14 DAY TRIAL // Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is reportedly pretty confident in its strength to grow significantly during the next year, at least this is what the latest news around the Internet suggests.
Compared to a total number of around 20 million smartphones shipped during the ongoing year, the leading handset vendor is expected to deliver a number of no less than 60 million units during the next year.
According to industry sources, cited by DigiTimes, the mobile phone maker is forecasting a three-fold increase in smartphone shipments for the next year, when compared to the performance it registered during this year.
Moreover, the news site also claims that the mobile phone maker already informed its component suppliers on the larger number of handsets it plans on shipping, and warned them that it would need more parts and components to achieve its goal.
It appears that HTC made the move during “a summit with more than 200 executives from over 100 suppliers of handset parts and components,” which was held not too long ago in Taipei.
According to the aforementioned sources, HTC became more confident in its growth capabilities following the appointment of its new COO Matthew Costello and other top-tier executives.
HTC has seen impressive growth during the past few years, especially since the launch of its first Android-based mobile phone, the HTC Dream, also known as the T-Mobile G1.
During this year alone, the company released a number of more than five Android-based smartphones, including the first Google phone, Nexus One, along with the high-end HTC Desire, Desire HD and Desire Z, or the HTC Legend or Wildfire.
However, the company is also one of the biggest players in the Windows Phone area, with a number of no less than four Windows Phone 7 devices launched this year, and with another one announced officially for early 2011.
Even if HTC is currently the largest supplier of both Android and Windows Phone devices, rival companies are also making significant progress on these areas, including Samsung, which has just released the second Google phone, the Nexus S.