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This week as the HTC One hits the public on several carriers, we’re left thinking about the slightly larger display size HTC might utilize in the near future. With the HTC One doing – presumably – relatively well in the market thus far (if news coverage and hype are any indicators), might HTC make room for another attempt at a tablet in the near future? We certainly wouldn’t mind seeing a multi-columned BlinkFeed, that’s for sure.

The HTC One is a device that’s gotten reviews that are quite scarcely negative, mostly aiming for a place that’s not just good for the phone itself, but for HTC as well. With news that HTC wasn’t doing especially well in the market over the past several quarters, many writers appeared to have favored the HTC One doubly so, just to see HTC continue to make devices due to the successful build on this one.

So what would we have in an HTC One tablet? A response not only to the massive success Google has seen in the Nexus 7, but to the multi-tiered attack plan pushed by Samsung with their Galaxy Note series. While Samsung continues to reveal Galaxy Tab devices – including the Galaxy Tab 3 as recently as today – it should be clear that the slight boost in features the Galaxy Note offers is what Samsung is pushing as the setup they want consumers to choose.

So an HTC One tablet device might find success in a premium build – that’s what the HTC One handset is, after all. HTC is so confident in their design and marketing of the HTC One that the CEO of the company Peter Chou has bet his job on a successful season. Would he do it again if the HTC One handset were a success and the company brought a tablet with the same design sensibilities?

At the moment there really isn’t a wide variety of builds in the Android tablet market, and HTC hasn’t come forth with a design since the relative biffs that were the HTC Flyer and HTC Jetstream. They’ve made it clear that they’re not in the tablet business at the moment, but, even back when they made that note in October of 2012, their global online communications manager Jeff Gordon made note that they’d be “watching that market very, very closely.”

The time may be ripe later this year – stay tuned to see how the HTC One sells to decide for yourself if it’s time for a second dip.

Where is the HTC One tablet? is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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One of the many new features of the HTC One are the dual front-facing speakers, and it looks like HTC is continuing that trend with an upcoming phone which was leaked today. Known as the HTC 608t, the smartphone sports front-facing speakers on the top and bottom in a budget-friendly form factor that’s reminiscent of the HTC One SV.

However, there are obvious differences with this iteration. It comes with the same navigation soft-button layout as the HTC One, along with the dual speakers, although the design is certainly a step backward when compared to the aluminum unibody design of the HTC One. However, that’s typical for a budget device like this.

As for specs, it’s running Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean and it’s packing a quad-core processor, although the exact chip being used is unknown at this point. As far as the display goes, it’s your traditional budget selection: 4.5-inch LCD running at a resolution of 960 x 540. There’s also an 8MP camera on the back, with a 1.6MP front-facer.

You’re also looking at 1GB of RAM, and the amount of internal storage is unknown right now, although don’t expect a lot of space to store all those songs and videos. The leak is Chinese, suggesting that the phone will make its way to China at some point, with a US release highly unlikely, although a similar phone could release in the states at some point.

[via Blog of Mobile]

HTC One cut down to budget size in leaked model 608t is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The HTC Rezound, a smartphone which made its appearance on the market approximately a year and half ago, has pretty much remained a low key device, even more so since the Droid DNA appeared over via Verizon Wireless. Well, just like how you cannot keep a good man down, so too, one is unable to keep a good smartphone down. Sorta, anyways. The HTC Rezound is back under the spotlight courtesy of a recently released update, where the update would bump up the version to 4.05.605.14 710RD, which is not on par with a Jelly Bean upgrade, but still, Verizon has thrown in its fair share of noticeable improvements.

The most impressive of the lot would most probably be the inclusion of global roaming support, which means this would allow the HTC Rezound to be able to access voice and data service in more than 205 countries worldwide. There are also additional goodies for those who are more or less grounded all the time where they live, which would include improved device stability and data connectivity. The entire update weighs a whopping 207.1MB update, so you might want to make sure your HTC Rezound has adequate space left – and juice, too, to get the update installed prim and proper.

