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Friday, October 8, 2010

HTC mum on tablet plan

2010/10/08 14:02:14
Taipei, Oct. 8 (CNA) The chief executive of HTC Corp., the world's largest maker of smartphones using the Google and Microsoft operating systems, declined to confirm or deny Thursday the company's reported plan to join the global rush to launch a tablet computer early next year.

Speaking to reporters at HTC's biggest product-launch event in Asia, CEO Peter Chou said he would not comment on reports speculating that HTC will launch a Google Android-based tablet computer in the first quarter of next year.

He said an overwhelming number of companies have been trying to occupy a share of the booming market.

More than 100 companies said at this year's Consumer Electronics Show that they will launch e-readers or tablets, Chou said.

This makes the tablet computer market "less appealing," he added.

Chao also expressed belief that there is still great potential for smartphone growth and he predicted that annual sales of the devices will reach 500 to 600 million units in two or three years.

Chou confirmed that HTC sold 16 million smartphones in the first three quarters of this year, which is higher than its total sales of 11 million units last year.

At the launch event, HTC introduced its new Desire HD and Desire Z, which run on Android 2.2, the latest version of Google's operating system, and which will be available in Asia in November.

Chou forecast that more than 1 million units for each new smartphone will be sold by the end of this year, as most of the previous models launched earlier this year have seen sales of at least 1 million units each.

In the Asian market, he said, the company's sales grew 200 percent this year. The goal is to boost the Asian market's share of HTC's total revenues to 33 percent, with the U.S. and European markets accounting for the rest, he added.

HTC is now the world's fourth-largest smartphone bra