Subject: [NEXTEL-1] HTC - To Make iDEN "Smart Phone" For Motorola.

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 19:24:11 -0400

HTC - maker of Orange SPVe200 - will be manufacturing also Motorola
branded Microsoft smartphones

March 28, 2004 [MS Smartphone]

HTC is a company located in Taiwan, here is how building of HTC looks
like:

 [HTC from Taiwan]
We know that hardware quality of Orange SPV (also branded as Qtek and
i-mate) smartphones is not very good (poor battery time, poor voice
quality and very poor implementation of Bluetooth), so hopefully
Motorola will be controlling HTC a bit more, not to spoil the Microsoft
smartphone opportunity...

As a matter of fact it will be Motorola´s Microsoft smartphone for iDen
network (operator Nextel in USA), that HTC will be manufacturing:

High Tech Computer (HTC) has secured an ODM order for iDEN ( integrated
Digital Enhanced Network) wireless handsets from Motorola, with
shipments to begin sometime in the second half of this year, according
to Taiwanese handset makers. HTC declined to comment.

... writes certain well informed (well, they speak Chinese and read
local newspapers) Taiwanese online publication here.

So now it looks like 3 companies in Taiwan are making cell phones in
general and Microsoft smartphones in paritcular for Motorola ! We can
hardly comprehend the idea why Motorola cannot give all orders to one of
them and thus achieve economy of scale, but these are facts! If you
would read Chinese:

 ... you would notice, that Motorola MPx100 and MPx (formerly called
MPx300) are manufactured by
 Compal in Taiwan. Motorola MPx220 and MPx200 are manufactured by Chi
Mei Communications from
 Taiwan. And now the iDen smarpthone is manufactured by HTC from Taiwan.
However strange it all is,
 these are facts. While the quality of manufacturing of MPx200 is well
known and appreciated by users, we
 have mixed feelings when it comes to HTC. Motorola must really increase
quality assurance, to ensure
 that problems that HTC made Microsoft smartphones have had, will not
repeat in Motorola branded
 smartphone to be made by HTC too....

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HTC - maker of Orange SPVe200 - will be manufacturing also Motorola branded Microsoft smartphones

March 28, 2004 [MS Smartphone]

HTC is a company located in Taiwan, here is how building of HTC looks like:

We know that hardware quality of Orange SPV (also branded as Qtek and i-mate) smartphones is not very good (poor battery time, poor voice quality and very poor implementation of Bluetooth), so hopefully Motorola will be controlling HTC a bit more, not to spoil the Microsoft smartphone opportunity...

As a matter of fact it will be Motorola´s Microsoft smartphone for iDen network (operator Nextel in USA), that HTC will be manufacturing:

High Tech Computer (HTC) has secured an ODM order for iDEN ( integrated Digital Enhanced Network) wireless handsets from Motorola, with shipments to begin sometime in the second half of this year, according to Taiwanese handset makers. HTC declined to comment.

... writes certain well informed (well, they speak Chinese and read local newspapers) Taiwanese online publication here.

So now it looks like 3 companies in Taiwan are making cell phones in general and Microsoft smartphones in paritcular for Motorola ! We can hardly comprehend the idea why Motorola cannot give all orders to one of them and thus achieve economy of scale, but these are facts! If you would read Chinese:

... you would notice, that Motorola MPx100 and MPx (formerly called MPx300) are manufactured by Compal in Taiwan. Motorola MPx220 and MPx200 are manufactured by Chi Mei Communications from Taiwan. And now the iDen smarpthone is manufactured by HTC from Taiwan. However strange it all is, these are facts. While the quality of manufacturing of MPx200 is well known and appreciated by users, we have mixed feelings when it comes to HTC. Motorola must really increase quality assurance, to ensure that problems that HTC made Microsoft smartphones have had, will not repeat in Motorola branded smartphone to be made by HTC too....

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