HTC sells 2 million Touch devices in 2007
Jan 27th, 2008 by RedPepper
Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC sold 2 million of the Microsoft-based mobile phones it developed to compete with the iPhone last year, the Touch family of handsets.
At last week’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco Apple CEO Steve Jobs said his company had sold 4 million iPhones since launch. The HTC Touch uses Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 software and has a touch screen that takes up most of its face, similar to the iPhone. The Touch was launched in June of last year, just weeks ahead of the iPhone.
The company sold 11.8 million handsets overall last year, a roughly 12 percent increase over 2006, executives said.
Strong sales of the handset helped HTC’s revenue grow nearly 12 percent last year as well, and the company already sees good prospects for the first quarter of this year.
Source: Modaco