HTC Touch Diamond - nearly a million handsets sold
There’s been a lot of hype around the Apple iPhone 3G which is understandable as 1 million devices were sold in 3 days from launch. But we mustn’t forget the competitors.
HTC have announced healthy sales of the Touch Diamond. HTC has sold nearly a million units of the Windows based handset since May. Now that doesn’t really match up to the iPhone but you have to remember that this is on top of sales of other mobiles from HTC.
HTC have plans to sell around 2 million Touch Diamond handsets during 2008, a figure easily achievable now that they have opened a second manufacturing plant.
This new factory, which will build Touch Diamond handsets featuring 2.5G, has been set an output target of 1 million handsets per month. These figures should help HTC hit their 2 million target by the end of 2008.
Now, that’s all well and good but 1 million units per month! That’s a lot of hardware to be pushing out and I don’t know if there will be the market for this volume. You have to consider that many other handset manufacturers are aiming for similar figures - is the market big enough for so many mobiles? I’m fairly sceptical, we’ll just have to wait and see.
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