I'm not sure if the launch event is over but did they mention the price?
HTC unveils revamped HTC One flagship Android smartphone
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#12I won't purchase another HTC after they screwed thunderbolt owners by delivering ICS 6+ months late.
Current HTC Droid Incredible 2 owner. They have yet to deliver ICS for it, even though the original date for ICS was the same as Thunderbolt's. I'll be looking for a Nexus device next time I purchase a phone.
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#13It 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..
For what it's worth, some of the manufacturer UIs are better than AOSP now. TouchWiz is actually quite nice now, shockingly enough.
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#14I'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…
HTC isn't selling their phones to you, they're selling them to carriers. World wide. The price and time will vary by geography and carrier. It's pretty terrible that they can't sort this out before announcing it, but seems to be par for the course.
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#15I 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.
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#16I won't purchase another HTC after they screwed thunderbolt owners by delivering ICS 6+ months late.
HTC Desire Z (AKA HTC Vision) user here. No ICS firmware. Stuck on Android 2.3.3, so this is my first and last HTC phone - I won't support vendors that don't provide timely updates. 512 MB RAM, but typically only 100-150 MB free, so it constantly reloads/restarts any apps and the HTC Sense UI itself. Google Play in-app purchases don't work.
My next phone will be whatever Google's next flagship phone will be, assuming they fix USB OTG, LTE and microsd-slot. Or some other vendor that is smart enough to use vanilla Android without any "product differentiation". I don't want any custom UIs like HTC Sense or Touchwiz, non-uninstallable bloatware (looking at you Samsung: Kies, ChatON, etc.) and app-breaking UI 'enhancements'.
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#17Happy 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.)
I'm interested to see how this compares to the pixel binning on the iPhone 5.
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#18I 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.
I'm on the same page. I love the design of the phone, but the software is lacking and buggy, and the totally missing mod community ruins it.
I was an advocate when I first bought it but I've bitten the bullet and bought a Nexus 4. I'd rather have better working software than 4G.
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#19It 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..
For what it's worth, some of the manufacturer UIs are better than AOSP now. TouchWiz is actually quite nice now, shockingly enough.
Maybe (I cannot say a thing about TouchWiz).
Do you get reasonable fast upgrades for old (like, month old) phones though, if Android moves forward? Do you get updates at all? Does it (the 'improved' ROM) include unremovable crapware?
Even if all answers to the questions above are positive (as in, the 'right' answer): Do you buy a phone for the software improvements on top of a widely available platform?
I buy decent hardware (sturdy, well made, slick) & support for improvements to the software that this manufacturer didn't even create in the first place. So far, only Nexus devices seem to fit the bill.
Re: HTC unveils revamped HTC One flagship Android smartphone
#20It 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..
For what it's worth, some of the manufacturer UIs are better than AOSP now. TouchWiz is actually quite nice now, shockingly enough.
TouchWiz is horrid.
Also, even if it some day would become decent it would still be inferior just because it's tied to one manufacturer.