NEW ORLEANS—The family is almost complete. On the heels of AT&T's launch of the HTC One X and T-Mobile's HTC One S, HTC confirmed today that the HTC One V will be coming to "a variety of U.S. carriers" this summer.
When the One V was originally announced in February, HTC showed MetroPCS, Virgin, and U.S. Cellular as partners for the phone. As if to confirm, HTC has a support page on its website whose URL is "htc.com/us/support/htc-one-v-metropcs/."
Another HTC press release lists regional carriers C Spire, Cellcom, Bluegrass Cellular, and Open Mobile as potential partners for the HTC One series.
The One V, shown at right in the photo above, is the most affordable model in the HTC One line, designed for wireless carriers that don't subsidize their phones as heavily as the majors. It isn't quite as elegant as the One X and One S, having a big "chin" along the bottom which is angled towards your face to improve voice quality.
The phone also has somewhat lower-end specs than the One X and One S: a 5-megapixel camera instead of an 8-megapixel unit, a single-core, 1-GHz processor instead of a dual-core chip, and a 3.7-inch, 800-by-480 resolution screen.
The phone still runs Android 4.0, though, and has HTC's Image Sense image enhancement technology and Beats Audio.
HTC's One phones have been very well reviewed here at PCMag, with the One S and the One X getting our Editors' Choice award on T-Mobile and AT&T, respectively.
HTC did not announce release dates or a price for the One V, but I expect it to be in the $200-300 range on MetroPCS and Virgin, and subsidized to $100 or less on U.S. Cellular.
For more, see PCMag's hands-on with the HTC One V from MWC and the slideshow below.