HTC will continue to strengthen its market leadership in the LTE-enabled smartphone segment and believes LTE phones will become the mainstream in mature smartphone markets in 2012, according to the company.
The company plans to launch its LTE-enabled HTC Vivi and HTC Rezound in the US market in cooperation with AT&T and Verizon Wireless, respectively, in the fourth quarter 2011, revealed industry sources.
HTC outperformed Apple to become the top smartphone vendor in the US market in the third quarter of 2011 with shipments totaling 5.7 million units for a 22.9% share, according to data compiled by market research firm Canalys.
Canalys has also projected global smartphone shipments to grow 49% to 120 million units in 2011.