DigiTimes: HTC preparing to roll out 60 million handsets in 2011

By on Dec 10, 2010 at 7:13 AM
Hardware December 10, 2010

Blog DigiTimes is reporting that HTC has informed suppliers of its intentions to manufacture 60 million mobile handsets in 2011. The information comes courtesy of anonymous sources with access to an “executive summit” HTC recently held in Taipei; the purported event had 200 executives from over 100 companies in attendance. In 2010, the Quietly Brilliant company shipped 20 million mobile units to its sales channels, making the 60 million units figure, a 200% increase, even more ambitious.

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  • DingleBerry

    WOW! Thats a bunch of phones!

    • IllustratedMan

      I agree. However they’ve already sold 20 million, I see no reason why 60 isn’t possible for them, especially with Gingerbread releasing. HTC has already made a statement that Gingerbread will definitely be landing on there newer devices (EVO and other like devices).

      Samsung had a goal to sell 10 million Galaxy S phones and they’ve come very close, if not reached there goal IIRC. (http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/06/samsung-galaxy-s-sales-surpass-five-million-world-domination-pl/ — this was in October, so it could even be higher now)

      In any case, the top three manufactures won’t have problems selling devices (HTC, Samsung, and Motorola). I personally own an EVO and still consider it the best phone, even with the new devices that have come out recently. I tend to think that as a development platform (kernel/rom development I mean), HTC has made it MUCH eaiser to work with (especially with tools like fastboot, no locked down bootloader, etc) than Samsung or Motorola have.

      But overall I’m happy with the growth of Android, period. Samsung definitely has stepped up its game with these new Galaxy devices and I see no reason for HTC or Motorola to stop innovating or continuing to produce high end Android devices.

      Overall, Android ftw.

      • Anonymous

        That does seem like a lot of phones, so they must see some additional growth areas for them. More WP7 phones when Verizon and Sprint get them next year (probably around MWC if I had to guess), and perhaps some tablet sized mobile handsets will help them.

        I agree about the EVO. I’ve seen a lot of newer competition come out, and nothing has exceeded what the EVO does right now. Given that Sprint had made it very clear that they consider newer Android versions to be a competitive advantage, I’m hopeful the EVO will be the first to get Gingerbread in the US. With that and the newer HTC Sense, it will make a great phone even better.

      • Jayhammy

        I’ve just switched from the HTC Incredible to the Motorola Droid Pro. The main reason was the physical keyboard as I need one to type at least 50-100 emails a day for work. The Pro is a great device and the keyboard is unrivaled on any other Android device, but I really prefer HTC devices overall. And the developer community for HTC devices seems to be much greater than for Moto’s. For the Pro, there’s so far absolutely NO customized ROM or recovery. That really sucks.

  • Mgymnop

    I hope that the quality of HTC phones is not suffering even more. I am sick of exchanging new phones 2-5 times before you get a good unit.

    • http://www.apexcarpentryinc.com/blog/ Craig B

      My Droid Incredible has been flawless for the last 6 months. HTC Sense UI is the best version of Android. What they need is a WIFI only tablet, that would work well with their phones.

      • Mgl323

        I thought it was Vanilla Android that was the best version?

  • vaocmo70

    I sure hope one of them is the HTC Merge!!

  • Anonymous

    Well They coudl have sold 60 million phones if it was not for shortages.

    They had major shortages with the EVO and the Droid Incredible. And that’s just the US. I’m sure Verizon would have more HTC handsets if they could meet up with the demand. Anyone with half of a brain knows that HTC makes better handsets than Motorola (hardware and software) . Verizon went with Motorola because they can meet the demand. HTC was relatively still a small company

  • Porkstick

    Poor reporting. HTC is shipping more than 20M handsets in 2010.

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