{"id":517809,"date":"2010-04-06T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/?p=110902"},"modified":"2010-04-06T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T16:00:34","slug":"for-htc-android-brings-growth-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/517809","title":{"rendered":"For HTC, Android Brings Growth & Profits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It is widely recognized that when it comes to smart phones, both Apple and Research in Motion are doing well. Add Taiwanese-company HTC to the list. Thanks to great ad-campaigns,<\/a> backing from Google, carrier friendly stance and great phones, HTC just reported blockbuster results for the<\/a> Q1 2010. In many ways, HTC is the polar opposite of Palm, which despite a great brand loyalty has blown an opportunity. We wrote about its strategy last year is this post, How HTC became a smartphone hero.<\/a><\/p>\n

HTC revenues for the quarter were $1.19 billion up 19.3 percent from Q1 2009. The profit for the quarter: $158 million versus about $154 million for Q1 2009.But most importantly, it is HTC’s carrier friendly stance is paying off. The carriers are giving the company more subsidies for the smart phones. HTC is now the fourth largest smart phone maker. Its portfolio of high-profile devices includes Google\u2019s Nexus One, Desire and Evo, a WiMAX smart-phone<\/a> that will make its debut on the Sprint-Nextel’s network. It will also be launching six new phones on China Mobile’s network later this year.<\/p>\n

HTC is winning because of its bet on Android. Of the top 15 HTC devices in December 2009, 7 were Android phones and 8 were Windows Mobile even though the company has been making Android phones for about two years. HTC\u2019s share of the smartphone market increased from 1 per cent in Q4 2008 to 6 per cent in Q4 2009 due to the success of its Android devices in North America and Western Europe. According to our friends at mobile analytics firm, Flurry, HTC accounts for about 61 percent of the total Android handset market.<\/p>\n

The only fly in the ointment for this company: the lawsuit filed against the company earlier this year by Apple<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It is widely recognized that when it comes to smart phones, both Apple and Research in Motion are doing well. Add Taiwanese-company HTC to the list. Thanks to great ad-campaigns, backing from Google, carrier friendly stance and great phones, HTC just reported blockbuster results for the Q1 2010. In many ways, HTC is the polar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}