High Tech Computer Corp (HTC, 宏達電), the world’s largest maker of handsets running Microsoft Corp’s operating system, said yesterday it was confident of hitting the high end of the 20 percent to 30 percent range in terms of revenue growth this year, one day after the Taiwanese company inked a partnership with KDDI Corp to sell HTC handsets across Japan.
Addressing investors at a seminar organized by the Taiwan Stock Exchange Corp, HTC financial executive Cheng Hui-ming (鄭慧明) said growth momentum for the second half looked strong.
In addition, the launch of Apple Inc’s new iPhone model did not have a severe impact on sales of HTC’s Touch Diamond smartphone, Cheng said.
HTC’s revenue has increased around 32 percent in the first eight months to NT$91.47 billion from a year earlier, the company’s data showed.
Shares of HTC dropped 3.15 percent to NT$523, while the benchmark TAIEX index gained 0.94 percent yesterday.
On Thursday, HTC announced it had established a marketing partnership with KDDI, Japan’s second-largest telecommunications company.
The Taoyuan-based company has been aggressively expanding its presence abroad and has increased its product mix this year with the launch of the S740 smartphone in Europe.
KDDI and Okinawa Cellular Telephone Co will unveil their first HTC model, the E30HT smartphone, at Japan’s top electronics show, the Cutting-Edge IT & Electronics Comprehensive Exhibition, from Sept. 28 to Oct. 4.
The model will run on KDDI 3G cellular plans and will be available to the public next spring.
“Customers in Japan have become accustomed to having the most advanced mobile phones in the world. This focus and attention to mobile innovation inspired HTC to introduce more advanced, stylish mobile phones in Japan,” David Kou, country manager at HTC Nippon, said in a press release.
HTC is expected to release a mobile device running on Google’s open source operating system, the Android platform, in the fourth quarter of this year.
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