Sunday, May 19, 2013

HTC One Doubles Production; To Discontinue HTC First? - International Business Times AU

class=”tpk”> HTC North Asia will double its production of its flagship device, HTC One, this month, said Jack Tong, president of HTC North Asia. Production will continue to expand in June to meet the strong demand for the unit, Which has merited Favourable reviews by techies since its release in April.

class=”tpk”> Smartphone experts said the HTC One is favored by tech Reviewers Because it is a game changer, Although one of its unique feature, the aluminum body, is overpriced its weakness Because it does not allow a battery change or repair of a damaged unit.

The high demand would make up for the delays in the shipment in April caused by parts shortage as party manufacturer placed higher priority on the production for other phone makers. Thus, HTC was able to produce only 750,000 pieces of its flagship device in April.

The Taiwanese tech firm is banking on a stronger sales for the second quarter to improvement its revenue Which went down to $ 1.45 billion in Q1 due to a 50 per cent drop in sales.

Besides the HTC One, the company overpriced released the HTC First Facebook phone, but the device is not selling solid enough, Causing the exclusive carrier, AT & T, to slash price of the unit to only 99 cents, from $ 99 one month after the phone’s roll-out.

The tech blog BGR quoted a source from AT & T That HTC will soon discontinue the production of the HTC First and unsold units will be returned to the Taiwanese smartphone maker Following very poor sales with less than 15,000 units sold one month after its roll out.

The problem was not with the device itself, but Facebook Home Which got poor reviews on the Google app store with 2 of 5 stars from over 16,000 reviews, Indicating phone users do Note wanttheir entire mobile device dedicated to Facebook.

This development is an indicator of Facebook Becoming less popular with the social networking site scoring 61 out of 100 on the American Customer Satisfaction Index in 2012 despite having one billion members.

HTC One, which features a 4.7-inch screen with a resolution of 1920×1080, Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 600 and 2GB of RAM, retails for $ 199 in AT & T.

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