HTC President Jason Mackenzie has been diligently hitting Twitter with updates concerning his company’s flagship device. The HTC One is evidently on schedule for the late October delivery of Android 4.3 Jelly Bean which Mackenzie had tweeted about last month. Android 4.3 has already begun to make the rounds in the mobile marketplace, and has already been released to the Sprint and AT&T HTC One smartphones in the US. The powerful handset released out-of-the-box with Android 4.2.2, which concerned some buyers that it would be skipping Android 4.3.
The Verizon HTC One can be purchased at a reduced sale price starting at $99.99.
T-Mobile’s HTC One is due to begin receiving Android 4.3 in the next week. The HTC One has not kept the company from posting financial numbers which have been less than attractive to Wall Street, but the handset itself has been extremely popular, and a bestseller at the Big Four wireless carriers in the United States. Arriving in mid to late April of this year, the phone delivers a premium metal unibody design. HTC One 4G buyers also get one of the largest displays in the marketplace, as well as the industry’s highest pixel density.
Pixel density illustrates how many color pixels are located over 1 inch of display space. The HTC One offers an incredible 468 pixels per inch of screen space, giving the handset a Full HD designation of 1,080 x 1,920 pixels. The display is a full 4.7 inches in size, with the Super LCD3 screen protected by an anti-scratch layer of Corning Gorilla Glass 2. Despite an extended life battery and durable metal design, the HTC One is slim, measuring just 0.37 inches (9.3 mm) in thickness.
Special light and proximity sensors automate certain tasks, helping the 2,300 mA sealed battery deliver a full 16.0 hours of talk time. That is nearly a 50% improvement over the industry average of 11.0 hours, and the HTC One phone can also provide 8.5 hours of video playback after a full battery charge. HTC chose a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 APQ8064T system chip to power the handset, built around a Snapdragon 600 quad core CPU. That powerful processor has been clocked at 1.7 GHz, and joins an Adreno 320 GPU, 2.0 GB of RAM system memory and 32 GB of built-in data storage space in the handset’s hardware package.
HTC also delivers some groundbreaking smartphone camera technology with its rear facing Ultrapixel camera. Instead of simply adding megapixels, which the typical smartphone buyer incorrectly believes improves resolution, HTC has integrated a four megapixel sensor with advanced ISP, CMOS sensor and floating lens, allowing the camera to capture up to 300% more light than other smartphones with 8 or even 13 megapixel shooters. Video is recorded in 1,080P HD resolution, and an extensive special effects package has been added. The phone also delivers a Stereo FM radio with RDS, Beats Audio sound enhancement and front facing dual stereo speakers.
The Verizon HTC One can be purchased at a discounted price tag now starting at $99.99.
