their phones being made in Taiwan the home country of HTC).
I am hoping to stay the same as now.
Keep in mind that HTC did sell out of select models this year (for a variety of reasons). HTC is likely also crunching the numbers of expected growth, activations, etc. With the quality they tend to produce, if they project 200% growth in sales, I’m inclined to believe they’ll achieve close to it. Remember that this was Android’s breakout year. Now that it is a mainstream competitor…the sky is the limit, as they say.
“The problem with manufacturing more phones is that the phone Hardware and Software quality will drop, because they’ll manufacture some phones in China (contrary to their phones being made in Taiwan the home country of HTC).”.
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I thought Apple produce their phones in China.And so far its going strong
60 million and not one quality phone will come to At&t.
As long as they aren’t expecting the extra 2/3rds to come from WinPho7 they might actually succeed.
You know they have some new bomb a$$ phones up their sleeves to make sales projections like that. It will be interesting to see if and how much WinMo7 phones take off this year?
People still use at&t? I thought the only subscribers they had were iHomos…