Large demand for HTC Windows Phones witnessed in Philippines

HTC Philippines

HTC Philippines held a sale on December 18th to launch the company'southward new Windows Telephone hardware. Both the HTC 8X and HTC 8S were stocked at the HTC Concept Shop in SM North Edsa where an enticing deal was on offering. The kickoff 128 consumers who queued to purchase either smartphone received a considerable disbelieve.

The HTC 8X and 8S were priced at discounted levels of Php 19,988 ($487) and Php 9,988 ($243) respectively, instead of the usual Php 26,500 ($645) and Php xiv,600 ($353). Unbox.ph headed over to the store in club to take full reward of the special offer, every bit did a number of consumers axiomatic from photos captured by the team. Demand was fairly high for the Windows Phones.

Co-ordinate to the website's report, a sizeable queue (see above photo) began accumulating every bit early as 10am. It would be a full ii hour wait before the shop would begin selling the discounted units at 12am. Luckily they arrived in time to be one of 128 consumers and were able to brand use of the launch deal.

HTC Philippines Line

If the discount wasn't plenty for early wakers, HTC also arranged a branded jacket to further incentivise the buy of their Windows Phones. It's good to see HTC pouring in the effort to engage consumers with exciting deals to push units out the doors of stores. Nosotros've reviewed both the HTC 8X and 8S and plant both Windows Phones to exist well worth the cost tags, and then to hear about discounts makes one slightly jealous.

With the Samsung ATIV South hit markets and both HTC and Nokia kicking off planned marketing campaigns, Microsoft's Windows Phone make awareness will jump upward from where the platform was this time last year. Hardware is unique plenty to concenter interest from potential customers, which is an advantage that matches the loaded operating system.

Nosotros've witnessed Windows Phone eight hardware selling out, especially the Lumia 920. Be sure to let us know of any more deals that have popped up in other markets.

Source: Unbox.ph; thanks, jedi12, for the tip!

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