HTC Announces the HTC 10

[atrash]

I kinda like the design. If only it has W10M like the old M8.

[Castdeath97]

6 hours ago, suicidalfranco said:

yeah, that one

 

6 hours ago, atrash said:

You mean Airplay? not ApplePay..

Ohh that's makes more sense

[Agosto]

9 hours ago, kurahk7 said:

1440p is a minimum requirement for VR. 

VR on phones? You mean 360 videos + cardboard? Meh

[HelplmChoking]

16 hours ago, TheOrdix said:

Yay, and there is again a phone with a giant screen so noone can use it one handed. Great

Giant? I was hoping for 5.5" to be honest.

[LAwLz]

Sounds pretty promising. I am glad that they went back to using OIS on the camera, plus big pixels. Other than that it does not seem to be anything special though. It ticks all the boxes I expect from a 2016 flagship phone, but not a single box more.

 

 

4 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

Apple has been using Low Power DDR4 since October 2015

And Samsung since March 2015.

Hell, even the HTC One M9 had it and that was also released in March 2015.

[Nowak]

8 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

Sounds pretty promising. I am glad that they went back to using OIS on the camera, plus big pixels. Other than that it does not seem to be anything special though. It ticks all the boxes I expect from a 2016 flagship phone, but not a single box more.

To be honest, I like it better than the LG G5. LG G5 seems to be trying too hard to be cool and innovative with that whole modular design thing (which apparently isn't even done that well).

 

I'll be waiting for reviews to see how good it is, but early impressions seem very promising. HTC needs a solid device to bring them back into relevance in the smartphone market, especially after the One M9. I'm hoping it's this.

[IhazHedont]

Only one more machining process from the M7 for this HTC10 design. Yerk.

 

Still got my M7, not gonna change it soon I guess.

[Trixanity]

Ticks most boxes but sadly it uses eMMC for storage. They should have gone with UFS. Especially considering the fact it supports USB 3.1. This means data transfers over USB might be severely bottlenecked by the internal storage. 

 

So close, HTC... 

[suicidalfranco]

4 hours ago, huilun02 said:

But is battery removable? 

no

[Nineshadow]

Am I the only one slightly confused about HTC's naming scheme year to year?

 

The HTC One released in 2013.

In 2014, HTC released the One M8, and everyone started calling the previous phone the M7.

The One M9 didn't change the nomenclature, but yet again, it didn't really change anything about the phone either.

And now we have the HTC 10. Not M10, not One M10, just 10.

 

Seriously HTC, once you come up with a flagship lineup, don't change its name every damn year.

[AlTech]

13 minutes ago, Trixanity said:

Ticks most boxes but sadly it uses eMMC for storage. They should have gone with UFS. Especially considering the fact it supports USB 3.1. This means data transfers over USB might be severely bottlenecked by the internal storage. 

 

So close, HTC... 

The only reason Apple can do it is because they design their chips. It needs a custom super duper PCI-E controller  in order to do it. COs Arm only support eMMC natively. You need to custom build CPUs if you want anything else.

[LAwLz]

10 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

The only reason Apple can do it is because they design their chips. It needs a custom super duper PCI-E controller  in order to do it. COs Arm only support eMMC natively. You need to custom build CPUs if you want anything else.

He is talking about UFS, not the PCIe stuff the iPhone uses. UFS has been supported on Snapdragon chips since the 805.

[spellmanuk]

i find the airplay support a weird but useful feature since i have a airport network at home maybe this will be my new android phone 

[Kobz360]

I'm just really, really hoping this new speaker setup is just as good as boomsound

[LordArcturus]

10 hours ago, Nineshadow said:

Am I the only one slightly confused about HTC's naming scheme year to year?

 

The HTC One released in 2013.

In 2014, HTC released the One M8, and everyone started calling the previous phone the M7.

The One M9 didn't change the nomenclature, but yet again, it didn't really change anything about the phone either.

And now we have the HTC 10. Not M10, not One M10, just 10.

 

Seriously HTC, once you come up with a flagship lineup, don't change its name every damn year.

Yea never understood the names either, honestly HTC One (M7), HTC One M8, HTC One M9 and then HTC 10? linearity is not a thing this year apparently.

[Trixanity]

12 minutes ago, Elementtt said:

Yea never understood the names either, honestly HTC One (M7), HTC One M8, HTC One M9 and then HTC 10? linearity is not a thing this year apparently.

It's about marketing. You change your branding if it doesn't work. HTC's sales have been lackluster so they try to shake things up and renew interest. Samsung and Apple don't change theirs unless a product fails such as the iPhone 5c. If the brand works, the continuity will be kept, otherwise things get shuffled around like with HTC or even Sony and their retirement of the Z line of phones and X being launched in its place. 

[DocSwag]

43 minutes ago, Trixanity said:

It's about marketing. You change your branding if it doesn't work. HTC's sales have been lackluster so they try to shake things up and renew interest. Samsung and Apple don't change theirs unless a product fails such as the iPhone 5c. If the brand works, the continuity will be kept, otherwise things get shuffled around like with HTC or even Sony and their retirement of the Z line of phones and X being launched in its place. 

tbh I think it also confuses people even more when you change the branding  so it might help but it also kind of hurts it at the same time.

[Trixanity]

45 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

tbh I think it also confuses people even more when you change the branding  so it might help but it also kind of hurts it at the same time.

I agree. That's one of the reasons why good marketing is difficult. 

 

I guess HTC deemed the One brand to have lost its value to the point where they needed to change it along side the design (somewhat) to distance itself from previous blunders. 

[Derangel]

I wish it still had the two front facing speakers, but the phone does sound really good. Maybe I'll have to get it later this year.

[Stabbers]

16 hours ago, Nineshadow said:

Am I the only one slightly confused about HTC's naming scheme year to year?

 

The HTC One released in 2013.

In 2014, HTC released the One M8, and everyone started calling the previous phone the M7.

The One M9 didn't change the nomenclature, but yet again, it didn't really change anything about the phone either.

And now we have the HTC 10. Not M10, not One M10, just 10.

 

Seriously HTC, once you come up with a flagship lineup, don't change its name every damn year.

Honestly, they shot themselves in the foot by calling it the HTC One. HTC One M8 is better than HTC One 2 imo.

 

If they were going to remove the "One" branding, they should've just introduced a new name for the flagship line. One that didn't make iteration naming overly complicated/stupid.