HTC unveils revamped HTC One flagship Android smartphone

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Post by anons2011 » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 4:22 PM UTC

HTC unveils revamped HTC One flagship Android smartphone
bbc.co.uk

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Post by cjbprime » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 5:14 PM UTC

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.)

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Post by metaperl » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 5:15 PM UTC

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

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Post by hospadam » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 5:19 PM UTC

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!

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Post by WrkInProgress » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 5:29 PM UTC

cjbprime wrote: post #2

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.)

It will be interesting to see how well they can market the benefits of a 4 MP camera over 8+ MP cameras on other smartphones.

I know that more pixels does not always make for a better camera, but I think the perception from the general public would be that higher = better.

Quite a bold move on their part.

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Post by CrazedGeek » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 5:47 PM UTC

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

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Post by meddlepal » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 5:54 PM UTC

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

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Post by RyanZAG » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 5:56 PM UTC

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.

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Post by iso-8859-1 » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 6:07 PM UTC

metaperl wrote: post #3

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

comparing a phablet to a phone is like ... well, it doesn't make sense.

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Post by darklajid » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 6:13 PM UTC

  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..