HTC isn't doing very well right now. Sure, its smartphones are without a doubt really nice and all, but the thing is that the company is having serious troubles selling enough of them. Yet now that the
HTC One is to launch in the near future, some believe that things might finally change for the better. Others, however, aren't so sure about that.
On Wednesday, a Taiwanese brokerage company –
KGI securities, slashed its HTC One shipment estimates by a considerable fraction – down to 10.5 million units shipped to retailers and carriers during the first half of 2013. It previously predicted 15 million HTC One units to be shipped over the same period. The cause of this are said to be underwhelming yields of several crucial components, one of them being the camera module for the smartphone's
UltraPixel camera. As a side note, the HTC One uses a custom-built module with 4 megapixels of resolution and optical image stabilization, which despite its relatively low pixel count promises to deliver great image and video quality due to the increased pixel size. Another component that's in short supply is the voice coil motor, according to the source.
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