You might have heard us talking about HTC’s plans to launch high end feature phones a few times this year. HTC has plans to launch a new series of handsets that would run on Qualcomm’s Brew Mobile Platform which would allow them to reach out to a wider customer base. Unfortunately, word has come in that HTC will be delaying the launch of their Brew MP handsets until early 2010. The setback is not coming from HTC, but from Qualcomm and Brew’s immature platform. Qualcomm is struggling to get mobile developers on board to develop a Java virtual machine, browser, and other multimedia functionality for Brew. I really like the idea of HTC broadening their horizon and trying to reach out to more customers, but I’m not really convinced that going with a new mobile OS is the right choice. HTC has been working hard to make the user experience on their Windows Mobile and Android phones as streamlined as possible, adding Brew MP into the mix could only cause a bit of confusion. We’ll just have to wait to see how things play out over the next few months.
Source: DigiTimes
