HTC said its sales rose 31 percent in the third quarter, but that its profit, while coming in at $220 million, was 4.9 percent lower than the same period last year.
The Taiwanese handset maker, which is manufacturing T-Mobile's G1 [1], the first handset powered by Google's Android operating system, said its sales dipped because "typhoon weather" limited some shipments in September. The company's revenues rose 30 percent to $1.2 billion.
The handset maker has also been increasing its own line of phones, especially in its Touch series, and said it expected 20 percent to 30 percent revenue growth for 2008.
For more:
- see this article [2]
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Links:
[1] http://www.fiercewireless.com/slideshow/images-t-mobile-g1-android-handset-white-version?img=0
[2] http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/smartphones/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210700300
[3] http://www.fiercewireless.com/../../story/video-t-mobile-g1-ad/2008-09-23
[4] http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/htc-2-million-android-phones-sold-end-09/2008-10-02?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&cmp-id=OTC-RSS-FW0
[5] http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/googles-android-phone-capture-4-percent-market/2008-09-19