HTC today announced the One ME smartphone for the Chinese market, following the launch of the One M9+ and E9+ for the country.
The One ME is an outright flagship with a 5.2-inch Quad HD (2560 x 1440p) display, an octa-core MediaTek processor — the Helio X10 — and 3GB of RAM. The phone carries the acclaimed design of the One series, and bundles almost every other goodie that HTC have on offer into one single, high-end package.
It also features a 20 mega-pixel main camera with dual LED flash, with a 4 mega-pixel UltraPixel front snapper. The One ME does feature expandable storage as well as dual SIM, and features 32GB of on-board ROM.
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The device sits somewhere between the One M9 and the E9, with neither a full plastic nor a complete metal body. It features a metal chassis with a polycarbonate body, which one would imagine is the best of both world’s — at least as far as the makers are concerned.
5.2-inch is the new 5-inch, and HTC (along with a few other biggies) seem to be betting on that. Coming back to the One ME, it ship with Sense 7 UI running on top of Android 5.0 Lollipop, with available colour variants being Meteor Gray, Rose Gold, and Gold Sepia.
After Qualcomm fuck their sales of M9 because of S810 grill monster they finally made up good decision.
They still use Qualcomm processors for their phones sold in the West, MT ones are purely for the Asian markets.
Looks like HTC is very satisfied with the Mediatek choice.
I’ve always been a fan of their design, never of their prices.
I wonder how good this one is going to be priced since it’s sold only in China.
I don’t mind their prices just their cameras have got to improve if they want to win me over.
The E9+ is a pretty good deal IMHO but the camera performance is questionable as no reviews from reputatable sources have yet to be punblished.
They have shown they know how take care of details (front speakers, quality audio).
Maybe they can use the money they are saving with a Mediatek SoC to put a good sensor with great camera module and optics.
That would be a way to steal few customers from Samsung even in the west where many people don’t really care what SoC they are using but they pick a phone because of the design, camera quality…
I was just about to comment “Always loved the looks of HTC phones but always overpriced”.
Truth is that we are spoiled with Chinese phones, especially during these last couple years.
Sometimes we forget about services that traditional brands offer like distribution, local assistance,full network compatibility and last but not least price often includes taxes.
Ohh,i forgot that they might offer local employment (for the nationalism freaks)
All that stuff costs money, but I’m for the open market and real competition (as long as everybody follows the rules)
also most of us forget that the cheaper those phones are the more likely they use stuff like child labor and near slave like wages for the ones who actually make the device. have a heart and pay a premium.
That’s not the case since most of them are manufactured at Foxconn in China where they also make iPhones, iPads, Asus tablets and so on.
So paying a premium would not mean you’re giving money to local employees.
Foxconn has been under few scandals in the past for near slavery conditions and mass suicide cases.
But that’s where many major brands gets their devices and not just cheap Chinese phones.
The question is now.then why not open a foxconn factory in the USA or japan vs china. Extremely cheap labor and we all cry about phone prices at their expense as these people live hand to mouth. But hey as long as your phone can get 50k+ on antutu the who cares right
That’s what the greatest majority of the consumers do. The cheapest the better without questioning where the products come from.
If people start questioning why an hamburger costs 1$ and a cucumber costs 2$ then something might change.
That said, you can’t open a foxconn factory in the USA or Japan because workers have rights and regulations.
30 years ago Japan was like China today: during the economical boom workers use to do their job for a cup of rice, now they have the one of the highest wage.
History always recurs, and sooner or later Chinese workers will gain their rights as well. It’s their history, not ours, they have to fight for it.
It’s nice to hear you have this kind of sensitivity and I’ll suggest you to keep going but you can’t claim everybody follow your example.
If someone DID open a foxconn factory in the U.S. or Japan, and consumers paid those worker’s prices, that wouldn’t help the exploited Chinese workers. They’d just be out of jobs.
Better support any Chinese factory that takes decent care of their workers. Taiwan works as well, because every Mainland Chinese looks at Taiwan and knows “that could have been us.”
Im not blaming anyone caz i buy their phones too so we all support it, but i try not to complain about the prices,
Oh yes, I agree with you.