HTC not to lower first-quarter sales projection despite slow February sales and alleged patent infringement lawsuit
High Tech Computer (HTC) has no plans to lower its sales projection for the first quarter of this year despite slow sales in February and the alleged patent infringement lawsuit filed recently by Germany-based IP license company IPCom, according to the company.
The company posted revenues of NT$9.21 billion (US$265.42 million) for February, representing a decline of 8% on month and also down 4.4% on year, according to the company.
For the first two months of 2009, revenues totaled NT$19.21 billion, accounting for only 58.2% of the NT$33 billion in revenues projected for the first quarter of this year.
The company said that it believes sales should have bottomed out in February, and that revenues will start picking up from March.
HTC denied any wrong doing regarding to the allegations it has infringed upon UMTS patents held by IPCom, and the company has decided to appeal the case to a district court in Germany to avoid a possible injunction against sales of its mobile devices.
HTC also said that it has already contacted its baseband chipset component supplier, Qualcomm, to deal with the alleged patent infringement issue, and is seeking an alternative chipset design. In addition, HTC will also apply to have the patents as claimed by IPCom declared invalid with the Federal Patent Court in Munich, the company said.
In other news, a March 9 Chinese-language Commercial Times report said that HTC has seen a substantial increase in recent orders for its Android-powered G1/Dream handsets, with their first-quarter shipments likely to top one million units, matching the level it shipped in the fourth quarter of 2008.
However, HTC is also likely to see its shipments of Windows Mobile-based smartphones drop to 1-1.5 million units in the first quarter, down from 2-2.5 million units shipped in the first quarter of 2008, the paper indicated.
The company posted revenues of NT$9.21 billion (US$265.42 million) for February, representing a decline of 8% on month and also down 4.4% on year, according to the company.
For the first two months of 2009, revenues totaled NT$19.21 billion, accounting for only 58.2% of the NT$33 billion in revenues projected for the first quarter of this year.
The company said that it believes sales should have bottomed out in February, and that revenues will start picking up from March.
HTC denied any wrong doing regarding to the allegations it has infringed upon UMTS patents held by IPCom, and the company has decided to appeal the case to a district court in Germany to avoid a possible injunction against sales of its mobile devices.
HTC also said that it has already contacted its baseband chipset component supplier, Qualcomm, to deal with the alleged patent infringement issue, and is seeking an alternative chipset design. In addition, HTC will also apply to have the patents as claimed by IPCom declared invalid with the Federal Patent Court in Munich, the company said.
In other news, a March 9 Chinese-language Commercial Times report said that HTC has seen a substantial increase in recent orders for its Android-powered G1/Dream handsets, with their first-quarter shipments likely to top one million units, matching the level it shipped in the fourth quarter of 2008.
However, HTC is also likely to see its shipments of Windows Mobile-based smartphones drop to 1-1.5 million units in the first quarter, down from 2-2.5 million units shipped in the first quarter of 2008, the paper indicated.
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