We all know that HTC has never been in the same categories as the other big players in the handset market. Samsung, Nokia, LG, and all the other handset manufacturers churn through millions of phone per months, while HTC struggles to hit those same numbers in a quarter. But with the ever-increasing adoption rate of the Android platform, HTC sales are expected to rise significantly in Q2 of 2010. HTC is expecting revenues of $1.6 billion in Q2, based on sales of 4.5 million handsets. Those numbers are significantly higher than the 3.3 million phones HTC sold in Q1. HTC’s CFO, Cheng Hui-ming the upward trend to the “growing popularity of the Android platform in Europe and the US”. It’s no secret that Android is HTC’s new OS of choice.
The HTC Incredible launched today on Verizon, and Sprint and T-Mobile are expected to launch flagship HTC Android handsets within the next month or two. We still do not know what HTC has planned for Windows Phone 7 later in the year, but we can be sure that the sales numbers from HTC will continue to trend upwards.
Source: Financial Times
