Mobile: No HTC smartphones more with Windows Phone 8 - Golem.de

HTC will build no more smartphones with Windows Phone eighth As a basic Nokia Lumia smartphones are listed. Instead, the Taiwanese manufacturer wants to fully concentrate on the more successful Android platform.

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There will probably be no new smartphones more with Windows Phone 8 from HTC, reports the trade publication Digitimes, referring to unspecified insider. The reason for the withdrawal from the development of new Windows Phone smartphones is stated that so far failed to a significant success for Microsoft’s smartphone platform. In the second quarter of 2013, the Windows Phone platform came to a market share of 3.7 percent. On Android accounted for 79.3 percent and iOS came to 13.2 percent market share.

In the area of ??Windows Phone smartphones Nokia leads the market segment, and HTC is only in third place behind Samsung. Before it came strategic partnership between Nokia and Microsoft to collaborate, HTC was the leader in the Windows Phone smartphones. Currently is Nokia’s market share for the manufacturers of Windows Phone smartphones at about 80 percent.

HTC restart the end of 2012 was not successful

In the fourth quarter of 2012, HTC made a new start in this area, bringing new smartphones with Windows Phone 8 to the market. Very successful, the devices were but probably not – especially in comparison with the sales of HTC’s Android smartphones

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Nokia is the only smartphone manufacturer that relies entirely on Microsoft’s smartphone platform. The other operators are concentrated mainly on devices running Google’s Android operating system and market the Windows Phone smartphones less intense. In the area of ??Windows Phone smartphones, Samsung has the second rank – with a market share of 11.5 percent

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Even before the launch of Windows Phone 8, LG withdrew from this area. In May 2012, it was announced that LG will not offer more smartphones with Microsoft’s mobile operating system more. LG and HTC among the manufacturers who have taken to the launch of Windows Phone 7 first devices with the operating system on the market.

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