It is true?

[mirchichamu]

I understood that Imate, Qtek, htc and some others are actually made by one Taiwanese company and then sold by their proprietary names as above.
Majority of their products if you see are the same. Only their logos are changed on the PPCs. Even the shapes are the same. They are looting by different names?????????

[Rudegar]

yes that Taiwanese company's name is htc which stand for high tech computers

and since they started selling themselfs they stop'd selling oem as qtek and imate

qtek is now a part of htc and dont exist as themselfs anymore

and imate started Oem'ing from other companys

htc still oem to phone companys like o2, tmobile and the likes though

[mirchichamu]

yes that Taiwanese company's name is htc which stand for high tech computers

and since they started selling themselfs they stop'd selling oem as qtek and imate

qtek is now a part of htc and dont exist as themselfs anymore

and imate started Oem'ing from other companys

htc still oem to phone companys like o2, tmobile and the likes though

You mean htc is the parent company? But qket is still available in market. By the way what is oem or oem'ming? It means that htc is selling its produts to imate and o2.
If one see the products of all these companies you will find that they are exactly same with different logos. May be casing colour difference?

[levenum]

OEM means Original Equipment Manufacturer - the company that actually makes the hardware.

Today many large companies don't make products them salves but only brand them.
HP, Fujitsu and others are examples.

For years HTC made WM based devices (not just phones) for sale under many brands: i-mate, qtek, dopod, O2, Orange, HP, Fujitsu and others.
The brand company would usually specify what it wants in terms of hardware and small adjustments to the OS, HTC would design and produce the device.

While large companies like HP would by a line exclusively like the iPaq 65xx and 69xx phones other smaller brands like qtek and i-mate (which now sells only non-htc devices) would by the same hardware and give it a different name.

My phone (Prophet) is know as Qtek S200, XDA Neo, Dopod 818 and Orange SPV600. It is all the same hardware with slight differences in ROM.

But this practice doesn't happen only with phones. It happens with nearly all types of electronic equipment and is standard through out the industry.

[Rudegar]

yes htc used to be oem for many companys like hp and these range of pda phones

but they entered the market and cut imate off as a parter
and they own qtek and i believe it's being fased out

and yes they still oem to phone companys like o2 and tmobile
and yes the only difference is logo colour and maybe a bit of casing and button difference

[mirchichamu]

Thanks levenum And Rodegar!
I learnt a lot from you. It means that htc is the leader.