Here's an overview of what's different now that HTC One's successor's out.
For a long time, the biggest knock on Android phones was that they were ugly. Plastic. Cheap looking. Indiscernible from one another, no matter who the manufacturer was. Then, in February 2013, HTC quietly unleashed its Hail Mary, of sorts: the HTC One, a big, beautiful, premium-looking device carved from a thick sheet of aluminum with a super-sharp 4.7-inch screen.