Across the globe, China and Japan have a variant of the HTC One that has dual sim and a micro SD slot.

But why?

HTC’s Jeff Gordon, the company’s Senior Global Online Communications Manager went on record to say that the Chinese version of the One is designed specifically for the smaller Chinese radio bands, which means additional space inside the device is available for the microSD slot. That space isn’t available to us in the global version.

Do you believe that?