Cocky HTC promises strong growth - Mobile

Taiwanese HTC has had a tough time recently. Some years ago, the manufacturer had a double-digit share of the global market for smartphones. By 2012 the proportion had however shrunk to 4 percent. In spring 2013, the company has also been hit by heavy defections when several top managers have opted to leave HTC.

CEO Peter Chou now wants to reassure its shareholders. On Friday last week, he went therefore out with the company focusing strongly on growth in the future.

– We managed to maintain one four percent market share in the global smartphone market last year, and we are determined to increase the market share of up to ten to fifteen percent in the future, said Peter Chou to the company’s shareholders.

According to Chou, HTC has invested a lot of money on development to build “innovative new smartphones.” HTC’s latest top model HTC One has been strongly criticized for its Ultra Pixel camera, while the other functions of the phone, such as the skrollbara home screen Wink Feed and Boom Sound (dual front-mounted stereo speakers), have become very popular.

Nexus version of HTC One

Later this week, HTC will be releasing a special