HTC had a great year: $3.3B in revenue, DOUBLED 2009 shipments!!!
Looks Like everyone is posting their Q3 reports this week. First it was Microsoft, now HTC is reporting gigantic numbers this morning, including 3.3 BILLION in revenue. This is doubling the amount of phones shipped in 2009 to bring them to about 25 million total phones on the market! Not too bad for company who just 3 years ago went public.
On top of the news, HTC expects Android to keep going strong and yes, those huge numbers do seem to be Android related. They also seem to think WP7 will be doing well, although they had nothing significant to say on that matter. Launching five new design phones on a new OS shows their commitment though. HTC is in position to continue to explode! They now rival Samsung for #4 maker in the world, falling behind Nokia, RIM and Apple.
HTC Says in the report:
"We believe the overall pie is still big enough to have at least three to four tier-1 players enjoy the growth momentum," it said, adding that it saw "tremendous opportunities" for customers to be able to integrate other Microsoft services into Windows Phone 7 devices.
"HTC said that it also expects its fourth quarter gross profit margin to be around 30 percent".
What do you think of HTC phones, knowing that HTC is primarily a Hardware developer and not into the OS themselves to much? Is there a phone that you like better that you wish HTC would learn from? Do you think the overal pie is big enough for 4 major players or do you think something is going to come crashing down on any of them? Let us know your thoughts on best phone manufacturer and why you think that!
Source WPCentral.com and Reuters.com
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Faster Processors and more Ram Please! The OS and programs loaded along with Sense always results in a sluggish phone. Figure out what the standard user would needs in terms of a quick phone and then DOUBLE IT! Until then everyone will continue to strip their phones of the “bloat” and flash a ROM that conserves ram to the point that you might as well have a flip phone with internet and email. Still some of the most stylish though. They get points there!
Hardwarewise, HTC rules in my book!!! Keep on keeping on!!!
don’t have a problem with sense on my evo.. seems to run perfectly fine and fast to me.. I wouldn’t mind a dual core 1.5ghz processor though.. but I would imagine battery life probably sucks on that though..
Yeah, if I were going to advise HTC on what to do, it would be:
1.) Better battery life, then
2.) More aggressive phone specifications
The iPhone is very stylish, but more importantly it’s a fast and responsive phone. It wouldn’t have been as successful if it was as slow and as buggy as the TP, TP2, etc. Some of this is software related (iOS is very well-developed in general) but a good deal of it has to do with Apple making sure the phones had enough guts to ALWAYS run the system software smoothly. The Evo is an incredibly snappy phone, and it’s a step in the right direction–but its battery life is godawful. (Hence my ordering of priorities.)
Jason,
I would appreciate if you don’t plagiarize my work so much next time, m’kay? Using my exact phrases and words is just lazy, amateur and cheap.
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