HTC expects sales of its handsets through its partner Dopod in the China market to reach 4-5 million units in 2011, according to company CEO and president Peter Chou.
For 2010, HTC will cooperate with China Mobile to launch six new handsets, with the first model, the Qualcomm Brew Mobile Platform (BMP)-based HTC Smart, to be available in May, Chou revealed.
The China-bound handsets will account for about 20% of HTC's total handset shipments of 20-25 million projected for 2011 by market observers.
HTC shipped less than one million handsets to China in 2009, accounting for lower than 10% of its total handset shipments of 11.71 million units, estimated the observers.
