It is expected to be ready to ship by August, Chen said, adding that certain certificates for the device are still awaited. Seeking to first test the local market, HTC has yet to announce a release a date for the device in overseas markets.
Prior to taking up his position at HTC late last year, Maitre served at French telecom Orange SA as executive vice president of consumer equipment and partnerships. The smartphone, which is not assembled in Taiwan, would be ready to ship tomorrow, the company said. The funding would help finance about trainers and workshops, which would benefit 23, people, including older Taiwanese, people living in remote areas, Aboriginal communities and newly naturalized citizens, the firm said.
While it is keeping production of its most advanced devices in-house, HTC has outsourced a high-power smartphone aimed at the China market. Chinese contract manufacturer Wingtech, which also makes phones for Chinese brands such as Xiaomi Inc. The results were stunning. The HTC Legend retained an insert in the rear and a removable bottom section, but essentially took the HTC Hero design, slimmed it down and made it a metal unibody.
Some saw this as the company trying to design a phone to appeal more to the female market and we're not including the HTC Rhyme on this list , but the Legend made its mark, a mark that still ripples through smartphone handset design today.
The advent of 4G sees two handsets sharing this section of HTC's history. It was close to the Desire HD which launched a few months later globally. Importantly, however, the Evo 4G is credited as being one of the first 4G handsets, sitting on Sprint's WiMax network. At this time, sticking 4G or LTE on the name was an important factor as next-gen networks pushed faster speeds and the entertainment or business benefits that came with them.
But these two devices serve as an illustration of the approach that HTC was taking: it was building smartphones for individual networks, resulting in an explosion of different hardware configurations and ever-expanding software offerings. Meanwhile, HTC was looking for more adjectives to push its handsets and Sensation was the flagship for It was this model that saw the first integration of Beats Audio. The HTC Sensation launched with a 4. It also had a concave edge to the display.
HTC's design panache was unquestionable in the Sensation, but it was the XE that really pushed things forward. The Sensation XE carried Beats branding and came with iBeats headphones in the box, as well as boosting the hardware slightly over the original version. The Beats integration ran across a number of subsequent handsets before the companies parted ways. Beats Audio is now a part of Apple.
In and towing a very fragmented collection of handsets along behind it, HTC redesigned its flagship positioning. It launched the HTC One branding saying that this was one way of thinking about phones, but then launched the One X, One S and One V in three different positions and confused that message. The One X was the flagship and offered a polycarbonate unibody design. It launched on Android 4. To further confuse things, the One X was powered by a quad-core Nvidia chipset, but a separate version known as the One XL carried a Qualcomm dual core chipset and offered LTE connectivity.
This first Android phone set the stage for future wins from HTC, too. It cannot be overstated how important this was for the adoption of Android. In and , Google turned to Samsung to make the second and third flagship Nexus phones.
In HTC captured 2. This HTC team was responsible for releasing amazing devices that no one bought. Outside forces are to blame. HTC never stopped making top-tier devices.
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