14 DAY TRIAL // Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is expected to ship a large number of 4G-capable devices during the ongoing year, three times more than what it delivered during the last year.
Apparently, HTC would be on its way to deliver a number of over 10 million 4G-capable smartphones in 2011, up from the 3.5 million 4G smartphones it shipped in 2010.
A recent article on DigiTimes notes that these 10 million 4G devices would account for only 20 percent of the total number of smartphones that HTC would ship in 2011, which would bring that number up to 50 million, at least this is what industry sources suggested.
Last year, the company shipped a number of three million HTC EVO 4G units for wireless carrier Sprint in the United States, along with around 500,000 units of the HSPA+ myTouch 4G for T-Mobile.
These devices accounted for 14 percent of the total number of smartphones HTC shipped last year, the news site reports.
In 2011, shipments should go up helped by the new 4G models the company is set to deliver to wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint and Verizon Wireless in the United States, as well as devices that would land at various partners in Europe, it seems.
In the US, HTC would deliver a Inspire 4G device for AT&T, with Android 2.2 and Sense, the HTC EVO Shift 4G for Sprint, and the HTC ThunderBolt (Incredible HD) for Verizon Wireless.
The HTC Inspire 4G would pack support for HSPA+, the same as myTouch 4G and T-Mobile G2, the HTC EVO Shift 4G includes WiMAX connectivity, while the HTC ThunderBolt packs LTE (Long Term Evolution) capabilities.
We should also note that all these devices are powered by Google's Android operating system.
Based on the fact that Samsung was said recently to plan the near unveiling of 4G-capable Windows Phone 7 devices, HTC might make a similar move as well, especially since it is the largest provider of Windows Phones.