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HTC pushing Sense 6.0 to the original One, One mini and One max soon
We don't have a specific date, but HTC's latest Sense skin -- which the company insists on calling Sixth Sense -- will be coming to the company's older models sometime this spring. Last year's One, the One mini and One max will all be getting updated with Sense 6.0 in the coming months. While it's not a complete surprise, it's nice to know that HTC isn't leaving its customers out in the cold. It's all part of the company's HTC Advantage program, which guarantees two years of software updates and support. That's longer than even Google supports its Nexus phone. Hopefully we'll get specific launch dates sooner, rather than later.
Daily Roundup: HTC One Max review, Nike+ FuelBand SE, Apple's October 22nd event and more!
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
HTC One Max review
The debate around giant smartphones is over. Manufacturers like Samsung, Sony and LG have amply demonstrated that it's possible to build a pocketable, phone-like device with a screen bigger than five inches. Now it's HTC's turn. But instead of re-imagining the much-praised One for this new category of device, HTC's designers have mostly just cloned it, while adding a drop of Miracle-Gro to produce a 1080p panel that measures 5.9 inches diagonally, versus the One's 4.7 inches. The result is the One Max, a product that carries over some good things from the One while also finding room for a few notable extras like a fingerprint scanner and expandable storage. At the same time, it also introduces some major snags -- not least of which are the its intimidating size and weight. The job ahead of us is to somehow find the upper body strength to weigh it all up.
HTC One Max offers up a spec list, gains Chinese approval
Another downside of the Washington brouhaha is that the FCC is shut down, sending us scouring its foreign equivalents for tidbits about new hardware. The latest concerns HTC's worst-kept secret, the HTC One Max, which has just passed through China's TENAA. The filing reveals that the 6-inch smartphone has a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 and will measure in at 164.5 x 82.5 x 10.29mm (6.4 x 3.2 x 0.4 in). Oh, and the images do seem to confirm, once and for all, that there is a fingerprint scanner nestled beneath the camera. October 15th can't come fast enough.
HTC One Max specs reportedly include Snapdragon 600 chip, Android 4.3 and Sense 5.5
The One Max is far from being HTC's best kept secret -- we've seen leak after leak of the rumored larger-than-most device over the past few weeks. To make things better (or worse, depending on who you ask), Nowhereelse.fr editor Steve Hemmerstoffer has tweeted an image which includes what could be the HTC One Max's full spec list. Aside from mentioning the same 5.9-inch, 1080p display and 3,200mAh battery we heard about not long ago, today's leak suggests the One Max is set to feature a quad-core, 1.7GHz Snapdragon 600, 2GB RAM, Android 4.3 with Sense 5.5, Bluetooth 4.0 and options for 16, 32 or 64GB of built-in storage. If this turns out to be true, then there's no doubt the Taiwanese company will have an Android powerhouse in its hands, right there alongside Samsung's Galaxy Note 3. The good news is that it looks as if we won't have to wait much longer to learn all there is to know about the HTC One Max; in the meantime, head after the break to check out the purported spec sheet in its entirety.
