The HTC One Variant Thread

[King_Jay16]

T-Mobile And HTC Announce The HTC One S, Coming This Spring

Update: For anyone asking, the HTC One S will come with 16GB of internal storage.

HTC and T-Mobile just announced at Mobile World Congress T-Mobile as a premier launch partner for the HTC One S in the United States. The HTC One S (HTC Ville) will take advantage of T-Mobile’s HSPA+ 42Mbps technology and is the thinnest smartphone on the Magenta network at just 7.95mm thick. With a unibody aluminum design, the HTC One S is expected to launch this spring with Android 4.0 and HTC Sense 4.0.

So what else can you expect with the HTC One S?

An authentic and richer sound experience. The HTC One S offers easy access to Google Music, and Beats audio integration is enabled across the entire device.
An all-new advanced 8-megapixel camera and ability to capture 1080p HD video. HTC One S camera enhancements include:
Superfast Capture – an estimated 0.7-second shot time and a 0.2-second autofocus
High Quality Photos in Adverse Conditions – The F/2.0 lens makes it easy to capture 40 percent more light than the f/2.4 lenses available on other high-end smartphones
Concurrent Video/Still Capture – HTC One S lets the user capture a shot and shoot video at the same time
1.5 Ghz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor

Head down to the full press release below:



T-Mobile Brings HTC One S to the U.S.

T-Mobile’s Thinnest Smartphone Delivers an Amazing Camera, HD Video Capture and Beats Audio™ Integration, All Running on America’s Largest 4G Network®

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Feb. 26, 2012 — Today at Mobile World Congress 2012, HTC announced the upcoming availability of the HTC One™ S, with T-Mobile® as the premier launch partner in the U.S. Expected this spring, the HTC One S is T-Mobile’s thinnest smartphone (7.95mm), featuring an ultra-sleek, aluminum unibody design. The next smartphone to take advantage of 4G technology (HSPA+42) running on America’s Largest 4G Network, the HTC One S is T-Mobile’s first product to ship with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and HTC Sense™ 4.

With access to T-Mobile’s fastest network speeds, the HTC One S allows for a high-quality entertainment experience, which is also enhanced by Beats By Dr. Dre™ technology. The Beats Audio integration in the HTC One S is enabled for richer, more authentic sound when consumers listen to music. The HTC One S also makes it simple to get and listen to music, with Google Music pre-loaded on the device for easy cloud-based access to the user’s personal music collection.

“We’re thrilled to partner with HTC on the launch of its new HTC One series of smartphones and to bring the HTC One S to the U.S.,” said Andrew Sherrard, senior vice president, marketing, T-Mobile USA. “With the HTC One S, we’re not only delivering on our promise to bring leading-edge technology to market but are continuing to provide customers with the best 4G entertainment experiences from listening to high-quality music to streaming high-resolution movies.”

Consumers increasingly expect smartphone camera technology that offers the ability to capture life’s moments with high-quality photos and videos – and the HTC One S delivers. Joining
T-Mobile’s best-in-class lineup of advanced camera smartphones from HTC, the arrival of the HTC One S marks the introduction of HTC’s new amazing camera experience that rivals traditional digital cameras. With the introduction of HTC ImageSense™, improvements are brought to every part of the 8-megapixel camera, including lens, the sensor and the software. Camera enhancements include:

· Superfast Capture – The HTC One S dramatically reduces the time it takes to capture those key moments, with an estimated 0.7-second shot time and a 0.2-second autofocus that allows for nearly unlimited continuous shots.

· High Quality Photos in Adverse Conditions – The HTC One S delivers dramatic enhancements in image capture quality even in adverse lighting conditions. The f/2.0 lens on the HTC One S offers amazing low-light performance, capturing 40 percent more light than the f/2.4 lenses available on other high-end phones.

· Concurrent Video/Still Capture – HTC One S lets the user capture a shot and shoot video at the same time – perfect for capturing life’s moments as they happen. While shooting 1080p HD video, consumers just need to tap the shutter button and the device snaps a high-resolution still photo while the video continues to shoot. Consumers can also capture a still from a previously recorded video.

“People take photos on their phone more than any activity other than making phone calls, which is why we improved every part of the camera experience on HTC One S,” said Jason Mackenzie, president, global sales and marketing, HTC Corporation. “We’re thrilled to bring our combination of our premium design, amazing camera and authentic sound to T-Mobile customers in the U.S.”

