Again it is a difficult category to pick the right choice. The HTC One also won the T3 design award and the coveted gadget of the year, as well as being nominated for tech brand of the year.
"The HTC One is HTC back to its best, producing one of the most capable and stylish smartphones ever. It's not only a beautiful looking phone that stands out amid a lot very similar handsets, it's also a superbly powerful piece of kit," said said Kieran Alger Editor-in-chief of T3.
According to Claude Zellweger of One & Co., the aptly-named San Francisco-based industrial design studio responsible for the One's hardware, says the phone's design philosophy revolves around three key principles; it had to be simple, crafted and human.
The One is machined from a solid block on aluminum, each piece taking 200 minutes to carve out. It is pretty light (5.04 ounces) and thin (0.36 inches) but it feels rock solid. The curved back sinks into your palm, while the slightly angled edges help you grip it.
The front of the screen is dominated by the Super LCD 3 screen nestled under Gorilla Glass 2. It's 1080p (1920x1080 pixels) spread over 4.7-inches, which gives you 468 pixels per inch (PPI).
The phone offers minimal bezels. Above and below the screen are speaker grates to give you actual stereo sound. HTC opted to include just two capacitive buttons—Home and Back. The micro USB port on the bottom doubles as an HDMI port for connecting your phone directly to a TV.
Under the hood, the phone comes with 2GB RAM, 32GB or 64GB storage, NFC, LTE (on the U.S. versions), Bluetooth, etc. It also has Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 600 – a quad-core chip clocked at 1.7GHz.
