Stunning design and hardware are only half the battle in designing a flagship device that is destined to hold its own for a respectable amount of time in an ever changing environment.
One of the biggest challenges is in how you interact with the phone. Sense 5 is an admirable change to what has gone before and the overall look and feel is more refined, if a little conservative. You’ll either love or loathe the stark modern skin and look.
Where HTC has to pay attention, is in providing timely updates to the HTC One, and having started 1 version behind (albeit not too dramatic in difference), signs are already showing of over promising and underdelivering as the 4.2.2 update is still to arrive.
It would be such a shame to invest in such a premium piece of kit to be left high and dry with an extended wait for the latest and greatest to maximise the true functionality of all that is Android.
This is sadly the chink in the Google Android armour, where manufacturers of handsets end up with an array of items all running different versions of Android with very little consistency and reliability with updates. This is made worse when manufacturers choose to skin over the top and have to spend time with each update to upgrade their own software.
What disappoints me with companies such as HTC and Samsung is the way they remain tight lipped and either refuse to listen to their consumers or interact with them in an informative way to retain good customer loyalty.
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