
Offered alongside regular stills and Full HD video, Zoe is a combination of twenty full-resolution stills – five before you hit the button, fifteen after – and a 1080p 3.6s video clip – 0.6s before 3s after – from which you can clip individual frames, juggle faces between images to piece together the best expressions of the bunch, or remove rogue objects.

The One puts HTC Sense 5 on top of Android Jelly Bean (4.1 at launch, with 4.2 promised shortly after) and kicks off what HTC insists is a new age of photography with “Zoe”, blending stills and short video clips. There are some obvious criticisms – no microSD card slot or removable battery, for instance, or wireless charging – but HTC is aiming to squash them with its innovative software, 25GB of free Dropbox storage, and general good looks. Don’t forget the LTE, HPSA+, WiFi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, IR, or the 2,400 mAh battery, either.

It’s a numbers game in many respects, so here are the One’s key stats: a 1.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quadcore processor, 2GB of RAM, 32GB or 64GB of onboard storage, a 137.4 x 68.2 x 9.3mm body (tapering to 5mm at the edges) CNC’d from a solid slab of specially formulated aluminum alloy, 4-megapixel camera on the back, 2.1-megapixels on the front with an 88-degree wide-angle lens, and a 4.7-inch 1080p Full HD LCD3 display.
