Report: HTC says goodbye to Windows Phone 8 - ZDNet.de

class=”wp_keywordlink”> HTC supposedly does not want a device with Windows Phone 8 and instead develop more fully to Android focus. Reported that the Taiwanese industry portal Digitimes, citing anonymous industry sources.

The reason for the withdrawal is therefore HTC in its ever-dwindling market share. Nokia has been saved with its Lumia series now 80 percent of the market for Windows Phone. HTC finds himself as a former leader in the segment with a share of less than 5 percent now only ranked third behind Samsung again. 2008 produced the world, 70 percent of all Windows Mobile Smartphones ago.

In the spring of 2011 there came Microsoft , which did not remain without consequences for HTC strategic cooperation between Nokia and. In the fourth quarter of last year, HTC tried again to start using new WP8 devices like the Windows Phone 8S and 8X again retrieve shares in Windows Phone segment – but without resounding success. Nokia sat in Windows Phone 8 race for the favor of the buyer against the competition through. This was the Finns, not least through the introduction of many new models and specialization in the Windows operating system, the Symbian displaced as the default OS.

As a result, HTC focused increasingly on the development of Android devices. It offers the HTC One moment an absolute high-end model that easily with competitors such as Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Google Nexus 4 or Apple’s iPhone 5 may compete .

now HTC is working to get back into the Top 5 of the most successful smartphone manufacturers. According to recent figures from Gartner, this currently consists of industry leader Samsung, Apple , LG, Lenovo and ZTE. Android now holds 79 percent of the worldwide smartphone market. On iOS accounts for 14.2 percent. Windows Phone with 3.3 percent now BlackBerry OS (2.7 percent) for the first time overtaken and secured the third place.

LG had retired in the past year due to disappointing sales of Windows Phone. Together with HTC, it was one of the first manufacturers to put Windows Phone 7 devices on the market.

[with material from Anja pouty-Trautmann, CNET.de]

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