From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia HTC
HTC
HTC Corporation
宏達國際電子股份有限公司
Type Public
Traded as TWSE: 2498
Industry Telecommunications
The HTC headquarters in Taoyuan.
Founded 1997
Headquarters Taoyuan City, Taoyuan County, HTC is also a member of the Open Handset Alliance, a
Taiwan group of handset manufacturers and mobile network op-
erators dedicated to the advancement of the Android mo-
Area served Worldwide
bile device platform.[4] The HTC Dream, marketed by T-
Key people Cher Wang, Chairwoman Mobile in many countries as the T-Mobile G1 or Era G1 in
Peter Chou, CEO and President Poland, was the first phone on the market to use the An-
Fred Liu, COO droid mobile device platform.[5]
Products Smartphones, Tablets
Revenue $3.44 billion USD (2011Q4)[1] History
Operating $1.833 billion USD (2011Q3) HTC was founded in 1997 by Cher Wang, HT Cho, and
income Peter Chou.[6] Initially a manufacturer of notebook com-
puters, HTC began designing some of the world’s first
Net income $7.13 billion USD (2011Q4)[1]
touch and wireless hand-held devices in 1998.[7] The
Total assets $8.62 billion USD (2011Q4)[1] company has a rich heritage of many "firsts", including
Total equity $3.437 billion USD (2011Q4)[1]
creating the first Microsoft-powered smartphone (2002)
and the first Microsoft 3G phone (2005).[6] Their first ma-
Employees 12,943 (2011-3-31)[2] jor product was made in 2000 and was one of the world’s
Subsidiaries Beats Electronics first touch screen smartphones. The Palm Treo 650 and
S3 Graphics the iPAQ were created by HTC.[8] They started producing
Dashwire 3G-capable phones in early 2005 and made the world’s
Zoodles first Android phone in 2008, the HTC Dream (also market-
Saffron Digital
ed as the T-Mobile G1). It was first released in the United
Website HTC.com States for pre-order through T-Mobile USA on September
23, 2008, and became available in U.S. T-Mobile stores on
HTC Corporation (Chinese: 宏達國際電子股份有限 October 22, 2008.[9] The G1 was available in the UK sev-
公司; pinyin: Hóngdá Guójì Diànzǐ Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī) eral days after its USA launch, and has since been intro-
(TWSE: 2498), formerly High Tech Computer Corpora- duced in many countries including Australia and Singa-
tion [3] is a Taiwanese manufacturer of smartphones. The
tion, pore. In 2009, the company launched the HTC Sense in-
company initially made smartphones based mostly on terface for the platform with the HTC Hero.[10]
Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system (OS) soft- In March 2010, Apple Inc. filed a complaint with the
ware, but in 2009 it began to shift its core focus away US International Trade Commission claiming infringe-
from Windows Mobile devices to devices based on An- ment of 20 of its patents covering aspects of the iPhone
droid OS, and in 2010 to Windows Phone OS as well. user interface and hardware.[11] HTC disagreed with Ap-
ple’s actions and reiterated its commitment to creating
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia HTC
innovative smartphones.[12] HTC also filed a complaint HTC has invested strongly in research and develop-
against Apple for infringing on 5 of its patents and sought ment, which accounts for a quarter of its employees.[6]
to ban Apple products imported into the US from manu- The company’s North American headquarters are located
facturing facilities in Asia.[13][14] Apple expanded its orig- in Bellevue, Washington.[34] HTC runs a software design
inal complaint by adding two more patents.[15] office in Seattle (near its North American headquarters)
In June 2010, the company launched the HTC Evo 4G, where it designs its own interface for its phones.[35] In
the first 4G-capable phone in the United States.[16] In 2011, HTC also opened a research and development office
July 2010, HTC announced it would begin selling smart- in Durham, North Carolina, a location the company chose
phones in China under its own brand name in a partner- over Seattle and Atlanta,[36] to focus on multiple areas of
ship with China Mobile.[17] In 2010, HTC sold over 24.6 wireless technology.[37]
million handsets, up 111% over 2009.[18]
HTC was named the "Device Manufacturer of the
Year" for 2011 by the GSMA at the Mobile World Congress
Product range and branding
on 16 February 2011.[19] In April 2011, the company’s Main article: List of HTC phones
market value surpassed that of Nokia to become the third When HTC was founded it was strictly an original design
largest smartphone maker in the world, behind only Ap- manufacturer,[30] selling devices such as the HTC Wizard
ple and Samsung.[20] as the T-Mobile MDA and the Cingular 8125. The compa-
On July 6, 2011 it was announced that HTC would buy ny focused on telecom operators who were willing to pay
VIA Technologies’ stake in S3 Graphics, thus becoming a contract manufacturer for customized products.[38] To-
the majority owner of S3.[21][22] On August 6 2011, HTC day, many HTC devices (e.g., Incredible, Evo 4G) are mar-
acquired Dashwire for $18.5M. In August 2011, HTC con- keted and sold under the HTC brand, though its main fo-
firmed that HTC will be entering a strategic partnership cus still remains with smartphones.[28][38] In 2012, HTC
with Beats Electronics by acquiring 51 percent of Beat’s becomes the 98th top brand in the Interbrand’s Best
shares.[23][24] Global Brands 2011 report.[39]
In the 2011 Best Global Brands rankings released by
Interbrand, HTC was listed at #98 and valued at $3.6 billi-
on.[25][26]
Innovations
Based on researcher Canalys, in Q3 2011 HTC Corpo- On February 17, 2010, Fast Company ranked HTC as the
ration became the largest smartphone vendor in the U.S. 31st most innovative company in the world.[40]
by 24 percent, ahead of Samsung’s 21 percent, Apple’s Bloomberg reports that HTC is assessing creating its own
20 percent and Blackberry’s 9 percent. HTC Corporation mobile operating system to compete with Apple’s iOS,
made different models for each operator.[27] Google’s Android, and Microsoft’s Windows Phone.[41] On
May 27th 2011, in response to customer feedback, HTC
announced that they will no longer lock the bootloaders
Corporate information on their Android based phones.[42]
HTC’s chairwoman is Cher Wang who is the daughter of
the late Wang Yung-ching, Taiwan’s petrochemical in-
dustrial giant and one of Taiwan’s wealthiest people.[7]
Sports Sponsorship
Peter Chou serves as President and CEO,[28] and HT Cho HTC sponsored the HTC-Highroad cycling team, current-
as Director of the Board and Chairman of HTC Founda- ly the most successful team in professional cycling from
tion.[29] HTC’s CFO is Hui-Ming Cheng.[30] In addition to 2009 to 2011.[citation needed] The Team will disband in 2012
being chair of HTC, Cher Wang is also acting chair of due to lack of sponsorship and investment.[citation needed]
VIA Technologies.[7] HTC’s main divisions, including the
IA (Information Appliance) engineering division and the See also
WM (Wireless Mobile) engineering division, are ISO
9001/ISO 14001-qualified facilities.[31] • List of HTC phones
The company’s growth has accelerated dramatically • TouchFLO
since being chosen by Microsoft as a hardware platform • TouchFLO 3D
development partner for the Windows Mobile operating • HTC Sense
system (based on Windows CE). HTC also works with
Google to build mobile phones running Google’s Android References
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