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HTC Will Unveil New Smartphone Flagship on April 12
HTC will unveil its next flagship smartphone on April 12, the
company announced in an email today. Thanks to Twitter leaks, we already
know quite a bit about the phone, including the fact that it will
likely be called the HTC 10, dropping the letters from the nomenclature
the company has used until now for phones like the A9 and the M9.
HTC first teased the upcoming smartphone during Mobile World Congress in February, when it tweeted a silhouette of a device accompanied by the #Powerof10 hashtag. A few days later, serial leaker Steve Hemmerstoffer offered some specs: a 5.15-inch QHD display, a Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of RAM, a 12-megapixel camera and a USB Type-C connector.
The high-end smartphone market has grown crowded barely three months into 2016, with Samsung's Galaxy S7, LG's G5 and Apple's iPhone SE. Together with HTC's offering, these phones will have to compete for consumers' dwindling appetite for premium devices.
Whether or not the HTC 10 will present formidable competition
is anyone's guess at this point. The company's current A9 is expensive,
has a few design flaws and a higher-than-expected price for its feature
set, but it still impressed us with its smaller size and overall good
looks. So Android users who are looking to avoid feature bloat might
find the HTC 10 to be the phone for them.
On the other hand, the company's entry-level smartphones, like the new HTC Desire 626, leave a lot to be desired. That phone looks good, but suffers from slow performance, short battery life and lots of bloatware.
