The HTC One is among the most promising smartphones we've seen so far this year. It's also a Hail Mary pass for HTC, which has been struggling to regain consumer attention after more than a year of disappointing sales. And in the coming weeks, we'll finally get to see if the One lives up to the pressure placed on it -- the One finally has a release window.
No, the new phone doesn't yet have a firm release date (anywhere), but merely a release window. Baby steps, folks. The One will hit the United States sometime before the end of April, HTC told Wired in an e-mail.
"HTC has seen unprecedented demand for and interest in the new HTC One, and the care taken to design and build it is evidenced in early reviews," HTC said. "The new HTC One will roll out in the UK, Germany and Taiwan next week and across Europe, North America and most of Asia-Pacific before the end of April. We appreciate our customers' patience, and believe that once they have the phone in their hands they will agree that it has been worth the wait."
An HTC official told Wired that the One was originally shooting for a U.S. release sometime in March, but the company had to delay that plan after running into component shortages when building its new flagship device. In the United States, the One will be sold through AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, and possibly Verizon too. HTC has yet to offer up a price for the One in the United States, but it'll likely launch in the neighborhood of $200 on contract, with 16GB of storage.
