Industry | Telecommunications |
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Founded | 1997 |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Peter Chou, Vice Chairman Cher Wang, Chairwoman and CEO and President Fred Liu, COO |
Products | Smartphones, Tablet computers |
Number of employees | 14,332 |
Website | www |
HTC Corporation is a manufacturer of smartphones in Taiwan. It used to be called High Tech Computer Corporation and now is called HTC by lots of people.[1] The company first made smartphones based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, but in 2009 it started to make smartphones based on Android operating system.
HTC is also a member of the Open Handset Alliance, a group of manufacturers and mobile network operators helping to improve the Android operating system.[2] The HTC Dream, sold by T-Mobile in many countries as the T-Mobile G1, was the first phone to use this.[3]