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An article at Yahoo News reads, "iPhone Rival Touch Sold Half as Many Handsets"… Well, that’s fine and dandy, but who is considering the HTC Touch an iPhone rival? The Touch came out before the iPhone and the Touch is different in so many ways.

Anyhow, the great news for HTC that comes out of this article is that the HTC Touch has sold 2 million units! That’s impressive.

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC sold 2 million of the Microsoft-based mobile phones it developed to compete with the iPhone last year, the ‘Touch’ family of handsets.

At last week’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco Apple CEO Steve Jobs said his company had sold 4 million iPhones since launch.

The HTC Touch uses Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 software and has a touch screen that takes up most of its face, similar to the iPhone. The Touch was launched in June of last year, just weeks ahead of the iPhone.

The company sold 11.8 million handsets overall last year, an roughly 12 percent increase over 2006, executives said.

Do you have a Touch? I don’t like them myself, but I did get some playtime and they are pretty nice!

Source : Yahoo! News

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