Remember HTC? Just as LG is leaving the mobile biz and I’m sure Sony’s next, we remind ourselves that the first Android phone was a HTC. Nostalgia is one of the biggest forces known to man, that’s why there’s disco influences in Dua Lipa songs and even rock tunes now.
HTC hasn’t been doing that well lately, changing CEOs, giving up on flagships and focusing more on entry level smartphones. They keep stating that they’re prepping a 5G flagship, but that never comes out. They’ve been launching a few entry level and midrange models here and there, but nothing more.
HTC is one of the most famous stories in the smartphone world, as they went from making phones for other brands to a giant and one of the creators of the smartphone as we know it. They were the first with a 4G phone, they’ve had some badass speakers and
Remember the HTC One M7? It literally was HTC’s last fantastic phone, launched in 2013 and getting high praise. The follow-ups, M8 and M9 were pretty bad and the HTC 10 was so and so, while the 11 and 12 were not well received. I was actually a smartphone reviewer
I’ve abandoned all hope that HTC would make a turnaround anytime soon and decided to focus on other companies. Back in the day HTC generated some pretty nifty wet dreams for designers, but now it’s basically over. One of the few people who still keep hope for the brand is
I’m sure you’ve heard of Concept Creator by now, as the designer has already received some fame and praise for this concept phones. While working on a brand new iPhone XI and Galaxy Note 10, the designer also found the time to envision a future for HTC. Let’s see what
Lacking real new concepts these days, we turn towards the past and uncover the HTC Mobile Phone 2020 concept. The machine was rendered back in 2015 by Yulia Kamalova and it’s truly atypical. It’s a bit of a keychain phone, that expands from a tube, with a folding touchscreen mechanism.
Designer Mladen Milic is back at it, taking a break from the usual ASUS concept phones, gaming ones, for a HTC model this time. The result is the HTC Fusion, which mixes the old and new styles of design. Let’s check it out. It feels like a tribute to the
HTC Touch Diamond and Touch Diamond 2 were definitely works of art, spawned by the very inspired HTC designers, who weren’t afraid to take risks. The back side was shaped like a series of pyramids and diamonds and while it didn’t site nicely on a flat surface, it totally won
Concept Creator teased a majestic HTC U12 concept a while back, but we didn’t get to cover it. We’re on the case now, as the finalized version has just surfaced. Let’s have a gander below, with a video included. It may be the pink/mauve hue, but this format is growing
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