Meet the HTC One Max a Supersized HTC One

That big, bold beauty pictured above is the HTC One Max. There have been more than a few leaks about this product. Why? Theres a lot to love - literally and figuratively. Lets start with a quick video introducing the product:

The HTC One Max is everything you love about the HTC One, supersized! Heres the list of the most important device features:

• A massive 5.9 inch, 1080p display (Super LCD3)
• A gigantic 3300 mAH internal, non-removable Lithium Polymer battery
• A convenient rear fingerprint scanner for fast locking and launching of apps
• A side-mounted power button for fast and easy access
• 32 GB or 16 GB (varies by region) of internal storage, 2 GB of RAM
• microSD card support, up to 64 GB in size
• Android 4.3 with Sense 5.5
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor at 1.7 Ghz
• The same UltraPixel camera from the HTC One (4 MP, f/2.0, 28mm lens)
• 164.5 x 82.5 x 10.29mm in size, 217 grams in weight
• Supports Qualcomm QuickCharge 1.0, with an included 1.5A charger in the box

Battery life is the #1 thing consumers want to see improved, so if youre all about the long-lasting battery life, the HTC One Max is absolutely amazing. How amazing? Almost 55 hours of usage between charges. And this isnt putting it in power saving mode, turning things off constantly, etc. This is WiFi on, Bluetooth on, and GPS on during the daylight hours.

Part of what makes the battery life great is us using the Snapdragon 600 processor. The HTC One Max has the same screen resolution as the HTC One, which is a top performer, so the experience is the same on both devices, so while other devices in this category are shipping with the Snapdragon 800, its the day to day experience of using the device that matters more than the specs.

How does it compare, size-wise, to the HTC One and HTC One mini? A picture says it all:

Make no mistake, this is a big phone, but its amazing how quickly you can adapt to the larger size.

Its worth pointing out how great gaming is on a 5.9 inch screen. BoomSound is incredible - the speaker chambers are larger, so its even louder than the HTC One - and the camera experience is amazing with such a large screen. Sharing photos and videos with others on a 5.9 inch screen is a great experience!

Availability on specific carriers, and pricing, will be announced in the coming days/weeks. The best thing you can do is contact your wireless carrier via Twitter and ask them when the HTC One Max is coming - they need to see the enthusiasm consumers have for our phones. Remember the carrier decides whether or not to carry our phones and sell them to you.

Full specification:

SIZE: 164.5 x 82.5 x 10.29mm 
WEIGHT: 217g
DISPLAY: 5.9” Full HD 1080p
CPU: Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 600, 1.7GHz quad-core CPUs
PLATFORM: Android™ 4.3 with HTC Sense™ 5.5
MEMORY: Total storage:  16GB/32GB | RAM: 2GB | Expansion card slot: Supports microSD™ 
SIM: micro SIM
SENSORS: Gyro sensor | Accelerometer | Proximity sensor | Ambient light sensor | Fingerprint scanner
CONNECTIVITY
?  3.5 mm stereo audio jack
?  NFC
?  Bluetooth® 4.0 with aptX™ enabled 
?  Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 a/ac/b/g/n
?  DLNA® for wirelessly streaming media from the phone to a compatible TV or computer
?  HTC Connect™ 
?  Support consumer infrared remote control
?  micro-USB 2.0 (5-pin) port with mobile high-definition video link (MHL) for USB or HDMI connection
SOUND: HTC BoomSound™ | Dual frontal stereo speakers with built-in amplifiers | Sense Voice
CAMERA:
?  HTC UltraPixel Camera
?  BSI sensor, Pixel size 2.0 µm, Sensor size 1/3
?  Dedicated HTC ImageChip™ 2
?  f/2.0 aperture and 28 mm lens
?  Smart Flash: Five levels of flash automatically set by distance to subject
?  1080p Full HD video recording with HDR video
?  Front Camera: 2.1 MP, 88° wide angle lens with HDR capability
?  Front Camera: 1080p Full HD video recording.  
?  HTC Zoe™ with Sequence Shot, Always Smile and Object Removal
?  Gallery with Video Highlights and HTC Share
?  Continuous shooting and VideoPic
BATTERY: Embedded rechargeable Li-polymer battery | Capacity: 3300 mAh
GPS: GPS/AGPS | Digital Compass
AC ADAPTER: Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240 V AC, 50/60 Hz | DC output: 5 V and 1.5 A

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HTC One won Gadget of the Year by T3

Since the release date, the HTC One has won almost every smartphone contest. Its won awards on many sites because of its unique design and great performance in conjunction with my favourite Android custom UI - HTC Sense. Now, months after the launch event in London, the HTC One has won yet another slew of awards - T3 Gadget of the Year, T3 Phone of the Year and finally T3 Design Award 2013! We are not hiding the fact that we are not surprised!