The HTC One S will be one of the fastest smartphones running on America’s Largest 4G Network, with access to T-Mobile’s fastest 4G (HSPA+ 42) speeds, currently available in 175 markets, reaching more than 180 million Americans. Equipped with a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor by Qualcomm®, the HTC One S delivers powerful performance while Web browsing, streaming movies and watching TV shows on the device’s 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED touch screen.

Availability

The HTC One S is expected to be available this spring from T-Mobile at retail stores, select dealers and retailers nationwide, and online at http://www.t-mobile.com. For more information, visit http://htc.t-mobile.com/one/s-4g-phone or http://www.htc.com/us/products/htcones-tmobile.

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[King_Jay16]

If you’ve been around TmoNews, you know we’ll always post links to T-Mobile’s sign-up pages for upcoming and newly announced devices. You’re welcome (and we urge you) to sign-up on T-Mobile’s website for more info, but rest assured we’ll be working fast and furious to discover a solid release date for the upcoming HTC One S. All-in-all you won’t learn anything new from this sign-up page, but its good to just enter your email, sometimes it’s worth it!

TMONEWS

[King_Jay16]

We’re still gathering up all the info we can on the HTC One S, coming to T-Mobile this spring. Right now we’re focused on hands-on and we’ve got some pics and video courtesy of The Verge along with HTC’s official promo video. Keep checking back as we update this post with more live hands-on coverage of the HTC One S.

Check out the rest of the gallery on The Verge.

SOURCE AND HANDS ON VIDEO HERE


ADDITIONAL HANDS ON VIDEO

[King_Jay16]

Let’s just get this right out of the way to clear any up confusion and more importantly, to stop the complaints I see popping up in the HTC One S post comments. The AT&T version of the HTC One X DOES NOT have a quad-core processor, it has a dual-core processor. So yes, it appears to be a better phone, but with the exception of battery size and and screen size, they are almost identical handsets. AT&T’s press release clearly says they DID NOT get the quad-core model:

“… The HTC One X smartphone’s next-generation 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon™ S4 dual-core processor allows customers to run heavy duty tasks such as creating and editing homemade videos smoothly without any lag, while the 1,800 mAh embedded battery offers hours of uninterrupted entertainment time. …”

Everyone got that?

So let’s take a look at some tests the boys over at AnandTech performed and I take their tests with absolute faith, these guys are good at what they do:

Moving down the lineup is the HTC One S, but you don’t give up performance (in reference to the One X) to get here. The One S trades in the Tegra 3 or MSM8960 for a Qualcomm MSM8260A, another Krait based 28nm SoC but without integrated LTE. The CPU cores in the One S also operate at up to 1.5GHz, making its performance identical (in theory) to the HTC One XL.

The body moves from plastic to aluminum and drops in thickness to a mere 7.9mm

The screen shrinks compared to the One X/XL down to 4.3-inches. The Super AMOLED (PenTile) panel features a 960 x 540 (qHD) resolution. The front facing camera drops to a VGA resolution, while the rear facing camera (and lens assembly) remain unchanged from the One X.

Battery capacity drops to 1650mAh (6.105Whr @ 3.7V), but power requirements should be lower as well thanks to the smaller, lower resolution screen. Like the One X, the S features 1GB of LPDDR2.

Storage capacity drops to 16GB of eMMC on-board but you still do get 25GB of free storage via Dropbox. 1080p is supported on both the video encode and decode.

So yes, battery size changes, the screen size is different by 0.4 inches and yet, for the most part, with this paragraph as evidence, performance hardly changes between the two devices.

I urge you to head on over to the AnandTech link at the end of the post, read the post and hit the charts at the end to see actual performance scores.

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[don_corleone]

its unfortunate that the one S is a t mobile phone.. means we cant use 3g :-(

hopefully its not locked to t mobiles bands

[King_Jay16]

HTC begins 2012 with the reveal of a new unified brand strategy. Although HTC as a company has made significant progress in attaining mindshare, its devices lack a single focus to compete with the likes of Apple’s iPhone or Samsung’s Galaxy S brands. HTC, like many of its competitors, chose to spread its brand equity across multiple device brands like EVO, Sensation, Thunderbolt, Desire, and so forth. Moving forward, HTC is hoping to change that with the introduction of a new unified brand to do battle with these other brands: the HTC One.

