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Whenever mentioning the PPC or smartphone smartphone, people always first think of the Dopod. Yes, Dopod's influence on people in both PPC and smartphone fields is very profound, because Dopod has always focused on making smartphones.
Friends who pay attention to the water goods cell phone may have noticed, Dopod always have a lot of different models of the same product, such as the O2 version, T-Mobile version, VODAFONE version and so on, so there are many netizens caused by the controversy, said Dopod is a foreign cell phone labeling goods, and do not produce their own cell phones.
In fact, Dopod was just founded in the early days, it is indeed "labeling" goods, sticking CEC brand in the sale, so more people misunderstand that Dopod is a true labeling products. I did hear some consumers buy Dopod products in the market, asking why Dopod's cell phone will have the CEC logo? Is Dopod produced by CEC? In the sales of a hundred explanations, the user is still not assured, the CEC logo is even more incomprehensible and unacceptable, after all, they spend a high price to buy Dopod.
So what exactly is Dopod is not branded goods? In the Dopod smartphone user group, only a few really understand the phone, understand the Dopod phone. (The Dopod smartphone user group here refers to the Dopod series of cell phones, including foreign carriers customized version of the water goods) In fact, the understanding of these friends is wrong, about the Dopod cell phone is a long story, but to figure out what is going on in the end is not difficult. I can tell you for sure that Dopod is a branded product, but the labeling is the "brand" of their own family.
You can do a very simple test, ask friends around four questions. First, who makes Dopod cell phones? Second, what is the relationship between Dopod and HTC? Third, Dopod and CEC and what is the relationship? Fourth, what is the relationship between the customized version of the phone of foreign carriers and Dopod?
After the four questions, you can basically know that many people actually know very little about Dopod-based smartphones!
Speaking of Dopod, one can't help but be reminded of some of Dopod's history. Some say that Dopod is a Taiwanese brand, others say that Dopod is a purely national brand, which one is correct?
Dopod International Co., Ltd. was established on July 1, 2002, by the Taiwan HTC and VIA Electronics *** with the formation of capital, initially by HTC's Wang Xuehong as chairman. In order to avoid the double split between HTC and its own brand, the chairman of the board was later changed to VIA monitor Ding Xiufeng. Dopod International Corporation is headquartered in Taiwan, China, with a factory in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Dopod International's main business lines are product design for cell phones and handheld devices (PPC phones, PDAs), marketing, business, and customer service, with operations in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia.
In addition to Dopod International Co.
Dopod Communication Co., Ltd. is a high-tech company founded by Mr. Yang Xingping, a doctor who stayed in the United States (also known as the father of Dopod), who returned to China, and is a joint venture between China Electronics Corporation (CEC) and overseas, with its headquarter located in Shanghai and its production base in Wuhan. Dopod Communications Co., Ltd. business scope is mainly concentrated in the mainland region, we usually refer to the licensed Dopod cell phone is from the Dopod Communications Co., Ltd. trademark is "dopod", the harmonic is "Dopod".
Dopod Communication Co., Ltd. was founded at the beginning of the domestic cell phone license, so the products sold at that time with the CEC logo, with the help of CEC's license sales, so at that time a lot of people mistakenly think that Dopod is a brand under the CEC, in fact, Dopod and CEC is only a cooperative relationship. Subsequently, Dopod acquired a domestic cell phone license and officially sold Dopod's free-branded smartphone products.
In fact, we have found that in the major cell phone stores almost no Dopod cell phone counter, but also rarely see the figure of Dopod cell phone in the stores, in fact, this is and Dopod's sales strategy has a lot to do with, why will not be able to buy Dopod cell phone in the market? This will be explained in more detail later.
The two Dopods are both owned by HTC, one is Dopod International and the other is Dopod Communications. Dopod International is headquartered in Taiwan, with a factory in Hsinchu, Taiwan, while Dopod Communications is headquartered in Shanghai, with a factory in Wuhan. The short answer is that "Dopod Communications" is responsible for the business in mainland China, while "Dopod International" is responsible for the business in the Asia-Pacific region.
