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Wolfgang Hansson (Blog) - October 3, 2007 3:02 PM

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HTC Touch (Source: HTC)

HTC profits climb thanks in part to the sale of 800,000 HTC Touch smartphones

Shortly after the iPhone was released by Apple, HTC launched a new touch screen phone of its own with the HTC Touch. The HTC Touch was initially offered in black and wasabi green with a very clean look and an interesting TouchFLO fingertip control navigation system.

The HTC touch runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Professional and has a wealth of features like a 16-bit touch screen, 64MB of onboard RAM, 128MB of onboard ROM and a bundled 1GB microSD card. HTC’s Touch has proven to be a popular smartphone with Reuters reporting today that HTC has now sold 800,000 units of the Touch smartphone since its launch in Europe and Asia in June.

HTC Chief Executive Peter Chou is quoted by Reuters as saying, “This is better than I expected ... We feel very good about our success.” Chou also said that the Touch’s popularity was similar to that of the iPhone.

Chou declined to comment during the Reuters interview on the Touch Dual phone that will be exclusive to Orange in Europe. The Touch Dual will add a slide out keyboard to the touch screen of the original model. HTC expects third quarter sales to grow to $26.36 billion thanks in part to the success of the Touch.

Recently DailyTech wondered if legal trouble could be brewing between HTC and Apple over the iPod Touch since HTC owns the trademark on the Touch moniker. However, to date no legal trouble has ensued between the two parties over the Touch name.

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touch screen phone bandwagon?

By glenn8 on 10/3/2007 3:26:21 PM , Rating: 5

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Shortly after the iPhone was released by Apple, HTC got onto the touch screen phone bandwagon with the HTC Touch...

Not sure I agree with the "bandwagon" comment considering HTC has many Windows Mobile/PocketPC phone products long before iPhone.

RE: touch screen phone bandwagon?

By Misty Dingos on 10/3/2007 4:02:47 PM , Rating: 5

What I find intriguing is that they managed to sell 800K of these phones without a single store filled with pretentious, condescending, applesnobs. You would think that without that you couldn't sell a cell phone in the US anymore (!)

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RE: touch screen phone bandwagon?

By Chaser on 10/4/2007 1:51:05 PM , Rating: 2

Or even a single campy TV commercial made by a Bay Area advertising firm that makes an Applesnob grin each time it's shown every 20 minutes.

One-two-three-four......here goes my TV out the door.

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RE: touch screen phone bandwagon?

By DeepBlue1975 on 10/3/2007 4:04:35 PM , Rating: 2

Agreed. HTC has been making touch screen smart phones for some years now.
This is the only one relying solely on a touch screen, though.

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RE: touch screen phone bandwagon?

By h0kiez on 10/3/2007 4:17:10 PM , Rating: 2

And the reviews haven't been that good either. Get a Mogul instead :)

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RE: touch screen phone bandwagon?

By JazzMang on 10/3/2007 6:45:17 PM , Rating: 2

THE iPhone, not 'iPhone.'
Lets not buy into the Apple habit of treating their products as pronouns/gods.

Its 'the iPhone.'

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RE: touch screen phone bandwagon?

By sxr7171 on 10/5/2007 11:00:08 AM , Rating: 2

Thank you. I hate the way they personify their crap.

While we're on the topic what the hell is "Think Different" supposed to mean? The general level of English grammar is already in the pits, and we really don't need large amounts of advertising encouraging poor grammar.

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RE: touch screen phone bandwagon?

By Broken on 10/3/2007 10:54:32 PM , Rating: 3

And from what I saw, the Touch was available for sale before the iPhone, overseas, but still available before the iPhone.

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WM was...

By audiomaniaca on 10/3/2007 5:57:22 PM , Rating: 2

Being using WM devices for years. Not a apple fanboy. Also a big HTC/Dopod user/fan, but, comparing a HTC Touch to an iPhone is ridiculous. They don't even get close one to another.

HTC Touch's processor is a joke, specially if compared to the one used in the apple's phone.

The "touchflo" startup software is also a joke if compared to the iphone interface excellence.

Again, I'm not an apple lover, but a WM user for decades.
Just sold my TyTn 1 and have no plans of buying WM products again.

RE: WM was...

By DeepBlue1975 on 10/3/2007 10:25:03 PM , Rating: 2

That's true.
I'd never buy the HTC touch because of the CPU (err... I like to play old games and videos without redecoding them, and I need a good processor for those things)

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RE: WM was...

By therealnickdanger on 10/4/2007 10:41:36 AM , Rating: 2

There's another version of the Touch with a faster CPU and 128MB RAM that has a different code name... Crap, I don't have time to look it up for y'all, but it's supposed to be quite excellent.

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