HTC has announced that it will soon unveil its next flagship phone, widely believed to be codenamed Hima. The new phone will supercede both the One M8, the most recent official flagship, and the recently released Desire Eye, which is an upgrade over the One M8 despite being at a mid-range price point.
The HTC unveil will come at the start of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on March 1st, where the world’s leading smartphone makers traditionally unveil some of their most important phones for the upcoming year. The One M8 was unveiled (and then launched) in March last year, so we could be just six weeks away from having a new flagship phone from HTC in our hands.
The actual announcement doesn’t provide many hints as to the phone or its capabilities, with just a spacescape and the tagline ‘utopia in progress’.
According to recent rumours, the next HTC flagship will come with top notch specs. That includes a Snapdragon 810 octa-core processor, 3GB RAM, 32GB of internal memory and a 3000 mAh battery. In terms of optics, we’re looking at a 20.7 megapixel rear camera and four megapixels up front. The screen size and resolution will remain the same as its predecessor, with 1080p resolution and a five inch diagonal. Finally, the phone will run the latest version of Android, 5.0 Lollipop, with a svelte layer of HTC’s Sense 7 UI on top.
It’ll be interesting to see what features HTC choose to focus on in their presentation; keeping the screen the same size when other OEMs are going bigger and bigger might be a good choice. The 20.7 megapixel rear camera also seems an obvious point of focus. Regardless, be sure to tune in for the reveal on March 1st. We’ll have the big news as it happens, alongside a wide range of cases and accessories for the new phone.