HTC: up to 2 million Android phones sold by end of ‘09

HTC expects to sell between 1.5 million and 2 million phones powered by Google’s Android operating system by the end of 2009, according to a report in the Taiwan Economic News.

T-Mobile USA is releasing the G1 in the United States on Oct. 22, and HTC expects to sell between 400,000 and 500,000 units in the fourth quarter. Though HTC’s sales projections are well below those of Apple’s iPhone 3G, a main competitor, it has been rumored that Motorola may be launching Android phones in the near future, further boosting the OS’s market presence.

The newspaper cited Peter Chou, HTC’s CEO, as saying that the release of the G1 and Android will push development and applications of the networks for handsets in the future.

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HP to release consumer-oriented smartphone

Hewlett-Packard is planning on releasing a consumer-oriented smartphone, making a sharp break with their previous plan of providing more enterprise-focused devices, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

The unnamed device will be released first in Europe, sometime in the late fourth quarter, and will be marketed by a mobile carrier and sold in retail stores. The phone will run on Windows Mobile 6.1, be a touch-screen device and have a full QWERTY keyboard. A worldwide release is scheduled for sometime in 2009.

The device is the latest in HP’s line of iPaq devices, which have been marketed as business-oriented devices similar to some of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry handsets, though HP does not have nearly the market share that RIM has.

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Verizon says Alltel deal on track for end of year

It would be a non-news news story to say that Verizon is on track to spend $28.1 billion to acquire Alltel by the end of the year if it weren’t for a tanking economy and a less-than-sureshot regulatory environment. That painful combination makes the carrier’s announcement that it’s going ahead with the deal newsworthy. Verizon spokeswoman Robin Nicol says the deal remains on schedule.

Verizon Wireless announced the deal during a somewhat friendlier economic climate in June and has been under an analytical microscope as financial markets worsened and the size of the deal became riskier.

When closed–both financially and via federal regulatory approval–the acquisition would make Verizon the nation’s largest wireless carrier. When the deal was announced, analysts speculated about its impact on Sprint Nextel, which will drop to a distant third and AT&T, which might need to do some acquiring of its own to keep pace. The market conditions, and Verizon Wireless’ apparently bold intent to plow ahead, has quelled that speculation–at least as much as that type of speculation is ever quelled.

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