When HTC released the One earlier this year with a new version of its Sense UI, the company promised that several of its One-series phones released in 2012 would receive some of the same enhancements and features in a future software update. The HTC One S, released in April of last year, was supposed to be one of those phones, but Android and Me reports that HTC is backtracking. The One S is no longer slated to receive an update to Android 4.2 or the new Sense UI, and it will remain on Android 4.1.1.

This means that the One S will miss out on the enhancements in Android 4.2, any improvements made in future versions of Android, and any changes made to the HTC Sense UI for the HTC One (including new features like Zoe and BlinkFeed). The HTC One X (and its many tweaked variants) will supposedly still be updated, but there's no word on exactly when last year's flagship will be getting the update.

The One S isn't being skipped for lack of power—it has a dual-core Snapdragon S4 Plus and 1GB of RAM on the inside. That's more than enough to run the latest version of Android. If we had to guess, we'd say that the phone didn't sell in enough numbers to be worth the trouble since this particular One variant was only sold through smaller carriers like T-Mobile and Virgin Mobile. In the past we've found HTC's Android updates have come out relatively quickly, but as of late the company has been particularly aggressive about ending software support for its older handsets.