Comments on: HTC M7 to Feature “Simple and Clean” UI and All Black Design?

By: Saif

Saif — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:53:00 +0000

No on screen keys in 2013 = I’m not buying.

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:40:00 +0000

No, he’s speaking in “troll”. Completely different language.

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:36:00 +0000

“now I guess they’re going for “M” or something.”

Even “M” isn’t going for “M” any more. That strategy no longer exists.

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:35:00 +0000

Correction: Geeks would flock to it, but only if the phone had decent battery life, a good screen and camera, and good hardware specs.
You could hope that other people would flock to it because geeks often make good recommendations to their non-enthusiast friends, but that’s a tossup, and only time would tell, because there’s one final factor, whether the vendor/carrier is good with updates. Unlike enthusiasts, most people only update straight OTA when told there’s an update, they don’t go out looking for updates even if they are supported and available on the web.

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 11:03:00 +0000

HTC should have one dedicated phone every year that runs vanilla android, with the minimal amout of work for updates they could push em out fast since google is doing all the update work, it would save em time and money. Even w/o the nexus branding they could call it the HTC Pure, for pure android experience. No other OEM has a dedicated pure android phone on a yearly basis or brand, and people would flock to it. If they felt they needed added softwre for it just develop it into an app for the phone, if it turns out to be a good app sell it for .99 in play and sell it for all devices and make a few bucks off it to push up profits for the company. I bet a dedicated stock device with all their DNA specs would fly off the shelf as the nexus devices do.

By: Holland Capone

Holland Capone — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 04:37:00 +0000

Okay HTC, just use Utada Hikaru to market it and you WIN.

By: Tyler Casilio

Tyler Casilio — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 04:32:00 +0000

Simple and Clean as in Kingdom Hearts? Nice

By: Tyler Casilio

Tyler Casilio — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 04:30:00 +0000

I wonder if they will upgrade the DNA to Sense 5.0

By: timothee

timothee — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 04:21:00 +0000

Droid Incredible 2 in the article picture woo! Represent!!

By: calculatorwatch

calculatorwatch — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:43:00 +0000

I have to agree with you here. And not just for the sake of production efficiency either. They need One (pun intended) main line of phones so they can get some actual brand name recognition.

Samsung is a prime example of this, the Galaxy S line is a name that most everyone in the world (who is technologically connected) knows. And that kind of reputation is what gets people to buy your phones. I thought they had a good start with the “One” lineup but now I guess they’re going for “M” or something. HTC needs to pick a name and stick with it.

This means not letting carriers rename your phones either, hell even when Samsung made a Nexus they made sure to slip the “Galaxy” name in there. I hate to say it, this being Droid Life and all, but making Droid phones does very little to improve HTCs name recognition, they should at least call it the Droid One or something.

By: megamax45

megamax45 — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:18:00 +0000

The title immediately made me think of kingdom hearts.

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:15:00 +0000

Simple and Clean UI so what your telling me is that this device will run vanilla?

By: bull3946

bull3946 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:59:00 +0000

They were forced to use S4 for LTE support in the US. That just begs the question as to why they originally designed the One X for Tegra 3 in the first place though. The S4 doesn’t have any radio technology limitations and wouldn’t have been an issue to use in the international version.

HTC has made too many phone variants in 2012. This has hurt them immensely. Until they get that under control, they aren’t going to turn anything around.

By: Vandara Peou

Vandara Peou — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:56:00 +0000

Actually you are wrong. They were forced to use the S4 or Tegra 3 in some cases because of support for LTE. It wasn’t a decision they made on the whim or just for fun. They fact that they did these actually should get some praise so they can support more markets.

You obviously don’t understand a lot of what goes into designing these phones. It’s easy from the outside looking in and saying this and this should be done but you’ll realize soon enough things are never that easy.

By: The Dude

The Dude — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:14:00 +0000

Once again we have the ridiculous Sense bashing. People forget that before ICS, Android was crap and oem skins added a lot of missing features. They still do. Google borrows ideas from Sense and TW as well. All you geeks can sing the praises of AOSP/CM, people don’t really hate Sense.
The problem with HTC has been a lack of focus. They still have an amazing design department and I will be sad to see them go, if that happens. HTC is still valuable to carriers, they just need to narrow their product range (and thus save costs) and not be as willing to release a variant for everyone. They don’t have the clout of Samsung, but they aren’t a nobody.