HTC document creation milestones in Apple legal struggle

When someone accuses you of copying their ideas, you tin can either leave it to the lawyers to decide or you can come out fighting.  In the ongoing legal case between them and Apple, HTC look to be doing the latter, and they’ve brought their journal along to flagstone up some headstone innovations – of their own doing – along the way.

Such innovations include the first Windows personal digital assistant and phone, in 1998 and 2002 respectively, along with the first base Android smartphone and the first base 4G WiMAX smartphone.  In fact there have been more than 50 HTC smartphone models transport since the 2002 O2 XDA by HTC.

Still, there’s plenty of room for the lawyers to shuffling their money, with HTC CEO Simon Peter Chou reiterating that “HTC disagrees with Apple’s actions and volition fully defend itself.”

Press Release:

HTC DISAGREES WITH APPLE’S ACTIONS

Seattle – March 17, 2010 – HTC Corporation today outlined its divergence with Apple’s legal actions and reiterated its commitment to creating a portfolio of innovative smartphones that gives consumers a diversity of choices. Founded in 1997 with a passion for innovation and a vision for how smartphones would variety people’s lives, HTC has continually driven this imaginativeness by consistently introducing awarding-winning smartphones with U.S. mobile operators.

“HTC disagrees with Apple’s actions and will fully defend itself. HTC strongly advocates intellect property tribute and volition continue to obedience other innovators and their technologies as we have always done, but we volition continue to embrace rivalry through our own creation as a healthy way for consumers to get the best mobile experience possible,” said Peter Zhou, gaffer administrator military officer, HTC Corporation. “From day one, HTC has focused on creating cutting-edge innovations that deliver unique value for people looking for a smartphone. In 1999 we started designing the XDA

The O2 XDA by HTC was the first base 3.5-in color touching blind smartphone in the world in 2002. and T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition The T-Mobile River Pocket PC Phone Edition by HTC was the first 3.5-inch color touching screen smartphone in the United States in 2002., our first base touch-screen smartphones, and they both shipped in 2002 with more than 50 additional HTC smartphone models transport since then.”

The industry has recognized HTC’s contributions through a diversity of awards including Fast Company’s 2010 Top 50 Most Innovative Companies and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technology Review’s 2010 50 Most Innovative Companies. The GSMA also recently awarded the HTC Hero of Alexandria as the “Best Phone of 2009.” Some of HTC’s engineering firsts include:

First Windows PDA (1998) First Windows Phone (June 2002) First 3G CDMA EVDO smartphone (October 2005) First motion-based smartphone (June 2007) First Google Android smartphone (Oct 2008) First 4G WIMAX smartphone (Nov 2008)

In 2009, HTC launched its branded substance abuser experience, HTC Sense. HTC Sense is focused on putting citizenry at the centre by devising phones work in a more simpleton and natural way. This experience was fundamentally based on listening and observing how citizenry live and communicate.

“HTC has always taken a partnership-oriented, collaborative coming to byplay. This has led to long-standing strategic partnerships with the top software system, Net and wireless technology companies in the industry as fountainhead as the top U.S., European and Asiatic mobile operators,” said Jason Mackenzie River, vice prexy of HTC America. “It is through these relationships that we wealthy person been able to deliver the world’s most diverse serial publication of smartphones to an even more diverse group of citizenry around the world, recognizing that customers have very different needs.”

For more entropy on HTC’s chronicle of innovation, please visit: www.htc.com/history.

[via Android Community]