It’s a Wrap – HTC at Mobile World Congress 2015

Change makers come as two kinds of people: those that wake up, ready to change the world and knowing exactly how they’re going to do it; and those that wake up, believing that they can change the world, but aren’t sure how to do it.  At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter which kind of person you are, but what change you help create.
With HTC Power To Give, you can change the world through your smartphone while you sleep. It’s incredibly easy, here’s how:

1. Download the Power To Give app from the Google play store.
2. Connect your smartphone to a charger when you go to bed. PTG only operates when your phone is being charged and is about 85% battery life.
3. Overnight, your phone will join an enormous secure computing grid. When it does, it donates a small proportion of its unused processing power. This grid helps power research projects around the world by compiling and aggregating the scientific research data needed to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges in bio-medicine, physics, and astronomy.

Think about it this way—while you sleep, your phone could help researchers find cures for Alzheimer’s and AIDs. Or it could help find a long-term solution for 2.6 million people who struggle each day to find clean water. Or it could help to eradicate world hunger and malnutrition in some the world’s poorest regions
You can help the cause that matters the most to you. By downloading HTC Power To Give and plugging in your smartphone, you can be part of the future.

I want to start by saying THANK YOU—a  big fat ‘Thank you’ to everyone who attended and supported us throughout Mobile World Congress 2014. It was a frantic few days, and definitely an unforgettable experience. There are few stories that did clearly stand out during these days, here are some our favourite moments of #HTCinBCN.

HTC One takes home Global Mobile Award for Best Smartphone

The week started off with a bang when a panel of more than 175 independent industry experts from the media and mobile analyst communities choosing the HTC One as “one of the most advanced smartphones throughout 2013,” reinforcing the HTC’s unrivalled design and innovation leadership.

Peter Chou unveils the new HTC Desire 816

“The HTC Desire 816 marks the beginning of an exciting new era for the mid-tier,” said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC while onstage at MWC.
This year’s MWC saw the first edition of the all-new look of the HTC Desire family that comes fully loaded with HTC’s iconic dual-frontal speakers, HTC BoomSound™, HTC BlinkFeed™, and a spacious 5.5-inch screen and two powerful cameras including a 13MP camera with HTC Zoe™. In terms of design, the HTC Desire™ 816 distils elements of the internationally-acclaimed design DNA of HTC’s flagship HTC One® family, with a vibrant, modern colour palate and quality materials that give the HTC Desire range its own familiar, yet distinctive flavour.
The response to the new HTC One 816 has been exceptional, leading us to win four more awards in the past week alone!

• Tech Radar: Commended Award for the HTC Desire 816
• Know Your Mobile: Best in Show for HTC Desire 816
• Android Authority: Best Mid-Range Phone for HTC Desire 816
• Laptop Magazine: Best Budget Phone for HTC Desire 816

HTC Power To Give

What if you could now change the world with your smartphone? HTC is at the forefront of using mobile innovation to drive social change, that’s why we created HTC Power To Give. We worked with Dr. David Anderson of the University of California-Berkeley to adapt the BOINC program, the world’s largest volunteer computing initiative, and create this app.
By harnessing unused processing power to advance global research projects, HTC Power To Give has the potential to help answer some of the world’s biggest questions. Plus, it gives you a way to contribute to human needs in a diversity of fields such as biomedicine, physics and astronomy and use your HTC phone to be part of a voluntary computing program when you are not actively using your phone.
Download the Power To Give app now.

HTC’s Design Tour in Barcelona

Design is, and always has been, at the heart of everything we do. Great design isn’t just about beauty; it combines form and function in one seamless package. To celebrate the release of our new research, ‘Good Design Makes You Happy,’ we invited design experts from all over Europe to experience Barcelona through the HTC One. From iconic locations to 3D-printing factories we visited some of the most peculiar design venues in Catalonian capital. See some of these images below.
Through the scientific research that we conducted, we measured emotional reactions to everyday objects. According to this research functional and beautiful designed objects have the power to make you happy while functional, but ugly objects produce a negative reaction. This is why we pay so much attention to design – both on the outside and the inside—and why the HTC One embodies this philosophy, becoming one of the most critically acclaimed phones of 2013.
And of course, we cannot forget the mysterious motorist that saved Peter Chou, CEO of HTC, from being stuck in a traffic jam for hours and miss his important meeting at MWC.