HTC’s first quarter of 2009 is looking less than awesome, following up on a generally dismal 2008 year-end earnings report. Operating margin profits for Q1 ‘09 are expected to fall to 15%, versus 18.4% percent in the the last quarter of 2008. Overall revenue should be around T$33 billion, only marginally higher than T$32.7 at the same time last year. Luckily, we’ve heard that there are eight promising new handsets HTC will be delivering in 2009, which could mean better news for Q2.