"The HTC One is a product designed to save a company in financial trouble – and it seems HTC’s design and engineering team work well with their backs against the wall.

This Android phone is the best product HTC has ever built, with a gorgeously thin, reassuringly rigid aluminium body bonded to the 4.7-inch screen by a technique that doesnt leave a single gap. And speaking of the screen, it’s eyeball-piercingly sharp, with a 1080p full HD resolution and Retina display-spanking pixel density of 468ppi. It’s one of a handful of phones that can be mentioned in the same breath as the iPhone when it comes to looks and build quality.

Performance is no less impressive, with the quad-core processor blazing through tasks with nary a trace of lag and the 4MP Ultrapixel camera serving up some of the finest snaps weve ever seen from a smartphone."

Source: Awards T3

Android Revolution HD in courtesy of HTC is giving away brand new HTC One to the lucky winner of the giveaway #RevolutionChange contest. Dont miss it!

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Sense 6 Toolbox for HTC One HTC One M8

Happy day for all users who love to customize their HTC Sense UI! Sense 6 Toolbox (previously Sense 5 Toolbox) is known to be the best and the most advanced tool to customize your Sense 5/6 based device. It’s based on Xposed eco-system and it allows you to change a lot of settings of the user interface, including colour schemes and different layout styles.

More details can be found here ---> Sense 6 Toolbox with Android Revolution HD

Want to see some goodies it offers? Just take a look!

Some of the features you can find in Sense 6 Toolbox:

Interface mods

·         Transparent statusbar and notification drawer

·         Center clock, AM/PM removal, traffic meter, horizontal EQS

·         Gestures to manipulate recent apps and additional information about each app, AOSP styled recents

·         [Sense 6] Custom color themes for every app

Statusbar mods

·         Icons by vomer (CleanBeam)

·         Customizable color themes for all new statusbar icons

·         Ability to hide icons

Sense mods

·         Transparency for many UI elements (dock, clock widget, app drawer, folders, etc)

·         Infinite apps in folders, 7 home screens, home popup menu, more grid options for homescreens and app drawer

·         Actions for vertical swipes and shaking on homescreens, horizontal swipes on dock

Messaging mods

·         Wake on SMS, increase MMS size

·         Replace delivery notifications with toasts

·         Increase MMS size

Controls mods

·         Volume2wake

·         Activate flashlight on power long press

·         Bind actions to hardware buttons (Back long press and swipe up from Home)

·         Bind actions to volume keys for camera and music playback controls

·         [M8] Smaller softkey bar

Various mods

·         Advanced Power Menu

·         Show more information about installed apps and apps that are being installed

·         Improved screen locking and unlocking

·         Hardware buttons backlight control

·         Large caller photo in dialer and on lockscreen during calls

·         Disable unwanted notifications and confirmation dialogs

·         On/off screen animations (Fade, CRT)

Full list of the features can be found here - complete mods list.

Sense 6 Toolbox is tested and fully compatible with Android Revolution HD 5.0 for the HTC One M8 you can download from this xda-developers thread.

Official Sense Toolbox homepage

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HTC diary London Launch Event 2014 by Tom

25.03.2014 - The All New HTC One

It was damp and cold when I got to the station; a 20 minute walk in the drizzle. I didnt care - the excitement I was feeling was a bit silly really - I felt a bit like a Belieber going to their first concert. Where I was actually going was to The Olympia conference centre in Kensington to see the HTC One M8 unveiled. I was one of only 20 HTC Elevate Members chosen to attend this event, so I was feeling privileged, excited, apprehensive about meeting new people, and also not looking forward to the length of the day. The train arrived on time, and I headed to the Parcel Yard pub at Kings Cross - where I met up with most of the other Elevators who were going to the Event. We then got on the Underground and went to the venue; where we were pretty much fast-tracked through a registration process and led to seats at the front of the auditorium.

This was a much bigger venue than last year; massive black cloth drapes and moody lighting were accentuated by a thin fog of fake smoke. As we entered the main room there were a good few hundred seats all full of reporters, VIPs and other guests, and of course Laura Kimball with her trusty intern sidekick Britt. We had seats on the very front row, right by the stage. Kevin, Dan, and myself got logged in on our phones and connected to the Hangout that Mike was hosting, and started filming straight away. There was quite a wait until it started but once it did, Phil Blair, HTCs EMEA President, introduced the show and what HTC were thinking about when they designed this years phone; and then brought on Cher Wang who clearly showed her passion for great devices and great user experiences. Once she had wowed us, she brought on Scott Croyle, HTCs design guru, to tell us about the phone itself, and all its new features.

All this was interspersed with loud music and great graphics on the huge screen behind the stage. The whole atmosphere was one of excitement, and joy, and passion - showing just why HTC make such great devices for the user, whether they be casual users or massive tech geeks.