Dopod and Taiwan's HTC have a strong connection. Dopod is a wholly owned subsidiary of HTC, and Dopod is its own brand. In layman's terms, the proprietor of Dopod is HTC, which is responsible for operating Dopod's domestic operations. HTC, on the other hand, is a Taiwan-based ODM (Original Design Manufacturer, designing its own products and branding them for other brands) manufacturer.
HTC is mainly an OEM, making customized cell phones for major carriers in Europe and the United States, and does not sell its own products. HTC owns two companies, Dopod and Dopod International, and in order to enable its two "Dopods" to survive in the fierce competition, HTC has also done some strong protection measures for them.
The Dopod factory in Wuhan focuses on parts assembly, with the main components of the machines being purchased from the parent company, which is naturally HTC, and in fact most of the design and production is handled by HTC. This also explains why we often refer to HTC in some reviews, in fact, HTC XXX is the original model, because of the customization of different operators, so the final hands of the operators of the machine model naming are different.
For a simple example, the Dopod D900, which we usually refer to as the Dopod D900, is the original HTC model number Universal, while O2's customized model is the XDA Exec, T-Mobile's customized model is the MDA IV, and Orange's version is the SPV M5000, which is actually the same thing, although it ends up with different names.
Also, on top of being largely the same, HTC makes small adjustments to suit the carrier's requirements, such as configuration tweaks and tweaks to the exterior design. A typical example is the Doppler 838, where the VODAFONE version has a square casing and the T-Mbolie version is somewhat streamlined.
In the eyes of many people, Dopod's PPC smartphone is very cow, in fact, not Dopod cow, but its proprietor HTC (HTC) cow. In fact, the world world production of PPC, PDA manufacturers are not many, the world 70% of the smartphone using Windows Mobile system (including PPC and Smartphone) are from Taiwan, mainly HTC (HTC) and MiTAC (Shenda) two, they are from the iPAQ era began OEM, and mastered some of the technology.
HTC obtained Microsoft's Windows CE license at the beginning of its establishment, and then exhibited the world's first WIN CE PDA at the CES in the U.S., which was highly recognized by Microsoft, and the partnership between them was further strengthened.
Now HTC is a major Windows Mobile customer, monopolizing 80% of the Windows Mobile phone market. As mentioned earlier, HTC is an ODM (Original Design Manufacturer, designing its own products and branding them for other brands) manufacturer specializing in the production of OEM smartphones for European carriers, such as France's Orange, Britain's O2, and Germany's T-Mobile. HTC's customers are far more than those mentioned above.
Since there are too many OEMs or carriers for HTC to list, it's clearer to look at this chart. This chart is obtained from the Internet, said to be HTC's internal information, but in fact in the end is not, there is no way to find out. Analyzing the data in the table, the products covered by this table are exactly as of around mid-2006, which should be said that the interval is not too long and is very informative.
The table shows all the products OEM'd by HTC. Besides smartphones, it also includes mainstream PDAs, such as the HP IPAQ series, Compaq, Plam, DELL, and Fujitsu-Siemens, whose PDAs are all OEM'd by HTC.
We usually contact with the parallel imports of cell phones, most of the stickers are foreign carriers of the brand, and the use of orthodox "dopod" standard products are really few and far between, and there are a lot of models is the line Dopod inside there is no, why is the HTC (HTC) is always the newer, better models sold abroad, and their own Dopod even in the market, and the Dopod even in the market, and the Dopod is not a good choice. Why does HTC always sell newer and better models abroad, while its own Dopod can't even stick to the edge? Many people don't understand HTC's approach.
In fact, this approach is very much related to the way HTC operates. HTC is responsible for the design and production of prototype cell phones, they are not responsible for sales, sales are given to customized operators to be responsible for, so HTC's partners are major carriers, their own family is responsible for the sale of only Dopod.
