Nurhisham Hussein
01-24-2008, 01:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.betanews.com/article/HTC_Touch_sales_half_that_of_Apples_iPhone/1200942197' target='_blank'>http://www.betanews.com/article/HTC...hone/1200942197</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Steve Jobs said last week at Macworld that Apple had sold 4 million iPhones worldwide since its launch. HTC today reported a surprisingly aggressive 2 million Touch phones had been sold. In total, the company reported sales of 11.8 million handsets, 12% more than it had sold in 2006, garnering 12% more revenue as a result."</i><br /><br />Cool - hardly any advertising, and minus the Steve Jobs 'reality distortion field', the Touch still manages about half the sales of the iPhone. Mind you, I think what really attracted people to the Touch was its relatively small size, and perhaps the fact that you <i>don't</i> have to be living in the US <i>and</i> willing to become an AT&T customer to get one. I wonder how well the Touch variants would do if Apple starts officially selling the iPhone - hopefully with 3G - outside the US, and now Europe. I know there's a lot of interest in Asia where hacked iPhones can be gotten, albeit at an extortionate price - in my locale, they're going for the equivalent of US$800 or about a third more than the new Touch Dual.