The Taiwan-based High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) has reportedly canceled its contract production of V920 series smartphone for the United Kingdom's telecom company Vodafone, which was originally slated for sale during the Christmas season in Europe.
Besides, Google's newly launched Android platform has shown defective quality, which may constitute negative impact on HTC's sales of G Phone, the world's first model designed for the platform.
Back in this September, Vodafone, one of the world's biggest telecom companies, launched several own-brand mobile phones, including V920 smartphone that is built with a two-megapixel camera and a 2.4-inch screen and uses 3.5-generation Internet access, for sale in the Christmas season. However, Vodafone reportedly decided to drop the V920, and has yet to give any reasons for the cancellation.
On another front, HTC has also been plagued by the underdevelopment of Google's Android platform that will severely affect success of the world's first G Phone, which is scheduled to be launched by HTC in the first half of 2008.
Google unveiled its Android platform, a mobile phone platform, in November, attracting quite a few software companies to develop application software based on the platform. But, the Android platform has many unsolved bugs in programs, whereas Google hasn't provided integral reporting systems for debugging.
Also, Android's design procedures and documents provided by Google are not clear enough, and the human machine interface of the platform is not splendid, making application software based on the platform unattractive in look and feel for users, who are inclined to accept more vision-oriented interface nowadays.
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