HTC One: What we know prior to the February 19th launch – The Verge

Rumored HTC One bears strong resemblance to competition in leaked photo

2013-02-15T09:29:00-05:00

HTC One buffered Unwired View

All the signs (and even the company's jubilant CEO) suggest HTC is planning to unveil a new flagship smartphone very soon, likely at next week's press event. Today we're getting another look at the supposed hardware courtesy of @evleaks - an established source when it comes to leaked gadget imagery. Unsurprisingly, the device in question is identical to the "M7" we've seen previously, though Unwired View seems fairly confident the phone will be branded the HTC One in the US.

If you thought HTC's latest handset resembled the iPhone 5 or BlackBerry's Z10 before, you've got an even stronger argument now. Whereas the original leak depicted the …

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HTC begins countdown to February 19th event with ‘One’ teaser

2013-02-13T05:25:48-05:00

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Ahead of a launch event next week, HTC has placed a countdown clock on the front page of its website teasing a new entrant to its One series. The clock, currently set at six days, is counting down to synchronous events in New York and London. Each time the final second hits "one," it's highlighted in green, and cryptic imagery that could reveal parts of the phone briefly appears behind it.

What should we expect from HTC's latest?

So what should we expect from HTC's latest and greatest? Thought to be codenamed M7, HTC's new flagship has been partially revealed in leaked parts, software, and specs, and even made a brief appearance in CEO Peter …

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HTC mocks Nokia’s PureView, teases a ‘new camera experience’

2013-02-05T05:04:13-05:00

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HTC has teased that a new "camera experience" is coming for its soon-to-be-announced flagship handset, the M7. In a blog post titled a brief history of photography, the Taiwanese manufacturer takes us through the milestones of image capturing, from the Daguerrotype all the way up to last year's 41-megapixel 808 PureView phone. For the description of Nokia's handset, HTC cites the Gizmodo editorial megapixels don't matter (written shortly after the phone's announcement) as a review, quoting "this won't help you at all." With Nokia set to announce a true PureView Windows Phone shortly, it's clear that HTC is trying to undermine the reputation …

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HTC M7 briefly revealed on stage by excited CEO Peter Chou at company’s year end party

2013-02-01T13:38:05-05:00

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We didn't expect to see HTC's rumored flagship phone, the M7, until the company's press event on February 19th, but it looks like company CEO Peter Chou just couldn't wait any longer. After chants of "HTC! HTC! M7! M7!" at the firm's year end party today in Taipei, the CEO took the rumored 4.7-inch Android device out on stage to test its camera. There aren't any up-close photos of the device (above is about as good as it gets), but Chinese site cnYES reports that both a silver and black version of the phone were revealed on stage. As translated by Engadget, Chou says in a clip from NextTV that "this event today is a great opportunity for tes …

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HTC schedules press event for February 19th

2013-01-29T10:24:57-05:00

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Breaking with the tradition of making Mobile World Congress its marquee show of the year, HTC has set a date mere days ahead of the Barcelona extravaganza to debut some fresh new hardware. We've been invited to a February 19th get-together in London, where the Taiwanese company can be expected to introduce its well rumored and leaked M7 Android flagship - or perhaps something entirely different. Half the fun of it is in the not knowing. The other half will be in our live coverage, so stay tuned to find out what Peter Chou and company are going to launch a week before MWC.

HTC is also hosting a simultaneous event in New York City, the invite …

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HTC M7 parts reveal shared DNA with a Droid

2013-01-28T09:06:07-05:00

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HTC's rumored M7 appears to be the company's next flagship phone, and the leaks have been coming with increasing speed recently. A full image leaked last week, and now ETrade Supply has posted a video of what they claim is the front and rear housing of HTC's next major device. Probably the most exciting detail revealed in this video is the M7's dedicated camera button, a feature we wish more phones had. While this is clearly not a final product, we're definitely hoping the camera button is a feature included when the phone finally ships. As we saw in the leaked image, the M7 looks like it'll be a lot less rounded and curved than the One X - …

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Leaked Sense 5 screenshots show a more minimal HTC

2013-01-22T05:13:50-05:00

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Although the main news to leak from HTC recently was that of a next-generation flagship smartphone, accompanying the hardware appeared to be a new version of the company's Sense Android skin. More recently, xda-developers member mdeejay uploaded a number of screenshots of Sense 5 running on a Droid DNA. The developer and established community contributor says he ported the software from a Sprint version of HTC's rumored M7 flagship. He claims the device was running Android 4.1.2 (rather than the latest version, 4.2) together with Sense 5. While unverifiable, news of a flagship HTC device for Sprint wouldn't be a huge surprise given the two c …

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Mystery HTC handset appears with unusual button layout, Sense 5.0?

2013-01-20T23:23:33-05:00

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HTC is rumored to have a flagship phone called the M7 waiting in the wings, and we published the first alleged image courtesy of the oft-reliable @evleaks last week. Since then, a contradictory render surfaced at PocketNow that was produced by someone who claimed to have seen an image of the phone, and now Android Police has a matching photo itself. As you can see, it bears little resemblance to the "M7" in the previously leaked image - either this is a different handset, or one (or both) of the pictures are fake.

HTC appears to have switched the Home and Multitasking buttons around

That said, the new photos certainly look like something, an …

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First leaked image of HTC’s rumored M7 flagship Android phone surfaces

2013-01-16T11:14:08-05:00

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You're looking at the first image of what's believed to be HTC's upcoming M7 flagship smartphone. The photo of the Android device's front half (which bears some resemblance to the iPhone 5's rear) comes courtesy of @evleaks at Unwired View, where hardware specifications for the rumored M7 were published last month. It's hard to take away much from the image, though it seems to lend credence to the device being dominated by a 4.7-inch display. HTC has also apparently gone a bit grille-happy with the M7, drilling sets of tiny holes for both the earpiece and microphone.

Curiously, HTC branding is nowhere to be seen, leading Unwired View to con …

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HTC M7 rumored to replace One X in February with 4.7-inch, 468ppi screen and Sense 5

2012-12-17T13:48:50-05:00

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Rumors began appearing earlier this month that HTC was developing a new flagship smartphone codenamed the M7, and the always-prolific @evleaks has followed-up with its own details. As reported on Unwired View, the M7 is said to improve upon HTC's current flagship Android phone, the One X, nearly across the board: with a 4.7-inch HD display at 468ppi (reportedly called a SoLux display), a 1.7GHz Snapdragon quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, and LTE and HSDPA radios. The M7 will also reportedly carry an improved camera with a 13-megapixel sensor and an f/2.0 lens. Evleaks says that the M7 should be headed to Verizon and Sprint, …

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