HTC Preparing To Release The World’s Ultimate Selfie Phone

A lot of people are calling 2014 the year of the selfie.

That’s dumb, because selfies have been around for a long time. But it wasn’t until 2014 that grandparents and probably even great-grandparents heard about the selfie.

In any case, HTC is preparing to release a phone that could solidify 2014 as the year of the selfie.

According to (now-retired) leaker @EVLeaks, HTC is developing a smartphone codenamed “Eye”. That smartphone is specially designed to be the ultimate selfie-taking device.

What does that mean? A few people have been guessing at the features that would make a smartphone the ultimate selfie device. Those features include:

-A high resolution front-facing camera

-Anti-vibration and intelligent auto-focusing features

-An easy-to-press capture button on the back or side

-A wide lens to capture larger group selfies

That would just about cover it, right? The rumors first broke back in June, but speculation has been mounting throughout the summer.

AT&T IS “ALREADY TESTING” THE HTC EYE

The latest news about the HTC Eye is that AT&T is already testing it. Unfortunately, this testing phase hasn’t led to any additional leaks or information.

The HTC Eye wouldn’t be the only smartphone with a high-resolution front-facing camera. The Huawei Ascend P7 includes a 13MP rear camera and 8MP front-facing camera, making it an excellent selfie phone. I would expect the “world’s ultimate selfie phone” to have specs that are even better than that.

HTC doesn’t have the best record with ultra-niche smartphones. Last year, the company released the HTC First, which was a phone specially targeted to Facebook’s biggest fans (it came pre-installed with Facebook Home). That phone was pulled from shelves after just a few weeks due to disappointing sales.

Expect the HTC Eye to be released before the end of 2014 – possibly in October 2014.

You Can Now Get Early Access To IOS 8…But Only On Android

Apple announced iOS8 earlier this summer. It wasn’t the biggest iOS update ever, but it introduced a number of popular features – like the ability to add widgets to your notifications tray and revamped app icons.

Apple users won’t get iOS8 until the iPhone 6 is available, but Android users can now enjoy access to iOS8 thanks to a new iOS8 Launcher app.

That app is an “easy-to-use, no-frills, lightweight launcher” which comes preloaded with iOS8-style wallpapers, icons, and launcher animations.

It’s an improvement to the stock Android experience and is surprisingly smooth for a third-party skin.

The skin aims to unclutter your home screen while smoothing out transition effects. Users can also customize their transition effects using tools like Rotate, Bulldoze, Windmill, Cube, Scale, Flip, and Fade.

Better yet, the developers plan to continue adding to the app in weekly updates.

You can download the new iOS8 app for free from here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.one.appx.launcher

I recommend you download that app as soon as possible – these apps tend to disappear from the Play Store quickly becauseApple likes to sue anybody that even thinks about their intellectual property in the wrong way.

After installing it, you’ll enjoy an iPhone-esque experience that combines that smooth functionality and customizability of Android with the eye-pleasing aesthetics of iOS.