Cheap smartphone? Does a major manufacturer develop smartphones that can be manufactured at low cost?

Smartphones have finally begun to spread in Japan, such as Windows Mobile terminals such as "WILLCOM 03" and "Touch Diamond", and "HT-03A" which adopted the OS "Android" for iPhone 3GS and Google mobile phones. I can not deny the sense that the high selling price is a bottleneck of popularization.

And this time it became clear that there is a possibility that major smartphone makers are going to develop smartphones that can be manufactured at low cost. It may be good news for the user if the selling price of the terminal also drops as the manufacturing cost decreases.

Details are as below.
HTC may cooperate with MediaTek to target low-cost smartphone market, say sources

According to this article,World's first Android smartphone "G1"And HTC (High Tech Computer), a major Taiwanese manufacturer known as a smartphone such as "Touch Pro" and "Touch Diamond", to join the smartphone market that can be manufactured at low cost, MediaTek It seems to be seen as a partnering with.

HTC is anticipated to minimize the manufacturing cost of smartphones after shipping adjustment of smartphones in the third quarter of 2009 to digest inventory and IC chip manufacturers such as Richtek Technology, Novatek Microelectronics, Ralink Technology It is supposed to cooperate in the future.

HTC is estimated to lower the shipping target of smartphones by 5 to 10% in the third quarter of 2009, but it is speculated that it will take up to the fourth quarter to get rid of inventory.

In other words, it seems to try smartphones manufactured at low cost after digesting the inventory of smartphones manufactured at the current high cost, but by lowering the manufacturing cost, the terminal price will come down Cow. I am interested only in HTC which supplies a lot of smart phones to Japan.