High Tech Computer Corporation (TSE: 2498), known by its abbreviation HTC, is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of Microsoft Windows CE portable devices. It was founded on May 15 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. HTC is also a member of the Open Handset Alliance, meaning that it will conform to standards that allow the open source Android operating system to run on its hardware.
Corporate information
HTC\'s chairwoman is Cher Wang, daughter of one of Taiwan\'s wealthiest men, Wang Yung-ching, and the President is Peter H.T. Chou. In addition to being Chairperson of HTC, Cher Wang is also acting Chairperson of VIA Technologies.
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.[The IT 100 Companies: The Leading Tech Companies of 2005]
Product range
HTC products are sold under several brand names — HTC, Dopod (HTC\'s subsidiary company) and Qtek — and are often rebranded by major telecommunication carriers such as Orange, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, O2, Vodafone, AT&T, Alltel, Bell and Telus.
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., UTStarcom.
HTC announced the development of a UMPC (HTC Shift) following their strong Smartphone and PocketPC line.
The product range developed by HTC include:
(newest first)
UMPC
- HTC Shift runs Windows Vista Business OS and Windows Mobile 6 Professional, with a sliding 7" widescreen touch sensitive TFT display with Wide-VGA (800x480 pixels) resolution, a 30GB hard drive, a dual-core Intel Santa Rosa processor (for Windows Vista Business OS) and a Qualcomm 400 MHz processor (for Windows Mobile 2006 Professional), 1GB RAM, hardware QWERTY keyboard, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support plus UMTS/HSDPA capability as well as Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi. The device also has a front-mounted 1.2 megapixel webcam, and an innovative fingerprint sensor which can be used for security reasons.
Smartphones (Windows Mobile Standard)
- HTC Iris is sold as HTC S640 in Canada by Telus.
- HTC Wings HTC S730 will be an update to the HTC S710 (HTC Vox), with a more powerful Samsung 400 MHz processor, slide out keyboard, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support plus 3G and HSDPA and Wi-Fi. It will also boast a 2 megapixel camera and maybe an integrated Sirf Star III GPS receiver. It is expected in November 2007.
- HTC Erato HTC S420 will be a flip phone with a 400 MHz 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 Vox HTC S710 has a 2.4" TFT display, stereo Bluetooth, Wi-Fi support, 2.0 megapixel camera and a sliding hardware keyboard, which switches the screen orientation from portrait to landscape. Sold as the Orange SPV E650 and Vodafone v1415.
- HTC Libra SMT-5800 the CDMA version of the S710 Vox. Qwest will sell it as the Qwest Fusion HTC 5800, with a 2 megapixel camera, A2DP, microSD expansion, and EV-DO.
- HTC Foreseer
- 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 Oxygen will be sold as the Orange SPV C100 and HTC S310.
- HTC Cavalier announced in 2007
- HTC Excalibur is sold as the O2 Xda Cosmo, T-Mobile Dash, HTC S620, Dopod C270W, sold as HTC S621 in Canada by Rogers.
- HTC Breeze is sold as the HTC MTeoR, Orange SPV C700, Dopod 595 and i-mate SP JAS. It was the first 3G Windows Mobile Smartphone to be released by i-mate,
[Details_Spjas] and Dopod claim it to be world\'s first Windows Mobile 3G Smartphone.[Dopod International Corp]
- HTC Startrek 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 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 Hurricane is sold as the Qtek 8200, Orange SPV C550, i-mate SP4m, O2 Xda Phone, and T-Mobile SDA Music 2.
- HTC Amadeus is sold as the Qtek 8100, O2 Xphone IIm, Dopod 585, and T-Mobile SDA Music.
- HTC Feeler is sold as the Qtek 8020, O2 Xphone II, i-mate SP3i, and T-Mobile SDA (UK).
- HTC Typhoon is sold as the Qtek 8010, Orange SPV C500, i-mate SP3, Dopod 565, T-Mobile SDA and Audiovox SMT 5600.
- HTC Voyager is sold as the Qtek 8080, Orange SPV E200, O2 Xphone, Dopod 535, and Smart Amazing Phone 2.
- HTC Tanager is sold as the Qtek 7070, Orange SPV E100, and Smart Amazing Phone 1.
- HTC Canary is sold as the Orange SPV.
