It is March 2014, and HTC has just released a phone that is being hailed as the most beautiful Android device ever made. The HTC One M8 has ditched the plastic-and-glass norms for a ‘Zero-Gap’ unibody aluminium chassis that takes 200 minutes of CNC machining to produce. In the UK, it is the darling …
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HTC One M7
It is March 2013, and HTC has just released a phone that is being hailed as the most beautiful Android device ever made. The HTC One (retroactively known as the M7) has ditched the plastic-and-glass norms for a ‘Zero-Gap’ unibody aluminium chassis that takes 200 minutes of CNC machining to produce. …
HTC Desire
Welcome to the spring of 2010, where the HTC Desire has just landed in the UK and been immediately crowned the ‘King of Android.’ If the Galaxy S is a flashy sports car, the Desire is a finely tailored Savile Row suit, sophisticated, understated, and incredibly well-built. It is effectively a twin o…
HTC Hero
It is mid-2009, and the ‘Hero’ has arrived to prove that Android isn’t just a geeky experiment, it’s a genuine contender for the smartphone throne. Following the clunky G1 and the slightly anonymous Magic, the HTC Hero is the first Android device to feature ‘HTC Sense,’ a technical and aesthetic ove…
HTC Dream
It is late 2008, and the mobile world has just felt its first major tremor of the Android revolution. The HTC Dream (launched in the UK as the T-Mobile G1) is a fascinating, slightly clunky pioneer that represents the world’s first commercial implementation of Google’s Android OS. For the British te…