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A couple chronicle past HTC raced past Nokia to embellish the world’s third-largest sound concern by market value. Today, the smartphone consort revealed that income in the prototypal lodge (three months) of 2011 were threefold that of a assemblage ago, serving HTC vex estimates for income and profit, digit things that impact investors jumping for joy. Bloomberg notes that brawny demand for its Android devices, especially the ThunderBolt 4G, propelled sales.

HTC vex acquire estimates, bill NT$14.8 1000000000 ($513 million) in profit, about threesome times its acquire last year. It shipped an estimated 8.5-9.0 meg handsets for the quarter. Revenue impact NT104.2 billion, beating HTC’s Jan prognosticate of NT$94 1000000000 and analyst’s estimates of NT$95 billion.

While hornlike income drawing haven’t been released, BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk surveyed 150 Verizon Wireless stores in New March and institute that the ThunderBolt had outsold the iPhone in 28 proportionality of stores and equaled iPhone income in 61 proportionality of them.

“Several respondents indicated that the store lines were individual for the prototypal period of the ThunderBolt start than they were for the iPhone,” Piecyk wrote. “Verizon income people indicated that income of the iPhone were still brawny but they simply noted that the ThunderBolt was as brawny if not stronger.”

Do you possess a ThunderBolt sound on Verizon? If so, how is your assist and shelling life? Was it hornlike to find the handset?