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The HTC Event – Liveblog

By Leigh Geary on February 19, 2013 in HTC (Android)

htc-event-febSo, here we are. This is a huge launch for HTC and this is an incredibly busy event with media from all over the world. A countdown timer has been running on the HTC website for some time now, and we’re just seconds away from the HTC One.

Our liveblog, below, may take up to 5 seconds to fully load, so don’t hit refresh just yet :) Follow us on Twitter for more :) We’ll bring you photos of the handset itself in a moment.

16.14

We’ve just put a post up about HTC Blinkfeed: http://www.coolsmartphone.com/2013/02/19/htc-blinkfeed-announced/JH

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

16.02

Off to get a shot,

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

16.01

Consumers can see and play with the phone at Phones4U in Oxford Street right now…

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

16.01

Available to buy in March

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

16.00

Available to preorder today

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.59

The new HTC One is “the definitive smartphone of 2013″

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.58

At parts less than 4mm thick. Gorilla Glass included, tapered to edges. Described as the:

‘The definitive smartphone of 2013′

JH

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.58

They are now showing a video of aluminum machining, similar to Sir Jonathan Ive at the iPhone 5 launch last year. JH

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.57

Vodafone have confirmed. So far that’s EE, Voda and Three to range this

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.57

Traditionally other phones have non-metal or antenna sections. HTC have made a (virtually) all metal phone. The antenna is in the aluminium. They’re using “zero gap construction”

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.56

Traditionally other phones have non-metal or antenna sections. HTC have made a (virtually) all metal phone. The antenna is in the aluminium. They’re using “zero gap construction”

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.55

The industrial design – “simple, crafted and human”. The HTC One is “the most beautiful phone ever made” with a “super premium feeling like no other phone”.

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.54

This new system of putting your photos and videos to music seems to be quite cool. You can also put a series of shots into a single image

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.50

“Just press the shutter moment as normal and, instead of taking a picture, the HTC One takes a short HTC video. This let’s you take a living gallery of photos”

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.49

HTC One camera vs competitors

This new UltraPixel sensor also captures 300% more light than its predecessor, meaning that low-light shots will be vastly improved. JH

Screen Shot 2013-02-19 at 15.49.07

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.46

The big break-through is an entirely new approach to camera technology “The focus on megapixels is not relevant. The pixel count isn’t relevant. The SIZE of the pixels IS”

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.46

The new HTC One allows control of your TV through a new interface and IR control. They have also added the ability to swipe from the front to back camera by swiping. However…

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.44

Sense TV – Integrates infrared. Yes, IR !!

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.43

Beats audio, HD video, enhanced audio recording.

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.42

The HTC One has dual microphones to “evaluate and integrate input signals” to produce high quality audio when you’re recording video on your phone.

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.41

A new visualiser system will pull the lyrics down and play it in real time when you’re listening to music

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.40

It includes a built-in amplifier with front-facing stereo speakers.

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.40

“The sound on videos is tinny and distant, so we’re introducing BOOM SOUND”

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.39

Scott Croyle is HTC’s VP Design Guru. He’s talking about the speed of information gathering in HTC BlinkFeed. He is also talking about the new videos, TV shows that are viewable from phones.

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.39

HTC Blinkfeed will be included – this all sounds a bit like the Windows Phone announcement (sorry, I had to say it)

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.37

Three will be taking the HTC One

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.36

EE are taking the HTC One

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.36

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong takes to the stage. “We are going to make the smartphone come alive”

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.35

Editors note – Our Flickr images on the right will be constantly updated, you may have to reload to see them

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.33

New HTC Sense – Instead of apps and widgets it’s a live screen of information – photos, videos and interesting items.

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.32

Peter Chou says that the PC model is old-hat. People need a constant flow of information – more than 1 trillion pieces of content

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.31

Immersive images

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.31

It has a complete redesign. Modern readable screen.

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.31

A new HTC is here

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.29

HTC One now official

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.26

“We’re not afraid to take risks”

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.25

OK – we’re go. HTC CEO Peter Chou is on stage!!!

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.19

SA – Simon here too, should be a good one, obviously things running a little behind schedule!

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.13

Jamie here as well, should be a good ‘un today. Not down in London like Leigh, but I’ll be delivering news and reactions to whatever HTC announce in a short while. JH

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.12

Oh dear… The building is at capacity and noone is being let in. 200+ people waiting outside. Not even staff being let in..

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.06

Squishing ourselves in the entrance now. Some lovely ladies either side of the doors…

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

15.04

Hmmm.. the guy in front seems to be using a HTC One. I’ll try and snap it…

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

14.47

We’re still queuing up outside now….

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

11.20

We’re just getting setup.. :) Hang tight!

About Leigh Geary

Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.

Check out my blog on http://www.cupofcoffee.co.uk or follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/gears

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