What are the chances HTC releases a phone we all want to buy in 2024? I’d wager it’s extremely low, but because we’re so positive around here, we wanted to alert you all to the fact that HTC is teasing a new smartphone for next week.
HTC will announce a device on June 12 and we can kind of see what it looks like in the teaser. We can see some buttons as well as some rear-facing cameras. It also looks safe to say it has a flat display, but it’s hard to confirm that.
The last time we mentioned HTC was doing something was in 2022. They have obviously done stuff since then, but nothing noteworthy for the US Android consumer. The One M days are long gone, folks.
We will update you once HTC’s news is live. I wouldn’t get your hopes up, but I’m always happy to be wrong.
I would love for them to get back in the game and provide some competition to Samsung but there's a reason they fell behind before and they aren't smart enough to figure out why.
If they still have the same management they had 10 years ago(I know they don't), this is guaranteed to be an epic failure chalk full of bad decisions.
A M8-2 announcement would be epic.
Man they made some really amazing phones back in the day too! Used to be all I would use. Nothing exciting comes out anymore. Everything is evolutionary not revolutionary anymore. Maybe this will be their comeback phone. ????????
The M7 was by far my favorite phone in terms of build quality. It was stunning.
After Thunderbolt, I was done with HTC.
Legit thought it was April 1st for a split-second. Would live to see HTC become a competitor in the phone market again! They've got a long road ahead though.
Remember those weird fake buttons HTC was using towards the end of their US run?
Kind of hard to get excited. As much as I'd like to see HTC get back in the game, this is just a mid-ranger and even if they released a flagship tomorrow, I doubt we'd be able to trust them to see it through with respect to software updates and long-term support. At best, they could be another Motorola and that's not a good thing.
I despise the Apple/Samsung/Google monopoly we find ourselves in, but it's the reality.
this.
I am not trusting their software updates, nor build quality. Shame, I loved my Droid Incredibles.
It felt really good to read that. But this phone probably won't do well. Although we do miss those m7-m10 speakers!
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Would be hilarious if this ended up being THE phone for 2024
Yawn…
Seems unlikely they will release this phone in the US. They will probably follow Sony and just release an international version. US carriers want to much to certify devices and it's not worth it for companies with a small footprint
They don't have to get carrier certification to sell it in the US. They only need to do that to sell it through the carriers. They could still sell it direct to consumer through places like Amazon and Best Buy.
Well that's not accurate. The only major carrier that allows BYOD is T-Mobile. Verizon and ATT require the phones to be certified or they basically render them unusable. ATT blocks VoLTE and VoWifi, and VZW blocks from 5G and many other features. They have made entry into the US market exponentially more difficult than it has to be
As an AT&T custom for the last 20 years that has owned phones not officially supported by AT&T I can say with absolute certainty that isn’t true. Well, unless that is a change within the last three years.
I really liked HTC hardware design in the past. The software not so much. Sense UI was so bad. I'm curious to see what HTC has to show but it's unlikely I'd buy it.
Sense was the best of all the skins.
I don’t know if I agree with that but even if it was the best back then that isn’t saying much. You don’t have to be that good when your competition is TouchWiz, MotoBlur, etc. At one point early on even TouchWiz was better although not by much. My first smart phone was a Google Nexus One that was built by HTC. Great hardware but with Google’s superior (even then) software. Around the same time HTC had the Eris which has Sense and it was terrible. Especially the phone app. Later on with phones like the HTC One M8 Sense got “better” but it was still bad.
HTC departed the phone space a long time ago. This has to be like all their other recent phone releases tied to something VR related
This is almost like saying the Infinity Q45 is being resurrected. It was a great car with great features, but it lost value very quickly & was outshined by it's competitors.