Gadgetory

hey guys bryan bennett at cnet com and we are at HCC's launch event in New York and they also had an event in London launching the HTC One smartphone as you can tell this is a very nicely styled device it has a large 4.7 inch screen also has this whole blink feed feature which is basically like a tile style interface that allows you to snack on news and other content really quickly kind of like Flipboard so if you're familiar with those kind of news aggregator services you'll really won't be totally surprised by this interface but it definitely is a new enhancement as you can tell though we still have the iconic or similar clock not the flip clock that comes with some of the agencies previous devices which also get the weather and that type of thing we also have a 2 megapixel camera right up top as well as dual speakers you have speaker up here and a speaker down here that's part of the whole boom sound technology that enables really powerful stereo audio performance also you can tell this is a very thin device it is all aluminum has what agency calls a zero gap aluminum design so there's basically no gaps anywhere it's all metal all around and you can see also here is the main camera they don't want to tell us exactly what the megapixel is we believe it's probably for megapixel but they call it the ultra pixel camera which enables extremely high light sensitivity so you can use it in low-light environments much better than other phones they say three hundred percent better performance in low-light conditions also you'll see that it has an android jelly bean interface a little bit pared down but you can see you have the typical android apps so another interesting feature about the camera that HTC is talking about on the HTC One is the new Zoe file which is visit a three second film clip that you can quickly take a ticket capture really quickly and then share that with friends and loved ones it also the gallery will also combine all your photos and the videos and all the things that you take with the phone and automatically create these highlight reels which is something that a lot of people will probably find useful on the top here is an IR blaster which communicates with home theater products like a television stereo that kind of thing so you can basically use it with something that agency calls the HTC TV sense which enables you to change your channel view the programs that you want know when they're on see guides for local programming and that's something that's really interesting so definitely want to check that out once we get one in for review so there you have it folks this is a first look at the HTC One smartphone i'm brian bennett at the cnet com