Taiwan's HTC July sales fall 45 percent on year

A man poses with a replica of the HTC smartphone inside a mobile phone shop in Taipei April 6, 2012.

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp (2498.TW) said on Monday that unaudited consolidated sales for July were T$25 billion ($834 million), down 45 percent from the same month a year earlier.

The monthly sales compared with T$45.11 billion a year ago and T$30 billion in the previous month.

It did not give further details.

($1 = 29.9760 Taiwan dollars)

(Reporting by Clare Jim; Editing by Ed Lane)