HTC Unveils Flagship 4.7" 1080p HTC One Smartphone

At a pair of special press events in London, UK, and New York City, New York Taiwanese smartphone-maker HTC Corp. (TPE:2498) unveiled its next generation superphone, which it dubs "HTC One".  Falling behind Apple, Inc. (AAPL) and Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KSC:005930) in the sales and image race, HTC is looking to take a step forward with Se the new smartphone.
The phone is encased in a slick aluminum unibody, and has a back mic to help remove ambient noise, similar to the iPhone.  The antenna is built into the body.  It weighs 143 g (vs. 133 g for a Galaxy S III), but that weight is partly accounted for by a beefier 2300 mAh battery, which should improve battery life.  It is 9.3 millimeters thick (vs. 8.6mm for the Galaxy S III or 7.6 mm for the iPhone 5).
building on HTC's accoustic differentiation, the new 4.7-inch  smartphone packs BoomSound -- dual stereo speakers.  It features a powerful quad-core 1.7 GHz Snapdragon 600 series processor from Qualcomm, Inc. (QCOM) and 2 GB of DDR2 DRAM.  And there's a gorgeous 1920x1080 pixel (1080p) display.  Memory stacks up with 32 and 64 GB base capacities -- but no microSD, by the looks of it.  Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, and 802.11n standards are all supported.