As with all things new, people are jumping aboard the Google Android platform. Other manufacturers are hurriedly pushing out Android based handsets and customers are purchasing them, which could be seen as a general indicator that people want an alternative to Windows Mobile.
It appears that an unnamed exec from HTC has been shouting the odds that the sales of HTC’s flagship Android based device, the T-Mobile G1 is actually hurting sales for HTC’s Windows Mobile based handsets.
Well lets see, new highly promoted Android comes out and hurts sales of the companies Windows Mobile handsets, well isn’t that sort of natural? Did HTC really expect to sell Android and still the same number of Windows Mobile?
Wise up Mr. unknown HTC exec its fairly obvious to me that if customers by one device the other devices are going to lose out, it’s the way of things, or do you expect people to purchase both just to keep the figures even?
Source – pocketnow
It will be interesting to see which vendors announce/demonstrate new Android devices at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics (CES) show Jan 8-11, in Las Vegas.
Android smartphones are a given, but an Android-based netbook would be a real shocker.
I would not want to be a smartphone vendor that does not deliver an Android device in 2009.