According to HTC CEO Peter Chou, Apple's aggressively priced iPhone 3G will only have a mild effect on HTC's sales. As it is already known, Apple has announced their new 3G phone, iPhone 3G on June 10, which has its price decreased to the half, compared to its predecessor, so the edition with 8 GB of internal memory will be available for $199 USD in case of a 2 year fidelty contract. HTC Touch handsets, however, are available in Japan, many countries of Europe and in the United States at a much lower price, sometimes for free. Otherwise Chou has welcomed Apple's new phone and the competition created on the market by it, as this evidently lead s to a broader mobile web access of users. The market of smartphones is still a huge one, where HTC, along with a number of network providers, taking into consideration the needs of providers and users, want to launch a whole series of such devices that provide stability for the company, even if Apple iPhone 3G is the challenger.
Translated by Szaszati