Key points that I took away about the phone are the massively improved camera which even allows setting apertures and shutter speeds; new features enabled by the second rear camera such as refocussing after the photo is taken; improved boomsound performance; and lots of little doo-daddy bits to make the user experience even better than Sense 5.5 was.

After the main presentation, suddenly the drapes at the side of the main hall were pulled away, revealing an area as big again as the hall, but filled with benches containing  dozens and dozens of demonstration phones. Some were simply set up so you could play with the phone itself, whereas some benches were set up specifically to showcase specific features - one for the camera had models standing and posing for people to use the cameras on; the ones for HTC TV demos had actual televisions lined up in front of them etc. All the time, staff were approaching us with Canapes and drinks. There were more than enough demo phones to go around, the event seemed to have been very slickly organised. Towards the end we saw staff wandering around with signs to assist journos wanting buses to airports and so on.

After the event, we all gathered and walked to a Byrons Burger bar about 15 minutes walk away, where HTC treated us to burgers and beers for a good few hours. We spent all of this time laughing, joking and discussing the new stuff wed seen; this to all of us is an extremely exciting device. It looks fantastic in the hand, its slick, fast and easy to use, and the features under the facade are absolutely brilliant. If you have even half a chance of buying one, do it - you will not be disappointed.

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HTCs upcoming Butterfly 2 smartphone might feature a 5 2 FHD screen with waterproofing as shown by these leaked front panels

HTC is working on a sequel to the Butterfly handset, that, judging from leaked front panels, seems to fit in the niche between the 4.7" HTC One and the monster 6" One Max phablet.

The Butterfly 2 is said to sport a 5.2" Full HD panel, similar to the LG G2, and apparently is coming in white, black and blue versions. Snapdragon 800 will be running the show, claims the source, but the kicker is that the whole device will be waterproof, with HTC taking a page from Sonys playbook.

If you remember, we heard about a potential HTC Butterfly 2 coming in Q3 way back in May, and the source then tipped the Note 3 and G2 as well, so their prediction about the rest of the Butterfly 2 features might be spot on, too. The second Butterfly edition was said to come with an UltraPixel camera and Boomsound frontal speakers then, so all in all, a pretty stellar handset to look forward to.

Have a look at these alleged screen panels from the Butterfly 2 to gauge how the phone might end up looking like. We might not see it announced together with HTCs first phablet on October 15th or 17th, depending on whose rumor you believe, as the source says it will be unveiled for the Chinese New Year some time in January. Makes sense, if HTC doesnt want it to clash with the holiday sales of the One.Source

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T Mobile Wants To Change The Wireless Industry By Forcing Other Carriers To Change With It

T-Mobile may have never intended to force the other carriers to play catch up, and modify their strategies for the next evolution of their wireless plans and offerings when it first unveiled and starting rolling out it’s “UN-Carrier” wireless rate plans to consumers. However, that is exactly what’s happening. UN-Carrier started back in March of last year, and has since been through 4 phases (Phase 4 started on Wednesday which offers customers the option of having T-Mobile pay their current carriers ETF’s so they can switch providers), and T-Mobile continues to evolve their ideas and strategies to compete in the wireless industry and accomplish their mission of making waves while making things all about the consumer.

The plan in detail, will allow T-Mobile to pay for customers ETF’s (up to $350 per line) while also paying up to $300 for old phones from the carrier that said customers are leaving. All of this money goes back to the customer in the form of a prepaid mastercard, (we’d assume much like a rebate) and to round it all out T-Mobile will also offer to pay the customers final bills. That’s some strategy that Big Magenta has come up with to gain subscribers and win over customers. These major changes from T-Mobile have caused Verizon, At&t, and Sprint to alter their own strategies in an attempt to compete with what T-Mobile is doing. This all ends up as a win for the customer in the long run, because they now more than ever have the power of choice. Previous to T-Mobile’s 4th phase of the “Un-Carrier” strategy, customers had to pay their own final bills and ETF’s if they wanted to switch carriers. Even if it monetarily made sense to pay all these fees in the long run, customers were still hesitant to switch for the sheer fact that they had to pay anything at all.

Thanks to John Legere and T-Mobile, that is no longer an issue and the nation’s Fourth largest wireless carrier might be right on track to move out of fourth place. Verizon, At&t, and Sprint will have to start coming with something big if they don’t want T-Mobile to steal away any more of their business. T-Mobile may have lost 32,000 customers in the past quarter, but they also gained 1.6 million according to a study done by Baird Equity, that also states “more potential switchers are considering T-Mobile than any other wireless company”. Those numbers add up and show that T-Mobiles strategies are working. Now all T-Mobile has to do is work on their network and they’ll truly be a force to be reckoned with.

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