Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC has announced that sales of its products slumped in the fourth quarter of 2009, but that it expects the numbers to trend back up for the coming year.

CNET reports that the company reported optimistic projections in a conference call with analysts on Tuesday, looking for a 7 percent bump in sales during the first quarter of 2010, coming close to $1 billion in sales.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Nick Eaton writes that HTC CEO Hui-Ming Cheng hinted, during the same conference call, that the flat performance of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile enterprise mobility platform may have been responsible for much of the diminution in the company’s handset sales.

The pending release of WinMo 7 had better be good, Eaton writes, or else the Redmond-based computing giant runs the risk of being pushed out of the mobile OS market more or less permanently, leaving the field to competitors Google and Apple. Some pundits have picked Google’s Android OS as the big winner of 2010, saying that it should see skyrocketing rates of adoption.

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