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A few days back, we reported about the HTC One. It is now rumored that the HTC One will be launched on March 22nd. According to website HTC Source, the phone will be launched on Sprint, T-Mobile, and AT&T. Information about a possible contract with Verizon has not been given. The phone will have a 32GB version priced at $199 on a standard contract. For all those users who want that extra bit of memory, a 64 GB version will also be made available at a price of $299. It will come out in two colors. Black and White and the second option is rumored to be silver.  The phone will have a metallic casing with stereo speakers in the front.  The specs are: a 4.7 inch 1080p display, a 1.7GHz quad-core CPU, a 13 megapixel camera, 2 GB of RAM with Jelly Beans and Sense 5. We should have more concrete details on February 19th, when HTC is expected to hold a press conference.

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There’s no shortage of HTC rumors going around, and HTC’s upcoming event on February 19 has just added speculation to the fire. However, HTC has given us a huge clue that pretty much all but confirms that the HTC One is real (previously known as the HTC M7). The company posted up a countdown to its February 19 event that highlights the “1″ in the seconds column every time it comes around.

Also, every time the countdown hits “1″ in the instance, a quick video plays in the background of what is possibly a glimpse at the HTC One itself. In fact, there’s a fan-made video that puts together all of these mysterious clips into one to create a teaser trailer of sorts. The video is only 20 seconds long, but it includes all of the short clips featured in HTC’s countdown, and gives us a slightly better idea of what we’re looking at.

Obviously, the video doesn’t provide a lot of details on what the phone looks like, and we mostly just see corners and edges, as well as a glimpse of the back panel. As far as comparing it to the latest leaked render of the device, there’s really not enough information yet to put the two together.

Then again, the countdown and the video are huge tells, and it pretty much just makes us even more excited for what HTC has in store come next Tuesday. Of course, we’ll be there live covering the event as it happens, so be sure to stay tuned come next Tuesday and we’ll finally see what HTC will be pulling out of its hat.

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The reveal of the HTC One, or HTC M7 if you didn’t catch the possible name change late last week, has been gaining some steam the last few weeks leading up to its assumed reveal during HTC’s press event next week. It looks like we won’t have to wait until next week’s reveal as a render of the HTC One looks to have made its way to the Web earlier this morning.

The source of the leak was from EvLeaks, who has been known to leak Android info in the past and whose information is often correct. The image was originally posted to Flickr listed as the “HTC One” within its EXIF data, which if you had any doubts of its name change in the past, that little nugget should convince you without any hesitation.

We caught a glimpse of the HTC One’s housing a few weeks ago and both the leaked housing and the render leaked today seem showcase the same device. Although today’s leak also offers a glimpse into the device’s Sense 5.0 as it looks like it’ll have more of a grid-style interface.

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HTC’s new flagship phone is likely called the HTC One, and will probably debut later this month ahead of MWC, and now we have an image of what looks like a render of shipping hardware courtesy of EvLeaks. The HTC One image published today by the well-regarded source of pre-release Android info resembles earlier images but with an active home screen. This weekend also saw an image posted to Flickr with “HTC One” listed in its EXIF data, contributing to speculation that that is indeed what the phone will be called.

The HTC One image posted today potentially reveals a bit more about Sense 5.0, which in earlier leaks looked to have borrowed some design influences from Microsoft’s Windows Phone mobile OS in that it adopted a grid-style interface. Judging by the image posted by EvLeaks, that could be populated by content from social networks, as the photos on the homescreen seem to originate from Facebook contacts. Other noteworthy features include only the presence of a back and home button on the device bezel – curious both because Android moved to soft keys only on stock devices with the latest update, and because it lacks an app switcher button.

That could be a feature particular to Sense, but I wonder whether it’ll be compensated for somehow in the OS itself. Either way, the hardware looks solid; it’s somewhat of a departure for HTC, with what look like chamfered edges that might awaken feelings of familiarity in iPhone 5 owners, and top and bottom panels that look somewhat similar to those on BlackBerry’s new Z10 smartphone. But the speaker grills and screen size look like they could set this far enough apart to keep it unique, despite similarities with other OEM hardware.

In related news, this photo posted to Flickr supposedly comes from a camera in an “HTC One” device, boast a 2.0 aperture and coming in at around 4.1 megapixels, which is in keeping with reports that the HTC One will have a camera that uses three stacked 4 megapixel sensors to deliver better sharpness, dynamic range and depth of color. The image does indeed deliver a pretty good rendering of text for the in-focus area, and fairly low amounts of noise considering that it looks to have been taken in a low-light environment.

The Ultrapixel camera could be one of the features that takes center stage at HTC’s February 19 event in NYC. We’ll be on the ground live to cover the unveiling as it happens next week, so we don’t have long to wait to find for sure out what’s fact and what’s fiction.

Let’s face it: HTC may have its hopes pinned on its not-so-secretive M7 smartphone, but sooner or later the company is going to have to drop the codename and let it fly under another banner. As it turns out, that new name may be more familiar than expected — prolific leaker EvLeaks noted on Twitter just a little while ago that it would debut simply as the HTC One later this month.

I say “may,” of course, because ersatz leaks are just par for the course this close to an HTC unveiling. Then again, the Taiwanese company isn’t exactly great at keeping these sorts of things under wraps. If you’ll recall, the revelation of the original One series devices was spoiled just about this time last year, well ahead of HTC’s big Barcelona press conference at Mobile World Congress. HTC never puts much effort into debunking these sorts of claims (unlike, say, Samsung) so you can expect the company to remain stoic on the matter, but EvLeaks’ generally strong track record lends this rumor a fair amount of credence.

Granted, the move is a pretty clever one if true — HTC has spent the last year establishing the One series moniker as one worth paying attention to, and giving it up after making as much headway as it has would just be silly. Plus, simply calling its new flagship The One lends the device a certain cachet — it would be the culmination of the all the prowess expertise that went into crafting the already-impressive One series.

Oh, and in case you needed a little more to chew on, AndroidCentral points out that HTC CEO Peter Chou attempted to whip his employees into a frenzy at a recent year-end party by having them repeatedly chant “HTC,” “M7,” and yes, “HTC One.” Was it an awkwardly enthusiastic bonding exercise, or something more telling? Either way, the answer should be revealed very shortly.