Friday, May 24, 2013

HTC One reaches five million sales mark - ZDNet.de

HTC’s flagship smartphone HTC One has since its market launch in March found around five million buyers. This was confirmed by an unnamed manager of the Taiwanese phone manufacturer’s Wall Street Journal.

“The orders have been pretty good and still be about what we can deliver,” the manager continued. The bottlenecks he founded with a shortage of components from suppliers, for the HTC itself could not. Next month, they should be corrected. An expansion of production capacity, the manufacturer announced a week ago to.

 The HTC one (left) with his main rival Galaxy S4 and iPhone 5 (Image: Josh Miller / CNET)

The HTC one (left) with his main rival Galaxy S4 and iPhone 5 (Image: Josh Miller / CNET)

HTC has struggled in recent years with considerable problems, because the demand for its devices has waned. Although five million units sold to date jetztigen not sound bad, warned the manager that it was still too early to say “whether or not it really works well.”

Like all other smaller smartphone manufacturer HTC is struggling against the overwhelming competition from Apple and especially Samsung . The Koreans had just launched its new flagship model Galaxy S4 the end of April on the market. Meanwhile, it was already shipped more than ten million copies, making it the most successful Samsung smartphone.

How large is the discrepancy between the two industry giants and HTC, can be illustrated by the sales of the iPhone 5 read: Apple had the mark of 5 million units sold already opening weekend achieved.

[With material by Don Reisinger, News.com]

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