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After countless leaks and rumors surrounding the HTC One –formerly known as the "M7"- the Taiwanese manufacturer has finally unveiled its upcoming flagship smartphone in all its glory. In many aspects, HTC seems to have switched gears with this particular gadget but at first glance everything seems to be for the best.

There's a lot to talk about when it comes to the One, but first let's take a quick look at what we can expect from the handset in terms of hardware specs. The upcoming HTC flagship arrives with a 4.7 inch Super LCD 3 display featuring a resolution of 1920 x 1080 resulting in a pixel density of roughly 469 pixels per inch, Corning Gorilla Glass 2, 32 or 64 GB of internal storage, 2 GB of RAM, Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean out of the box and a 2,300 mAh battery.

The most important features however, are the CPU, the main camera and the user interface. The One is being powered by Qualcomm's recently announced Snapdragon 600 processor coupled with an Adreno 320 GPU, making it one of the most powerful gadgets to this date. The SoC manufacturer claims that the Snapdragon 600 is 40% more powerful than the S4 Pro chip, which means that the HTC One will be the fastest smartphone yet, assuming that no other device will hit the shelves with a 600-series chip before the One goes on sale.

Camera

In terms of camera, the Taiwanese manufacturer decided to do things a bit differently this time. Against the latest trend of fitting a sensor with the largest possible amount of megapixels, HTC has decided to take another route and focus more on quality rather than quantity. As many of you already know, the amount of megapixels doesn't determine the picture quality and as such, HTC has introduced an "Ultrapixel" sensor on the back that has an equivalent of 4 megapixels. In return, the manufacturer has made each individual pixel larger (2.0 microns versus the 1.4 micron pixels on the HTC One X) and as such, images should be brighter and the sensor will be able to take better pictures, especially in low light conditions. In fact, HTC claims that the camera fitted on the One gets 300% more light than the average 8 MP camera you'd get on a bevy of smartphones nowadays.

In other words, don't worry too much about the amount of megapixels. If HTC's claims are correct then trust me, the One's main camera will be fantastic regardless of its MP count, especially considering the fact that the sensor will feature Optical Image Stabilization and that the handset will arrive with a new ImageSense chip that can handle both HDR photos and video recording.

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Software

As mentioned above the HTC One arrives with Android 4.1.2 out of the box, an operating system that needs no introduction. Nonetheless, on top of the OS will reside the brand new HTC Sense 5 user interface and once again, the Taiwanese manufacturer has made some pretty interesting changes in philosophy regarding this feature.

The design of Sense 5 seems to be completely revamped when compared with version 4/4+, the UI uses fonts that are based on Android's "Roboto" standards and the lock screen has been redesigned, featuring app shortcuts and offering the possibility of adding weather info and notifications.

Nonetheless, the biggest two noticeable changes consist in the app drawer and the Blink Feed. The app drawer features a new layer of customization options, allowing the user to rearrange the application, create folders within the drawer and modify the grid size.

Blink Feed is the highlight however, and it shows. The feature is "in your face" on the home screen and allows you to be in touch with what's happening around the world, offering feeds from Twitter and Facebook. Unfortunately, it doesn't support Google+, at least not yet.

Although Blink Feed can be found on the home screen, the user has the option of swiping over the display in order to get a more "traditional" view, gaining access to a classic home-screen, featuring application shortcuts, widgets and all those usual features.

That pretty much covers the basics of the HTC One, but evidently there's going to be more once we'll be able to get our hands on the device, perform tests, benchmarks and all that good stuff. Hopefully this brand new flagship will help the company get back on its tracks from a financial standpoint and by the looks of it very well might.

After all, the handset is expected to make its way on the market in March, in 80 territories and at 185 carriers, including the U.S. and networks such as Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile.

Is anyone excited about the One?

Via: Android Central