Wednesday, August 14, 2013

HTC withdraws from smartphones with Windows Phone 8 back - CNET.de

LG obviously also now runs on HTC Window Phone 8 operating system back. The Taiwanese want to focus more on Android.

According to a report by Digitimes, the Taiwanese company HTC intends to adopt all probability, Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 8 smartphones. The reason is the decline of its market share to less than five percent. Nokia now holds against 80 percent in this segment, Samsung is behind it as the second largest provider of Windows Phone 8 devices.

The South Korean company LG, which was one of the pioneers of the first HTC devices running Windows Phone 7 last year, has already withdrawn from the Microsoft operating system.

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HTC introduced worldwide in 2008 approximately 70 percent of all Windows Mobile Smartphones ago and was the clear market leader in Windows Phone smartphones. Due to the growing popularity of Android is HTC, however, had increasingly focused in recent years on the Google operating system.

In spring 2011 there were strategic Nokia and Microsoft, which did not remain without consequences for HTC to cooperate. In the fourth quarter of last year, HTC tried again to start using new Windows Phone 8 smartphones, such as the Windows Phone 8S and 8X again retrieve shares in Windows Phone segment. However, without resounding success. Nokia sat in Windows Phone 8 race for the favor of the buyer, not least through the introduction of many new models and specializing purely on the Windows operating system with HTC through. In the second quarter, the market share of Windows Phone devices, IDC was already at least 3.7 percent.

HTC now wants to concentrate again on Android and working under high pressure from returning back into the top-5 of the Android smartphone manufacturer.

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