All you wanted to know about the HTC One

Taiwan's HTC Corp has unveiled the new smartphone that it hopes will set it apart from the crowd of Google Android devices on the market and help it make up ground lost to Samsung and Apple. HTC was an early, and successful, maker of smartphones based on Android, but it has been eclipsed by the increasing dominance of Samsung in the Android market. HTC One price in India is expected to be around Rs 45000. Here are ten things to know about the HTC One:

 

• The HTC One is powered by Google's Android Jelly Bean, but the company has distinguished it from rivals by using new software to replace icons on the home screen with a personalized stream of news articles, social networking updates, photos and video.
• The phone is made entirely of aluminum, no small feat, according to Mike Woodward, President of HTC America, who said it took two years to make a good all-metal phone.

•  The new HTC One has a 4.7-inch screen, making it larger than the iPhone but smaller than some other Android phones. The HTC One has the same screen resolution as the larger phone, at 1920 by 1080 pixels.

• The HTC One is flanked vertically by two speaker strips which calls it Boomsound producing a stereo effect.

• The phone is fast too, due to its quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor and 2GB of RAM.

• Where the HTC One stands out from other Android phones on specs is with its new ZOE camera. HTC has ditched megapixels for an ultrapixel camera, which would allow users to take much better low-light shots without having to use flash, Woodward said. An ultrapixel is twice the size of a megapixel - it lets in 300 percent more light.

• HTC is also billing it as the first smartphone with a built-in remote control function, opening a window into a potential new business model for phone vendors and cable TV operators.

• HTC is in discussions with cable operators in different countries, and hopes to offer a more interactive package for consumers by transforming the phone into a remote control for TVs, set-top boxes and receivers.

• The HTC One comes with 'BlinkFeed'. BlinkFeed is a live stream of all of the user's favorite content, streamed from multiple news feeds and blogs. The user can choose from over 1,400 sources. HTC BlinkFeed aggregates the freshest content from the most relevant and interesting sources, giving it to people at a glance, all in one place, without the need to jump between multiple applications and web sites.

• The phone phone will be made available globally through more than 180 mobile operators and retailers in 80 countries from March.

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