If you havent heard, HTC is in the process of aquiring 50% of DOPOD... all i can say is may God be with the Dopod owners and future Dopod owners because only God know what "tech" support is going to be available for them...
This may seem like a demonic post, but my gf is acting like... she owns the world so i broke up with her and shes trying to make it seem like i caused it.... DAMN PDA's FOR PUSH. damn all instant msg apps. damn ANY MEANS OF COMMUNICATION... (i'm gonna go hole my self in a cave without any electronics.... ok i cant do that, i'll have my wizard with me! hopefully i can find a WIFI network in that cave.)
My guess is that clearly HTC wants to control everything from market to resellers to applications on the device ... Hopefully new players will emerge on the market so that HTC focuses only on device building ... or at least will let us developers build some apps for this devices as they lately slowly lock several APIs... chinese mafia
rain: Well, that's the way it goes! To start from scratch, you gotta ride on bigger companies, then get famous, then eventually fly solo!
And apparently HTC already owns Qtek; can anyone confirm this?
Yes it did ,
if you go to their official web page its in the bottom of it with small letters... Owned by HTC Corp
And when you ask them they say that its their official world wide distributor...
The point is that the politics is similar to the one that MSFT is having but not even MSFT can do it all by their selves, and in my opinion this arrongance is somtimes stupid.
One thing is certain -> HTC will never have a developers web site for support even if its payed (like HP or Motorola has)
As far as I know, Qtek is actually HTC's own brand, so they don't "own" Qtek, they are Qtek.
Yes sorry ,
The Qtek brand its owned by HTC Corp.
My mistake ...
HTC now only needs to extend its market more and more and then be bought by MSFT
It has the biggest carriers, the bigest resellers, now its only supposed to "kill" the regular cell phone market ( Nokia and SonyEricsson)
Looking forward to it...
Dopod was owned by Cher Wang (the Chairwoman of HTC) anyway. So I would think that there will be little change.
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now its only supposed to "kill" the regular cell phone market ( Nokia and SonyEricsson)
Looking forward to it...
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You wouldn't want HTC to totally kill the other competitors - we need competition, otherwise things will get boring.
kevino said:
Dopod was owned by Cher Wang (the Chairwoman of HTC) anyway. So I would think that there will be little change.
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Obligatory "lol, wang" post.
Also: Does this mean much of anything?
Will HTC stop selling device through its lesser-known Qtek channel, and focus entirely on DoPod?
Will devices be quicker to market?
Will the dopod unbranded firmware be made more freely available?
I doubt anybody can really answer those questions yet, but I totally felt like asking them anyway~
bobgorila said:
Will HTC stop selling device through its lesser-known Qtek channel, and focus entirely on DoPod?
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Wow wow wow... easy there.
Dopod: South East Asia and Australasia
Qtek: Europe
Hope that'll answer your question.
Richard,
I wonder if i-mate could be next? for the US market and south african?
And for there club also ... i saw that q-tek is also raising one on their web site... How beautifull is life when the money are not a problem
fone_fanatic said:
If you havent heard, HTC is in the process of aquiring 50% of DOPOD...
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Today's news: http://msmobiles.com/news.php/5254.html
It's actually more than 50%! (don't be surprised: the chairwoman of HTC already OWNS Dopod, anyway)
rain: msmobiles.com interviewed the CEO of i-mate at 3GSM 2006 (he claims to be THE designer of THE xda!):
http://msmobiles.com/news.php/4919.html
Note this: " i-mate is pondering using other manufacturers than HTC but these other manufacturers cannot be revealed until these phones will be launched"
Now THIS would be interesting!
bobgorila: i-mate operates in Dubai (base), UK, Italy, Armenia, Australia, the USA and South Africa.
I would surely want to see some real tough competition.
I didn't see this reported on xda-developers and somehow missed this in the financial press but it sure looks like good news for all of us since HTC will have a much larger user-base and therefore find it easier to offer upgrades.
The earlier Dopod WM6 upgrade announcement didn't include the Herald but the HTC announcement did so I'm sure we can look forward to a WM6 upgrade for the Dopod C800.
Here's the link to the full news item on the HTC site:
HTC Signs Acquisition Agreement with Dopod International
http://www.htc.com/press_room/03-press-070508.htm
Holy crap! I thought HTC had a policy of sticking to making phones and letting other brand names brand and distribute? This is good news indeed.
I am going to be getting this phone with in the month and i noticed that there is no section for it. please can we make a section for it?
I heard rumors that it shares some parts with the htc tilt did i hear correctly?
Take my advice and buy one of the HTC devices because of the very bad support of the imate
We realy suffer with this company
You can visit the forum.imate.com to see the complains of the imate 9502 owner before take your descision
i would have already bought the touchpro but there is no softbuttons. i do not know if i can live without them. i have a wing now.
do you have a suggestion for another phone it has to have gps vga qwerty keyboard and 128ram
i was thinking about the toshiba g910 but it is just ugly. I also thought about the symbol/motorola mc35
Hello all,
I was just wondering. I have a few smartphones - O2 Xda Atom Life, Htc S740 and an Htc s620. Why are smartphones given nick names such as Rose, Excalibur, Wallaby, Alpine, Himalaya, Prophet, Elf, etc?
Are this windows based smartphones made by some one else and then companies like HTC, I-mate, etc.. buy them later?
most if no all products / projects have codenames before they get their marketing name
same with software products win95 was Chicago, vista was lornhorn.....
htc makes all their own devices so the codenames are invented and used internally at htc
I see, now I understand...Thought that Microsoft used to make them and then htc used to buy them..
guys i just wanted to update my friends imate jama,i tried the official site
of i mate,the site is not even working from my further searches in some
news site they r reporting that the company is closed.so is there any one having a 6.5 rom for i mate jama
http://www.itp.net/573861-i-mate-shuts-down
http://pulse2.com/2009/09/17/mobile-phone-company-i-mate-closes-their-doors-for-good/
Yes, they ceased trading in September. Most of their products were rebadged HTC machines. When HTC decided to sell machines under their own brand, the middlemen were left high and dry. Support will have to come from this site, under the relevent HTC model, or try a stock ROM from another telco for the same device.
i-Mate was quite a large company, but things move pretty fast in this arena, and Dubai is not the place to get into money troubles at the moment..........
stephj said:
Yes, they ceased trading in September. Most of their products were rebadged HTC machines. When HTC decided to sell machines under their own brand, the middlemen were left high and dry. Support will have to come from this site, under the relevent HTC model, or try a stock ROM from another telco for the same device.
i-Mate was quite a large company, but things move pretty fast in this arena, and Dubai is not the place to get into money troubles at the moment..........
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i think it was cos of htc they got in deep trouble hehehehe
any ways htc does there job well ,they keep on going with
there awesome devices