HTC has done quite a few questionable things in the last few months, in my personal opinion. While struggling mightily on the financial front, HTC continued to pump out unusual projects like solid gold HTC Ones and a giant HTC One Max whose focus was cloudy at best. A new rumour today that is coming out of Bloomberg is yet another venture which I think belongs in the same category as the previous two cases. This new report says that HTC is readying a larger HTC One for release in March, and no, they aren’t referring to the HTC One Max that has already been released. The report is actually saying this HTC One variant will inflate the screen size of the HTC One from 4.7-inches to 5-inches.
I’m assuming this means that this larger HTC One will supercede the current HTC One as the report also states that the overall design of the 5-inch One will still resemble the original device. While there’s no information on whether HTC will bump up the specifications of this new device, it is quoted that larger HTC One will have something called a ‘twin-sensor’ real-facing camera which will presumably work favourably with HTC’s existing UltraPixel technology.
As I said before, this new HTC One device is hard to swallow; it’s not that the HTC One was a bad device, in fact it was arguably the best device for the first half of 2013, some say even the whole of 2013. It’s more the fact that HTC is sticking with the design of its tried and true award winning device, which in and of itself isn’t a bad thing, but it does ironically go against HTC’s own innovation mantra of “Here’s To Change”. This device might end up selling moderately well, but it’s not going to save HTC, which is the saddest thing of all. And with a release in March, it’s going to be going up against the new Samsung Galaxy S5 in the sales charts. Uh oh…
What do you think about this rumour: is HTC going in the wrong direction with its development efforts? Let us know what you think about this larger HTC One rumour.
Source: Bloomberg via TechCrunch
