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High Tech Computer
Image:Htc logo.gif
Type Public (TSEC: 2498)
Founded 1997
Headquarters Taoyuan, Taiwan
Key people Cher Wang (Chairman), Peter Chou (CEO), Fred Liu (COO)
Industry Telecommunications
Revenue $2.3 billion USD (2005)
Operating income $380 million USD (2005)
Net income $366 million USD (2005)
Employees 4,930
Website htc.com

High Tech Computer Corporation (TSEC: 2498), known by its acronym HTC, is the Taiwan-based manufacturer of Microsoft Windows CE portable devices. It was founded on May 15th 1997 and was strictly an outsourcing company, an Original Design Manufacturer (ODM). Today, HTC provides its own HTC self-branded products, as well as supporting its operator-branded products and its OEM partners. HTC also owns Dopod as a subsidiary company.

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[edit] Corporate information

HTC's chairwoman is Cher Wang, daughter of one of Taiwan's richest men, petrochemicals billionaire Y.C. Wang, and the President is H.T. Cho. HTC's main divisions, including the IA (Information Appliance) engineering division and the WM (Wireless Mobile) engineering division, are ISO 9001/ISO 14001-qualified facilities.

The company's growth has accelerated dramatically after being chosen by Microsoft as a hardware platform development partner for the Windows Mobile operating system (based on Windows CE). HTC's sales revenue totalled $2.2 billion for 2005, a 102% increase from the previous year. It was listed as the fastest growing tech company in BusinessWeek's Info Tech 100 [1].

[edit] Product range

HTC products are sold under several brand names — HTC, Dopod (HTC's subsidiary company) and Qtek (no longer used) — and are often rebranded by major telecommunication carriers such as Orange, T-Mobile, Cingular, O2 and Vodafone.

HTC is the ODM for the following IT companies that retail Windows Mobile based PDAs: Dell (x50 series aka HTC Colorado), Fujitsu-Siemens, HP/Compaq, i-mate, Krome, Sharp Corporation.

HTC has recently announced the development of a UMPC following their strong Smartphone and PocketPC line.

Interestingly, HTC also names all its products prior to them being rebranded. The product range developed by HTC include:

[edit] Smartphones

  • HTC Canary is sold as the Orange SPV.
  • HTC Tanager is sold as the Qtek 7070, Orange SPV E100, and Smart Amazing Phone 1.
  • HTC Voyager is sold as the Qtek 8080, Orange SPV E200, O2 Xphone, Dopod 535, and Smart Amazing Phone 2.
  • HTC Typhoon is sold as the Qtek 8010, Orange SPV C500, i-mate SP3, Dopod 565, and Audiovox SMT 5600.
  • HTC Feeler is sold as the Qtek 8020, O2 Xphone II, i-mate SP3i, and T-Mobile SDA (UK).
  • HTC Amadeus is sold as the Qtek 8100, O2 Xphone IIm, Dopod 585, and T-Mobile SDA Music.
  • HTC Hurricane is sold as the Qtek 8200, Orange SPV C550, i-mate SP4m, O2 xda Phone, and T-Mobile SDA Music 2.
  • HTC Tornado is sold as the Dopod 577W, Qtek 8300 & 8310, O2 Xda IQ, i-mate SP5 & SP5m, T-Mobile SDA (US), Vodafone V1240, and without the WiFi capability (HTC Faraday) as the Orange SPV C600 and Cingular 2125.
  • HTC StrTrk is their first clamshell design and is sold as the Qtek 8500 and was announced as the Orange SPV F600, Dopod S300, and the i-mate Smartflip. It was later released to the USA as the Cingular 3125 with higher ROM and an extended battery.
  • HTC Breeze is sold as the HTC MTeoR, Orange SPV C700, and i-mate SP JAS.
  • HTC Excalibur is sold as the O2 Xda Cosmo, T-Mobile Dash, and HTC S620.
  • HTC Oxygen will be sold as the Orange SPV C100 and HTC S310.
  • HTC Monet (formerly HTC Trilogy) is sold as the Virgin Lobster 700TV and has an integrated DAB-IP receiver, suitable for DAB Radio and TV viewing through the BT Movio service.
  • HTC Libra SMT-5800
  • HTC Vox HTC S710 has a 2.4" TFT display, stereo Bluetooth, Wi-Fi support, megapixel camera and a sliding hardware keyboard.
  • HTC MTeoR
  • HTC Elf announced for 2007
  • HTC Erato HTC S420 will be a flip phone with a 400MHz Samsung processor, Windows Mobile 6 Standard, 2.4" 65K color TFT display, FM radio, a microSD memory card slot, a 2 megapixel camera and the integrated Sirf Star III GPS receiver, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support plus 3G/HSDPA-enabled telephony. It is expected in April 2007.
  • HTC Wings HTC S730 will be an update to the HTC S710 (HTC Vox), with a more powerful Samsung 400MHz processor, Windows Mobile 6 Standard, slide out keyboard, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support plus 3G and HSDPA and Wi-Fi. It would also boast a 2 megapixel camera and an integrated Sirf Star III GPS receiver. It is expected in July 2007.

