Rumors, rumors, rumors; the life force of the Android Blogosphere. Early rumors about an HTC One Jelly Bean 4.2.2 update were confirmed last month by HTC, and then just this week an alarming little Twitter tweet caused many HTC One owners to groan in dismay. The Three UK support team, in answering a specific customer question, told that HTC One owner that the Android 4.2.2 update had been pulled. That customer re-tweeted and as quick as you can say, “Bob’s your uncle,” the UK tweet had gone viral.
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To put an end to any possibly incorrect information, Engadget contacted HTC, who had better news concerning the new Android update for the HTC One. They said that Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean is still on the way to the best-selling HTC flagship smartphone, and will be upcoming. As usual, no exact launch date was given, but it is good news to finally hear HTC officially confirm the operating system update. The HTC One is arguably the most powerful and most hardware-packed device in the mobile handset marketplace, and receiving Jelly Bean 4.2.2 will be a nice boost.
And the response by the Three UK customer support team may simply represent a problem with that particular provider. Multiple parties and sources have reported the over the air HTC One Jelly Bean 4.2.2 update has already begun to appear in Taiwan and China. We even know the size of the particular update in those countries, 465 MB. So the fact that it has already hit multiple countries means the Jelly Bean upgrade for the HTC One is definitely happening, and sooner rather than later.
The phone arrived in the United States on April 19, and has already shipped more than 5.0 million units according to an unnamed and anonymous HTC executive who revealed that number in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Slim at 0.37 inches (9.3 mm),the HTC One boasts a large 4.70 inch Full HD Super LCD 3 screen. Pixel density is a measure of how many individual color pixels our located over a single inch of display space, and the HTC One offers an industry-leading 468 pixels per inch.
This results in an overall resolution of 1,080 x 1,920 pixels, on a display which is protected against your everyday abuse by a second generation layer of scratch resistant Corning Gorilla Glass. The sealed battery on the handset delivers up to 16.0 hours of talk time after a full charge, and the Snapdragon 600 CPU is a quad core model clocked at 1.7 GHz. A full 2.0 GB of RAM memory is on board alongside a generous 32 GB of built-in storage, and the rear facing 2 UltraPixel camera provides video capture at 1,080P HD resolution and in stereo sound. Front facing dual speakers, a Stereo FM radio with RDS and exclusive Beats Audio are on board, as is a front facing chat cam.
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