HTC has a lot of partners, so imagine how many carriers in Europe sell HTC's products at the same time, or how many products Dopod sells on its own? Of course it is a few European carriers selling more at the same time, shipments go up, there is money to be made. So HTC generally have a new product will be listed first in foreign countries, the number of domestic products is less, and the listing time is always half a beat slower. So there are a lot of people who don't know about it think it's Dopod labeled as a foreign carrier, and this understanding is actually wrong.
Can be simply understood as the same model phone, foreign carriers and China Mobile have customized models, but China Mobile's customized models not only have the "China Mobile" label, but also will have the Dopod label. The foreign customized models will only have the operator's label. In fact, the source of the machine is HTC, only the brand is not the same, the domestic and foreign market time sooner or later just.
But because of the different operators, European countries into the goods of different channels, the price has a certain difference. Based on observation of the market, it is not difficult to find that Orange's customized models are generally high in price, while T-Mobile's models are on the low side, and this is not an isolated phenomenon, almost every cell phone is like this.
According to gossips, HTC has the closest relationship with Orange, and produces products that first ensure the quality of Orange's customized machines, which are the most stable in terms of quality and the best in terms of performance, and therefore the most expensive.
In addition, HTC's OEM products also have a "buyout", but the buyout of only a very few models. For example, if an operator in Europe buys out an HTC product, then HTC will only produce it for that operator, and the other operators will only be able to watch. This explains why there are models that are available abroad that don't have a domestic Doppler equivalent.
Things to be traced back to the PDA era, when there was no PPC phone, PPC and phone are very clear. At that time, the boss of the PDA can be considered HP, but HP itself does not produce, under the iPQA products from design to production are given to HTC (HTC) handled, HTC (HTC) at that time has been the world's largest PDA foundry.
Then just in time for the merger of HP and COMPAQ, after the merger, HTC (HTC) developed the idea of adding a telephone function to the PDA, but HP did not buy the bill, and for a while the PDA with a telephone function was in trouble, and it was almost aborted.
There was no way out, but there was another village in the dark. The famous British mobile operator O2 fancy HTC (HTC) this with telephone function PDA products, to HTC (HTC) orders, and named XDA, then by HTC (HTC) OEM PPC Phone are used in the XDA name, distinguish between different products in the back of the specific model are added to the corresponding. Because this PDA phone is fresh in kind, so at that time abroad sold very well, other operators in Europe are also optimistic about this product, have to HTC (HTC) orders, so the final extension of the O2, Qtek, T-Mobile and other versions.
The Dopod 686 is the originator of the Dopod cell phone, due to the Dopod has just been established soon, there is no cell phone license, so it can only be sold with the help of CEC's license, so in the early Dopod products, in addition to Dopod's logo, there will be CEC's logo. in the Dopod has obtained the official license, it can be sold independently, so in the aftermath of Dopod's product were sold independently, so after that, there was no more CEC logo on Dopod products.
Dopod with the help of 686 this PDA phone, popularity rapidly increased, due to only focus on smart phones, so Dopod's entire line of products are high-end smart phones, mainland licensed goods are also ridiculously expensive, so many parallel imports of cell phone business began to sell foreign version of the Dopod smart phone back to China for sale, the same production line out of the machine, due to the signing of the machine abroad and so on the more special sales method, making the foreign customized version of the smart phone back to China for sale, the same production line out of the machine, due to the signing of the machine and so on the more special The same production line out of the machine, due to foreign contracted machines and other special sales methods, so that the price of foreign customized version of the parallel imports of cell phones is much cheaper than the mainland licensed goods, almost only half the price of the licensed goods can be bought in the water, so the parallel imports of Dopod cell phones in the market is very prosperous.
To make it easier to identify and remember, people usually call HTC OEM phones as Dopod phones. The vast majority of what's being sold in the parallel market are HTC OEM smartphones for European carriers. So why are there so many customized versions of foreign smartphones flowing into China? ......