[edit] Pocket PC Phone Editions

HTC Prophet, branded as O2 XDA Neo
HTC Prophet, branded as O2 XDA Neo
  • HTC Wallaby is sold as the Qtek1010, Qtek1020, O2 xda, T-Mobile MDA and Siemens SX-56.
  • HTC Himalaya is sold as the Qtek 2020, i-mate PDA, O2 Xda II, Krome Navigator, T-Mobile MDA II, Orange SPV M1000, Vodafone WirelessPDA, Dopod 696 and movistar TSM500.
  • HTC Falcon is the CDMA version of the Himalaya and is sold as the Audiovox PPC5050BM.
  • HTC Magician is sold as the Qtek S100, O2 Xda II Mini (Asia), O2 Xda mini (Germany), T-Mobile MDA, i-mate JAM, Vodafone VPA Compact, Dopod 818, Krome Spy and Orange SPV M500.
  • HTC Blue Angel is sold as the Qtek 9090, O2 Xda IIs (UK and Ireland), O2 Xda III (Germany), T-Mobile MDA III, i-mate PDA2k, Orange SPV M2000, Siemens SX66, E-plus PDA III and Vodafone VPA III
  • HTC Blue Angel Refresh is sold as the Vodafone V1620
  • HTC Harrier is the CDMA2000 version of Blue Angel, and is sold as the Audiovox/UTStarcom PPC-6600 Series and XV6600 Series, as well as the i-Mate PDA2k EVDO.
  • HTC Alpine is sold as the Qtek 2020i, O2 Xda IIi, i-mate PDA2 and Dopod 699.
  • HTC Universal is sold as the Qtek 9000, T-Mobile MDA Pro, O2 xda Exec, Orange SPV M5000, Vodafone VPA IV, Vodafone V1640, E-Plus PDA IV, Dopod 900, i-mate JasJar and Grundig GR980. It has a clamshell body, QWERTY keyboard, built-in 802.11b Wi-Fi, 128 MB ROM, 64MB RAM, and a 640x480 VGA display. It is the first commercially available device that has the Windows Mobile 5.0 OS pre-installed, as well as the first Windows Mobile device to support 3G/UMTS.
  • HTC Wizard is sold as the Qtek 9100, Cingular 8125, T-Mobile MDA Vario, O2 Xda Mini S, Dopod 838, Orange SPV M3000 and i-mate K-JAM.
  • HTC Apache is the CDMA version of Wizard, and is sold as the UTStarcom PPC-6700, Audiovox PPC6700 and XV6700.
  • HTC Charmer is sold as the T-Mobile MDA compact II. It is an update the HTC Magician with upgraded hardware (TI OMAP CPU, 128 MB ROM) and OS (Windows Mobile 5.0).
  • HTC Prophet (PM300) is sold as the Qtek S200, Dopod 818 Pro (PM300), O2 Xda neo (PM300), Orange SPV M600 and i-mate Jamin. It is an update to the HTC Charmer with same hardware (TI OMAP CPU, 128 MB ROM) and OS (Windows Mobile 5.0) but supports WiFi 802.11b/g.
  • HTC Beetles HP hw6500 series
  • HTC Hermes (HERM 100, 200, 300) is sold as HTC TyTN (HERM 200), T-Mobile MDA Vario II (HERM 300), O2 Xda Trion (HERM 100), Vodafone v1605, Cingular 8525, Dopod 838 Pro, i-mate JASJAM, Orange SPV M3100, NTT DoCoMo hTc Z, and SoftBank X01HT. It features a slide-out keyboard, UMTS / HSDPA, 400 MHz Samsung processor, 128MB flash and 64MB memory, 2.8-inch display, 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0, MicroSD, 2.1 megapixel camera, and a secondary CIF videoconferencing camera.
  • HTC Artemis HTC P3300, is sold as the T-Mobile MDA compact III, O2 Xda Orbit and Orange M650 in some countries.
  • HTC Trinity HTC P3600, is sold as the Orange M700
  • HTC Herald HTC P4350, Dopod C800, PPC-6800
  • HTC Love HTC P3350 resembles the HTC Artemis, but lacks GPS. Instead, it is equipped with dedicated music keys and features quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, FM radio and a 2 megapixel camera.
  • HTC Athena HTC X7500 Advantage, T-Mobile AMEO. It has a large 5" VGA TFT touchscreen display, a detachable hardware QWERTY keyboard, 8GB hard drive, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, stereo Bluetooth support plus a TV-Out port and a 3 megapixel camera.
  • HTC Foreseer
  • HTC Kaiser with slide-out keyboard but slimmer than Hermes, WLAN, GPS, announced for 2007
  • HTC Sirius HTC P6500, with a 3.5" 65K TFT display, 400MHz Samsung processor, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support plus 3G and Wi-Fi. It is expected in August 2007.

[edit] Pocket PC

  • HTC Galaxy GPS PDA, is sold as Qtek G100, I-Mate PDA-N

[edit] See also

  • Xanadux a project to port Linux to some HTC phones.
  • OpenMoko a Linux distribution for mobile phones, reported to run on the HTC Magician

[edit] External links

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