HTC’s latest flagship is one of the hottest Android phones available right now. What better way to kick off your summer in the UK, then, than with one of these in your pocket? That’s entirely possible, too, thanks to accessory experts Mobile Madhouse which is giving one away. All you have to do to stand a chance of snagging the prize is check the rules after the break, and enter via the widget. Good luck!
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Rumors about a Nexus-ified HTC One have been circulating for quite some time, and even though our hopes were dashed of a possible unveiling at Google I/O earlier this month, it sadly didn’t happen, as Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 ended up receiving all the glory. No surprise, though, as Samsung and Google have been close the past fews years.
According to Pocket-lint, sources are saying that an HTC One Google Edition will be coming to the market, but availability will be extremely slim, hinting to the possibility that it could be a Limited Edition device as well. Exact numbers haven’t been said, but approximately a mere 1% of total HTC One sales so far will be Google Edition.
If that’s true, that means that only around 50,000 HTC One Google Edition devices will be made up, seeing as how HTC recently announced that they sold five million units since the phone’s release. 50,000 units may seem like quite a bit, but considering that anyone in the US would have a crack at buying one, the odds of getting one for yourself would be extremely slim.
Earlier this month, HTC denied that they were working on a “Nexus Edition” One device, but there’s obviously a lot that can be looked through in the company’s statement. They only mention a Nexus device, meaning that they don’t have plans to build a successor to the Nexus 4. What they didn’t mention, however, was a Google Edition of the phone, similar to the Galaxy S 4 that we saw at Google I/O.
There’s certainly nothing wrong with HTC’s new Sense UI 5.0, but many Android users love a stock experience, and other than rooting your phone and installing a custom or stock ROM, there’s no way to get that on most Android devices, as many manufacturers put their own twist on the user interface. Hopefully HTC will provide an option that gets us stock Android on the One.
HTC One Google Edition tipped for limited availability is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The road to an HTC One release with the United States’ largest carrier has been a confusing one, that’s for certain. But with a few pointed bits of analysis and a brief chat with notorious tipster insider @evleaks, SlashGear has come to understand the obviousness of the truth. The Verizon HTC One is real, and there’s more than one good reason why it hasn’t appeared on store shelves yet.
The HTC One is finally reaching a point at which its production is at full steam, HTC having at first faced some supply problems at manufacturing plants overseas. If HTC were to have worked with Verizon to release the device any sooner than now, their supply problems might only have multiplied.
According to @evleaks, Verizon’s preference for keeping phones stocked for close to a year – where possible – remains solid. Because of this, it would be essentially against policy, so to speak, to dump the DROID DNA just six months after its initial debut – it was first introduced back in November of 2012, mind you. It’s also true that the longer a phone remains in production, the cheaper it gets to manufacture: this is another reason why the one hero phone model works so well.
So will Verizon wait until November 13th, 2013 to put out another HTC phone? Probably not.
The image you’re seeing here comes from Evleaks, sourced from someone “that needs advance knowledge of upcoming devices.” Likely someone in advertising, public relations, or accessory manufacturing, that is. Here you’ll see all of the HTC devices that’ve been carried by Verizon over the past couple of years alongside the “One”.
It would appear that the device tipped yesterday – the T6 – isn’t quite locked in to this manifest as of yet.
While nothing in the way of release dates is confirmed as of yet, our discussion today suggested an “early summer” release for the HTC One, likely before July, with the HTC “T6″ being picked up by Verizon in the fall. The T6 will fully replace the DROID DNA while the HTC One will allow for a transition point between the two.
Now here’s the burning question: are you willing to wait a few more weeks for the HTC One on Verizon’s 4G LTE network? Or is this your breaking point?
BONUS: As you may have figured out from the listings of HTC devices by code, the M7_WL is the model coming to Verizon. The HTC One is called “M7″ in code while the “WL” always works with GSM/WCDMA/CDMA2000/LTE radio bands. The same is true of the T6, it appearing as the T6_WL “Crater” earlier this week.
The T6 (that, again, being the enlarged HTC One closer in size to the DROID DNA), has also appeared in these forms via HTC Soku :
T6_UL : cassiopeia : GSM/WCDMA/LTE
T6_U : columba : GSM/WCDMA
T6_ULA : delphinus : GSM/WCDMA/LTE
T6_WL : crater : GSM/WCDMA/CDMA2000/LTE
T6_WHL : eridanus : GSM/WCDMA/CDMA2000/LTE
This doesn’t necessarily guarantee the device for each of the main carriers here in the USA, but it’s definitely encouraging!
Verizon HTC One reconfirmed: likely out before July is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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This week a tip for an enlarged version of everything central to the HTC One has come through, suggesting that Verizon may be waiting for a real replacement for the DROID DNA before they bring in a new device from the manufacturer. News is that the HTC “phablet” will be incoming in more than one version, each of them with “T6″ on the helm for international users.
According to an unpublished (until now) terminal found as a match-type of Linux – working with Android, of course, HTC Soku has shown this future HTC device to be working in five different iterations. Each of these iterations has a separate set of radios for working in different regions of the world.
Meanwhile Evleaks has suggested that “the upcoming HTC phablet” is going by codename T6. This particular leaker of information has bee notoriously accurate in the past, suggesting that this machine will be revealed sooner than later.
Verizon has been tipped several times in the recent past to be working on releasing an HTC One – everything from a HTC One Google Edition to a straight up plain-ol HTC One has been suggested – and, if what we’re seeing today lines up, an HTC One variant with a body closer in size to the DROID DNA.
The DROID DNA is known internationally as the HTC J Butterfly, and works with a processor that’s one generation behind that of the HTC One, both of them coming from Qualcomm. An HTC One T6 could potentially be working with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 or the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, a processor only otherwise found in the ZTE Grand Memo in its European variant, a device that’s been delayed for launch at this very moment.
The HTC One’s more massive relative will likely be shown within the next few weeks to take on the Samsung Galaxy Note III, which has been pegged (unofficially) for a June 20th event hosted by Samsung in London. It may be time to hook up with big red, after all.
Verizon HTC One may be a “T6″ oversized model is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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