{"id":744343,"date":"2013-04-01T09:20:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T13:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=625848"},"modified":"2013-04-01T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T13:20:34","slug":"no-joke-the-htc-one-with-64-gb-looks-like-an-att-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/744343","title":{"rendered":"No joke: The HTC One with 64 GB looks like an AT&amp;T exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those hoping for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htc.com\/us\/smartphones\/htc-one\/?PS=1&#38;cid=sem157p138478&%2338;gclid=CO6t-r_GqbYCFYbc4AodWV8A1A\">an HTC One smartphone<\/a> with 64 GB of internal storage may have their carrier options very limited in the U.S. A promotional YouTube video shows the higher storage capacity handset as an AT&#38;T exclusive, although there haven&#8217;t been any official carrier announcements to confirm or deny. However, the video, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2013\/03\/30\/att-nabs-exclusive-on-the-htc-one-64gb-in-the-u-s\/\">found by Droid Life<\/a>, is posted on AT&#38;T&#8217;s official YouTube account, lending credibility to the information.<\/p> <span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='604' height='370' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0N-XEgEUkac?version=3&#038;rel=1&%23038;fs=1&%23038;showsearch=0&%23038;showinfo=1&%23038;iv_load_policy=1&%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span> <p>In most cases, this exclusivity on storage wouldn&#8217;t be a big deal, but the HTC One has no expandable memory slot. That means you&#8217;ll always be limited to the internal storage that comes with the handset; there&#8217;s no microSD card. Presumably then, all other U.S. carriers will get the 32 GB storage version of the HTC One.<\/p> <p>I&#8217;ve been using a\u00a0Galaxy Nexus with 16 GB of non-expandable storage for over a year without any issues as I lean heavily on the cloud. Even with my reliance on cloud storage, there are times when I can&#8217;t load a large app &#8212; typically a game &#8212; on the phone because there isn&#8217;t enough storage available.<\/p> <p>Personally, <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/10\/04\/like-2-year-contracts-smartphone-exclusives-need-to-go-away\/\">I&#8217;m still not a fan of exclusives on handsets or specific configurations of them<\/a>: I see no benefit to the consumer, just to the carrier with the exclusive. I&#8217;m guessing that some folks won&#8217;t be happy about this news as they&#8217;d prefer to have the option between a 32 GB and 64 GB HTC One on the network operator of choice.<\/p> <p>And I don&#8217;t think this move will help HTC sell more phones, which is something the company desperately needs to do. 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