Some time ago, when we were discussing the five biggest producers of mobile pones, we mentioned the saying that behind every successful man there is a strong woman. In the story of High Tech Computer Corporation (HTC), there is a dame as well. Her name is Cher Mi Wang and she is the daughter of one of the richest people in Taiwan. In 1997, she entered in a partnership with HT Cho and Peter Chou and that’s how HTC was found. Its main purpose was to bring to the market a combination of a cell phone and a personal assistant.

However, the project was not that successful; it consumed a large amount of capital and it seemed that the disaster was inevitable. Then the family riches of Mrs. Wang were used to save the day. She invested heavily in the company and brought it back on its feet by improving the engineer and designer sections. In addition, a new course was set and HTC agreed to develop products for other brands. The first success comes in the face of a mobile computer (in 2000) ordered by Compaq and later HP (after the merger of both giants). HTC becomes the big hit in 2002, when the first Pocket PCs based on Microsoft’s OS are developed. This attracts the attention of some big wireless providers such as AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, O2, Vodafone and Orange.

Many think that HTC has entered the game two years ago, because that’s when the first HTC branded phones appeared. Actually, during the rest of the time, the Taiwanese manufacturer has been a busy bee, producing units for the various carriers mentioned above and brands like Qtek, Dopod (division of HTC), Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, i-mate and Sharp. This helps the Taiwanese company gain popularity one step at a time with models like Magician, Wizard, Apache and prove to be one of the best producers of Windows Mobile smartphones. 2006 is the turning point for the company, because it starts offering HTC branded phones and to have its own advertising campaigns.

The key elements, which HTC brings to the table are the innovative ideas. That’s proved by the popular Touch series, which is trying to change the public opinion and convince the consumer that the Windows Mobile devices are not only “heavy bricks” intended for work only. The models are attractive and employ the finger friendly TouchFLO interface. On top of that, HTC is the creator of the first Android OS phone, the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1).

HTC is one of the fastest growing companies on the market, attestation for which is the third place awarded to it by Business Week in the global chart of the best technological companies in 2006. The following year, it manages to get to the second place in Asia, which results in more attention and rumors that soon, HTC will be one of the big five (top manufacturers of cell phones). The first successful step in this endeavor was becoming the leader in the production of the more and more popular Windows Mobile smartphones.

All HTC models – PocketPC and Smartphones

Since even the specialist find it hard to make their way through the diversity of available devices based on the HTC platforms, our team has assembled a table in order to guide you through the handsets based on different HTC platforms that have come out under the six most famous brands: Qtek, i-Mate, Dopod, O2, T-Mobile, and Orange.

Perhaps you already know that HTC officially announced that it was no longer to manufacture Qtek branded phones. As of 15th of June 2006 HTC is to sell its handhelds under its own brand HTC. The first two additions to the new product line are the PocketPC based on the Hermes platform called HTC TyTN and the Smartphone based on the HTC Breeze platform called HTC MTeoR.

PocketPC phones
	Year						Other
HTC Wallaby	2002/Q2	Qtek 1010 Qtek 1020		Dopod 686	O2 XDA	T-Mobile MDA
HTC Himalaya (Andes)	2003/Q3	Qtek 2020	i-Mate PocketPC	Dopod 696	O2 XDA-II	T-Mobile MDA-II	Orange SPV M1000
HTC Blue Angel	2004/Q3	Qtek 9090	i-Mate PDA2K	Dopod 700	O2 XDA-IIs	T-Mobile MDA-III	Orange SPV M2000
HTC Magician	2004/Q4	Qtek S100	i-Mate Jam	Dopod 818	O2 XDA-II Mini	T-Mobile MDA Compact	Orange SPV M500 Vodafone v1620/VPA III
HTC Magician Refresh	2005/Q2	Qtek S110	i-Mate Jam Black	Dopod 828			Orange SPV M500 Vodafone VPA Compact
HTC Alpine (Mont Blanc)	2004/Q4	Qtek 2020i	i-Mate PDA2	Dopod 696i	O2 XDA-IIi		Orange SPV M2500
HTC Charmer	2005/Q2					T-Mobile MDA Compact II
HTC Prophet	2005/Q4	Qtek S200 review	i-Mate JamIn	Dopod 818 Pro	O2 XDA Neo		Orange SPV M600
HTC Universal	2005/Q3	Qtek 9000	i-Mate JasJar	Dopod 900	O2 XDA Exec	T-Mobile MDA Pro	Orange SPV M5000 Vodafone v1640
HTC Wizard (Prodigy)	2005/Q4	Qtek 9100 review	i-Mate K-JAM	Dopod 838	O2 XDA Mini S	T-Mobile MDA Vario	Orange SPV M3000 Cingular 8100/8125 Vodafone VPA Compact II
HTC Hermes HTC TyTN P4500	2006/Q2	Qtek 9600 first look	i-Mate JasJam	Dopod 838 Pro/CHT 9000	O2 XDA Trion	T-Mobile MDA Vario II	Orange SPV M3100 Cingular 8525 Vodafone v1605
HTC Artemis HTC P3300	2006/Q3			Dopod P800W	O2 XDA Orbit	T-Mobile MDA Compact III	Orange SPV M650
HTC Trinity HTC P3600	2006/Q3			Dopod D810/CHT 9100			Orange SPV M700 Vodafone VPA Compact GPS
HTC Muse (Melody)	possibly canceled	Qtek S300
HTC Herald HTC P4350	2006/Q4			Dopod C800/C858	O2 XDA Terra	T-Mobile Wing	Vodafone VPA Compact IV
HTC Love HTC P3350	2007/Q1			Dopod M700
HTC Athena(Advantage) HTC X7500	2007/Q1			Dopod U1000		T-Mobile Ameo
HTC Gene HTC P3400	2007/Q1			Dopod D600
HTC Kaiser HTC TyTN II	2007/Q3				O2 XDA Stellar	T-Mobile MDA Vario III	AT&T Tilt
HTC Elf HTC Touch P3450	2007/Q2				O2 XDA Nova
HTC Sirius HTC P6500	2007/Q4
HTC Foreseer DVB-H TV	rumored
HTC Panda HTC P6300	2007/Q2				O2 Argon
HTC Polaris HTC Touch Cruise	2007/Q4				O2 XDA Orbit II
HTC Nike HTC Touch Dual	2007/Q4				O2 XDA Star
HTC Omni	rumored
HTC Polaris 100 HTC Touch Cruise	2007/Q4			Dopod P860
HTC Pharos 100 HTC P3470	2008/Q1
HTC Athena 100 HTC Advantage X7510	2008/Q1
HTC Diamond 100 HTC Touch Diamond P3700	2008/Q2				O2 Diamond
HTC Victor HTC Touch Diamond P3702	2008/Q2					T-Mobile MDA Compact IV
HTC Raphael 100 HTC Touch Pro	2008/Q2					T-Mobile MDA Vario IV
Smartphones