HTC One Australia price and availability

 

While the company may have had issues sourcing enough components for the camera on the device the HTC One is beginning to reach more markets, and today we have the pricing and availability for consumers in Australia looking to pick up the new smartphone.

A number of carriers in the country have now revealed their plans for the device along with some of the pricing, and pre-orders kick off tomorrow with a release expected to be on April 23rd. If you are a customer of Telstra a registration page is already live and with a $10 monthly handset payment you can have the device on a two year contract costing $60.

If you pre-register for the device before April 23rd you will also get a free set of Beats Solo headphones, and if you want the HTC One SIM free it will set you back $768. Vodafone is also offering the same headphones free for early adopters to the HTC One, and they are slightly cheaper than Telstra as there is only a $3 monthly handset fee with the $60 per month two year contract.

Virgin Mobile are also only charging a $3 fee for their monthly handset payment and their two year contract is priced at $59 per month, which is the same for Optus except the monthly contract is priced at $60 each month.


 

The HTC One brings a couple of distinctive features to the table, including a redesigned user interface that echoes Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 design, though on a phone that runs Google’s Android operating system.
HTC calls its new skin “Blinkfeed,” an interface that highlights updates from various apps in a grid-like layout. Global partners at launch include Facebook, AOL, Twitter and Flickr.

The company is also putting a 4.7-inch screen on the phone as well as a camera sensor that’s supposed to have excellent performance in low light. In a move that could be disappointing to Android fans, however, the HTC One will run Android 4.1.2, rather than the company’s latest version, 4.2.2.

HTC is in need of a good hit. The company said last year that it would put more effort into streamlining its product releases, as it lost ground to Samsung as the Android phone manufacturer of choice.The Taiwanese firm was the fourth-place smartphone vendor of 2012, falling behind Samsung, Apple and Nokia, but didn’t even merit a place in the top five vendors for the 2012 holiday quarter.

HTC said last month that it would focus on mid-range phones, which should have broad appeal in emerging smartphone markets such as China.The pricing and availability details for the HTC One have not yet been released, but the phone will be coming to three U.S. networks: AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile.