U.S. consumers can now avail the new HTC (News - Alert) One SV smartphone from January 16 onward at Cricket Wireless-owned stores and dealers around the country for $349.99.

Matt Stoiber, senior vice president for devices at Cricket commented, “We are excited to be the first U.S. carrier to make the HTC One SV available to customers. The HTC One SV is the perfect addition to our growing and robust device portfolio that offers great features at value pricing. The HTC One series is extremely popular and we believe Cricket customers will appreciate the combination of outstanding design, great features and power that the One SV provides.”

The HTC One SV is powered by a supercharged, Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 1.2GHz dual core processor for greater 4G LTE (News - Alert) speeds. On board, there is a 5-megapixel camera, exclusive Beats Audio and an ultra-sleek design along with an all-day battery life powered by the HTC Sense 4 on Android (News - Alert) 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) operating system, which complements the smartphone’ amazing speeds catering to consumers’ busy lifestyle requirements.

With expandable storage through a microSD card slot, and support for up to 32GB cards and integration with Dropbox (News - Alert), one need not worry about running out of storage for saving documents, movies, pictures and apps.

The NFC technology and Android Beam facilitates the easy sharing of content.

HTC officials stated that the HTC One SV joins the company’s renowned HTC One series to bring an affordable superphone to U.S. customers. The phone blends sleek contours and a vibrant color with superfast performance – courtesy of the dual-core processor and 4G LTE technology – and is designed to deliver exceptional performance, enabling high-quality video streaming, gaming and seamless multitasking.

Other notable features of HTC One SV include: HTC Sync Manager for easy syncing of users’ music collection; 4.3-inch super LCD-2 touchscreen that supports 16 million colors; scratch- and fingerprint-resistant Corning (News - Alert) Gorilla Glass; and more.  

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