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HTC unveils revamped HTC One flagship Android smartphone

by anons2011 on 2/19/13, 4:22 PM with 30 comments

• by darklajid on 2/19/13, 6:13 PM

    It hopes that new software features will help to 
    make its new handset stand out. 
  

  Bzzt. Thank you very much. I'm in the market for a new phone, you are not targeting me. Sense? No way. And no, 'Software' on top of Android is not going to make your phone nice to buy for this particular guy here.

  Searching on for a decent 'stock' device..

• by cjbprime on 2/19/13, 5:14 PM

  Happy to see a company willing to stop the constant march of increasing megapixel count at the cost of smaller photon sites and worse signal-to-noise. (The HTC One has a 4MP camera, with physical pixels twice as large as competing sensors.)

• by hospadam on 2/19/13, 5:19 PM

  One of the most important features on a phone (to me) is the camera. I love that they're willing to try a new take and make a better camera. But why are they not releasing sample images? If you're going to push a new technology... back it up with some examples!

• by jtreminio on 2/19/13, 6:35 PM

  I really wanted to love HTC. I bought and still enjoy my HTC One X for AT&T ... but their complete lack of support for the mod community, and in fact stonewalling them, has completely turned me off to the company.

  I will never buy another HTC phone again.

• by RyanZAG on 2/19/13, 5:56 PM

  I'm not seeing the most important info in a product announcement. Is it available yet, and if not, when will it be available? How much will it cost?

  I don't understand the mindset behind launching a device that you aren't selling. By the time it's actually on the market, your faster moving competitors (Apple, Samsung, etc) have already matched your improvements. You also get a huge amount of buzz when first unveiling a product, and you need to capitalize on that by letting people give you money for it. Microsoft fails at this every single time, and it looks like HTC is joining them?

  This is coming from someone who saw this phone and decided 'ok, sold, where do I buy one?' - and could not find any of this out. Terrible marketing failure. By tomorrow I will have forgotten completely, and I'll probably end up just getting a Samsung.

• by fuzzythinker on 2/19/13, 9:05 PM

  I'm very surprised by the negative comments about HTC/TouchWiz. I got the DNA and I'm totally in love with it (except for a few minor quirks). It has a 5" screen but overall size is about the same as S3 due to DNA's near edge to edge display. It is ultra thin and lightweight too. It seems like this is going to be even a better device than the DNA due to it being more a "normal" size phone but with the 4.7" screen but same 1080p display.

• by CrazedGeek on 2/19/13, 5:47 PM

  Non-removable battery and no microSD slot. Those are kind of necessary for me, sadly; the phone does look quite nice otherwise.

• by meddlepal on 2/19/13, 5:54 PM

  I won't purchase another HTC after they screwed thunderbolt owners by delivering ICS 6+ months late.

• by ibudiallo on 2/19/13, 6:13 PM

  I'm not sure if the launch event is over but did they mention the price?

• by metaperl on 2/19/13, 5:15 PM

  4.7" screen? unless its >= my Galaxy Note screen, I cannot be interested.