HTC Road map for 2011: Tablet and LTE smartphones

In an Interview with mobilebusinessbriefing.com, Peter Chou, CEO and founder of HTC confirmed, that his company would launch its first LTE handset next year and did not rule out the release of a HTC tablet, he he said: “[Customers] may want Windows or Android; or they may want big screen or small screen, they may want keyboard or tablet; HTC will let the consumer decide,”

According to Peter Chou, HTC would concentrate on tow operating systems, windows phone 7 and android, in order to give customers the broadest possible choice.

The LTE smartphones would be released on in USA. Peter Chou said: “We think that the US mobile operators will be taking the lead and pushing 4G LTE in the US market…” At the moment Samsung Craft is the only a LTE Phone which is launched through the regional operator MetroPCS.

LTE stands for Long Term Evolution, which is the latest standard in the mobile network technology tree that produced the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSxPA network technologies.