Stefan Mileschin

Around the end of 2012, HTC was in dire straits. The HTC One X, S, and V were supposed to be a big change in HTC’s product lineup, and was supposed to do away with the confusing nomenclature and unfocused lineup. However, it seems that the device fell flat for a wide range of reasons. HTC needed to change their direction in a big way to prevent profits and revenue from slipping. At the time, it seemed quite possible that HTC would soon go out of business and/or be acquired by some other company. With the HTC One, we saw the beginning of a somewhat unprecedented revival from HTC, as they focused on truly impressive hardware innovation in the form of the first all-metal unibody, an Ultrapixel camera with OIS, and dual front-facing speakers with speaker protection amps. On the software side, we saw an incredibly restrained version of Sense that was a far cry from the rather overdone versions of Sense that we saw with Sense 3 and 4.

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