Waterborne windows cell phones sell well in China, why? Because the price is cheap and enough, imagine, can afford to spend thousands of dollars or even tens of thousands of dollars to buy a smartphone in China, after all, belong to a minority, the price of 2000-3000 yuan or so of the water goods smartphone is more appealing to the people, but also more rely on the universal, after all, this price is still a lot of people can afford to pay.
It should be said that there is an unspoken rule in China, people who buy Dopod smartphones generally choose to water goods, then China is so much in demand, how many water phones are needed to meet the supply of the Chinese market, these water phones are from foreign carriers, then carriers customized cell phones in foreign countries do not sell, run to China to sell?
In fact, this is related to the foreign sales method. After signing a network usage agreement with a foreign operator, the operator will give you a cell phone, of course, this will be based on the package you choose to decide, the more expensive the package, the better the machine will be.
There is a trial period of 14 days, or two weeks, during which you can return the phone to the carrier if you are not satisfied with it, or you can replace it with a phone that you are satisfied with. Other people have used the phone can not be taken out again to sell, so can only be low-priced disposal, such a machine in the domestic parallel market are generally known as the 14-day machine, the color is almost close to brand-new, can be completely when the new to sell, but the price is much cheaper than new, after all, it is the operator to deal with out of the machine.
Domestic pour to sell the water cargo Dopod phone is generally this 14 days machine, rarely will have brand new goods, then this 14 days machine in the water cargo market will also be defined as a brand new machine, or not how the price will be so cheap it?
In fact, this kind of water goods cell phone on the line of Dopod licensed cell phone impact is huge, Dopod is also very hate this kind of water goods cell phone, because these cell phones in their own half the price in the sale, many people are going to buy water goods cell phone, do not buy Dopod regular line goods. In fact, many of the current water goods Dopod cell phone domestic is no regular line of goods, that is to say, Dopod in the sale of just HTC (HTC) part of the product, and more new machines are sold to Europe and the United States to go.
From Dopod to HTC, and from HTC to "Double Dopod". HTC (HTC), hidden in the Dopod behind the old owner, the world's largest windows mobile system smartphone OEM manufacturers, monopolized 80% of the market share of the Windows Mobile phone for the world's many telecom operators in the OEM cell phone, business throughout the world.
I believe that after reading this article, many people will be on Dopod, on HTC (HTC) have a very deep understanding, perhaps some people after reading it will be completely dizzy, do not know who in the end who is who, the following again to simplify the complexity of things, the main thrust of this article lies in the following points:
One of the relationship between Dopod and HTC (HTC): Dopod is the HTC (HTC) wholly owned subsidiary.
Second, the relationship between HTC and the "double Dopod": HTC has two Dopods under its umbrella, one is "Dopod International Corporation", and the other is "Dopod Communications Co. Ltd. Dopod International is headquartered in Taiwan, with a factory in Hsinchu, Taiwan, while Dopod Communications is headquartered in Shanghai, with a factory in Wuhan.
Three, HTC (HTC) is the world's largest windows mobile smartphone OEM manufacturers, monopolizing 80% of the market share for the major European and American telecom operators to provide OEM smartphone business, including a full range of services from design to production, in the final product will only be hit with the operator's LOGO, and will not appear Dopod or HTC LOGO, and the products sold by its own Dopod. The products sold by Dopod have the LOGO of "dopod".
Four, HTC (HTC) is not only the OEM smartphone, or the world's largest PDA OEM, HP, plam, DELL's PDA most of the hand from HTC.
Fifth, HTC provides customized cell phones for major telecom carriers, in which the general functions remain basically the same, and the configuration or appearance is modified according to the carrier's requirements to meet different needs.
Sixth, understand the HTC (HTC) and the mode of operation, and foreign operators of the partnership, foreign operators of the sales model, naturally can understand why in the domestic will appear so many customized version of windows mobile smart phone, in fact, these machines are from the hands of HTC.
After summarizing this, things become much simpler, and the relationship between these vendors is very clear. Then the four questions raised at the beginning of this article can be solved.