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| Type | Public (TSEC: 2498) |
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| Founded | 1997 |
| Headquarters | Taoyuan, Taiwan |
| Key people | Cher Wang, Chairwoman Peter Chou, CEO Fred Liu, COO |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Revenue | ▲$3.65 billion USD (2007) |
| Operating income | ▲$957 million USD (2007) |
| Net income | ▲$892 million USD (2007) |
| Employees | 5,569 |
| Website | www.htc.com |
HTC Corporation (TSE: 2498), formerly High Tech Computer Corporation, is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of primarily Microsoft Windows Mobile-based portable devices as well as several Google Android-based devices.
It was founded on May 15, 1997 and initially 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 original equipment manufacturer (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; The HTC Dream, marketed by T-Mobile in many countries as the T-Mobile G1, is the first phone to the market that uses the Android mobile device platform. It was first released in the United States for pre-order through T-Mobile USA on September 23, 2008, and became available in U.S. T-Mobile stores on October 22, 2008.[1] The G1 was available in the UK several days after its USA launch, and has since been introduced in many European countries, plus Australia and Singapore. Android Dev Phone is also manufactured by HTC. The Hero was released on Sprint with the Sense UI on October 11, 2009 and the Droid Eris, a variation of the Hero, was released by Verizon Wireless on November 6, 2009.
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Corporate information
HTC's chairwoman is Cher Wang, daughter of one of Taiwan's wealthiest men Wang Yung-ching; the President of the company is Peter Chou. In addition to being chair of HTC, Cher Wang is also acting chair 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. HTC's CFO is Hui-Ming Cheng.
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.[2]
HTC runs a small software design office in Seattle where it designs its own interface for its phones.[3]
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 Mobility and Telus Mobility.
See also
- List of HTC phones
- TouchFLO
- TouchFLO 3D
- HTC Sense
- Second Program Loader
References
- ^ HTC names Google phone, 'Dream'
- ^ The IT 100 Companies: The Leading Tech Companies of 2005
- ^ "HTC Launches Multi-Million Dollar Ad Campaign About ‘You’ To Become Household Name". mocoNews. 26 October 2009. http://moconews.net/article/419-htc-launches-multi-million-dollar-ad-campaign-about-you-to-become-house/.
External links
- HTC Corporation Homepage
- Official HTC wiki site contains info on how to set up and use HTC phones
- HTC News and Updates
- Qtek Europe
- Qtek France
- Dopod China
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