Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
"Sydney - 3 July 1007 - HTC Corp...toady announced the global launch of the HTC Touch, a deceptively small and stylish mobile phone..." the release said. However, 'deceptive' is a word best used for the announcement. On the HTC website, details of real global launch of the HTC Touch can be found. "London - June 5, 2007 - HTC Corp...today announced the global launch of the HTC Touch, a deceptively small and stylish mobile phone..." And this event that was reported in iTWire at the time. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12678/532/
The occasion for the rerun of the global launch of the Touch was the announcement of HTC's entry into the Australian market under its own name, following its acquisition of the business of one of its OEM customers, Dopod International earlier this year. Dopod entered the Australian market in September 2006 .
In May this year HTC acquired the assets of nine Dopod subsidiaries in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, Thailand, India, and Philippines for about $US14.5 million.
Until late 2006 HTC had operated primarily as an OEM, although it did have its own brand, Qtek, in Europe. However in September 2006 it announced plans to go direct to market under the HTC name, and following the Dopod acquistion, said it would unify all its products under the HTC brand.
So launch of the Touch does mark the debut of HTC as a retail brand in Australia. The product will be offered initially by Optus and Officeworks and distributed by Brightpoint. Retail price will be $699.
The Touch's main claim to fame is its motion sensitive touch screen that enables scrolling through menus in much the same way as a track pad on a laptop. It is the first HTC devices to be powered by HTC's patented touchFLO technology. See iTWire's earlier report for details.
The only real news today was the retail price, and for what it offers the Touch seems reasonable value. Except for one thing: it does not do 3G.
David Bass
| For the fourth year in a row, IDC has placed content security provider Websense (NASDAQ: WBSN) at the top of the IDC Worldwide Web Security 2011 –…
How to Make Business Discovery Work for Your Business
Business Discovery takes its cues from consumer apps. Like Google, it encourages us- ers to hunt for and explore data without worrying about or even noticing the underly- ing technology. Their entire experience is working within an intuitive interface to get real-time, self-service results with only minimal training. ...more
Try an easy-to-use set of web-enabled
tools for business-class productivity services. Office 365 provides
anywhere-access to email, important documents, contacts, and calendars
on almost any device.