- HTC Juno is sold as the T-Mobile Shadow, Dopod C750
Pocket PC Phone Editions (Windows Mobile Professional)
HTC Prophet, branded as O2 XDA Neo
- HTC Panda HTC P6300, with a 3.5" 65K TFT display, (full-size) SD slot, 400MHz Samsung processor, tri-band plus Wi-Fi. Sold as 02 xda Argon.
- HTC Sirius HTC P6500, with a 3.5" 65K TFT display, dual SD slots, 400MHz Samsung processor, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support plus 3G and Wi-Fi. It is expected in August 2007.
- HTC Touch Dual HTC P5500 (Niki), HTC Touch-like slider with 16 or 20 keys keyboard. Enhanced version of TouchFLO interface. Windows Mobile 6.0.
- HTC Touch HTC P3450 (Elf), P3452 (Elfin) , tri-band GPRS/EDGE, Wi-Fi, 2.8" 240x320 display, microSD slot, 2 megapixel camera and a new TouchFLO touchscreen technology. Windows Mobile 6.0. Also sold as the T-Mobile MDA Touch.
- HTC Vogue A CDMA version of the Touch is available through Sprint in black and Altel in silver featuring the same form factor with a 400mhz Qualcomm processor 128mb Ram 256mb Rom and EVDO data support but lacking the Wi-Fi support of the GSM version of the same device.
- HTC Kaiser HTC P4550 (TyTN II),sold as the O2 XDA Stellar, T-Mobile MDA Vario III and AT&T Tilt is an update to the HTC Hermes - Quad GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA + WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, 400 MHz, 3 Megapixel auto-focus, slide QWERTY Keyboard, 19mm thick.
- HTC Hermes (HERM 100, 200, 300) is sold as HTC Z (HERM 100),HTC TyTN (HERM 200), T-Mobile MDA Vario II (HERM 300), O2 Xda Trion(Discontinued), Vodafone v1605, AT&T (formerly Cingular) 8525, Dopod 838 Pro, i-mate JASJAM, Orange SPV M3100, 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 Atlas HTCP4351, T-Mobile Wing
- HTC Herald HTC P4350, Dopod C800. Basically a thinner version of the Wizard. HTC recently released a Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 update version of the OS for the P4350.
- HTC Athena, HTC Advantage X7500, Dopod U1000, T-Mobile AMEO. It has a large 5" VGA TFT touchscreen display, a detachable hardware QWERTY keyboard, 8GB hard drive, miniSD Card slot, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, stereo Bluetooth support plus a TV-Out port and a 3 megapixel camera with second VGA camera. Windows Mobile 5.
- HTC Advantage X7501 is Windows Mobile 6 and does not have the second VGA camera.
- 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 WiFi, FM radio and a 2 megapixel camera.
- HTC Gene HTC P3400, Windows Mobile 5.0.
- HTC Trinity HTC P3600 is sold as the Orange M700 and Dopod D810. Quad-band with inbuilt GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth.
- HTC Artemis HTC P3300, HTC P3301, is sold as the Dopod P800, Dopod P800W, T-Mobile MDA compact III, Orange M650 and O2 XDA Orbitin some countries.
- HTC Titan is a CDMA device, and is sold as the Sprint HTC Mogul or PPC-6800, and as the Verizon Wireless XV6800, running Windows Mobile 6. It also is sold in Canada as the Telus P4000 running Windows Mobile 5 (though a free upgrade to Windows Mobile 6 is available,
[products & services / business solutions / data services / devices and accessories / PDAs and converged devices / HTC P4000 Software Update - Telus Mobility - Ontario] and has recently become available through Aliant as the Bell PPC-6800.
- 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. It can also be upgraded to Windows Mobile 6.0.
- 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 Apache is the CDMA version of Wizard, and is sold as the UTStarcom PPC-6700, Audiovox PPC6700 and XV6700.
- HTC Galaxy GPS PDA, is sold as Qtek G100, I-Mate PDA-N
- 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 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 Alpine is sold as the Qtek 2020i, O2 Xda IIi, i-mate PDA2 and Dopod 699.
- 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 Refresh is sold as the Vodafone V1620
- HTC BlueAngel 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 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 Falcon is the CDMA version of the Himalaya and is sold as the Audiovox PPC5050BM.
- 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 Wallaby is sold as the Qtek1010, Qtek1020, O2 xda, T-Mobile MDA and Siemens SX-56.
- HTC Wing This is a phone related to the Mogul and Apache. It is available in blue, has a slide-out qwerty keyboard, and contains windows mobile 5.0
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