HTC'S FLYER TABLET

BARCELONA, Spain — Hardware makers are engineering new ways to make their mobile devices stand out. For HTC, the Taiwanese phone manufacturer, that meant revisiting an older idea: a tablet that can be scribbled on with a stylus.


Earlier this week, HTC intorduced its first tablet, the Flyer, here at the Mobile World Congress. The addition of a stylus was not a novelty play, said Horace Luke, the company’s chief innovation officer, who oversees the conception, design and execution of the company’s line of mobile products. Instead it was HTC’s effort to nudge the needle forward on tablet design and offer a different way to input information.