El HTC 10 es una bomba en China, según los primeros pedidos

HTC espera que el HTC 10 impulse las ventas y suponga el regreso del fabricante taiwanés de teléfonos inteligentes. Mientras que el HTC 10 puede tener posibilidades de buena fortuna en EE.UU., las ventas chinas muestran una historia completamente opuesta.

According to one English source, HTC 10 sales in China haven’t gotten off to that great of a start. Two major venues, TMall and Jingong Mall, show a total combined of just 251 pre-ordered units since the HTC 10 went on sale on April 25th. You read this right: only 251 units from these two major retailers have been pre-ordered. This is low demand for what HTC is touting as its best phone ever.

Según Focus Taiwán, los analistas creen que la baja demanda del HTC 10 se debe a que HTC cogió el procesador Snapdragon 820, uno de los mejores del mercado de smartphones Android, y lo cambió por un Snapdragon 652 (procesador de gama media) solo para bajar el precio y hacerlo más atractivo económicamente para los consumidores.

The Snapdragon 652 processor is a decent mid-ranger, but it won’t outperform the Snapdragon 820, which has a number of strengths in which the Snapdragon 652 can’t compete. Additionally, it could be the case that Chinese consumers just feel cheated. Anyone reading about phones will know that HTC has cheated him or her in the HTC 10 by substituting a processor that just can’t keep up, and these consumers will buy from someone else who they feel didn’t “cheapen” their high-end smartphones.

HTC seems to have forgotten that it can’t afford to skimp on internals in order to sell its survivor phone. The company is on life support and can’t afford to make a misstep. We hate to say it, but it seems as though the processor swap is the company’s second mistake (tras su ruptura con AT&T para vender el teléfono – for reasons we don’t know).

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