20.7 megapixel camera will be top feature.
By Dileep Thekkethil
BENGALURU: Speculations surrounding the yet to be unveiled HTC One flagship smartphone seems to be unending as a new leak suggests the device, till now known as HTC One (M9), might be named HTC One M9.
The new name first appeared on the Canadian website of HTC for not more than a few seconds, but that was enough for tech geeks to take a screen snap of it and further the discussions about the eagerly-awaited HTC flagship device.
Another leaked report published by Uplink suggests that the upcoming HTC One smartphone will be a 5-inch device with full-HD resolution carrying the trademark dual front-facing BoomSound™ speakers, which has now become the USP of HTC devices.
HTC One M9 will feature a whopping 20.7 megapixel camera in the rear and a 4MP selfie camera. Both cameras of the device feature HTC’s patented Ultrapixel Technology, which boasts of boosting the picture clarity of many folds than any other camera in its range.
The smartphone will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 810, which is a 64 Bit processor with 4G LTE technology that has been in the news for wrong reasons as many users complained about overheating. The device has 3GB RAM and Adreno 430 GPU to speed up and smoothen heavy graphic games and applications.
According to the leaked report, HTC One M9 will be released in two versions, 32G and 64GB, respectively, and will run the latest version of Android Lollipop on top of HTC’s Sense 7.0 UI. The device is backed up by a 2,840mAh battery and supports all major connectivity options such as WiFi, Bluetooth and microSD card.
The report also says that HTC is planning to launch the device in three different variants such as UHL, WHL and WL for different regions. The UHL variant will go on sales in Asia, Europe, Africa, UAE, Russia, Turkey, China, USA (AT&T, T-Mobile US, Canada (including ROGERS, TELUS) and Latin America. The WHL version will be only available for Spirit and China Telecom, whereas WL version will be exclusive for Verizon.
Also, HTC has sent invites to the press for an event titled ‘Utopia in Progress’, in Barcelona, Spain, on March 1, which is speculated as the launch event of HTC One M9. Surprisingly, the event has been scheduled just ahead of Mobile World Congress that is to be held in the same city.