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As the HTC One was released in review unit form earlier this year, it became apparent that a cross-carrier release in the USA wasn’t as cut and dry as it first appeared. The largest carrier in the United States, Verizon Wireless, was tipped to be considering releasing the HTC One on their 4G LTE network not only breaking from their original passing on such a release, but with an unheard-of lack of additional branding. While the HTC-made DROID DNA still sits as Verizon’s hero device by that manufacturer, a deeply embedded code leak discovered this month may be an indicator of Verizon’s push to bring the HTC One to its ranks soon.

The HTC fan blog HTCSoku turned up a code associated with an international edition of the HTC DROID DNA recently that showed a new mystery device by this same manufacturer. While the device this code was intended for was the HTC Butterfly X920d, again, the original version of the DROID DNA, here we see the “DLXPLUS_WL”, or the DLX Plus. This code also showed two other HTC Butterfly 2 devices (HTC has made it clear that this device is, indeed, in the works) with U and UL on their tails.

An HTC Butterfly 2 would be an incremental update to the hardware associated with the HTC Butterfly, or DROID DNA, that being the slightly more massive HTC device released at the end of 2012. HTC-loving developer and anonymous insider LLabTooFeR has spoken up several times on the device which will replace the Butterfly, that being the DLX Plus (or DLX+, if you prefer). LLabTooFeR has strongly suggested that this device – not necessarily the HTC One for Verizon, will be announced “Somewhere in between” the second and third quarters of 2013.

The DLXPLUS_WL has also been suggested to be a variant – or upgrade – of the DROID DNA made for non-Verizon carriers in the USA. This device would be released with the following specifications:

Qualcomm S4 Pro APQ8064 quad-core processor at 1.7GHz
4.7-inch display 1080p resolution
13 megapixel camera back-facing
2.1 megapixel camera front-facing
Internal storage: 16GB
RAM 2GB
Bluetooth 4.0
MicroSD card port for memory expansion
Sense 5.0
Android 4.2 Jelly Bean

Have a peek at our DROID DNA review from back in November of 2012 to see how similar this setup is to the original. According to HTCSoku, The HTC-made DLXPLUS_WL will be released with the Snapdragon 600 processor, the same processor working on the HTC One in each of its already-revealed iterations.

Final assessment (for now): Verizon will get a DROID DNA+, an upgrade to the DROID DNA they revealed at the end of last year, this time coming with some software feature updates and the same processor as the HTC One.

Sound reasonable to you? Or do you believe HTC would rather keep that top-dog processor to their one true hero device?

HTC One variant appears in code: Verizon may be brewing is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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HTC Chairwoman Cher Wang announced at a forum that she will be donating 100,000 tablets to young women in Southeast Asia. The tablets will be used to further the education of women throughout the region in hopes of promoting gender equality there. Wang made the announcement at a World Bank open forum held in Washington. The forum was called, “Equal Futures Partnership: From Promise to Progress”.

The tablet will be the HTC Flyer, and it will be distributed throughout schools in Southeast Asia. This isn’t Wang’s first time distributing the HTC Flyer tablets to schools. Back in August of 2012, Wang donated 6,000 HTC Flyers to 60 schools in Taipei in an effort to increase education in those schools through the power of technology. Wang encourages more women to use and familiarize themselves with technology as it will help them achieve equality.

The HTC Flyer is a bit old. It was released back in May 2011. It has a 7-inch 600 x 1024 resolution display, single-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S2 processor, 16/32GB of internal storage, 1GB of RAM, 5MP rear-facing camera, 1.3MP front-facing camera, 4,000 mAH battery and it runs on Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread using HTC’s Sense UI. It also features HTC Scribe, which is decent for jotting down notes. You can check out our review of the tablet here.

HTC’s Cher Wang has been named one of the most influential women in the tech industry. She was number 56 on Forbes’s list of powerful women back in August, and is also a co-founder of HTC. She is known for her various acts of philanthropy, including her donation of $28.1 million in 2011 to found the Guizhou Forerunner College that proides free to low-cost education to students from low-income families. She is a huge advocate for women’s rights, and will continue to provide technology and support to help women in various countries achieve a better education.

[via China Post]

HTC Chairwoman will donate tablets to young women in Southeast Asia is written by Brian Sin & originally posted on SlashGear.
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