{"id":39054,"date":"2013-05-31T08:09:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T06:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=39054"},"modified":"2013-05-31T08:18:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T06:18:44","slug":"htc-one-to-get-pure-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/39054\/htc-one-to-get-pure-android\/","title":{"rendered":"HTC One to get pure Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is adding the recently released HTC One to its lineup of smartphones running on an unmodified version of its latest Android software.<\/p>\n<p>An HTC One model relying on the same version of Android as Google&#8217;s Nexus brand will go on sale on June 26 for $599. That&#8217;s the same day Google Inc. will start selling a Samsung Galaxy 4S that runs on a pure version of Android for $649.<\/p>\n<p>Most consumers have been paying about $200 for the HTC One and Galaxy 4S since their April release. Wireless carriers subsidize the smartphones in return for a two-year contract commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s phone sales aren&#8217;t tied to any wireless carrier. The devices are aimed at people who don&#8217;t like the revisions that HTC and Samsung made to the Android.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on HTC<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to HTC reports record-low profit\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/35101\/htc-reports-record-low-profit\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">HTC reports record-low profit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Nokia beats HTC in patent case\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/33983\/nokia-beats-htc-in-patent-case\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Nokia beats HTC in patent case<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to HTC takes on Samsung\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/32006\/htc-takes-on-android\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">HTC takes on Samsung<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to HTC looks to emerging markets\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/31107\/htc-looks-to-emerging-markets\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">HTC looks to emerging markets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is adding the recently released HTC One to its lineup of smartphones running on an unmodified version of its latest Android software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,685,53,5206],"class_list":["post-39054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-android","tag-google","tag-htc-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39068,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39054\/revisions\/39068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}