The Man can't hold HTC down as it sees highest revenues ever

For the vast majority of mobile makers, the past few months have been ones they'd love to forget. For HTC, it could actually throw a party in remembrance. The outfit responsible for the Touch Pro / Diamond, Touch HD and T-Mobile G1 (among others) has reportedly witnessed its revenues skyrocket to a record high of around $528.6 million in November, which is up nearly 11% sequentially and 22.1% on the year. Oh HTC, just think how much higher that figure would be if you'd loose the Touch HD on US soil...

[Via WMPowerUser, image courtesy of CNET]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 9th 2008 2:42PM]

Instead of the Touch HD, why don't they just "one-up" that for the U.S. to the same thing with a physical keyboard. Then we can gloat about how other countries don't have it. Unfortunately we always get it late, so by the time (if) we get the Touch HD, they will have one with a keyboard.

One can dream right?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 9th 2008 2:53PM]

If they would just work their magic with Android as they have with WM and put it on the Touch HD they could have a serious iPod contender.

The Touch HD hardware (minus resistive touch screen) is better than the iPhone, they just need to loose windows mobile. Android is the perfect opportunity.

[fernando Posted Dec 9th 2008 3:28PM]

see, this is why HTC doesn't sell the goods in the US

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 9th 2008 3:58PM]

All this talk about Android better than WinMo is BS. Only geeks know what Android or opensource for that matter means. And geeks don't bring revenue. The G1 only sold well because of good marketing by T-Mobile, they've always been willing to take risks with technology. They were the first to launch a Windows Mobile phone in the US aka Pocket PC Phone Edition.

However the major cariers ATT, Sprint and Verizon have clearly hinted that Android is not ready for primetime.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 9th 2008 4:13PM]

Omoks, you are an idiot. Your comment hints at the fact you are talking completely out of your ass. You don't have to be a geek to download applications from an app store you loser. You don't have to understand open source, to install a program on a phone. That is as complicated as user interaction goes. The Open Source factor comes into play when developing, and seeing as the average consumer is not a software developer, the information you post is in no way shape of form pertinent to the argument you are trying to make. Also, you should really check your facts, because two posts above this there is a post about Android and Sprint.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 9th 2008 8:25PM]

@ BlurMagic. LOL. Crawl back down to your basement. Let us know when mommy has stopped breastfeeding you.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 10th 2008 2:59AM]

Do any of you work in a public-facing telecommunications position? Almost NO ONE understands any of this! The people who came in looking for a G1 had no idea what they were looking for really was, what they could do, how much it would cost, or why they should be in the store to begin with. Omoks was dead-on. It was marketed. Not 'well', but at least moderately successfully.
After trying the android version that someone at XDA months ago figured out how to squeeze i a Tnto a cooked ROM on a Tilt, and seeing how dead-end its been so far for T-Mo, one personal criticism is the OS's a snooze.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 10th 2008 10:53AM]

A large number of apps for windows mobile exist solely to fix the many problems with the operating system. It's slow, it crashes often, it's interface hasn't really been updated since it's inception. On top of that it's bulky so many of the apps that exist to fix its problems only further slow it down.

Those people I know who have a G1 really like it. The apps that people are working on for Android look really interesting and in many cases useful. You tell people Google Phone and they get excited. As far as the major Telecoms:
- Sprint has no idea how to run their own business, they're too busy avoiding going under
- Verizon wants complete control over EVERYTHING they sell
- AT&T wants to eventually sell only one platform of software on it's phones to both cut down on customer service/tech support costs, but to also control the content people can buy from there

Android for the Titan is in a very slow development process, not supported by HTC at all. Anybody who looks at the current results of that project and compares it at all to what a phone designed from step 1 for running Android would look like is being foolish.

[000000 Posted Dec 9th 2008 7:41PM]

The fact of the matter is Android in it's current state kind of sucks. No apps no on screen keyboard no a lot of stuff. But maybe it'll come.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 10th 2008 4:32AM]

Think how much more successful HTC would be if it wasn't running Qualcomm cpus that cripple multimedia and 3D.