moconews.net - 2/19/2009
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image At Microsoft’s press conference yesterday at Mobile World Congress, if you tied two threads together, you learned a very interesting fact about HTC, one of the company’s closest handset makers—the Taiwanese company is responsible for 80 percent of Windows Mobile phone sales. The number is ...
engadget.com - 2/18/2009
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engadget.com —
The talk this week at Mobile World Congress
has been largely positive about Microsoft's latest iteration of...
its smartphone UI, Windows Mobile 6.5 . Still, some of us at Engadget (well, one of us, at least), feel like the folks in Redmond missed ...
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Editorial: Ten reasons why Windows Mobile 6.5 misses the ...
telegraph.co.uk - 2/19/2009
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telegraph.co.uk —
Microsoft was in panic on Wednesday after a
prototype phone loaded with topsecret software created to rival...
Apple's iPhone was stolen prompting fears of industrial espionage.
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Topsecret Microsoft prototype phone stolen
jkontherun.com - 2/20/2009
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jkontherun.com —
The recent announcements by Microsoft detailing Windows Mobile
(WM) 6.5 and to a lesser degree WM 7.0...
have left many questioning the continued relevance of Windows Mobile in the future. The incremental update to WM has been received as expected with ...
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Editorial: The uphill battle Microsoft faces with ...
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Microsoft: HTC has made 80% of all Windows Mobile phones
AppleInsider —
... Published: 09:20 PM EST While playing up the fact that 50 phone makers around the world have licensed the company's Windows Mobile platform, Microsoft inadvertently let it slip out that a full 80% of all Windows Mobile phones ever made have actually come from a single maker: HTC. On stage at the Mobile World Congress, Andy Lees, Microsoft's senior vice president of its mobile communications business, stated the company had reached a milestone of 50 million devices sold over the lifetime of the platform, which stretches back into at least 2003 (and perhaps earlier, depending ...
MWC 2009: HTC Sells 80% Of All Windows Mobile Smartphones
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... , Feb 19, 2009 07:45 AM [image] Some simple math performed on the numbers given by Microsoft and HTC representatives during a press conference at Mobile World Congress leads to a staggering conclusion: HTC alone is responsible for some 80% of all Windows Mobile sales. That number is pretty outrageous. This is how it played out, according to MoCoNews . During the introduction of Windows Mobile 6.5, Microsoft's SVP of Mobile Mobile Communications noted that since the birth of Windows Mobile, about 50 million devices have shipped worldwide on handsets from 50 hardware partners. ...
HTC Makes 80% Of Windows Mobile Handsets
Cult of Mac —
... Earlier, Andy Lees, an executive of Microsoft’s mobile business. told the same Barcelona, Spain audience 50 million Windows mobile devices were sold since 2003. ...
Has HTC sold 80% of all Windows Mobile phones? [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network —
... The Microsoft press event this week covered the usual type of stuff, — sales numbers, kudos for our partners and the like. Something about the numbers I heard thrown around by Microsoft and partners didn’t sit right but I couldn’t put my fingers on just why. The mocoNews folks noticed the same thing and were able to figure out what was just out of my grasp. ...
Bad News for HTC Means Bad News for Microsoft
Daring Fireball —
Bad numbers from HTC last week:
Taiwan smartphone maker HTC on Monday posted a 30 percent dip in its first-quarter earnings, as the economic crisis sapped demand for the company’s feature-jammed mobile phones.
That’s bad news for Microsoft, if you recall this bit we learned in February:
At Microsoft’s press conference yesterday at Mobile World Congress, if you tied two threads together, you learned a very interesting fact about HTC, one of the company’s closest handset makers — the Taiwanese ...
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Phone with unreleased software gone bye-bye MWC An unnamed Telstra executive is one Windows Mobile phone lighter this afternoon, thanks to a Barcelona pickpocket. Which would hardly be news were it not for the fact that this particular phone ...
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