(Reuters) - Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp said on Monday that consolidated sales for April were T$31.03 billion ($1.06 billion), down 20 percent from the same month a year earlier.

The monthly sales compared with T$38.73 billion a year ago. They picked up slightly from March's T$30.879 billion, the second successive month of improvement.

It did not give further details.

($1 = 29.2685 Taiwan dollars)