High Tech Computer Corporation, or HTC Corporation, is the maker of HTC Cell Phones. Unlike Verizon Cell Phones which are made in the United States, these devices are manufactured in Taiwan. HTC Cell Phones was founded in May of 1997 strictly as an outsourcing company. As of today it is clearly manufacturing it own products as well as working with several partners.

Unlike Verizon Cell Phones a company that only uses a CDMA format on their phones, though in their fourth generation phones they are steering into new technologies, HTC Cell Phones is a member of the Open Hand Alliance. The Open Hand Alliance allows HTC to conform to standards that allow the open source Android operating system to run on its own hardware. In fact, the HTC Dream, also known as the T-Mobile G1, was the first mobile device on the market that used the Android mobile device platform. A variation by Verizon Cell Phones was released a year later.

The current chairwoman of the company is Cher Wang, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Taiwan, Wang Yung-ching. She is also the current chair of the VIA Technologies, a main division of High Tech Computer Corporation. The current president of the company is Peter Chou.

The company has recently experienced tremendous growth due to the fact Microsoft chose HTC as the hardware platform development partner for the Windows Mobile operating system. In 2005 the sales revenue of the company topped $2.2 Billion and Business Week listed HTC as the fastest growing tech company. That was a 102% increase from the previous year! The company currently runs a small design firm out of Seattle, Washington where they design their own interfaces for each phone.

Currently one can find HTC phones under a slew of brand names. Those include HTC, Dopod, a subsidiary company of HTC as well as Qtek. They are also commonly rebranded by big name carriers such as Verizon, T-Mobile, Orange, Sprint, Nextel and Vodafone, among others.

High Tech Computer Corporation went from an outsourcing company and turned into a popular and innovative company cell phone maker. Between being chosen by Microsoft to launch the Windows Mobile operating system to the rebranding by the biggest name on the mobile market, HTC has clearly undergone a phenomenal change. When one takes into account that this transformation came during the companies short, 12 year history, the company itself becomes that much more impressive.

Source by Paul Wise