Taiwanese smartphone makers expect little demand for WP8
DigiTimes learned from Taiwanese phone makers that demand for Windows Phone 8 devices it not expected to be strong: While Nokia, HTC and Samsung Electronics will launch Windows Phone 8 (WP8) devices beginning in November, in line with Microsoft unveiling the mobile operating system on October 29, market demand for such smartphones is not expected to be considerably large due to the time taken for consumers to learn the operating system and strong competition from iPhone and Android models, according to market watchers.
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Funny, HTC is a Taiwanese phone manufacturer. The article no longer makes sense if they say Taiwanese phone manufacturers are holding off as HTC is pushing Windows Phone 8 along with Android.
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They probably mean the majority of TWese phone manufacturer but then, HTC is the largest TWese phone manufacturer.
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the only Taiwanese phone manufacturer i know is HTC.... And they are going hard with wp8
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Acer is also TWese but they made other electronic stuff too like tablet and notebook.
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I'm not at all surprised. I'm yet to see a person using a Windows based phone.
Everyone I know are using Apple Iphone, Blackberry & Samsung Galaxy SIII...