TrekStor GmbH & Co. KG is a German manufacturer of portable storage products, audio devices and tablet computers incorporated in 2001 and located in Bensheim, Germany.
In August 2007, they became a subject of a brief controversy due to the name of the latest of their i.Beat MP3 player series, the i.Beat blaxx, which is pronounced as "I beat blacks."
[3] However, an investor (TrekStor GmbH now part of Hong-Kong–based Telefield International Holdings Limited) [4] was found and the company could continue its business.
Trekstor GmbH & Co. KG was established in 2001 by Daniel Szmigiel in Lorsch, a town situated between Mannheim and Frankfurt am Main in the German state of Hesse.
In Bensheim, the company centralised its sales, parts of production, development, and quality management operations, although the bulk of its manufacturing was conducted in Asia.
[13] Subsequently, with financial backing in the form of a loan against assets and an investment from Telefield International (Holding) Limited, a new entity, Trekstor GmbH, was established in early November 2009.
With the SurfTab wintron 10.1 and its 3G variant for mobile internet, Trekstor launched a Volks tablet for the first time using the Windows 8.1 with Bing operating system, which could also be used with an attachable keyboard.