The HTC ‘One’ smartphone lineup can get a little confusing to understand and differentiate. There is the HTC One X and One X+, the HTC One S, the One VX, the One V and soon we will see the arrival of the HTC One. While several of those handsets have been best-sellers for the wireless carriers which offer them, HTC believes their best offering in the One series is yet to arrive. That handset is the HTC One, which won the Best Mobile Device blue ribbon at the recent Mobile World Conference (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain last week.
Recent reports indicate that the handset will released around March 15 through multiple vendors in the United States. This latest HTC flagship smartphone is rumored to debut on AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile in the US. Significant talk seems to agree on a “one day” international release in multiple countries at the same time. Each year the MWC is the largest annual gathering of mobile industry merchandise, and the most coveted award is the Best Mobile Device blue ribbon. The Sony Xperia Z won the same award at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this year, and was barely edged out by the HTC One at MWC.
MWC voters said that several HTC-specific features gave the handset the nod over the Xperia Z. Zoe is a camera application found on the HTC One that delivers a 3 second video of your gallery. Users can customize how this video is designed and displayed, and that video is delivered in 16 million colors to the handset’s 4.7 inch Super LCD 3 (1,920×1,080P) display. Blinkfeed is another feature that several award voters mentioned when talking about the HTC One, and it basically gives you a quick and efficient but organized view of all your social media channels, calendars and other important information.
The HTC Ultrapixel camera on the handset is presented as “a step-up in mobile photography.” We have learned to judge cameras and resolution by megapixels, but this designation is a little different from the usual megapixel in a number of ways. Since this rating is in a league of its own, and it is different than the megapixel measurement because of the light capturing mechanism employed, it is tough to judge the camera against other smartphone cameras which are graded by megapixels. Suffice it to say that the HTC One has a 2 ultrapixel camera capable of 1,080P HD video recording, as well as capturing slow motion clips at 768 x 432 pixels. NFC wireless support is present out-of-the-box, as is the exclusive Beats Audio.
