HTC has taken the wraps of its new flagship smartphone HTC One at a
simultaneous event in New York and London. The smartphone is available
on pre-order now in United Kingdom and will likely start retailing from
March 15. As per
previous rumours, it was being touted that HTC One will
be available in UK from March 8 but guess the Taiwanese maker has
pushed availability date by a week.
As for the price, only Clove
Mobile has shared unlocked price for HTC One. The shopping site is
quoting a price of 425 pounds plus VAT for this smartphone (510 pounds
including VAT). This is in line with what CNET UK had predicted for this
smartphone. The website was expecting the unlocked HTC One to cost 500
pounds, as HTC One X was offered at this price a year ago.
Apart
from Clove, HTC One is also being offered through Vodafone, Phone4u, EE
online shop, Three amongst others under various bundle plans.
The
Taiwanese smartphone maker will be offering its HTC One smartphone
through T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint in US. It is noteworthy, that
currently Verizon is selling HTC Droid DNA in USA but so far there is no
news whether this operator will offer HTC One or not.
Just to
recap HTC One features a 4.7-inch screen with 1080p display. It is
powered by a 1.7GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor along
with 2GB of RAM. Connectivity options include Wi-Fi 802.11 a/ac/b/g/n,
Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, NFC, Infrared and Micro-USB. The smartphone runs on
Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) along with a brand new Sense UI.
HTC One will be available in 32GB and 64GB storage options, but there is no option to expand the storage.
There
has been a lot of buzz around the HTC One camera, as the company has
ditched the conventions megapixel in favour of something that the
company is dubs UltraPixel camera. There is a 2.1-megapxiel front camera
on-board and a 2,300mAh battery.