American Branding Made in Taiwan (without Tethering or Multitouch)

HTC, the Taiwanese company listed on TAISE:2498, is a handset producer which helped to create Google's latest contribution to the smartphone market, the Nexus One. It is somewhat surprisingly feature-scanty. The device will not support tethering, the use of a mobile phone to supply Internet access to a laptop via Bluetooth or USB cable. It also will not support multitouch (allowing user to interact by placing two or more fingers on the screen). HTC has been described as a white-label handset vendor (a white-label product is one which is produced by one company and rebranded by another). White-label products can extend to ecommerce services (e.g. amazon running the e-store of waterstones).