HTC sold 2 million of its iPhone-rival handset last year
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Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC sold 2 million of the Microsoft-based mobile phones it developed to compete with the iPhone last year, the &#39;Touch&#39; family of handsets.At last week&#39;s Macworld Expo in San Francisco Apple CEO Steve Jobs said his company had sold 4 million iPhones since launch.The HTC Touch&#160;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, an roughly 12 percent increase over 2006, executives said.Strong sales of the handset helped HTC&#39;s revenue grow nearly 12 percent last year as well, and the company already sees good prospects for the first quarter of this year.&quot;The first quarter looks good, it will be a lot better than our first quarter last year,&quot; said Peter Chou, president and CEO of HTC, at a year-end party Friday evening. Companies in Taiwan and throughout China typically host parties around this time of year as the Lunar New Year is approaching.Some of the global economic issues that have hurt stock markets, including subprime mortgages and fears of recession in the U.S. have no impacted HTC so far in the first quarter.&quot;We&#39;ve seen no impact from global economic turmoil. We feel pretty good about this quarter,&quot; said Chou.&#160;
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David Flashner thought he had it wired: Buy two iPhones last Friday when they first went on sale, keep one, and sell the other at a profit so big it would pay for most of the first one.
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Apple Inc's  chief Steve Jobs said on Tuesday the company had sold 4 million iPhones.
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Deutsche Telekom's  mobile  phone division, T-Mobile, said on Wednesday it won a deal to  sell Apple's  iPhone and said the price would be 399  euros ($558), as reported last week by Reuters.
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Mobile phone operator O2 is reported to have won the battle to sell Apple's iPhone in the UK.
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Blog: AT&#38;T said it signed up 146,000 iPhone subscribers in the first two days of selling the iPhone, but the true promise of the iPhone won't likely kick in until next year.
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Apple said yesterday it has sold a million of its popular iPhones, reassuring investors who were worried that last week's price cut meant sales had been weak.
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In his Macworld 2008 keynote Tuesday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs told the audience that the company has sold 4 million iPhones in the 200 days since it went on sale.
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AT&T said over the weekend that it had nearly sold out of its entire stock of iPhones, while Apple Stores were reportedly not far behind. An analyst with Piper Jaffray said that 500,000 phones had been sold nationwide over the weekend.
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Speculators return them to stores Some were boasting from their camps outside Apple stores before the iPhone rush began, of how much money they would make on eBay auctions; and apparently, at least one optimist let it be known that $2,000 would be needed to buy a $600 iPhone.â¦
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Taiwan smartphone maker High Tech  Computer Corp. (HTC)  said on Tuesday it will launch  one of its own-brand touch-screen phones in the United States  by the end of the year, as it seeks to compete with Apple's   iPhone.
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Apple Inc  said on Monday it  has sold its one-millionth iPhone, just days after it cut the  price of its smartphone by $200.
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Smartphone maker High Tech Computer (HTC) has started taking advance online orders for its Shift ultramobile PC in partnership with one of Taiwan&#39;s largest electronic chains.The company plans to sell as many as 200 units through the advance online ordering system run by Taiwan&#39;s 3C electronics chain store, which is owned by Tsann Kuen Enterprise.The Shift sells for NT$45,900 (US$1,418) each on the site.&quot;Orders will be delivered in mid-February. We&#39;re already in production on the device,&quot; said Azucena Lin, a deputy manager at HTC.HTC&#39;s ultramobile PC&#160;was announced to fanfare because it combines more of the hardware associated with mobile telecommunications than some other ultramobile PCs. The Shift can connect to Wi-Fi or to 3.5G (advanced third generation mobile telecommunications) HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) services to download data and remain connected to the Internet. It can also be used as a mobile phone and includes support for GSM (global system for mobile telecommunications), GPRS (general packet radio system) and EDGE (enhanced data rates for GSM evolution).The PC side of the ultramobile starts with its 7-inch LCD (liquid crystal display) touch screen, slide out QWERTY keyboard and Windows Vista Business OS. HTC added other extras to make the device even more attractive, including GPS (global positioning system) and push e-mail.
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Analysts are mulling over&#160;Apple&#39;s iPhone sales numbers&#160;and are alarmed at a perceived discrepancy in the figures.Apple claims slightly over 3.7 million iPhones were sold in 2007 -- yet&#160;AT&amp;T this week revealed&#160;it ended the year with &quot;just at or sightly under two million iPhone customers&quot;.That two million has been boosted somewhat by an estimated 300,000-400,000 sales in Europe, analysts believe.The discrepancy is that the 3.7 million iPhones Apple says it has sold and the estimated 2.4 million sold by its network partners still leaves 1.3 million of the devices unaccounted for.That implies that around one in three iPhones are being purchased in order to&#160;unlock the device&#160;for use on other networks and/or for use with unapproved third party applications.While it&#39;s possible some iPhones were sold over the Christmas period but not activated immediately as new users (perhaps) worked to cancel their existing mobile contracts, the discrepancy still implies an active market for unlocked iPhones.Apple chief operating officer Tim Cook told analysts this week that the company believes the number of unlocked iPhones in the wild to be &quot;significant,&quot; but declined to furnish accurate figures.Toni Sacconaghi of Bernstein Research cites these figures in order to claim a substantial market in unlocked iPhones, and speculates this news may also mean a build-up in iPhone inventory.&quot;It indicates end-user demand for iPhone is lower than many investors may think based on Apple&#39;s sales figure -- and it points to slower iPhone sales in the current quarter, since much of this inventory is likely to be drawn down,&quot; the analyst explains.Macworld.co.uk is an InfoWorld affiliate.
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Like the iPhone, the HTC has a touch-navigation interface, although it's designed for a different audience. Still, it's pretty impressive.
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Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC has reported its sales for 2007, and it looks like the touch-screen smart phone market is more balanced than it is often portrayed to be.