By: Ben Robinson, IntoMobile Sunday, December 14th, 2008 at 4:44 PM
A range of HTC devices
HTC has reported record monthly profits of $528.57 million, for the month of November. Apparently that’s just over a 10% increase on month, and over 22% on year!
What helped them achieve this? Well, the G1 (The T-Mobile Android phone) and the Touch Diamond are the two contenders suggested to be the main drivers. The Diamond is one sleek handset, and certainly in the looks department, gives a certain other consumer smartphone a run for it’s money!
The G1, whilst not being a looker, is certainly a winner for HTC too, since the buzz around Google’s first has been HUGE.
Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career
when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has
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He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently
became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years
when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to
'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make
your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device)
isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question
of why you continue to use it...
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