After Samsung, Sony, Xiaomi and LG, the next flagship to look forward to will be from HTC. A company that once dominate the Android segment with stunning build quality and sleek UI. Without a compelling device to fend off its competition, the next flagship is critical to turn its fortunes around. Thanks to a friendly twitter faceoff between leaksters @evleaks and @onleaks, we have gotten a better picture of the next One.
If you’re expecting it to be a HTC One M10, guess what? Having enough of “Ones”, the Taiwanese smartphone maker have leaped forward with the HTC 10.
With regards to the name, it is surprising that HTC had dropped the “One” monicker that’s usually associated with its flagship line up. The model name was confirmed by a screenshot of the device which both leakster have approved. In terms of design, the 10 looks like a mashup of the HTC One M7/M8/M9 series and the latest HTC One A9.
Over at the back, it gets a curved back with a matte metal looking surface which reminds us of the original HTC One M7. In terms of audio, it doesn’t seem to have a pair of front facing speakers, opting for a traditional down firing speaker grill like the current One A9. There is however, a BoomSound option under settings but this is likely to be an audio enhancement rather than an actual stereo speaker.
As confirmed by the image above, it uses USB Type-C that’s reversible. Under the hood, the HTC 10 is said to be running on a Snapdragon 820 processor with probably 4GB of RAM. Preliminary benchmarks have shown 109K on Antutu which is lower than the similar-spec Xiaomi Mi 5’s 142K score. Of course, these are pre-release figures and it could do better in production units.
There’s no date yet for the HTC 10 but it should be close judging by the #Powerof10 teasers.
