Giz AU’s Chat With Peter Chou, CEO Of HTC – Part 1

At last week’s HTC Touch Diamond launch, I had a chance to sit down with HTC’s CEO Peter Chou. I was going to chat with Horace Luke – their CIO – as well, but he had to run down to prepare the presentation.

The main focus was obviously the new Touch Diamond handset, but we also touched on things like the evolution of TouchFLO, the Touch Pro, HTC’s pricing and their move into the UMPC market. He also deftly avoided most of my Android questions as well.

Here’s part one of the interview:

Giz AU: With TouchFLO, what brought about the development of TouchFLO 3D – How did it morph from something “so simple that a baby can use it” to having a series of icons down the bottom?

Peter Chou: It’s the same thing – trying to offer this kind of very intuitive, simple experience. However this is giving you a much more colourful, much more 3D animated kind of experience. If you go to the applications table, you can still enjoy the kind of TouchFLO experience.
 
This device is about one hand, one touch. We’ve tried to optimise the form factor in the hand and everything is one hand one touch, so that kind of concept.