HTC One in gold goes on sale at Carphone Warehouse

Smartphone free on contract from £29 a month, with the retailer following Phones 4U in selling the colour variant

Carphone Warehouse is now selling a gold version of the HTC One. It is available for free on contract from £29, with the cheapest deal being on Vodafone with unlimited minutes, texts and 1GB of data.

Phones 4U began selling the new variant at the end of last month. It adds to the black, silver, blue and red models that have been made available since the smartphone went on sale in April. Carphone has followed

The HTC One is powered by a 1.7GHz quad-core processor and runs the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system. It has a 4.7-inch HD screen, ‘Ultrapixel’ rear camera, 2.1-megapixel front camera HD video capabilities and 32GB or 64GB of internal memory.

Also included its HTC BoomSound dual front stereo speakers with built-in amplifiers, Beats Audio and the HTC Sense user interface that sits on top of the operating system.