HTC’s largest screened smartphone to date debuted last month, and ever since we’ve had our eye on the One Max’s arrival in the States. Last week we were talking about Sprint’s plans for the phablet, but today we’ve got Verizon in our sights, learning of the handset’s arrival alongside two much more petite Androids. The One Max itself will run Verizon users just ...
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“You will always be a child of two worlds. The question you face is: which path will you choose?” That’s Sarek’s paternal advice to Spock in an introductory scene from the 2009 Star Trek film, but with a little bleary-headed Thursday-morning thinking, we can apply it to our current situation. Namely, our position on the space-time continuum staring down another holiday season, with retail shelves packed with oversized smartphones that all too easily blur into a featureless haze of giant rectangles. For a first-time
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It’s been nearly one month by this point since HTC launched the One Max, its stab at a 5.9-inch phablet version of the flagship One. When HTC made its announcement, the company was clear that launch plans included a release in the US, mentioning carriers like Verizon and Sprint. Later, we heard Sprint talking about the One Max itself, in the context of the network’s high-speed LTE “Spark” system; there, the One Max’s arrival was described as ...
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Got a few hundred clams burning a hole in your pocket? Do you love absurdly oversized smartphone displays? Do you see no need for mobile devices to include a stylus in 2013? Then you, friend, have come to the right place. The subjects of today’s Pocketnow comparison are not alien to us. Each is a positively massive smartphone featuring powerful media consumption capabilities. We’ve already separately reviewed both the HTC One max and the
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The spread of LTE has brought higher data speeds than ever before to our smartphones, yet carriers aren’t resting on their laurels; we’ve already been talking about where things can go from here, like with the LTE-Advanced support that’s come to phones like the Galaxy S 4. Today we heard about something a little different from Sprint, with news of its own high-speed LTE service, dubbed Spark. The way Sprint describes it, the key to Spark is its ...
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Pocketnow Daily gets an average of 300 to 500 comments a day, and sometimes even a thousand. We’d like to thank you all for participating in our question of the day, and we love your feedback so much, that we decided that since we can’t respond to ever single one of your comments, we should at least feature a couple in a weekly video. This is the Pocketnow Daily Recap. Since we only have 3 minutes on every Daily video to go through the hottest news, the weekly recap will serve as a more extensive discussion where we also include your thoughts on the subject. Sadly, for the sake of ...
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There comes a time when you just gotta do what the readers want. Particularly when their demands are awesome. You tweeted, you pleaded, you emailed, you told us in person at trade shows and during mildly creepy public run-ins: “have Marques Brownlee on the Weekly!” you demanded. And after weeks of dancing around schedules, overseas trips, and major
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Honest truth: we’d rather be comparing the One max with the Galaxy Mega. It’s a better fit, after all: HTC’s latest monster is much less a minimized tablet than it is a maximized smartphone, just like Samsung’s preposterous Mega creation. As we mentioned in our full review of the One max, the company’s goal with its newest device was to port the experience of the earlier One to a larger form factor. And when, at the press event where HTC distributed review units, someone from ...
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You might say this comparison is unnecessary. After all, most people don’t need help deciding whether to buy a smartphone or a refrigerator door, right? Given the choice between a standard-sized handheld and a beastly monolith, most folks can tell pretty quickly which they prefer. But it’s not that simple. HTC’s One is one of the most visible, most well-regarded smartphones of the year - and so it would follow, in the mind of the mythical average consumer, that something called the “One ...
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The HTC One Max is one interesting device, as you can tell from our review. It features a multi-functional fingerprint scanner aside from flagship specs, but we don’t really know the future price point of the phablet. However, a recent report tries to anticipate that, placing a RMB 5,088 (around $833) label the device. This is for the unlocked device, as mentioned in the report. When it comes to security, we know that Apple is storing your fingerprint on the iPhone 5S, with no access to it. HTC ...
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This morning brought news many of us have been anticipating for months. HTC made the One max – the larger brother to the renowned HTC One flagship from March – officially official. Except, instead of the HTC-made superphone we were hoping for, the One max is a bit of a downer. We really liked the HTC One here at Pocketnow. It received, at the time, one of the highest scores we’d ever given to a smartphone – a 9.2 out of 10. And I could barely wait to get my hands on one. On top of that, many of us ...
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“Excuse me – is that a phone or a tablet?” “That doesn’t fit in your pocket, does it?” “That must be one of them new ‘phablets,’ huh?” “What … what is that thing?” Carrying the HTC One max for the past seven days has been an exercise in patience – patience with the curious public. Like Samsung’s first Galaxy Note, and the LG ...
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Today all the news seems to be about the HTC One max. Some love it, others hate it. Taken as a whole, the newest device from HTC seems like nothing more than a big version of their old flagship. And that’s okay HTC has found a form-factor that looks good, functions well, and is very obviously scalable between small and large — at least when we’re talking about smartphones. Many will tell you that it’s simply not enough. They’ll say that HTC needed to pour ...
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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Windows Phone 8 GDR3, some new enhancements to come, and even how to install it on your current Windows Phone. Google follows in the news because their new “Mobile Meter” service might give you incentives if it can track you. We then continue with Google, but this time because we’ve got a leaked video of the Nexus 5 running Android 4.4 KitKat. We then go through some leaked renders of the LG G Flex, which should land soon. We end today’s show talking about our review of the HTC One max, and some first impressions. ...
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There’s a reality behind every single successful product that has ever existed: they’ve all served a purpose. It could be the most trivial of things, like a $1 game that could entertain you so well, and yet be so inexpensive, that people just flocked to buy it, to more complicated things, like mixing the luxury of a sedan with the suspension of a truck to give you an SUV. Regardless if its entertainment or utility, products succeed when they either satisfy a need, or create a desire. I still remember walking the streets of Barcelona in 2012 with Tony, and seeing so many of the ...
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