The goal is that you’ll be able to walk into any mobile operator store, in any region, in any part of the world and ask for the HTC One. There will still obviously be variants of the One, but the brand will remain constant across them.

Today HTC is announcing the first three members of the HTC One family: the HTC One X, HTC One S and HTC One V. We’ve played with all three phones and they’re easily the best phones we’ve ever seen come from the company. HTC initially allowed no photos of devices, but we'll update as soon as some are released.

The HTC One X

The One X is the new flagship phone from HTC. If features a 4.7-inch 1280 x 720 Super LCD II (not PenTile) display and a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 (AP33) SoC running at up to 1.5GHz. 1080p video encode and decode are both supported.

Despite the large screen size, the One X felt perfect in my hand, arguably even better than Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus did. The One X measures 9.27mm thick.

Internally the phone features DC-HSPA+ (42Mbps) support as well as dual-band 802.11a/b/g/n. The US version will feature LTE but I’ll get to the differences between that model and the HSPA+ version in a moment. NFC and Bluetooth 4.0 are supported. The One X features 1GB of LPDDR2 memory, the current standard for high-end Android smartphones.

The back of the One X is plastic but the phone itself feels dense and very high quality. The phone will be offered in both a white and dark grey, almost black, finish. Overall I was very impressed by the One X, it was definitely one of my favorites of all of the Android phones I’ve interacted with. HTC has been spending quite a bit of time on improving build quality and being a bit less conservative on design, and it shows.

The front facing camera is backed by a 1.3MP sensor capable of capturing images at 720p. The rear facing camera uses an 8MP sensor behind a F2.0 lens assembly.

The styling of the One X embodies HTC’s newfound focus on simplicity. There’s only a single LED flash on the back but with five different intensity levels. The front features no physical buttons, not too uncommon for a modern Android phone and expected for one running Ice Cream Sandwich. The One X has an integrated (non-removable) 1800mAh battery. If we assume it’s a standard 3.7V chemistry that puts it at 6.66Whr. There’s also no removable storage support, just 32GB of eMMC on-board.

On the back of the phone is a dock connector that can be used with an optional car dock. When docked the One X launches a 4-ft UI optimized for operation while driving. All of the icons are larger and you can easily swipe between screens allowing you access to Google Maps, music, and so on.

As I mentioned above, the One X runs Android 4.0.3 however HTC has added its own UI customizations on top of it. Sense 4.0 does feature some nice customizations, for example the task switcher is now a Windows Phone/webOS like horizontal list of windows that you can scroll through. Just as is the case with the regular ICS task switcher, you can quit applications from the Sense task switcher - just fling them off the screen (ala PlayBook OS, webOS).

Wireless Display Support

The One X has wireless display support, presumably via WiFi Display. To take advantage of the phone’s wireless display you’ll need HTC’s Media Link HD dock. Connect the dock to your TV, enable support on your phone, and then simply perform a three finger swipe up on the One X to launch the Media Link HD app. After doing so, anything on your display will be mirrored, wirelessly to your TV. I’m expecting to see wireless display featured in many of the high-end Android smartphones released in 2012.

25GB of Free Dropbox Storage

HTC has partnered with Dropbox to provide all HTC One (not just the X) owners with 25GB of free storage for two years. Access is integrated with Android via HTC’s Sense layer.

The HTC One XL: Krait + LTE for the US on AT&T

Although the standard HTC One X features NVIDIA’s Tegra 3, the version headed to AT&T drops Tegra 3 in favor of Qualcomm’s MSM8960 with integrated LTE. The dual-core MSM8960 runs its Krait cores at up to 1.5GHz. Although it has fewer cores than the One X, each individual core should be faster. It remains to be seen how the two compare from a battery life standpoint (NVIDIA’s companion/battery saver core at 40nm LP vs. lower power consumption from Qualcomm’s 28nm LP process), but performance should be comparable at worst. If we look at GLBenchmark, NVIDIA has a GPU advantage, while Qualcomm likely holds a single threaded CPU performance advantage. Overall I’d expect the tradeoff to be worthwhile, particularly as MSM8960 delivers integrated LTE, but we’ll find out for sure in the next 60 days as both phones become available.

