HTC First: Launch compromise in the United Kingdom and France? - Clubic.com

collapse of HTC First, a collaboration between the Taiwanese manufacturer and Facebook seems never ending. After the U.S. operator AT & T would have to turn the British to abandon EE sale terminal. In France, Orange hesitate.

While HTC is currently seeing its leaders leave the company in single file, the Taiwanese company is also facing what appears to be a dismal failure: the HTC First, terminal announced the launch of Facebook Home. Dubbed the “Facebook Phone” because natively integrates the application of social networking, HTC First would not have convinced many consumers in the United States, where he would have sold just 15,000 units.

Observation which pushed the U.S. operator AT & T to lower the price of subsidized terminal 99 dollars … 0.99 dollars to sell stocks to its removal from its catalog. Now, according to a source site Mobile News indicates that the UK operator Everything Everywhere (EE) has canceled pre-orders of the device made by its customers, and do not count any of the offer for sale. To the extent that EA was intended to be the only operator to offer the device in the UK, it seems that HTC First there make even a brief stint.

Finally, in France, c ‘Orange which is reluctant to sell the smartphone, according to information released Wednesday by Frandroid. The site indicates that Orange would “ pressure Facebook “, since count expect a significant update to Facebook Home to consider marketing the HTC First. Initially, the terminal should be offered from June, but its availability could be delayed or canceled.