Other than the difference in SoC and baseband, the One XL and One X are identical.

The HTC One S: Krait for the US on T-Mobile

Moving down the lineup is the HTC One S, but you don’t give up performance to get here. The One S trades in the Tegra 3 or MSM8960 for a Qualcomm MSM8260A, another Krait based 28nm SoC but without integrated LTE. The CPU cores in the One S also operate at up to 1.5GHz, making its performance identical (in theory) to the HTC One XL.

The body moves from plastic to aluminum and drops in thickness to a mere 7.9mm

The screen shrinks compared to the One X/XL down to 4.3-inches. The Super AMOLED (PenTile) panel features a 960 x 540 (qHD) resolution. The front facing camera drops to a VGA resolution, while the rear facing camera (and lens assembly) remain unchanged from the One X.

Battery capacity drops to 1650mAh (6.105Whr @ 3.7V), but power requirements should be lower as well thanks to the smaller, lower resolution screen. Like the One X, the S features 1GB of LPDDR2.

Storage capacity drops to 16GB of eMMC on-board but you still do get 25GB of free storage via Dropbox. 1080p is supported on both the video encode and decode.
One ISP - ImageChip

In an attempt to deliver a uniform camera experience across the HTC One X and S, both feature a discrete Image Signal Processor (ISP) to handle camera sensor output. Rather than relying on the integrated Tegra 3 or Qualcomm ISPs, HTC uses its own ISP called ImageChip for all processing. It’s unclear to me how the external ISP interfaces with the SoC, nor how HTC can guarantee sufficient memory bandwidth to it. As HTC enters the realm of purchasing SoCs from multiple manufacturers, ImageSense is a unique (albeit costly) way of guaranteeing a consistent experience across all devices.

HTC claims its ImageChip enables phones equipped with it to capture images in 0.7 seconds and autofocus in 0.2 seconds. Burst mode is supported as well.

The Sense 4.0 camera app has been greatly improved as well. Video recording now begins immediately upon switching modes from still to video. You can also now capture full sensor resolution images in the middle of recording a video without switching modes by tapping the camera capture button.

The HTC One V

Finally bringing up the low end we have HTC’s One V. The V uses an aluminum unibody design borrowed from the old HTC Legend. Based on a single-core Snapdragon S2 running at up to 1.0GHz, the One V is headed for lower cost regional carriers in the US with availability in late Q2.

The One V has 512MB of memory and 4GB of eMMC on-board with a 1500mAh battery.

[King_Jay16]

Performance

We were able to spend some time benchmarking the One X and One S, the results are below.








The One S (MSM8260A - dual core Krait 1.5GHz) performs surprisingly close to our MDP MSM8960. The software build on the One S was pretty immature, it was apparently 10 days old at the time I ran these numbers. We should have time with a device tonight that uses a newer build. The Tegra 3 equipped One X performed very well, easily equaling the Krait based SoC in the browser tests. It remains to be seen how these two SoCs compare in real world browsing tests however. NVIDIA continues to have the advantage in GLBenchmark, and unfortunately due to time constraints we weren’t able to run Basemark on the devices.

HTC's strategy here makes a lot of sense for a host of reasons. First, having a concise and easy branding message makes execution and marketing simpler - just look at the success of Galaxy S II - you can't do that without a unified message. Handset makers really only get one or two opportunities in a two year contract to drive that unified message home, and HTC's new One strategy is the realization of this reality. In addition, doing this on a platform across different SoCs is no longer a huge no-no when the performance margins are narrow enough - Samsung does it, Sony is doing it, and so forth. HTC is going figuratively all-in with this strategy, but the dividends won't start to become readily apparent until HTC One devices start showing up - at this point it does seem like a solid strategy.

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[Flexx17]

***DROOLING*** now we know what HTC is up to lets c what Samsung is up 2

[pezz]

its unfortunate that the one S is a t mobile phone.. means we cant use 3g :-(

hopefully its not locked to t mobiles bands

There will be 2 versions. The international version will use tegra 3

[wishlist]

Dont worry Iphone 5 will have quad core (I hope)


And for those wondering.... no the beef will never end muahahaha.